The satellite record pretty much agrees with Cruz, hasn't been any statistically significant warming (as in temperature) for over 18 years in the satellite data. USCRN hasn't shown any significant warming either; HADCRUT, GISTEMP, BEST and USHCN show some warming.
The point isn't "Is the Climate Changing" because the climate is always changing, the points are 1. is the change due to anthropogenic CO2 emissions, (probably a little bit) 2. if the change is due to anthropogenic CO2 emissions, will the rate of change accelerate, decelerate or stay linear as CO2 increases, 3. if we reduce CO2 levels, will the Earth actually cool 4. can we reduce CO2 levels without killing off billions of people 5. is the change due to land use changes, (probably a fair bit?) 6. have you really seen any climate change over your lifetime, even the alarmist are saying it's less than a degree 7. if the denialists are in thrall to "Big Oil", why do you assume the Alarmists aren't in the other sides pocket Bill Nye is an engineer by training, a professional Entertainer by trade and not afraid to commit scientific fraud for "dramatic effect". OBTW "It's very hard to find a millennial-aged person that is not concerned about climate change. I think the climate denial movement is running out of steam, I guess that's a pun." is a manipulative sales technique known as social validation, it's rather effective on persons with narcissistic tendencies; it strongly appeals to the hive-mind drive to be "one of the cool kids".
The Moon orbits the Earth in a prograde motion so the the tidal forces from the Earth's rotation accelerate the Moon's orbital velocity, while shortening the length of the Earth's day. Once the Earth's day matches the lunar orbital period, the death spiral will begin.
C/H0 = Rhs Distance to edge of observable Universe is a little bigger because expansion is accelerating and will in the future pass the edge of the Hubble sphere.
Discussions of alien civilizations waging wars over those canals were a popular household topic conversation, just like black holes today.
Wow your household must be really different from mine, Sheldon Cooper. OBTW did you know they really fucked up your theme song, the universe started 13 Billion years not 13 Million, Idiot song writers.
Stuff doesn't just get 'sucked' into a black hole. That's not how gravity works. The planets orbiting the sun are not slowly falling into the sun either, and the moon is not slowly falling into the earth. Once something has a stable orbit it tends to stay in that orbit.
Well yes actually they are slowly falling in, the real question is are we talking about falling in over a period of hundreds of years or trillions of years. We know given enough time everything in orbit around something else is going to tidally lock up and decay into less and less thingys, until there is only one thingy; what we don't know is if the Universe will last that long.
I'm sorry I can't see anywhere on the link you provided that made any mention to how the temperature is adjusted, smoothed and/or gridded, 1200Km radius for temperature stations or anything like that.
If you've got a point to make, try citing some genuine data.
Et tu, Brute? no mention of minimum or maximum temperatures, only the average of the "average", everybody should know an average of the averages is statistical bullshit;
Definitions for the data Preliminary Climate Data(Form F-6) define
Maximum temperature. This is the highest temperature (F) recorded for the calendar day., Minimum temperature. This is the lowest temperature (F) recorded for the calendar day, Average temperature. The sum of the previous two columns, divided by 2, and rounded, gives the value for this column. Understanding the Preliminary Monthly Climate Data (WS Form F-6)
likewise no mention of adjustment methodologies, data gridding, or overall quality of the measurement; Hell they didn't even give confidence levels!
Second, "hottest year on record" means "this year's global average temperature was higher than anything we've ever seen before", which could just be a fluke -
No that's not what it means, the "hottest year on record" and highest global average temperature are two very different things, in most instances the average is higher either because the minimum temperatures are higher rather than the maximum temperatures are higher, or the data was adjusted.
That Sir is one of the more astute comments in this thread. I really have no problem with people who have earned wealth through honest hard work and/or luck, having paid their fair share of taxes on the income, moving their asset to more tax-advantaged locations. Free market capitalism also involves Government and their tax systems. On the other hand if the wealth was acquired through corruption and political leaders raiding the national coffers, I have no problem with confiscating the assets and hanging them by their balls until they rot off.
My suspicion is because showing a Politician whose asset management style is less than saintly sells more paper than showing a despot who everybody knew is a scumbag does, The Brit skipping out on a couple thousand in taxes gets the coverage that a Nigerian stealing Millions doesn't.
Russia hasn't really given democracy a chance yet.
Oh BS, Russia has a strong History of Democracy, it's actually against the law for people to not vote there, and has been since near the Bolshevik Revolution. Now have two parties to democratically choose between, not so much.
It's not that bad in the first world, but basically Pareto principle or 80/20 rule applies, 20% of the population will tend to hold 80% of the wealth and earn 80% of the income, and the holders of 80% of the Wealth and earners of 80% of the income aren't necessarily the same people. Likewise 80% of your income is from 20% of your effort, if I had as much effort and money into investments when I was in my late teens and twenties as I did in getting drunk and chasing pussy, I'd be getting a lot more of each now.
Yet even if I had a legacy big enough to be one of the1%ers, it's highly likely that my great-grand kids would have to work.
I've never understood why anyone would want to tax a corporation anyway, sooner or later the profit is either retained or distributed as a dividend or a draw, then it is taxed at the stockholder's personal rate which is always higher than the Corporate rate anyway; just tax the distributions to foreign national at 25% and be done with it. That would end all of your Evil(tm) Tax Havens.
I know in the train monopolies the hand of Government was considerable, no one entity can acquire the vast stretches of land without the heavy hand of Government and a good healthy dose of corruption to grease the political wheels. Most people confuse Capitalism with Feudalism.
A better way to tell would be to use a ballistic pendulum with a target of ballistic gel, to show energy transfer. Energy that doesn't transfer to the target is wasted, but it goes without saying if your projectile makes a hole big enough to throw a cat through, who cares about a little wasted energy.
Federal income taxes, I just did a bit of googling and found I was off a smidgen, in 2013 the 50th percentile paid 2.8% of the Federal Income taxes and 45% are estimated to pay no income taxes, therefore 55% are tax payers.
Manifold: A manifold is a topological space that is locally Euclidean (i.e., around every point, there is a neighborhood that is topologically the same as the open unit ball in R^n). To illustrate this idea, consider the ancient belief that the Earth was flat as contrasted with the modern evidence that it is round. The discrepancy arises essentially from the fact that on the small scales that we see, the Earth does indeed look flat. In general, any object that is nearly "flat" on small scales is a manifold, and so manifolds constitute a generalization of objects we could live on in which we would encounter the round/flat Earth problem, as first codified by Poincaré.
If the breadth of each software module is the x axis and the number of assigned personnel is the y axis and the module over-budgetness is the z axis then the project then like the Earth the whole project appears to be an manifold or Euclidean a topological space because if those other assholes are going to be over-budget and get more money, everybody else is going to slack off and get their share as well and therby maintaining the flatness!
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The satellite record pretty much agrees with Cruz, hasn't been any statistically significant warming (as in temperature) for over 18 years in the satellite data. USCRN hasn't shown any significant warming either; HADCRUT, GISTEMP, BEST and USHCN show some warming.
The point isn't "Is the Climate Changing" because the climate is always changing, the points are
1. is the change due to anthropogenic CO2 emissions, (probably a little bit)
2. if the change is due to anthropogenic CO2 emissions, will the rate of change accelerate, decelerate or stay linear as CO2 increases,
3. if we reduce CO2 levels, will the Earth actually cool
4. can we reduce CO2 levels without killing off billions of people
5. is the change due to land use changes, (probably a fair bit?)
6. have you really seen any climate change over your lifetime, even the alarmist are saying it's less than a degree
7. if the denialists are in thrall to "Big Oil", why do you assume the Alarmists aren't in the other sides pocket
Bill Nye is an engineer by training, a professional Entertainer by trade and not afraid to commit scientific fraud for "dramatic effect".
OBTW "It's very hard to find a millennial-aged person that is not concerned about climate change. I think the climate denial movement is running out of steam, I guess that's a pun." is a manipulative sales technique known as social validation, it's rather effective on persons with narcissistic tendencies; it strongly appeals to the hive-mind drive to be "one of the cool kids".
The Moon orbits the Earth in a prograde motion so the the tidal forces from the Earth's rotation accelerate the Moon's orbital velocity, while shortening the length of the Earth's day. Once the Earth's day matches the lunar orbital period, the death spiral will begin.
C/H0 = Rhs Distance to edge of observable Universe is a little bigger because expansion is accelerating and will in the future pass the edge of the Hubble sphere.
Discussions of alien civilizations waging wars over those canals were a popular household topic conversation, just like black holes today.
Wow your household must be really different from mine, Sheldon Cooper. OBTW did you know they really fucked up your theme song, the universe started 13 Billion years not 13 Million, Idiot song writers.
Stuff doesn't just get 'sucked' into a black hole. That's not how gravity works. The planets orbiting the sun are not slowly falling into the sun either, and the moon is not slowly falling into the earth. Once something has a stable orbit it tends to stay in that orbit.
Well yes actually they are slowly falling in, the real question is are we talking about falling in over a period of hundreds of years or trillions of years. We know given enough time everything in orbit around something else is going to tidally lock up and decay into less and less thingys, until there is only one thingy; what we don't know is if the Universe will last that long.
Yo Mama said "Take it deep and it don't taste bad"
I'm sorry I can't see anywhere on the link you provided that made any mention to how the temperature is adjusted, smoothed and/or gridded, 1200Km radius for temperature stations or anything like that.
Nope.
If you've got a point to make, try citing some genuine data.
Et tu, Brute? no mention of minimum or maximum temperatures, only the average of the "average", everybody should know an average of the averages is statistical bullshit;
likewise no mention of adjustment methodologies, data gridding, or overall quality of the measurement; Hell they didn't even give confidence levels!
Won't work. By the time enough Nukes can be brought online it will be too late.
Hasn't been any warming for over 18 years, we've got some wiggle room, probably a lot of wiggle room.
The US was the only country to meet the Kyoto Agreement goals and we weren't even a signatory!
Siberia as well.
Second, "hottest year on record" means "this year's global average temperature was higher than anything we've ever seen before", which could just be a fluke -
No that's not what it means, the "hottest year on record" and highest global average temperature are two very different things, in most instances the average is higher either because the minimum temperatures are higher rather than the maximum temperatures are higher, or the data was adjusted.
That Sir is one of the more astute comments in this thread. I really have no problem with people who have earned wealth through honest hard work and/or luck, having paid their fair share of taxes on the income, moving their asset to more tax-advantaged locations. Free market capitalism also involves Government and their tax systems. On the other hand if the wealth was acquired through corruption and political leaders raiding the national coffers, I have no problem with confiscating the assets and hanging them by their balls until they rot off.
My suspicion is because showing a Politician whose asset management style is less than saintly sells more paper than showing a despot who everybody knew is a scumbag does, The Brit skipping out on a couple thousand in taxes gets the coverage that a Nigerian stealing Millions doesn't.
Russia hasn't really given democracy a chance yet.
Oh BS, Russia has a strong History of Democracy, it's actually against the law for people to not vote there, and has been since near the Bolshevik Revolution. Now have two parties to democratically choose between, not so much.
It's not that bad in the first world, but basically Pareto principle or 80/20 rule applies, 20% of the population will tend to hold 80% of the wealth and earn 80% of the income, and the holders of 80% of the Wealth and earners of 80% of the income aren't necessarily the same people. Likewise 80% of your income is from 20% of your effort, if I had as much effort and money into investments when I was in my late teens and twenties as I did in getting drunk and chasing pussy, I'd be getting a lot more of each now.
Yet even if I had a legacy big enough to be one of the1%ers, it's highly likely that my great-grand kids would have to work.
Not quite as good as Oli North shredding documents one filing cabinet ahead of the Special Prosecute executing a search for documents though.
You may be confusing Social Security with the repayment of money and interest the USG borrowed from Social Security.
I've never understood why anyone would want to tax a corporation anyway, sooner or later the profit is either retained or distributed as a dividend or a draw, then it is taxed at the stockholder's personal rate which is always higher than the Corporate rate anyway; just tax the distributions to foreign national at 25% and be done with it. That would end all of your Evil(tm) Tax Havens.
The Clinton Foundation, It's for Charity, all 15% that doesn't go to "overhead"!
I know in the train monopolies the hand of Government was considerable, no one entity can acquire the vast stretches of land without the heavy hand of Government and a good healthy dose of corruption to grease the political wheels. Most people confuse Capitalism with Feudalism.
A better way to tell would be to use a ballistic pendulum with a target of ballistic gel, to show energy transfer. Energy that doesn't transfer to the target is wasted, but it goes without saying if your projectile makes a hole big enough to throw a cat through, who cares about a little wasted energy.
Federal income taxes, I just did a bit of googling and found I was off a smidgen, in 2013 the 50th percentile paid 2.8% of the Federal Income taxes and 45% are estimated to pay no income taxes, therefore 55% are tax payers.
If the breadth of each software module is the x axis and the number of assigned personnel is the y axis and the module over-budgetness is the z axis then the project then like the Earth the whole project appears to be an manifold or Euclidean a topological space because if those other assholes are going to be over-budget and get more money, everybody else is going to slack off and get their share as well and therby maintaining the flatness!
The real number is between 52 and 53% are taxpayers so it's more like 162 million tax payers.