For the last decade there has been no global warming, at all, while producing more CO2 than ever. During that decade we have taken measurements with the goal of testing global warming, and found none.
The have uncovered _global cooling_.
In this decade so far, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, were all warmer than any year in the 1990s except for 1998 (due to its extreme El Nino event), so that statement is an outright lie. 2009 is predicted to be around the 4th hottest year on record based on temperatures so far.
Here's a good image, graph and explaination of the state of the climate at the end of 2008 from NASA:
It's not the controls, it's the lack of quality games by 3rd parties publishers.
The Wii has an excellent controller for FPS and RTS games, and I find it very hard to go back to using a normal controller after using the Wii-mote, as they're just so clumsy in comparison. It's just a pity that there are so few of these types of games being released.
(At least there's a few decent ones - The Conduit, Resident Evil 4, Metroid Prime, but that not many since for a console that's been out almost 3 years).
It's very hard to understand why there is such a reluctance to release games like this for the Wii, when Resident Evil 4 sold so many copies.
We've got so many sources of historical temperature data that even if one source is unreliable, you've got access to so many others.
Every tree, every sedimentary rock, every body of water with sediment at the bottom, every ice formation, has information on the historical temperatures in that region. You've also got many human temperature readings from a variety of sources.
When you have that much data, it's not hard to build up an accurate estimate of the historical temperature.
2008 was still the 10th warmest year on record, 2007 the second warmest. Even discounting the varying solar activity, there is still a strong underlying warming trend, and it's a big worry that the temperatures around the poles have increased so much.
Its a fair argument that much of the crisis was caused by poor regulation rather than lack of it, but note that countries such as Australia and Canada with much stricter banking regulations (and seemingly more effective ones) have escaped the brunt of the current crisis relatively well.
Four of the top 20 banks in the world (20%) are currently Australian, which is an amazing feat for a country of only 20 million people.
It is extremely rare to find a climatologist that doesn't believe in global warming.
I don't think that there is a single denier in the CSIRO Atmospheric Research division and I'd imagine that it would be pretty much the same for all such institutions around the world.
I've played them both now, and the main reason to get RE5 would be for the co-op, which is well done.
If you're playing through the game on single player, then RE4 on the Wii is a lot better just because of the great controls. Capcom must be nuts for not bringing this game out on the Wii.
"Six companies will take part in the Federal Government's trial of an internet content filter, with the Government shunning large ISPs Optus and iiNet in favour of smaller ones that are more sympathetic to its censorship agenda."
You can't do any meaningful analysis without having to average data somewhere otherwise you have lots of temperature measurements from thousands of locations at different points in time, and you make basic mistakes like the guy in your link does, by trying to apply a trend line from the summer of one year to the winter of another.
Should you really be looking at the analysis of some random guy from CO2skeptics (shouldn't really use the word skeptics, because even the real skeptics society has published articles criticizing the conspiracy theories of the CO2skeptics) over the results from NASA?
I too hope that we find a solution in the distant future, but shouldn't we also at least make some attempt to reduce the damage that we're doing to the planet now?
This would give us more time to find such a solution.
Humans have destroyed huge swaths of land thousands of years ago (desertification, salinity, etc...), and we still haven't been able to fix these problems now.
Temperatures haven't been going down by any significant amount. It was a cold winter in parts of the US and Europe, but 2008 was still in the top ten hottest years on record, 2007 in the top three.
Here's NASA's map of average global temperatures for 2008:
Crmarvin42 claimed that there was no proof that there was any kind of causal link between temperature and CO2 in the atmosphere.
I'm saying that there clearly is because using a simple thought experiment: If tomorrow we increased the amount of CO2 on Earth to be similar to the levels of CO2 as Venus (97%), it would be considerably hotter on Earth.
Therefore there is a causal link (not just a correlation) between the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere and temperature. End of story. I never made any claims about what effect smaller increases of CO2 would have, just that there is a definite causal link between the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere and temperature.
There is a real life, complex example of CO2 causing increased temperatures. It is the planet Venus. It has an atmosphere of 97% CO2 and has an average surface temperature considerably hotter than Mercury despite orbiting further from the Sun.
So there is clearly a causational link between CO2 and temperature.
Arachnophobia can't be completely learned. It would seem to be partially innate, partially learned. For instance it would most likely be a lot easier to train a child to have a phobia of a large spider than a duckling.
He has claimed that Asbestos is "chemically identical to talcum powder", and the BBC has accused him of basing his reputation on "lies about his credentials, unaccredited tests, and self aggrandisement".
It also enables the corrupt rulers of countries like Angola to anonymously move public funds out of their countries, and terrorist organisations to easily move money around.
Is a little secrecy worth the damage done to millions of lives? Is there a problem allowing the tax department to look at banking records so that they can actually effectively collect taxes? Why should wealthy companies and individuals be able to get away with avoiding taxes?
Name ANY other place in the developed world with the size, population, and average wealth of Florida where it would EVER be considered acceptable to have more than a hundred thousand customers without power for more than TWO WEEKS...
If you start from blurry, you cannot actually obtain the information required to unblur it. It does not exist.
You can potentially sharpen parts of an image (to a degree) if the information exists elsewhere in the image. For instance if there are repeated elements in the image (images of text, man made structures, etc...). Human faces are also mostly symmetric.
With CCTV you also have a series of other very similar images to get information from in order to sharpen a single frame.
CCTV security systems have been using this kind of technology before 1998 to store video from multiple security cameras to a hard-drive, and allow an operator to view (play, pause, rewind) older video from a camera while the camera is still recording.
Is it really that much of a jump to apply the same technology to television? Is it worthy of a patent? It is a fairly obvious step to any engineer working in this field.
It is almost the same technology, except the video source is a TV tuner instead of a security camera.
A product hadn't been released prior to the Tivo mainly because the cost would have been too high for a consumer product.
Exactly. I remember reading a few years back about a UK supermarket chain that was being sued by a man who slipped in one of their stores. They used the man's supermarket card information in court to show that he was a regular purchaser of alcohol, and therefore was probably an alcoholic.
I meant size as in population not size as in land area. Australia's population is spread out over a very large area, making decentralised energy generation more attractive. France's also has a nuclear weapons program and has developed its nuclear industry for decades, which Australia has not.
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So many urban myths quoted in a single paragraph, that's probably a new record ...
The Romans in England grew wine grapes
The Romans tried growing wine in England, but they failed, producing very poor quality wine: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wine_from_the_United_Kingdom#Roman_to_19th_Century
England's wine industry is currently thriving due to global warming.
the Vikings had dairy farms in Greenland. Vinland was in Labrador.
There has been cattle in Greenland for decades. New Scentist has a good article on this myth:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn11644-climate-myths-it-was-warmer-during-the-medieval-period-with-vineyards-in-england.html
And the current extended "solar minimum" would seem to indicate that slightly cooler temperatures are more likely than any warming.
Even with this solar minimum, 2008 was the 7th hottest year on record, 2009 is predicted to the 4th hottest, and 2007 is around the 3rd hottest.
For the last decade there has been no global warming, at all, while producing more CO2 than ever. During that decade we have taken measurements with the goal of testing global warming, and found none.
The have uncovered _global cooling_.
In this decade so far, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, were all warmer than any year in the 1990s except for 1998 (due to its extreme El Nino event), so that statement is an outright lie. 2009 is predicted to be around the 4th hottest year on record based on temperatures so far.
Here's a good image, graph and explaination of the state of the climate at the end of 2008 from NASA:
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=36699
It's not the controls, it's the lack of quality games by 3rd parties publishers.
The Wii has an excellent controller for FPS and RTS games, and I find it very hard to go back to using a normal controller after using the Wii-mote, as they're just so clumsy in comparison. It's just a pity that there are so few of these types of games being released.
(At least there's a few decent ones - The Conduit, Resident Evil 4, Metroid Prime, but that not many since for a console that's been out almost 3 years).
It's very hard to understand why there is such a reluctance to release games like this for the Wii, when Resident Evil 4 sold so many copies.
We've got so many sources of historical temperature data that even if one source is unreliable, you've got access to so many others.
Every tree, every sedimentary rock, every body of water with sediment at the bottom, every ice formation, has information on the historical temperatures in that region. You've also got many human temperature readings from a variety of sources.
When you have that much data, it's not hard to build up an accurate estimate of the historical temperature.
NASA knows about the 11 year solar cycle, and attributes 2008 being the coolest year since 2000 to this and the La Nina cycle:
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=36699
2008 was still the 10th warmest year on record, 2007 the second warmest. Even discounting the varying solar activity, there is still a strong underlying warming trend, and it's a big worry that the temperatures around the poles have increased so much.
It seems that our carbon emissions are also cooling Venus and Uranus.
Or it could be that these planets temperatures are changing independently of both the Sun and our carbon emissions?
There's nothing like some cherry picked data to prove a point.
The US also has an incredible amount to lose by not signing the Kyoto protocol.
If we can't get China and India to limit their CO2 emissions and their emissions rise to western nation per capita levels, then the US is screwed.
Its a fair argument that much of the crisis was caused by poor regulation rather than lack of it, but note that countries such as Australia and Canada with much stricter banking regulations (and seemingly more effective ones) have escaped the brunt of the current crisis relatively well.
Four of the top 20 banks in the world (20%) are currently Australian, which is an amazing feat for a country of only 20 million people.
It is extremely rare to find a climatologist that doesn't believe in global warming.
I don't think that there is a single denier in the CSIRO Atmospheric Research division and I'd imagine that it would be pretty much the same for all such institutions around the world.
I've played them both now, and the main reason to get RE5 would be for the co-op, which is well done.
If you're playing through the game on single player, then RE4 on the Wii is a lot better just because of the great controls. Capcom must be nuts for not bringing this game out on the Wii.
"Six companies will take part in the Federal Government's trial of an internet content filter, with the Government shunning large ISPs Optus and iiNet in favour of smaller ones that are more sympathetic to its censorship agenda."
http://www.smh.com.au/news/technology/web-censorship-trials-to-exclude-large-isps/2009/02/12/1234028159641.html
I don't see how averaging data is "fudging" data.
You can't do any meaningful analysis without having to average data somewhere otherwise you have lots of temperature measurements from thousands of locations at different points in time, and you make basic mistakes like the guy in your link does, by trying to apply a trend line from the summer of one year to the winter of another.
Should you really be looking at the analysis of some random guy from CO2skeptics (shouldn't really use the word skeptics, because even the real skeptics society has published articles criticizing the conspiracy theories of the CO2skeptics) over the results from NASA?
I too hope that we find a solution in the distant future, but shouldn't we also at least make some attempt to reduce the damage that we're doing to the planet now?
This would give us more time to find such a solution.
Humans have destroyed huge swaths of land thousands of years ago (desertification, salinity, etc...), and we still haven't been able to fix these problems now.
Temperatures haven't been going down by any significant amount. It was a cold winter in parts of the US and Europe, but 2008 was still in the top ten hottest years on record, 2007 in the top three.
Here's NASA's map of average global temperatures for 2008:
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=36699
Doesn't look particularly good does it?
Crmarvin42 claimed that there was no proof that there was any kind of causal link between temperature and CO2 in the atmosphere.
I'm saying that there clearly is because using a simple thought experiment: If tomorrow we increased the amount of CO2 on Earth to be similar to the levels of CO2 as Venus (97%), it would be considerably hotter on Earth.
Therefore there is a causal link (not just a correlation) between the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere and temperature. End of story. I never made any claims about what effect smaller increases of CO2 would have, just that there is a definite causal link between the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere and temperature.
There is a real life, complex example of CO2 causing increased temperatures. It is the planet Venus. It has an atmosphere of 97% CO2 and has an average surface temperature considerably hotter than Mercury despite orbiting further from the Sun.
So there is clearly a causational link between CO2 and temperature.
Arachnophobia can't be completely learned. It would seem to be partially innate, partially learned.
For instance it would most likely be a lot easier to train a child to have a phobia of a large spider than a duckling.
There have been studies on this done with Chimpanzees and snakes:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A526231
About the author of this opinion article:
He has claimed that Asbestos is "chemically identical to talcum powder", and the BBC has accused him of basing his reputation on "lies about his credentials, unaccredited tests, and self aggrandisement".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Booker#Criticism
He is not a credible person.
If this is indeed true then we should probably be:
1) Doing as much as we can to reduce human caused global warming to buy us as much time on earth as possible.
2) Start working out ways to get the population off earth to another planet as soon as possible.
It also enables the corrupt rulers of countries like Angola to anonymously move public funds out of their countries, and terrorist organisations to easily move money around.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2002/nov/04/world.oil
Is a little secrecy worth the damage done to millions of lives? Is there a problem allowing the tax department to look at banking records so that they can actually effectively collect taxes? Why should wealthy companies and individuals be able to get away with avoiding taxes?
Name ANY other place in the developed world with the size, population, and average wealth of Florida where it would EVER be considered acceptable to have more than a hundred thousand customers without power for more than TWO WEEKS...
The Central Business District in New Zealand's largest city, Auckland, was without power for 5 weeks in 1998:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998_Auckland_power_crisis
You can potentially sharpen parts of an image (to a degree) if the information exists elsewhere in the image. For instance if there are repeated elements in the image (images of text, man made structures, etc...). Human faces are also mostly symmetric.
With CCTV you also have a series of other very similar images to get information from in order to sharpen a single frame.
CCTV security systems have been using this kind of technology before 1998 to store video from multiple security cameras to a hard-drive, and allow an operator to view (play, pause, rewind) older video from a camera while the camera is still recording.
Is it really that much of a jump to apply the same technology to television?
Is it worthy of a patent? It is a fairly obvious step to any engineer working in this field.
It is almost the same technology, except the video source is a TV tuner instead of a security camera.
A product hadn't been released prior to the Tivo mainly because the cost would have been too high for a consumer product.
Exactly. I remember reading a few years back about a UK supermarket chain that was being sued by a man who slipped in one of their stores. They used the man's supermarket card information in court to show that he was a regular purchaser of alcohol, and therefore was probably an alcoholic.
I meant size as in population not size as in land area. Australia's population is spread out over a very large area, making decentralised energy generation more attractive. France's also has a nuclear weapons program and has developed its nuclear industry for decades, which Australia has not.