If I was trying to be serious, i'd pick Bill Lear and Philo Fransworth, inventing the Car Radio, eight track tape player, the Lear Jet, Television and a nuclear fusion reactor is all pretty cool stuff and arguable the basis for modern society as we know it; especialy if you add in Edison's phonograph and motion picture inventions.
Everyone knows the earth is warming, but there is legitimate arguments regarding how much is man made and how much is part of a larger cycle. Again, any time a rationale person says "Yes, man is causing some of this, but there may be other forces we don't understand" they are automatically labeled crazy, a Republican or similar.
There really hasn't been any significant warming for about 13 years, in fact when the new BEST dataset is analyzed there hasn't been any non-significant warming either
Tourette's was once considered a rare and bizarre syndrome, most often associated with the exclamation of obscene words or socially inappropriate and derogatory remarks (coprolalia), but this symptom is present in only a small minority of people with Tourette's.
Comparing Greenfield to Wakeman is unduly harsh; Wakefield was concocting "research" to discredit a MMR vaccine that he intended to be competeing against.
Well considering that she knew she was going to be beaten by her father's demeanor, that she set up the video camera to capture the event for posterity, I have a hunch the Judge sent the "message of last resort" rather frequently.
Looks to me like a father who probably lost his temper
And then beat his daughter with a belt, took a break when he appeared tired and continued after he rested for seven and a half minutes, he wasn't just flicking her either he was wailing on her pretty good.
and a young woman playing to the internet 'jury' for sympathy and revenge.
I agree with that but playing the sympathy and revenge card is irrelevant to the beating.
The M16 really doesn't have a recoil, because of the buffer, it was more of a shake along the axis of fire; the barrel was in alignment with the stock so it didn't rise during automatic fire.
So the CIA is helping Obama stay on top of the latest trends that will help him converse on the latest topics?
Great. I'm so glad that tax dollars are helping politicians keep up with Facebook at Twitter. It would be bad enough of their staff was doing it. But the CIA? Come on now. I was under the impression that there are real, pressing issues to focus on. Issues like China and Russia coordinating organized, 24x7 penetration testing of anything and everything connected to the internet.
Well if its a secondary benefit to activities more in keeping with their primary mission why not brief the pres about public sentiment? As far as the Chinese and Russians using our networked computer as sex dolls, that's more of a NSA thing than CIA.
There is an association between mild Vitamin D definiency and ASD, Autism Spectrum Disorders, so blacks with their highly pigmented skin are well represented in the autistic community in the US and very probably under-diagnosed as well. One problem is that autism is subjectively diagnosed by symptoms so we don't know if it is varying degrees of one condition or multiple conditions. That would explain high rates of ASD in Somali immigrants living in Wisconsin, yet So. Cali has lots of sun and lots of ASD too.
Where, exactly, do you think that "opacity" comes from? That material absorbs IR radiation and re-emits it. This slows heat loss of the system. This is the definition of heat capacity.
Every time I post this argument, the best that seems to come up against it is "U R N IDOT", or "That's not how greenhouse gases work". This shows that the proponents of AGW on slashdot know approximately shit about the mechanisms behind global warming. Of course, it says nothing about the hypothesis itself, sadly.
I hate to break the news to you but:
Heat capacity (usually denoted by a capital C, often with subscripts), or thermal capacity, is the measurable physical quantity that characterizes the amount of heat required to change a substance's temperature by a given amount. In the International System of Units (SI), heat capacity is expressed in units of joule(s) (J) per kelvin (K). Heat capacity
heat capacity doesn't mean what you think it does but miss recollecting a scientific term from High School doesn't make you an idiot.
Dry ice sublimates at -107 F, your thermometer will probably freeze solid! This experiment will not show what you expect even when preformed correctly; there will be no measurable differences in the temperature, even if you make the boxes out of infrared transparent salt; this experimental result is at least 2 centuries old. Even Al Gore with all of his resources, couldn't make it show what he wanted without chicanery
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While it does seem that Muller has a dog in this fight, Judith Curry said
My most important statement IMO is this: ‘To say that there is detracts from the credibility of the data, which is very unfortunate.’ My main point was that this is a very good data set, the best we currently have available for land surface temperatures..... My continued collaboration on this project will be discussed this week with Muller and Rohde. My joining this group was somewhat unusual, in that I did not know any of these people prior to being invited to join their team (although I very quickly figured out that they were highly reputable scientists). I thought the project was a great idea, and I still do, but it currently has a tarnish on it. Lets see what we can do about this. Mail on BEST
so possibly the dataset is unbiased and we should wait for peer review before hyperventilating.
Overall, we are underwhelmed by the quality of Berkeley effort so far — with the exception of the efforts made by Robert Rohde on the dataset agglomeration and the statistical approach. And we remain greatly disappointed by Muller’s public communications (e.g. his WSJ op-ed) which appear far more focused on raising his profile than enlightening the public about the state of the science.
from the Mail article
Prof Judith Curry, who chairs the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at America’s prestigious Georgia Institute of Technology, said that Prof Muller’s claim that he has proven global warming sceptics wrong was also a ‘huge mistake’, with no scientific basis. Prof Curry is a distinguished climate researcher with more than 30 years experience and the second named co-author of the BEST project’s four research papers. Her comments, in an exclusive interview with The Mail on Sunday, seem certain to ignite a furious academic row. She said this affair had to be compared to the notorious ‘Climategate’ scandal two years ago. Like the scientists exposed then by leaked emails from East Anglia University’s Climatic Research Unit, her colleagues from the BEST project seem to be trying to ‘hide the decline’ in rates of global warming. In fact, Prof Curry said, the project’s research data show there has been no increase in world temperatures since the end of the Nineties – a fact confirmed by a new analysis that The Mail on Sunday has obtained. ‘There is no scientific basis for saying that warming hasn’t stopped,’ she said. ‘To say that there is detracts from the credibility of the data, which is very unfortunate.’
Now I'll admit that the Mail may not be the most respected journalistic endevor in the world, it is a far cry between tabloid rumors and an exclusive interview with the second named author of a draft research paper.
Watts had written, "Instrumental temperature data for the pre-satellite era (1850-1980) have been so widely, systematically, and unidirectionally tampered with that it cannot be credibly asserted there has been any significant 'global warming' in the 20th century." Now, after Berkeley Earth's release, he claims to have never questioned that the Earth had warmed. Other prominent skeptics are saying similar things.
apparently the author, John Timmer doesn't understand that saying that something can't be proven by the evidence presented isn't the same as saying an event did or didn't occur. Then there is the shenanigans surround the release of the non-peer reviewed drafts, that Judith Curry, one of the BEST Co-Authors not only didn't know in advance that the paper while being reviewed by many people most likely to be critical of the paper were still under non-disclosure agreements as reviewers, that the paper was going to be released to the public as a draft
It would have been smart to consult me.’ She (Prof Judith Curry, who chairs the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at Georgia Institute of Technology, and the second named co-author of the BEST project’s four research papers) said it was unfortunate that although the Journal of Geophysical Research had allowed Prof Muller to issue the papers, the reviewers were, under the journal’s policy, forbidden from public comment. Scientist who said climate change sceptics had been proved wrong accused of hiding truth by colleague
furthermore
he (Professor Richard Muller, of Berkeley University in California) admitted it was true that the BEST data suggested that world temperatures have not risen for about 13 years. But in his view, this might not be ‘statistically significant’,
they still can't determine whether or not the warming of the past few decades is still occurring or not!
If the Zetas operate the way I assume they operate, this kidnapped person is, if they find him is going to be made into an example and it will be horrific. The hierarchy of the Zetas is probably trying to figure out who out of the hundreds of kidnap victims Anonymous wants back; how import can one nondescript person be to a Cartel that holds whole towns hostage?
Except Anonymous isn't an organization with a hierarchy and membership lists, it's more like a flock of birds or even a herd of cats, there really isn't anybody for the cartels to retaliate against, but then again they haven't been too concerned with collateral damage before, either the Cartels or Anonymous.
Gage said he has no immediate plans to outfit his drone with weapons, and he also ruled out using the chopper for catching speeders.
The people screeching the loudest seems to be pilots, which I'm reading as TV News Helicopter pilots as they are the pilots most likely to be operating in areas with ongoing police operations.
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If I was trying to be serious, i'd pick Bill Lear and Philo Fransworth, inventing the Car Radio, eight track tape player, the Lear Jet, Television and a nuclear fusion reactor is all pretty cool stuff and arguable the basis for modern society as we know it; especialy if you add in Edison's phonograph and motion picture inventions.
You mean like a Tony Stark or Larry Ellison?
Well not Engineers exactly but, Numb3rs had a Mathematician, a Physicist and a Physics Doctoral Candidate as major characters.
Everyone knows the earth is warming, but there is legitimate arguments regarding how much is man made and how much is part of a larger cycle. Again, any time a rationale person says "Yes, man is causing some of this, but there may be other forces we don't understand" they are automatically labeled crazy, a Republican or similar.
There really hasn't been any significant warming for about 13 years, in fact when the new BEST dataset is analyzed there hasn't been any non-significant warming either
Comparing Greenfield to Wakeman is unduly harsh; Wakefield was concocting "research" to discredit a MMR vaccine that he intended to be competeing against.
Well considering that she knew she was going to be beaten by her father's demeanor, that she set up the video camera to capture the event for posterity, I have a hunch the Judge sent the "message of last resort" rather frequently.
Of course there was a crime committed: grievous bodily harm.
no, but very probably assault and battery, possibly child abuse.
And then beat his daughter with a belt, took a break when he appeared tired and continued after he rested for seven and a half minutes, he wasn't just flicking her either he was wailing on her pretty good.
I agree with that but playing the sympathy and revenge card is irrelevant to the beating.
The M16 really doesn't have a recoil, because of the buffer, it was more of a shake along the axis of fire; the barrel was in alignment with the stock so it didn't rise during automatic fire.
So the CIA is helping Obama stay on top of the latest trends that will help him converse on the latest topics?
Great. I'm so glad that tax dollars are helping politicians keep up with Facebook at Twitter. It would be bad enough of their staff was doing it. But the CIA? Come on now. I was under the impression that there are real, pressing issues to focus on. Issues like China and Russia coordinating organized, 24x7 penetration testing of anything and everything connected to the internet.
Well if its a secondary benefit to activities more in keeping with their primary mission why not brief the pres about public sentiment? As far as the Chinese and Russians using our networked computer as sex dolls, that's more of a NSA thing than CIA.
There is an association between mild Vitamin D definiency and ASD, Autism Spectrum Disorders, so blacks with their highly pigmented skin are well represented in the autistic community in the US and very probably under-diagnosed as well. One problem is that autism is subjectively diagnosed by symptoms so we don't know if it is varying degrees of one condition or multiple conditions. That would explain high rates of ASD in Somali immigrants living in Wisconsin, yet So. Cali has lots of sun and lots of ASD too.
Where, exactly, do you think that "opacity" comes from? That material absorbs IR radiation and re-emits it. This slows heat loss of the system. This is the definition of heat capacity.
Every time I post this argument, the best that seems to come up against it is "U R N IDOT", or "That's not how greenhouse gases work". This shows that the proponents of AGW on slashdot know approximately shit about the mechanisms behind global warming. Of course, it says nothing about the hypothesis itself, sadly.
I hate to break the news to you but:
heat capacity doesn't mean what you think it does but miss recollecting a scientific term from High School doesn't make you an idiot.
Dry ice sublimates at -107 F, your thermometer will probably freeze solid! This experiment will not show what you expect even when preformed correctly; there will be no measurable differences in the temperature, even if you make the boxes out of infrared transparent salt; this experimental result is at least 2 centuries old. Even Al Gore with all of his resources, couldn't make it show what he wanted without chicanery
While it does seem that Muller has a dog in this fight, Judith Curry said
so possibly the dataset is unbiased and we should wait for peer review before hyperventilating.
From your article,
from the Mail article
Now I'll admit that the Mail may not be the most respected journalistic endevor in the world, it is a far cry between tabloid rumors and an exclusive interview with the second named author of a draft research paper.
If you think Muller was thrown under a bus by the skeptics then the hockey team over at realclimate ran him over, stopped and backup over him.
Interesting article, Climate skeptics perform independent analysis, finally convinced Earth is getting warmer our Climate skeptic, Richard Muller, that would be Richard Muller, also President and Chief Scientist of Muller & Associates a consultancy providing GreenGov services to Governments, International Organizations, non profits; not exactly good for skeptic cred. I also found this interesting
apparently the author, John Timmer doesn't understand that saying that something can't be proven by the evidence presented isn't the same as saying an event did or didn't occur. Then there is the shenanigans surround the release of the non-peer reviewed drafts, that Judith Curry, one of the BEST Co-Authors not only didn't know in advance that the paper while being reviewed by many people most likely to be critical of the paper were still under non-disclosure agreements as reviewers, that the paper was going to be released to the public as a draft
furthermore
they still can't determine whether or not the warming of the past few decades is still occurring or not!
Registering ships in Panama is pretty much SOP in all Maritime vessels, even Disney does it.
If CO2 has increased pretty much continuously since the industrial revolution, why has the warming stalled for the last decade?
What Global warming, BEST data confirms the global temperature standstill of the past decade
Does that mean the great herds of Bison on the American prairies was just a figment of Buffalo Bills imagination?
If the Zetas operate the way I assume they operate, this kidnapped person is, if they find him is going to be made into an example and it will be horrific. The hierarchy of the Zetas is probably trying to figure out who out of the hundreds of kidnap victims Anonymous wants back; how import can one nondescript person be to a Cartel that holds whole towns hostage?
Except Anonymous isn't an organization with a hierarchy and membership lists, it's more like a flock of birds or even a herd of cats, there really isn't anybody for the cartels to retaliate against, but then again they haven't been too concerned with collateral damage before, either the Cartels or Anonymous.
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The people screeching the loudest seems to be pilots, which I'm reading as TV News Helicopter pilots as they are the pilots most likely to be operating in areas with ongoing police operations.