Note that I specified "static" measurements. One moment the mouse is alive, the next it is dead, and no scientific observation points to what departed.
If we understood what comprises the essence of life, then your assertion that creating life is merely a technical problem would be accurate. But we don't. Face it. The facts of life and death are currently far beyond our scientific understanding.
You are right. We are not nearly as free as our recent ancestors. The shadow of tyranny grows inexorably because of do-gooders who believe they know what is best for everyone else. This is not new. Plato's Republic, Hobbes Leviathan, More's Utopia, and Marxism all promised security in exchange for liberty. Wannabe master minds can never deliver. Liberty does. As long as there is liberty, people will adapt.
Take all the static measurements possible of a live mouse. Then suffocate it. Immediately repeat all the measurements. They will be identical. Yet the difference in entropy (in the sense of disorder) between the live mouse and the mouse carcass is dramatic. “Life” is one of the great scientific unknowns. Creating the conditions for life is not the same as creating life from scratch. When Louis Pasteur started his work, the assumption of the scientific community was that microbes regularly spontaneously came into being. To date, science has never observed such a phenomena.
If *you* had to choose between more freedom and the promise of a slightly cooler environment, which would you choose? Do you think future human beings would choose freedom or the promise of climate control? Or would you selfishly make that choice for them? Make no mistake, climate legislation is designed to diminish individual freedom.
All these things are interwoven together. Ocean currents, the jet stream, warm/cold water layer mixing, warm/cold air mixing, humidity, water/air temperature gradients...all these things combine and interact to create the global climate which you see on a daily basic as weather. If an ocean current shifts it can reduce cloud formation lowering the water content of an air mass and increasing the radiative heating of the land surface immediately inland. these combined factors can lead to a lack of rainfall and/or increase in temperates. IE, drought and/or heat wave. In Cali's case, the Sierra range normally causes some preciptation as the air mass moves eastward, trapping it as snowpack, which then feeds water over the year into the arid region we know as the Central Valley. its what allows an arid region to also be good farmland inspite of its aridity. this year, there wasnt even enough moisture in the air for the mountains to squeeze any out..
All these factors you cite pale in comparison to CO2, nay to the human-generated CO2 as opposed to the "good" naturally occurring CO2, without which we would all starve to death. Notwithstanding all these poorly understood interactions, and many more you did not deign to mention like the sun's output, the strength and orientation of the earth's magnetic field, the fact that hotter objects radiate more than cooler ones, etc. the fact is that this massive non-linear partial differential equation all boils down to CO2. The actual math is so trivial that it is left as an exercise for the reader.
Key phrase is "on record". Global records are even more pathetic than our domestic records. Even if we had perfect records since the invention of the calibrated thermometer, it would still represent a blink of the eye in geologic time. And even if it is getting warmer or cooler, there is still the problem of causality. Given that it has warmed and cooled many times over geologic time, and we frankly don't know why either happened, it is a little disingenuous to ascribe changes to exclusively human causes.
Here is my favorite line of climate modeling code:
valadj=[0.,0.,0.,0.,0.,-0.1,-0.25,-0.3,0.,-0.1,0.3,0.8,1.2,1.7,2.5,2.6,2.6,2.6,2.6,2.6]*0.75 ; fudge factor
A: Water vapor is far, far more powerful a GHG than CO2.
B: CO2 and temperature have basically zero correlation over geologic time. The idea that a trace gas is the driving function for planetary temperatures is not proven
C: Climate models have all failed miserably. Have you read the CRU code?
D: Current levels are small compared to historical levels
You misunderstand Hamas' objectives. Their weaponry is perfectly suited for their objective, which is to produce corpses of Palestinian non-combatants, preferably children, to parade around for the benefit of the gullible international press.
Hamas is in charge there because in free and fair elections they were overwhelmingly voted in by the Palestinians who knew full well that they are a terrorist organization.
Nonsense. The Israelis are far, far more restrained than the Allies were in WW2. If Hamas weren't launching rockets from schools, then the IDF wouldn't be targeting them.
The US government has no legal authority to redistribute wealth. Your Utopian vision has been tried many, many times, always ending in totalitarian nightmare. Hayek wrote about this in "The Fatal Conceit".
This directly from the Climate Research Unit of the University of East Anglia.
valadj=[0.,0.,0.,0.,0.,-0.1,-0.25,-0.3,0.,-0.1,0.3,0.8,1.2,1.7,2.5,2.6,2.6,2.6,2.6,2.6]*0.75 ; fudge factor
No wonder it makes a hockey stick when fed white noise. I can understand why someone would do this. Thermodynamic modeling is among the most difficult mathematical challenges mankind attempts. Instead of trying to create and solve a big hairy partial differential equation, just hard code a vector. It it weren't for the leak, nobody would have known the difference.
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Re-oxigenate and pump all you want. The critter is still dead. And you still have no idea what is gone and you cannot put back.
Note that I specified "static" measurements. One moment the mouse is alive, the next it is dead, and no scientific observation points to what departed.
Life only comes from life. Hand waving aside, nobody has witnessed the spontaneous emergence of a living thing from non-living matter. Ever.
If we understood what comprises the essence of life, then your assertion that creating life is merely a technical problem would be accurate. But we don't. Face it. The facts of life and death are currently far beyond our scientific understanding.
Now you are just being pedantic.
Weighs the same, same size, same color, same temperature, same internal structure, same number of cells, etc. What leaves when the critter dies?
You are right. We are not nearly as free as our recent ancestors. The shadow of tyranny grows inexorably because of do-gooders who believe they know what is best for everyone else. This is not new. Plato's Republic, Hobbes Leviathan, More's Utopia, and Marxism all promised security in exchange for liberty. Wannabe master minds can never deliver. Liberty does. As long as there is liberty, people will adapt.
You forgot the most important part. Put the front sight on a person. Thankfully I have never been in that gravest extreme. And I hope I never am.
Take all the static measurements possible of a live mouse. Then suffocate it. Immediately repeat all the measurements. They will be identical. Yet the difference in entropy (in the sense of disorder) between the live mouse and the mouse carcass is dramatic. “Life” is one of the great scientific unknowns. Creating the conditions for life is not the same as creating life from scratch. When Louis Pasteur started his work, the assumption of the scientific community was that microbes regularly spontaneously came into being. To date, science has never observed such a phenomena.
Funny, whenever I shoot guns there are never dead human bodies left around.
110% of warming? Seriously? I hope this was an attempt at humor.
If *you* had to choose between more freedom and the promise of a slightly cooler environment, which would you choose? Do you think future human beings would choose freedom or the promise of climate control? Or would you selfishly make that choice for them? Make no mistake, climate legislation is designed to diminish individual freedom.
All these things are interwoven together. Ocean currents, the jet stream, warm/cold water layer mixing, warm/cold air mixing, humidity, water/air temperature gradients...all these things combine and interact to create the global climate which you see on a daily basic as weather. If an ocean current shifts it can reduce cloud formation lowering the water content of an air mass and increasing the radiative heating of the land surface immediately inland. these combined factors can lead to a lack of rainfall and/or increase in temperates. IE, drought and/or heat wave. In Cali's case, the Sierra range normally causes some preciptation as the air mass moves eastward, trapping it as snowpack, which then feeds water over the year into the arid region we know as the Central Valley. its what allows an arid region to also be good farmland inspite of its aridity. this year, there wasnt even enough moisture in the air for the mountains to squeeze any out..
All these factors you cite pale in comparison to CO2, nay to the human-generated CO2 as opposed to the "good" naturally occurring CO2, without which we would all starve to death. Notwithstanding all these poorly understood interactions, and many more you did not deign to mention like the sun's output, the strength and orientation of the earth's magnetic field, the fact that hotter objects radiate more than cooler ones, etc. the fact is that this massive non-linear partial differential equation all boils down to CO2. The actual math is so trivial that it is left as an exercise for the reader.
Key phrase is "on record". Global records are even more pathetic than our domestic records. Even if we had perfect records since the invention of the calibrated thermometer, it would still represent a blink of the eye in geologic time. And even if it is getting warmer or cooler, there is still the problem of causality. Given that it has warmed and cooled many times over geologic time, and we frankly don't know why either happened, it is a little disingenuous to ascribe changes to exclusively human causes.
Here is my favorite line of climate modeling code: valadj=[0.,0.,0.,0.,0.,-0.1,-0.25,-0.3,0.,-0.1,0.3,0.8,1.2,1.7,2.5,2.6,2.6,2.6,2.6,2.6]*0.75 ; fudge factor
Climate is the integral of weather. If you do not understand the function, you have no hope of solving for the integral of that function.
A: Water vapor is far, far more powerful a GHG than CO2. B: CO2 and temperature have basically zero correlation over geologic time. The idea that a trace gas is the driving function for planetary temperatures is not proven C: Climate models have all failed miserably. Have you read the CRU code? D: Current levels are small compared to historical levels
When I was there in the early 80's, you could buy a brand new 1964 Ford Falcon built on machinery stolen from Ford Motor Company.
Which is the only rational thing to do given universal suffrage.
You misunderstand Hamas' objectives. Their weaponry is perfectly suited for their objective, which is to produce corpses of Palestinian non-combatants, preferably children, to parade around for the benefit of the gullible international press.
Hamas is in charge there because in free and fair elections they were overwhelmingly voted in by the Palestinians who knew full well that they are a terrorist organization.
Nonsense. The Israelis are far, far more restrained than the Allies were in WW2. If Hamas weren't launching rockets from schools, then the IDF wouldn't be targeting them.
The US government has no legal authority to redistribute wealth. Your Utopian vision has been tried many, many times, always ending in totalitarian nightmare. Hayek wrote about this in "The Fatal Conceit".
A pox on whoever decided that the tax code was a legitimate way for government to manipulate citizens' behavior.
This directly from the Climate Research Unit of the University of East Anglia. valadj=[0.,0.,0.,0.,0.,-0.1,-0.25,-0.3,0.,-0.1,0.3,0.8,1.2,1.7,2.5,2.6,2.6,2.6,2.6,2.6]*0.75 ; fudge factor No wonder it makes a hockey stick when fed white noise. I can understand why someone would do this. Thermodynamic modeling is among the most difficult mathematical challenges mankind attempts. Instead of trying to create and solve a big hairy partial differential equation, just hard code a vector. It it weren't for the leak, nobody would have known the difference.