Our illustrious leader has the jump on the US. He already started muzzling scientists at the CSIRO in February or even earlier. The Man of Steel has been shoulder-to-shoulder, "fighting the good fight" with GWB on behalf of anyone who wants to sell oil or coal
And here is an example. Sunday is a quiet day as job submission drops off, but this cluster is normally near 100% CPU capacity [APAC]. Each bar is a 32 Itanium2 CPU node.
The way that dating mechanisms work is based on unproven assumption. In order for Carbin 14 dating system to be accurate, there hase to be NO CHANGE in the ratio of carbon 14 to carbon 12 in the atmosphere over the years for which the system is claimed to be accurate.
Perhaps you should read up on Carbin[sic] 14 dating before you post. The Internet is a wonderful place where ignorance is indefensible. Here's a Chapter that may help: Radiogenic Isotope Geochemistry
From the article Ken Ham said "You'd never find something like this in Australia," he says. "If you want to get the message out, it has to be here."
I suspect it is merely a numbers game. We have proportion of guillable people in Australia, they just haven't hit critical mass where they can have such a disturbing influence on society.
OT. Love your sig. Every now and then one of my friends sends me a link to chick.com for comedic/tragic value. Your link was both. If everyone acted like Chick suggests, the world would be a mean-spirited, ignorant place indeed.
Well said. A setting in which heroes fail, and are even vanquished. A setting where the enemy is hidden and it's power unknown but horrible. The fog of war palpable. Allies plot against one another. The human condition mirrored in alien races and species. Other alien species with no correspondence to humans. This is true drama and suspense. This was not the setting of any TV show besides B5.
There are few times when I can say "I wish I had mod points". Thanks for providing your "Informative" comments. To be fair to the article, it does point out.Net -based Lorenzo and it's problems. Does Choose and Book tie in with this?
Having endured 4 learning teenage guitarists in my household over the years, the major deficiency was rythm. Learners are so focused on picking the right note, the structure of the piece gets lost. I went out and bought a metronome, but that rarely got used.
What would I know, I'm just an old guy. An old guy that has endured countless "up-and-coming" pub bands who could have done with a metronome when they were practising. That goes for the drummer as well.
Hmm. I am not an expert in carbonate chemistry, but heh, this is Slashdot.
Precipitating carbonate may not be the simple answer. A lot of marine photosynthetic plankton has a carbonate shell. What happens is the dissolved bicarbonate is used to produce carbonate and carbon dioxide. Sure the carbonate eventually settles on the ocean bottom, but the carbon dioxide heads in the other direction.
2HCO_3^-+Ca^++ (-) CaCO_3 +CO2 + H_2O
(-) is my attempt at an equillibrium symbol
pH is the overriding determinant of what species of ions predominate. An increase in the he partial pressure of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will drive the above equation to the left and driving the pH down. Not good if you are an organism trying to build a shell.
Extrapolating, there is a point beyond which these organisms can't survive. We see significant events in the fossil record and they become the boundaries of geological time periods (ie mass extinctions). Alarmist? I don't think so. Google for corals and undersaturation of calcium carbonates.
Just a couple of points on his "reference paper" is enought to cast doubt on this article.
Greenland has not been ice-free for millenia. The ice cap is up to 3km deep. It was not ice free in the middle ages.
His graphs on atmospheric concentrations do not include recent figures such as Mauna Loa Research Station
It is sad that this person has gone to such lengths to mine any information that supports his pre-ordained view. This is hardly a dispassionate investigation.
One of the beautiful things about the Internet is that anyone can setup the services they want. Some are abusive, most are not. Your proposal says that individuals have no reason to do what they want to do. The only way to go is to trust corporate-supplied services. That is not the Internet I signed up to.
IANAAP (AP=Astro-Physicist) but my understanding is what we can observe is the "dying screams" of matter as it is dragged into the blackhole (hence the high-energy radiation - X-Rays). At the precise boundary, matter and energy are transmitted in either direction, into or away from the black hole in directions as shown in the models.
CO2 levels were on a long decline from the Eocene, thought to be primarily from volcanic activity at levels much higher than what we see today. Note the majority of that activity was at active mid-ocean ridges.
My recollection is that youi really have to go back to the start of the Miocene (~25Ma) to find similar CO2 levels to what we are now approaching. That gets interesting because grasses became dominant in the Miocene. What are our staple foods baesed on? Grasses and grazers.
There has never been an extinction event caused by global warming. Warmth is conducive to life.
Never say never. You might have noticed the mention of the PETM (Palaeocence-Eocene Thermal Maximum) by a previous poster. The PETM is coincident with the boundary marking the end of the Palaeocene. There is also evidence for a similar occurance that tipped the climate way over at the end of the Permian. The similar conditions were a massive outgassing of frozen clathrates from shelf sediments. This led to a rise in methane and subsequent carbon dioxide concentrations both oceanic and atmospheric (Henry's Law at work), coincident with a shallowing of the carbon compensation depth. This means a dissolution of carbonates and mass extinction of marine fauna as a consequence.
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Unless you have access to SAS (Serially Attached SCSI) drives :)
Or even better, a HPC cluster file system with Fiber Channel and/or SAS drives
Our illustrious leader has the jump on the US. He already started muzzling scientists at the CSIRO in February or even earlier. The Man of Steel has been shoulder-to-shoulder, "fighting the good fight" with GWB on behalf of anyone who wants to sell oil or coal
And here is an example. Sunday is a quiet day as job submission drops off, but this cluster is normally near 100% CPU capacity [APAC]. Each bar is a 32 Itanium2 CPU node.
And we've got to get ourselves
Didn't you hear? All Pastafarians were invited to this really big party in Ecuador. That was the last anyone heard of them.
The way that dating mechanisms work is based on unproven assumption. In order for Carbin 14 dating system to be accurate, there hase to be NO CHANGE in the ratio of carbon 14 to carbon 12 in the atmosphere over the years for which the system is claimed to be accurate.
Perhaps you should read up on Carbin[sic] 14 dating before you post. The Internet is a wonderful place where ignorance is indefensible. Here's a Chapter that may help: Radiogenic Isotope Geochemistry
From the article Ken Ham said "You'd never find something like this in Australia," he says. "If you want to get the message out, it has to be here."
I suspect it is merely a numbers game. We have proportion of guillable people in Australia, they just haven't hit critical mass where they can have such a disturbing influence on society.
However the Industrial Revolution and The Enlightenment happened after the colonisation :)
As a side issue, what was BigMac used for?
OT. Love your sig. Every now and then one of my friends sends me a link to chick.com for comedic/tragic value. Your link was both. If everyone acted like Chick suggests, the world would be a mean-spirited, ignorant place indeed.
Well said. A setting in which heroes fail, and are even vanquished. A setting where the enemy is hidden and it's power unknown but horrible. The fog of war palpable. Allies plot against one another. The human condition mirrored in alien races and species. Other alien species with no correspondence to humans. This is true drama and suspense. This was not the setting of any TV show besides B5.
There are few times when I can say "I wish I had mod points". Thanks for providing your "Informative" comments. To be fair to the article, it does point out .Net -based Lorenzo and it's problems. Does Choose and Book tie in with this?
Perhaps I did not make myself clear. The article (and some posters) have alluded to the rythmic skill required for the game.
Having endured 4 learning teenage guitarists in my household over the years, the major deficiency was rythm. Learners are so focused on picking the right note, the structure of the piece gets lost. I went out and bought a metronome, but that rarely got used.
What would I know, I'm just an old guy. An old guy that has endured countless "up-and-coming" pub bands who could have done with a metronome when they were practising. That goes for the drummer as well.
Hmm. I am not an expert in carbonate chemistry, but heh, this is Slashdot.
Precipitating carbonate may not be the simple answer. A lot of marine photosynthetic plankton has a carbonate shell. What happens is the dissolved bicarbonate is used to produce carbonate and carbon dioxide. Sure the carbonate eventually settles on the ocean bottom, but the carbon dioxide heads in the other direction.
2HCO_3^-+Ca^++ (-) CaCO_3 +CO2 + H_2O
(-) is my attempt at an equillibrium symbol
pH is the overriding determinant of what species of ions predominate. An increase in the he partial pressure of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will drive the above equation to the left and driving the pH down. Not good if you are an organism trying to build a shell.
Extrapolating, there is a point beyond which these organisms can't survive. We see significant events in the fossil record and they become the boundaries of geological time periods (ie mass extinctions). Alarmist? I don't think so. Google for corals and undersaturation of calcium carbonates.
Greenland has not been ice-free for millenia. The ice cap is up to 3km deep. It was not ice free in the middle ages.
His graphs on atmospheric concentrations do not include recent figures such as Mauna Loa Research Station
It is sad that this person has gone to such lengths to mine any information that supports his pre-ordained view. This is hardly a dispassionate investigation.
POSIX systems shoud use the source ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzdata2006n.tar.gz Zoneinfo files are your friend.
One of the beautiful things about the Internet is that anyone can setup the services they want. Some are abusive, most are not. Your proposal says that individuals have no reason to do what they want to do. The only way to go is to trust corporate-supplied services. That is not the Internet I signed up to.
IANAAP (AP=Astro-Physicist) but my understanding is what we can observe is the "dying screams" of matter as it is dragged into the blackhole (hence the high-energy radiation - X-Rays). At the precise boundary, matter and energy are transmitted in either direction, into or away from the black hole in directions as shown in the models.
CO2 levels were on a long decline from the Eocene, thought to be primarily from volcanic activity at levels much higher than what we see today. Note the majority of that activity was at active mid-ocean ridges.
My recollection is that youi really have to go back to the start of the Miocene (~25Ma) to find similar CO2 levels to what we are now approaching. That gets interesting because grasses became dominant in the Miocene. What are our staple foods baesed on? Grasses and grazers.
Not quite corect. You can infer temperature/sea level from stable oxygen isotope ratios. Lighter isotopes are fractionated preferentially.
There has never been an extinction event caused by global warming. Warmth is conducive to life.
Never say never. You might have noticed the mention of the PETM (Palaeocence-Eocene Thermal Maximum) by a previous poster. The PETM is coincident with the boundary marking the end of the Palaeocene. There is also evidence for a similar occurance that tipped the climate way over at the end of the Permian. The similar conditions were a massive outgassing of frozen clathrates from shelf sediments. This led to a rise in methane and subsequent carbon dioxide concentrations both oceanic and atmospheric (Henry's Law at work), coincident with a shallowing of the carbon compensation depth. This means a dissolution of carbonates and mass extinction of marine fauna as a consequence.
Hah Hah Hah. "Dr" Dino!. Now there is a reliable source of information! Carbon Dating and Dinosaurs don't belong in the same sentence.
Good point. Sometimes I get the feeling that "First rule of Maths class: never admit ignorance"