A small point or two is the US and Canada did it, the US and Canadian companies released the pollutants and the detrimental effect of the pollution was readily demonstrable.
It's not the kind of open source we are used to either. What he meant was if one organization had a model of operation that was successful, then that model would be passed along to similar organizations in other jurisdictions so everybody wasn't trying to re-invent the wheel. I listened to the State of the State address and it sounded good, used a lot of buzz words, we'll see if the Naive New-Comer is any match for the Political Establishment. His State Dashboard is a pretty good first step in openness and transperency.
So you hire the young pup, freshly circumcised with the latest bleeding edge techniques like programing smartphone apps and pay him a premium and alienate the rest of the staff; do you offer the PFY a chance to stay on at a 75% pay reduction because ITT tech and DeVry is flooding the market with Iphone app code monkeys a year later?
"Because of tax policy, the market has been distorted to where people are buying health buffet plans, instead of health insurance. " That's what people don;t understand, they buy "Insurance" from what would have or could have been their wages, their employer pay $1.00 on their behalf and convinces the worker that's worth $2.00, the Insurance takes a healthy cut as profits and pays the rest to the employees health care provider, well except that there is a deducible. If the deductible is $500.00 and the "insurance" pays 80/20, on 80% fee, that means that the employee has to spend $625.00 to satisfy a $500.00 deductible so the "insurance will start paying 80% of 80% or 64% of the health-care providers bill!
It's not just a UK thing it's starts in the US the same way as it does there; the student asks for help, the parent/tutor/peer starts to help them only to discover "help me" really means "do for me". In a university setting it becomes even more obvious because there learning is much more of a activity done by the student for himself with direction from the instructor than the activity done to them by a public school teacher in the lower grades.
If the aircraft is easier to push, less drag, more lift, the engines wouldn't suck down as much fuel resulting in lower emissions. it's a case of everything effects everything.
Oh boy, now you've done! Publicly reveling that you a victim of persecution by a Jew is the Worst thing you could do. Now you'll face the full weight of the Kabbalistic pesecution! Now everytime you go to the DMV or a delicatessen, your number will be skipped! Every time you go through airport security, the TSA will give your scrotum an extra squeeze and every time a UFO flys by your going to get an anal probing! Oh woe is you.
Ah yes, back to rationality and a 13 month year! Soon every month will have 28 days and 4 weeks, every quarter will have 13 weeks and we'll have an extra holiday.
Because there are literally thousands of confounding factors, and that's just counting ones that are identified. They probably could publish a table saying that if a decade from now the CO2 level is x and nothing else changes, the increase in temperature will be y, but then things will change, like the number of sunspots or the number of farting cows (methane is also a greenhouse gas) or the amount of heat people generate heating their homes or the acreage of plant biomass or goodness knows what else, and their prediction won't apply anymore,
Sorry I assumed if there were thousands of factors involved that were known and more that are unknown, it would be nearly impossible to determine which factors had significant influence and which didn't. Obviously I didn't consider the special deductive powers bestowed on climatologists that merely mortal scientists don't have.
We really don't do that, killing or maiming people for simply illegal entry, in fact we expend considerable effort in protecting people who have illegally entered the country from being victimized by real criminals or simply being injured by exposure to the weather. The escorts that collect obscene amounts of money to bring illegals into the country and the drug smugglers are a totally different matter.
Putting that many sensors out there, then networking them and building the presentation display just seems fundamentally difficult to me. I'd expect that it's difficulty grow exponentially as the system expands.
I've heard that the pollen from industrial hemp virtually kills the THC content of the abusive varietals in a two mile radius, If that is true then all the feds would have to do is legalize industrial hemp production or even scatter the seeds themselves. Which would only leave Cocaine, heroin and meth as potential income sources. possession of any or those drug are highly vilified in our society anyways.
There's no debate in the scientific literature. Obviously, there's a debate among laymen.
Which begs the question: why is "the majority of scientists agree" not enough when it comes to climate change. It's enough when it's there's fear of creating black holes at the LHC. It's enough when it's NASA sending satellites into space. These places have just as much motivation for being "grant seeking" and all the other accusations that have been flying around.
But when it's climate change the majority of scientists, the IPCC, and even NASA isn't enough. They're all part of a conspiracy, and there is only a handful of very specific people in the entire world that we can trust.
Well let's look at that;
How do we know there’s a scientific consensus on climate change? Pundits and the press tell us so. And how do the pundits and the press know? Until recently, they typically pointed to the number 2,500 — that’s the number of scientists associated with the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Those 2,500, the pundits and the press believed, had endorsed the IPCC position.
To their embarrassment, most of the pundits and press discovered they were mistaken — those 2,500 scientists hadn’t endorsed the IPCC’s conclusions, they had merely reviewed some part or other of the IPCC’s mammoth studies. To add to their embarrassment, many of those reviewers from within the IPCC establishment actually disagreed with the IPCC’s conclusions, sometimes vehemently. Lawrence Solomon: 97% cooked stats
oh well if we can't use the 2500 number how about the “97% of the world’s climate scientists” accept the consensus," number
The number stems from a 2008 master’s thesis by student Maggie Kendall Zimmerman at the University of Illinois, under the guidance of Peter Doran, an associate professor of Earth and environmental sciences. The two researchers obtained their results by conducting a survey of 10,257 Earth scientists. The survey results must have deeply disappointed the researchers — in the end, they chose to highlight the views of a subgroup of just 77 scientists, 75 of whom thought humans contributed to climate change. The ratio 75/77 produces the 97% figure that pundits now tout. Lawrence Solomon: 97% cooked stats
well that's certainly disappointing
3,146, or 30.7%, answered the two key questions on the survey:
1 When compared with pre-1800s levels, do you think that mean global temperatures have generally risen, fallen, or remained relatively constant? 2 Do you think human activity is a significant contributing factor in changing mean global temperatures?... Surprisingly, just 90% of the Earth scientists who responded to the first question believed that temperatures had risen — I would have expected a figure closer to 100%, since Earth was in the Little Ice Age in the centuries immediately preceding 1800.... As for the second question, 82% of the Earth scientists replied that human activity had significantly contributed to the warming. Here the vagueness of the question comes into play. Since skeptics believe human activity has been a contributing factor, their answer would have turned on whether they consider a increase of 10% or 15% or 35% to be a significant contributing factor. Some would, some wouldn’t.... In any case, the two researchers must have feared that an 82% figure would fall short of a convincing consensus — almost one in five wasn’t blaming humans for global warming — so they looked for
Hell let any researcher in, make it a pool, all the published predictions can put their number in the hat and put up three bottles of single malt and a hundred dollar check to a charity, the closest each decade gets a 1/3 of the scotch, the closest after 3 decades selects the charity.
I'm confused, are you say that Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming is an effect so minute that it is indistinguishable from random background noise?
The table would be nice for grins and giggles, but reality doesn't work that way; so many people have invested their whole working careers into the Apocalyptic Global Warming religion. If AGW actually because a testable hypothesis, and was shown to be wrong, how would all of the Crony reviewed journals maintain their business models? What would happen to all of the "scientists" who would be looking for work and only have credentials in a field in disrepute and a string of publications that are either just plain wrong, or referenced numerous articles that were?
On a whim I looked up Anchorage's weather and Port Huron MI and your 17 to -4F and we are 14 F right now. 19 degrees of latitude between us and the temperature is about the same. Around here the weather men add "and it's 10 degrees warmer by the water" right now, I bet you get the same.
I'm sure the County's idea of profit isn't really the same as a business's idea; a lot of the revenue probably does stay on the accounts receivable for the average Joe. Still what they do collect is more than if they didn't charge at all.
My county frequently charges the inmates for room and board while they are incarcerated. We just built a new Jail and built it big enough for not only our needs but big enough to rent out cell space to other counties and the feds. We are surprisingly close to being profitable, especially when you factor in the value of the work done by the inmate work crews.
Yeah but don't be, it was a non-violent crime, low escape risk so there was no need to go to medium or higher security facility for incarceration, they are going completely by the book simply because his Dad is connected. He'll do 6 months, then they'll wave the parole carrot under his nose and he'll be on parole for another year and be in the halfway house for 6 months of that year.
"Their historic range has grown because a lack of an adequately lengthy freeze during the winter is allowing them to live longer. "
then I said:
"In case you haven't noticed the only US state without snow this week is Florida. http://www.nohrsc.noaa.gov/nsa/ [noaa.gov], I'm sure that'll put a dent in those little beetles."
and you followed with
"an insect called Mountain Pine Beetle that lives in Canada and the Western US wouldn't be around, would it?). The temperature needs to get down to about -30F for a week or two to kill these things. "
now I'm going out on a limb here but if it takes -30F for a while to kill these little suckers, and it has to be that for a week or two, and there range is the forests of western North America from Mexico to central British Columbia.; in a good sized chunk of their range, the beetles have never been killed due to low temperatures since the last iceage.
In case you haven't noticed the only US state without snow this week is Florida. http://www.nohrsc.noaa.gov/nsa/, I'm sure that'll put a dent in those little beetles. you know even Phil Jones says there hasn't been any statistically significant warming for 15 years, and 15 years is half a climatic period.
Obviously you don't know the differences between "a Florida trailer park resident" and "a Texas trailer park resident", the latter is more typically like what your were expecting than the former.
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A small point or two is the US and Canada did it, the US and Canadian companies released the pollutants and the detrimental effect of the pollution was readily demonstrable.
It's not the kind of open source we are used to either. What he meant was if one organization had a model of operation that was successful, then that model would be passed along to similar organizations in other jurisdictions so everybody wasn't trying to re-invent the wheel. I listened to the State of the State address and it sounded good, used a lot of buzz words, we'll see if the Naive New-Comer is any match for the Political Establishment. His State Dashboard is a pretty good first step in openness and transperency.
So you hire the young pup, freshly circumcised with the latest bleeding edge techniques like programing smartphone apps and pay him a premium and alienate the rest of the staff; do you offer the PFY a chance to stay on at a 75% pay reduction because ITT tech and DeVry is flooding the market with Iphone app code monkeys a year later?
"Because of tax policy, the market has been distorted to where people are buying health buffet plans, instead of health insurance. "
That's what people don;t understand, they buy "Insurance" from what would have or could have been their wages, their employer pay $1.00 on their behalf and convinces the worker that's worth $2.00, the Insurance takes a healthy cut as profits and pays the rest to the employees health care provider, well except that there is a deducible. If the deductible is $500.00 and the "insurance" pays 80/20, on 80% fee, that means that the employee has to spend $625.00 to satisfy a $500.00 deductible so the "insurance will start paying 80% of 80% or 64% of the health-care providers bill!
It's not just a UK thing it's starts in the US the same way as it does there; the student asks for help, the parent/tutor/peer starts to help them only to discover "help me" really means "do for me". In a university setting it becomes even more obvious because there learning is much more of a activity done by the student for himself with direction from the instructor than the activity done to them by a public school teacher in the lower grades.
A surprising amount of networking utilities are almost the same in *nix and windows, especially things you need for serious troubleshooting.
If the aircraft is easier to push, less drag, more lift, the engines wouldn't suck down as much fuel resulting in lower emissions. it's a case of everything effects everything.
Oh boy, now you've done! Publicly reveling that you a victim of persecution by a Jew is the Worst thing you could do. Now you'll face the full weight of the Kabbalistic pesecution! Now everytime you go to the DMV or a delicatessen, your number will be skipped! Every time you go through airport security, the TSA will give your scrotum an extra squeeze and every time a UFO flys by your going to get an anal probing! Oh woe is you.
Ah yes, back to rationality and a 13 month year! Soon every month will have 28 days and 4 weeks, every quarter will have 13 weeks and we'll have an extra holiday.
Because there are literally thousands of confounding factors, and that's just counting ones that are identified. They probably could publish a table saying that if a decade from now the CO2 level is x and nothing else changes, the increase in temperature will be y, but then things will change, like the number of sunspots or the number of farting cows (methane is also a greenhouse gas) or the amount of heat people generate heating their homes or the acreage of plant biomass or goodness knows what else, and their prediction won't apply anymore,
Sorry I assumed if there were thousands of factors involved that were known and more that are unknown, it would be nearly impossible to determine which factors had significant influence and which didn't. Obviously I didn't consider the special deductive powers bestowed on climatologists that merely mortal scientists don't have.
You can grow poppies outdoors and nobody thinks a thing of it, or were you thinking of cocoa or cannabis?
We really don't do that, killing or maiming people for simply illegal entry, in fact we expend considerable effort in protecting people who have illegally entered the country from being victimized by real criminals or simply being injured by exposure to the weather. The escorts that collect obscene amounts of money to bring illegals into the country and the drug smugglers are a totally different matter.
Putting that many sensors out there, then networking them and building the presentation display just seems fundamentally difficult to me. I'd expect that it's difficulty grow exponentially as the system expands.
I've heard that the pollen from industrial hemp virtually kills the THC content of the abusive varietals in a two mile radius, If that is true then all the feds would have to do is legalize industrial hemp production or even scatter the seeds themselves. Which would only leave Cocaine, heroin and meth as potential income sources. possession of any or those drug are highly vilified in our society anyways.
There's no debate in the scientific literature. Obviously, there's a debate among laymen.
Which begs the question: why is "the majority of scientists agree" not enough when it comes to climate change. It's enough when it's there's fear of creating black holes at the LHC. It's enough when it's NASA sending satellites into space. These places have just as much motivation for being "grant seeking" and all the other accusations that have been flying around.
But when it's climate change the majority of scientists, the IPCC, and even NASA isn't enough. They're all part of a conspiracy, and there is only a handful of very specific people in the entire world that we can trust.
Well let's look at that;
oh well if we can't use the 2500 number how about the “97% of the world’s climate scientists” accept the consensus," number
well that's certainly disappointing
Hell let any researcher in, make it a pool, all the published predictions can put their number in the hat and put up three bottles of single malt and a hundred dollar check to a charity, the closest each decade gets a 1/3 of the scotch, the closest after 3 decades selects the charity.
I'm confused, are you say that Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming is an effect so minute that it is indistinguishable from random background noise?
The table would be nice for grins and giggles, but reality doesn't work that way; so many people have invested their whole working careers into the Apocalyptic Global Warming religion. If AGW actually because a testable hypothesis, and was shown to be wrong, how would all of the Crony reviewed journals maintain their business models? What would happen to all of the "scientists" who would be looking for work and only have credentials in a field in disrepute and a string of publications that are either just plain wrong, or referenced numerous articles that were?
On a whim I looked up Anchorage's weather and Port Huron MI and your 17 to -4F and we are 14 F right now. 19 degrees of latitude between us and the temperature is about the same. Around here the weather men add "and it's 10 degrees warmer by the water" right now, I bet you get the same.
I'm sure the County's idea of profit isn't really the same as a business's idea; a lot of the revenue probably does stay on the accounts receivable for the average Joe. Still what they do collect is more than if they didn't charge at all.
My county frequently charges the inmates for room and board while they are incarcerated. We just built a new Jail and built it big enough for not only our needs but big enough to rent out cell space to other counties and the feds. We are surprisingly close to being profitable, especially when you factor in the value of the work done by the inmate work crews.
Yeah but don't be, it was a non-violent crime, low escape risk so there was no need to go to medium or higher security facility for incarceration, they are going completely by the book simply because his Dad is connected. He'll do 6 months, then they'll wave the parole carrot under his nose and he'll be on parole for another year and be in the halfway house for 6 months of that year.
OK you said:
then I said :
and you followed with
now I'm going out on a limb here but if it takes -30F for a while to kill these little suckers, and it has to be that for a week or two, and there range is the forests of western North America from Mexico to central British Columbia. ; in a good sized chunk of their range, the beetles have never been killed due to low temperatures since the last iceage.
In case you haven't noticed the only US state without snow this week is Florida.
http://www.nohrsc.noaa.gov/nsa/, I'm sure that'll put a dent in those little beetles.
you know even Phil Jones says there hasn't been any statistically significant warming for 15 years, and 15 years is half a climatic period.
Obviously you don't know the differences between "a Florida trailer park resident" and "a Texas trailer park resident", the latter is more typically like what your were expecting than the former.