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  1. Re:Fundamentals of AGW on When We Don't Like the Solution, We Deny the Problem · · Score: 1

    Well if your asserting that I'm in denial of the problem because I don't like the solution, then in all honesty, you have to seriously consider that there are significant numbers of persons that have created a problem for the purpose of requiring their desired solution, such as UN Agenda 21.

    I would strongly advise against the application of "common sense" to massive chaotic system, however: getting the number of butterfly wing-flaps [wikipedia.org] wrong could produce very unexpected weather conditions.

    Climatologist generally avoid any reference to Chaos theory, they'll even make up their own terms to avoid references to standard Chaos theory terminology. They know that weather is an instance of climate, and if weather is chaotic, then by definition climate is chaotic, it's that pesky Self-similarity, and even that is complicated by the fact that some models are counting butterflies in a 22.5 km^2 cell and others in a 62.5 km^2 cell. Even worse is 70% of the planet is water and water is where most of the planet's most effective heat engine is, and there is almost no monitoring of conditions there. The bottom line is if we can't predict the weather 30 days out, there is no reason to believe we can predict the climate a century from now.

  2. Re:Senator James Inhofe on When We Don't Like the Solution, We Deny the Problem · · Score: 1

    1.67K/cy is from the IPCC's AR5, the observed value is 0.07K/cy.

  3. Re:In dishonor of Samzenpus on When We Don't Like the Solution, We Deny the Problem · · Score: 1

    Make a lot of posts to topics off the main page and meta-moderate daily and you'll soon get points. If your inclined to post contrary to /. group-think, wait until the post is at the bottom of the page. When you do get mod points, resist down-modding unless its absolutely blatant.

  4. Re:Fundamentals of AGW on When We Don't Like the Solution, We Deny the Problem · · Score: 1

    So your saying that when the CO2 hits a whooping 800 ppm, the global average temperature will warm a single degree that we know of, and we should spend Trillions of dollars just in case it's two? If all the other feedbacks prove to be nill and they likely to be nill just judging by current trends, the warming is unlikely to hit that second degree.

  5. Re:Senator James Inhofe on When We Don't Like the Solution, We Deny the Problem · · Score: 1

    The temperatures are significantly below model predictions, even after the predictions were downgraded to a warming trend of +1.67K/century, http://wattsupwiththat.files.w...

  6. Re:Senator James Inhofe on When We Don't Like the Solution, We Deny the Problem · · Score: 1

    Yep he lied, he said they never found any.

  7. Re:Senator James Inhofe on When We Don't Like the Solution, We Deny the Problem · · Score: 1

    The lie isn't the prediction that may have been made in good faith but was shown to be wrong, the lie is continuing to use the known wrong prediction to justify imposing billions in taxes to remedy the global increase in average temperature that has been statistically indistinguishable from zero for the last 18 years.

  8. Re:Senator James Inhofe on When We Don't Like the Solution, We Deny the Problem · · Score: 1

    Please, at least show us enough respect to construct a creditable lie, your link says

    This article's factual accuracy may be compromised due to out-of-date information. Please update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information. (July 2012) Climate change opinion by country

    now be a good lad and quote some retracted cronie reviewed papers.

  9. Re:Type 1 or Type 2 Diabetes? on Human Clinical Trials To Begin On Drug That Reverses Diabetes In Animal Models · · Score: 1

    They are talking about both, but the first clinical trial will only use type I subjects.

  10. Re:What's the name of the drug? on Human Clinical Trials To Begin On Drug That Reverses Diabetes In Animal Models · · Score: 1

    Diabetes mellitus type 1 (also known as type 1 diabetes, or T1DM; formerly insulin-dependent diabetes or juvenile diabetes) is a form of diabetes mellitus that results from the autoimmune destruction of the insulin-producing beta cells in the pancreas. Diabetes mellitus type 1

    Definitions change over time and new and more accurate diagnostic tests make assumptions of the past irrelevent. People often develope many auto-immune diseases later in life, the same thing in diabetes shouldn't be too surprising, likely many type I were confused with type IIs in the past simply because we didn't have tests to accurately differentiate them.

  11. Re:citation, please? on Ask Slashdot: Minimizing Oil and Gas Dependency In a Central European City? · · Score: 1

    No worries mate, other than your fingers and ears, you'll stay plenty warm while pedling 20-30Km unless your in Antarctica. It's a balmy -12 degrees Celsius in THULE, GREENLAND right now and 11 degrees Celsius in MINSK, BELARUS, so I suspect you might be exagerating a smidgen.

  12. Re:USA are a country? on New Particle Collider Is One Foot Long · · Score: 1

    So how would refer the the collective of the member states of the European Union; Are they a union or is they a Union? The point is you're arguing about grammar, and I'm arguing about politics.

  13. Re:Compensating, again on New Particle Collider Is One Foot Long · · Score: 5, Funny

    It may only be 12 inches long, but it's 1.5 MeV around!

  14. Re:West Virginia too on Boo! The House Majority PAC Is Watching You · · Score: 1

    In the Federal Law on SPAM, electioneering is specifically defined as an allowable communication regardless of any opt-in or business relationship.

  15. Re:Two things. on Reactions To Disgusting Images Predict a Persons Political Ideology · · Score: 1

    Social Security is definately a factor here as well, there are something like 18 million social security accounts that have multiple people contributing to them, but will only have a single person recieving the benefits from, or at least there were back in the late '90s.

  16. Re:Two things. on Reactions To Disgusting Images Predict a Persons Political Ideology · · Score: 1

    However, I self identify as a Left Winger in terms of economic re-distribution politics

    As much as I hate litmus tests, that's pretty much the litmus test; When society can take a Man's property soley based on some arbitary definition of "fairness", society can take anything.

  17. Re:Whichever party bothers us the least... on Boo! The House Majority PAC Is Watching You · · Score: 1

    Probably the fact that most of them were felons, at least in the view of the British, had a lot to do with that.

  18. Re:Here's why on Boo! The House Majority PAC Is Watching You · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure your significant group, but fillicide is a uncomfortably common to Autistics, even the Obama administration uses the term "Aspergy" to describe politician they dis-like.

  19. Re:Urban legends re common law marriage on Boo! The House Majority PAC Is Watching You · · Score: 1

    You really should consult an attorney in the Jurisdiction your in, because local laws vary wildly in this matter; it's no fun going to trial for bigamy because you didn't get divorced from some trailer-trash you were banging before you got married.

  20. Re:West Virginia too on Boo! The House Majority PAC Is Watching You · · Score: 1

    A list of who voted does need to exist to some extent. Otherwise it becomes too easily possible for some entity to start casting votes for other people or dead people without much risk of getting caught

    Generating marketing or campaign materials based on names in the list or voting rosters or republishing names should be strictly prohibited.

    Good luck with that, the People most likely to get campaign material are people who actually vote and the people most likely to vote this year are the people who voted last election. You want elected offcials to make it more difficult to get elected.

  21. Re:West Virginia too on Boo! The House Majority PAC Is Watching You · · Score: 1

    They can't know if you actually voted, they can know if you fed a ballot into the reader, not if anything was marked on it. Like they said those records are a matter of public record, There are many record that the public at large think are private and privelged but really are public, good luck over sueing someone fot releasing public records to the public. I'm not even surprised, wasn't that long ago a google map of registered gun owners was published in a news paper.

  22. Re:Louisiana too on Boo! The House Majority PAC Is Watching You · · Score: 1

    Wars as we know them were impossible for the "native americans" simply because the effort that had to be put into mere survival was so great that they didn't have the time or energy untill the Spanish introduced the disruptive technology of Horses. The biggest exception would be the Lakodas, everybodies called the Lakoda, Souix, which translates to enemy.

  23. Re:Common Carrier on First Detailed Data Analysis Shows Exactly How Comcast Jammed Netflix · · Score: 1

    True enough, but Joe's is big enough to actually pay the extortion, which most of the colaterally damaged companies using company B's phone line can't; so it's really an example of "When Elephant's fight, the mice get trampled".

  24. Re:Common Carrier on First Detailed Data Analysis Shows Exactly How Comcast Jammed Netflix · · Score: 1

    An easier solution would be to move speedtest to cogent, speedtest always rocks, no matter how slow the rest of the net is!

  25. Re:H1B applicants are people too on Labor Department To Destroy H-1B Records · · Score: 1

    The only "personal" information on the form is the applicants bussiness addresses.