I suppose it's different in construction or agriculture but they're the exception not the norm anymore.
Not as much as you would think, construction is turning into a 8-5 thing (if not 24/6), work under lights; and in agriculture it's only livestock farmers tied to the solar clock. With a little automation even livestock farmers would be much freer from the clock. Dairy farmers would be the most tied as the cows actually hurt if they are not milked.
People in some countries are really entrenched in their ways, despite the clear disadvantages. It's 2016 and the US still hasn't adopted the metric system. Hell, they even have their presidential elections on a Tuesday, no holiday or anything.
Oh Bullshit the metric system is as established in the US as it is anywhere else; Just watch a few youtube videos and everyone keeps slipping back into whatever pre-metric system they had. The Canadian radio stations will say the temperature in Celsius, but add Fahrenheit so people know how cold it really is; and the British still talk about distance in miles, and bitch about being fat in stones.
I do agree voting day should be a holiday in theory but it wouldn't work in practice, we have a lot of local special elections through out the year. Local School district are notorious for pushing through tax millage votes on special elections as Seniors Citizens are predominately reimbursed those taxes and most people who have to actually pay them are at work.
Prussian general Carl von Clausewitz said "Never put additional effort into a failed stoke", that's what most people don't get, if what your doing is a failure, doing it harder is just going to make it a bigger failure. Liberals love the "Bigs", but Big Business, Big Government and Big Religion always implode under their own corruption; the more the three Bigs collude, the quicker they implode.
I always assumed the hacks were from a disgusted insider, Bernie Sander was totally screwed by the DNC. The leaks are likely retaliation for that.Trump simply doesn't have the Political machine to pull off the level of corruption you see from the Clinton campaign; it takes decades to get enough dirt on people to be able to bully them around like Hillary does.
And that is different from the other candidate being sponsored by loans from other foreign countries? How? Should the USA get rid of foreign sponsorships for its national leader, should be the more appropriate question, and work for America!
We did make that illegal a while ago; now they have to launder the money through charitable foundations and speaker's fees.
Actually it would be good for Texas to rig some of the vote to the Dems and make it seem worth their while to spend some money in your state; I know in 2004 I was kind of pissed that Obama didn't even bother to come to Michigan and spend a little money in the local economy.
How do bad actors accomplish that on a large scale?
You don't need to do it on a large scale, with the Electoral College Electors allocated on a all or nothing basis in all but 2 states, a small amount of fraud conducted in a few swing-states is enough to change a national election. Basically all you have to do is look at where the candidates are conducting rallies in the last 2 weeks, and you'll see where a little fraud will go a long way.
pH is a logarithmic measure of hydrogen ion concentration, originally defined by Danish biochemist Søren Peter Lauritz Sørensen in 1909 [1].
pH = -log^[H+]
where log is a base-10 logarithm and [H+] is the concentration of hydrogen ions in moles per liter of solution. According to the Compact Oxford English Dictionary, the "p" stands for the German word for "power", potenz, so pH is an abbreviation for "power of hydrogen" [2].
The pH scale was defined because the enormous range of hydrogen ion concentrations found in aqueous solutions make using H+ molarity awkward. For example, in a typical acid-base titration, [H+] may vary from about 0.01 M to 0.0000000000001 M. It is easier to write "the pH varies from 2 to 13".
The hydrogen ion concentration in pure water around room temperature is about 1.0 × 10-7 M. A pH of 7 is considered "neutral", because the concentration of hydrogen ions is exactly equal to the concentration of hydroxide (OH-) ions produced by dissociation of the water. Increasing the concentration of hydrogen ions above 1.0 × 10-7 M produces a solution with a pH of less than 7, and the solution is considered "acidic". Decreasing the concentration below 1.0 × 10-7 M produces a solution with a pH above 7, and the solution is considered "alkaline" or "basic". What is pH?
As you can see from the mathamatics, as the number of hydrogen Ions in a solution increases and the solutition becomes more acidic, the pH goes down, such that a solution with a pH of 2, pH = -log(10^-2), is ten times more acidic than a solution at pH 3, pH = -log(10^-3).
Two states differing by imperceptible amounts may eventually evolve into two considerably different states... If, then, there is any error whatever in observing the present state—and in any real system such errors seem inevitable—an acceptable prediction of an instantaneous state in the distant future may well be impossible.
The climate simply isn't predictable at century scales with our present technology.
Anthony Watt drive an electric car and has solar panels installed on his home, so what is your point? It's not about what you do or what the facts are, it's about emotions. The Alarmists feel that they are doing something good and altruistic. The Alarmists feel that the sceptics are selfish denialists and basically bad people. No matter what facts the sceptics bring up, all the Alarmists are going to hear is Blah, Blah, Blah. When the Alarmists talk to the sceptics about their feelings all the sceptics hear is Blah, Blah, Blah.
The Qatar-Turkey pipeline would not be in Russia's best interests, and Russia is a long time ally of Al-Assad so it's highly suspicious that we are arming the Muslim Brotherhood to destabilize both Al-Assad and ISIS. This is highly inflammatory for the Russians, being the main natural gas supplier to Europe, so I would think Clinton as POTUS would be much more likely to play some unnecessary brinkmanship with a nuclear power than Trump would be.
Mann, subject line "HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL": "I can't see either of these papers being in the next IPCC report. Kevin [Trenberth] and I will keep them out somehow – even if we have to redefine what the peer review literature is!" A lot of cronyism was going on with the hockey team back in the day, if you weren't one of the "good ol' boys" you didn't get published, not getting published meant you weren't considered an expert and wasn't included in 98 people included in the study.
"When one looks at the published climatology papers, that 97% paper is quite low. It is more like 100%. See The Scientific Consenses on Climate Change, Oreskes in Science, December, 2004." Oreskes is a Historian, no more qualified to publish a scientific paper than a High School teacher.
Reducing sulphur oxide emissions actually produced a measurable increase in rain pH.
"Chloroflorcarbons were controlled to address the ozone layer", the holes are still there, and the holes were detected the first time we had the ability to detect them, so its hard to say if they are natural or anthropogenic, and the CFC's role is still conjecture.
The Great Lakes/algae thing was actually a ban on phosphates not sulphates. I'm not sure how applicable it is any more anyway, the Zebra mussels that invaded from Europe have pretty much made diatomic algae in the Great Lakes a thing of the past.
What is it about settled physics that you don't like?
it's not science, it computers making thousands of calculations on noisy and incomplete data to develop a snapshot of what might happen in 30 minutes on grids 100Km square and 30 layers high and introducing round off error with each calculation, then repeating that 1,753,152 times to get a guess of what might happen in a century and pretending the results are not spirally off into chaos.
I wouldn't be opposed to having the income tax deduction for children roll off after two or three, and have public assistance for more than two children roll off as well. I generally disagree with having the taxes used as a reward or punishment in social engineering experiments.
Jagadish Shukla and about 19 others; and of course there is always AGs United for Clean Power a coalition consists of 15 state attorneys general (California, Connecticut, Illinois, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, and Washington State), as well as the attorneys general of the District of Columbia and the Virgin Islands.
If that's true than Mann vs Steyn trial of the century should be a slam dunk, instead Mann is trying to weasel out of discovery, and is dragging it out as long as humanly possible.
The current trend is no statisically significant warming for about 18 years, and considering how few sunspots there have been lately, it's likely to cool down a bit as well.
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I suppose it's different in construction or agriculture but they're the exception not the norm anymore.
Not as much as you would think, construction is turning into a 8-5 thing (if not 24/6), work under lights; and in agriculture it's only livestock farmers tied to the solar clock. With a little automation even livestock farmers would be much freer from the clock. Dairy farmers would be the most tied as the cows actually hurt if they are not milked.
No way; base 60 has been used since Ancient Egypt, what good is for the Pharaoh, is good for everybody!
People in some countries are really entrenched in their ways, despite the clear disadvantages.
It's 2016 and the US still hasn't adopted the metric system. Hell, they even have their presidential elections on a Tuesday, no holiday or anything.
Oh Bullshit the metric system is as established in the US as it is anywhere else; Just watch a few youtube videos and everyone keeps slipping back into whatever pre-metric system they had. The Canadian radio stations will say the temperature in Celsius, but add Fahrenheit so people know how cold it really is; and the British still talk about distance in miles, and bitch about being fat in stones.
I do agree voting day should be a holiday in theory but it wouldn't work in practice, we have a lot of local special elections through out the year. Local School district are notorious for pushing through tax millage votes on special elections as Seniors Citizens are predominately reimbursed those taxes and most people who have to actually pay them are at work.
Prussian general Carl von Clausewitz said "Never put additional effort into a failed stoke", that's what most people don't get, if what your doing is a failure, doing it harder is just going to make it a bigger failure. Liberals love the "Bigs", but Big Business, Big Government and Big Religion always implode under their own corruption; the more the three Bigs collude, the quicker they implode.
I always assumed the hacks were from a disgusted insider, Bernie Sander was totally screwed by the DNC. The leaks are likely retaliation for that.Trump simply doesn't have the Political machine to pull off the level of corruption you see from the Clinton campaign; it takes decades to get enough dirt on people to be able to bully them around like Hillary does.
And that is different from the other candidate being sponsored by loans from other foreign countries? How? Should the USA get rid of foreign sponsorships for its national leader, should be the more appropriate question, and work for America!
We did make that illegal a while ago; now they have to launder the money through charitable foundations and speaker's fees.
Actually it would be good for Texas to rig some of the vote to the Dems and make it seem worth their while to spend some money in your state; I know in 2004 I was kind of pissed that Obama didn't even bother to come to Michigan and spend a little money in the local economy.
How do bad actors accomplish that on a large scale?
You don't need to do it on a large scale, with the Electoral College Electors allocated on a all or nothing basis in all but 2 states, a small amount of fraud conducted in a few swing-states is enough to change a national election. Basically all you have to do is look at where the candidates are conducting rallies in the last 2 weeks, and you'll see where a little fraud will go a long way.
How so,
As you can see from the mathamatics, as the number of hydrogen Ions in a solution increases and the solutition becomes more acidic, the pH goes down, such that a solution with a pH of 2, pH = -log(10^-2), is ten times more acidic than a solution at pH 3, pH = -log(10^-3).
So you are saying that there is no relation to the energy retention characteristics of an atmosphere by virtue of the composition of that atmosphere?
A yes or no answer is sufficient.
That's called a strawman arguement, it has nothing to do with what I was refering to, please refer tp Edward Norton Lorenz's 1963 paper "Deterministic Nonperiodic Flow" in Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences,
The climate simply isn't predictable at century scales with our present technology.
worker's paradise is a euphemism for communistic hell hole country, so that would be Venezuela..
I think you have kool-aid stains on your mouth.
Anthony Watt drive an electric car and has solar panels installed on his home, so what is your point? It's not about what you do or what the facts are, it's about emotions. The Alarmists feel that they are doing something good and altruistic. The Alarmists feel that the sceptics are selfish denialists and basically bad people. No matter what facts the sceptics bring up, all the Alarmists are going to hear is Blah, Blah, Blah. When the Alarmists talk to the sceptics about their feelings all the sceptics hear is Blah, Blah, Blah.
you insensitive clod, EMACS is not my editor, it is my entire operating system
The Qatar-Turkey pipeline would not be in Russia's best interests, and Russia is a long time ally of Al-Assad so it's highly suspicious that we are arming the Muslim Brotherhood to destabilize both Al-Assad and ISIS. This is highly inflammatory for the Russians, being the main natural gas supplier to Europe, so I would think Clinton as POTUS would be much more likely to play some unnecessary brinkmanship with a nuclear power than Trump would be.
Mann, subject line "HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL": "I can't see either of these papers being in the next IPCC report. Kevin [Trenberth] and I will keep them out somehow – even if we have to redefine what the peer review literature is!"
A lot of cronyism was going on with the hockey team back in the day, if you weren't one of the "good ol' boys" you didn't get published, not getting published meant you weren't considered an expert and wasn't included in 98 people included in the study.
"When one looks at the published climatology papers, that 97% paper is quite low. It is more like 100%. See The Scientific Consenses on Climate Change, Oreskes in Science, December, 2004."
Oreskes is a Historian, no more qualified to publish a scientific paper than a High School teacher.
So was it the Koch Brothers or BP that paid you to do that?
Most of us paid climate denialist shills are still waiting for that first check, those fuckers promised us the check was in the mail.
Reducing sulphur oxide emissions actually produced a measurable increase in rain pH.
"Chloroflorcarbons were controlled to address the ozone layer", the holes are still there, and the holes were detected the first time we had the ability to detect them, so its hard to say if they are natural or anthropogenic, and the CFC's role is still conjecture.
The Great Lakes/algae thing was actually a ban on phosphates not sulphates. I'm not sure how applicable it is any more anyway, the Zebra mussels that invaded from Europe have pretty much made diatomic algae in the Great Lakes a thing of the past.
What is it about settled physics that you don't like?
it's not science, it computers making thousands of calculations on noisy and incomplete data to develop a snapshot of what might happen in 30 minutes on grids 100Km square and 30 layers high and introducing round off error with each calculation, then repeating that 1,753,152 times to get a guess of what might happen in a century and pretending the results are not spirally off into chaos.
I wouldn't be opposed to having the income tax deduction for children roll off after two or three, and have public assistance for more than two children roll off as well. I generally disagree with having the taxes used as a reward or punishment in social engineering experiments.
Jagadish Shukla and about 19 others; and of course there is always AGs United for Clean Power a coalition consists of 15 state attorneys general (California, Connecticut, Illinois, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, and Washington State), as well as the attorneys general of the District of Columbia and the Virgin Islands.
If that's true than Mann vs Steyn trial of the century should be a slam dunk, instead Mann is trying to weasel out of discovery, and is dragging it out as long as humanly possible.
The current trend is no statisically significant warming for about 18 years, and considering how few sunspots there have been lately, it's likely to cool down a bit as well.
I would add realclimate.com and Wattsupwiththat.com to the list.
Those refrigerants are completely inert at normal conditions. Hell we really don't know if there effect on the ozone hole is even real for sure.