actually because LA is on the west side of the fault and the majority of SF is on the east side of the fault, eventually we'll have a supermegatropolis of LASF.
Now, the problem I have with the hippies (a.k.a. Republicans) who are saying the droughts, global warming, etc are just a natural phenomenon or are still arguing that it's not man-made, is that even if they were right (though they're not), what they're talking about doesn't matter.
Imagine we were having this conversation on a totally artificially terraformed Mars and the conditions were getting less desirable. Say the CO2 content of the atmosphere, which we had terraformed from 96% down to 0.05%, was rising and had gotten up to 0.12% and was still climbing. If some hippie Republican came along and "it's naturally 96% so I don't know what you're worried about, maaan. If you don't like it, move back to Earth," you'd punch him in the face, wouldn't you? Or you'd send him back to Earth. But what you wouldn't do, is accept the natural environment. Nor would you be even stupider and blame it on past generations (even if they deserved the blame) and therefore accept that you can't have Mars be YOUR WAY. No, you would fight. You would do something about the rising CO2 content before it got too toxic to human life
OMG THIS THIS THIS. I cannot understand the argument over AGW. Tea partiers seem to think that because people didn't cause climate change, we shouldn't do anything to prevent/mitigate it. It's like saying if the waters are rising we shouldn't build a dyke because it's not our fault the waters are rising. well all that happens is that you get flooded, when with a bit of work you could prevent that.
Actually, we do have records going back to 1500 and even earlier. They're called "tree rings". The North American Drought Atlas collected tree ring data from across the US to understand tree growth patterns over the last 200 years. See, when there's a big drought, trees don't grow much and their rings are close together. When it's a good year the tree grows a lot and rings are farther apart.
So yes, there's a historical record, and yes, this drought is really really bad. Also, this drought isn't over yet so we don't know how bad it will continue to be. The drought to-date is a 500 year drought, but by the time it ends, it could be a 2000 year drought!
Obama's point is that the effects of climate change are being felt right now and are directly impacting human health. So while a warmer period (a couple degrees) doesn't necessarily hurt health wildfires caused by drought caused by climate change does.
This point is extraordinarily relevant because it ties into the current EPA coal court case going on. The case states that EPA exceeded its mandate. EPA is supposed to regulate pollutants that harm people's health. The coal people argue that even if climate change is real and may have an impact in hundreds of years, CO2 emissions are not harming people's health today and so fall out of the EPA mandate. Obama is saying otherwise.
LA resident here. We're in a middle of a drought that's worse than the great depression dust bowl. My house is basically surrounded by kindling right now. the risk from wildfires is extraordinarily high. there were really bad fires last summer and there was a steady drizzle of ash onto the entire city. I would say that climate change is threatening my health.
this is why I'm looking forward to the homekit framework. It handles security and connection of the multiple devices in the home, reducing the danger from any individual device that may be insecure. as long as a device is designed to be homekit compatible, then much of the risk will be gone. compare this to something like android in the home (or even worse, android in the car), where everything is open to haxors and other bad actors. imagine if android had access to your CAN bus in the car? those are some scary thoughts.
likely this is meant to be snarky, but it is actually true. philes love preserving the analog pathway. film on a projector is #1. Would not be surprised if VCR on a CRT became #2.
I look askance at this 8k rumor. Apple isn't even done with the transition to 4k. and they declined to play the resolution race in the smartphone arena. and they are choosing to go with thinner hardware and eschew more power to get the battery life. case in point, their new MacBook has the same benchmarks as a MacBook air from 2011.
they are all about figuring out what is the optimum configuration for people's actual use, and designing to that.
they choose to, and they choose to do so silently. BUT, Indiana joins 18 or so other states with a similarly-worded religious freedom law AND they are the problem?
the answer is obviously yes. they don't object to actions in Saudi Arabia, yet they object to actions in Indiana. I feel similarly. so do you.
yes but the world is not "one world society", it is composed of many separate societies. You can work hard on the society you're in without trying to change all societies at once.
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It's probably a condition in apples contract with the CN govt that they have to ruin all Apple devices for security.
Winter is coming! On Sunday!
CA gets a very small % of power from coal, so any cost increase from coal power plants wont' effect us. we will keep investing in NG and renewables.
now it just has two seasons... dry with no fires (winter) and dry with fires (summer)
actually because LA is on the west side of the fault and the majority of SF is on the east side of the fault, eventually we'll have a supermegatropolis of LASF.
Now, the problem I have with the hippies (a.k.a. Republicans) who are saying the droughts, global warming, etc are just a natural phenomenon or are still arguing that it's not man-made, is that even if they were right (though they're not), what they're talking about doesn't matter.
Imagine we were having this conversation on a totally artificially terraformed Mars and the conditions were getting less desirable. Say the CO2 content of the atmosphere, which we had terraformed from 96% down to 0.05%, was rising and had gotten up to 0.12% and was still climbing. If some hippie Republican came along and "it's naturally 96% so I don't know what you're worried about, maaan. If you don't like it, move back to Earth," you'd punch him in the face, wouldn't you? Or you'd send him back to Earth. But what you wouldn't do, is accept the natural environment. Nor would you be even stupider and blame it on past generations (even if they deserved the blame) and therefore accept that you can't have Mars be YOUR WAY. No, you would fight. You would do something about the rising CO2 content before it got too toxic to human life
OMG THIS THIS THIS. I cannot understand the argument over AGW. Tea partiers seem to think that because people didn't cause climate change, we shouldn't do anything to prevent/mitigate it. It's like saying if the waters are rising we shouldn't build a dyke because it's not our fault the waters are rising. well all that happens is that you get flooded, when with a bit of work you could prevent that.
Actually, we do have records going back to 1500 and even earlier. They're called "tree rings". The North American Drought Atlas collected tree ring data from across the US to understand tree growth patterns over the last 200 years. See, when there's a big drought, trees don't grow much and their rings are close together. When it's a good year the tree grows a lot and rings are farther apart.
So yes, there's a historical record, and yes, this drought is really really bad. Also, this drought isn't over yet so we don't know how bad it will continue to be. The drought to-date is a 500 year drought, but by the time it ends, it could be a 2000 year drought!
Obama's point is that the effects of climate change are being felt right now and are directly impacting human health. So while a warmer period (a couple degrees) doesn't necessarily hurt health wildfires caused by drought caused by climate change does.
This point is extraordinarily relevant because it ties into the current EPA coal court case going on. The case states that EPA exceeded its mandate. EPA is supposed to regulate pollutants that harm people's health. The coal people argue that even if climate change is real and may have an impact in hundreds of years, CO2 emissions are not harming people's health today and so fall out of the EPA mandate. Obama is saying otherwise.
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LA resident here. We're in a middle of a drought that's worse than the great depression dust bowl. My house is basically surrounded by kindling right now. the risk from wildfires is extraordinarily high. there were really bad fires last summer and there was a steady drizzle of ash onto the entire city. I would say that climate change is threatening my health.
I know the NCIS family of series repeatedly hacks servers illegally and deliberately avoids getting warrants to do so.
Ok, but isn't NCIS about the navy military police? There are different rules for them than for civilian cops.
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they're able to deliver _the same_ product to their users at lower cost (to them).
this is why I'm looking forward to the homekit framework. It handles security and connection of the multiple devices in the home, reducing the danger from any individual device that may be insecure. as long as a device is designed to be homekit compatible, then much of the risk will be gone. compare this to something like android in the home (or even worse, android in the car), where everything is open to haxors and other bad actors. imagine if android had access to your CAN bus in the car? those are some scary thoughts.
4k is 4000 tall, not wide.
likely this is meant to be snarky, but it is actually true. philes love preserving the analog pathway. film on a projector is #1. Would not be surprised if VCR on a CRT became #2.
I look askance at this 8k rumor. Apple isn't even done with the transition to 4k. and they declined to play the resolution race in the smartphone arena. and they are choosing to go with thinner hardware and eschew more power to get the battery life. case in point, their new MacBook has the same benchmarks as a MacBook air from 2011.
they are all about figuring out what is the optimum configuration for people's actual use, and designing to that.
I would put a camera at the moon's L2 point.
these companies wouldn't launch it themselves... they would likely package a payload for orbital sciences, boeing, etc...
they choose to, and they choose to do so silently. BUT, Indiana joins 18 or so other states with a similarly-worded religious freedom law AND they are the problem?
the answer is obviously yes. they don't object to actions in Saudi Arabia, yet they object to actions in Indiana. I feel similarly. so do you.
u make no sense'
yes but the world is not "one world society", it is composed of many separate societies. You can work hard on the society you're in without trying to change all societies at once.
perhaps he holds Indiana to higher standards than he expects from the most despotic countries on the planet?
This "doesn't feel right" sounds a lot like some touchy feely metaphysics feel the force bs. Ever heard of the scientific model???.
Wat do u mean unaesthetic.
To be fair the summary had ZERO links. One is better than none.
Ted Cruz was born in Canada! I want to see his birth certificate!