A lot of people have been posting a link to this article as proof that global warming is real, PLEASE, take the time to read it.
This article clarly shows thet the global warming crowd has no evidence at all. The only light spot in their report is thet they managed to smudge their computer model suffeciently so that it would still predict global warming.
The only place they found warming was in the surface temperatures. Unfortunately, this collected data is far from reliable since the detection of surface temperatures very often is done in urban areas (like at an airport, or in a cities downtown centers). These detectors will show an increase in temperature because of the heat island effect of larger and larger urban areas (feel the temerature of the concrete or street vs natural grass or dirt).
The only reliable data they used (satallites and weather ballons) showed no change in temperature. However, to receive continued funding, their computer model had to show global warming was real, so they fudged their computer model until it did.
"For example, natural events such as the eruption of
Mt. Pinatubo in 1991 tended to decrease atmospheric
temperature for several years. And burning coal and
oil for energy produces tiny aerosol particles in the
atmosphere that can have a cooling effect. Upper-air
temperatures also can be reduced by depletion of ozone
in the stratosphere caused by chlorofluorocarbons and
other chemicals being emitted into the atmosphere. When
these variables are accounted for in atmospheric models,
satellite and balloon data more closely align with
surface-temperature observations"
Yes, once they include effects that they are claming warm the atmosphere as cooling effects, their model works. Note that they can pick and choose their fudge factors to make their model come out just right.
Its amazing to me that so many people blindly believe hollywood celibs when they say "global warming is real, be afraid". Interestingly enough, its about the same percentage that believe psychic phenomenon.
the GAIM issue, and the Killusrtator issue, are two completely different things.
gaim was created after AOL released their GPL client. If you release a GPL aol messaging client, I think that it opening the doors to have people create their own client based on that code/protocol and call it something like "mike's aim client", since that is what it is. This is especially true if you have not trademarked the acronym, AIM.
KDE developers have a long time history of making programs that do bascally what a paticular windows program does and then calling in K (kcalc, kword, kicq, etc) so that the program is easier to find/identify. Adobe Illustrator has been around a very long time, and is very likely a trademarked name. KIllustrator is not an adobe Illustrator client, the only reason it has Illustrator in its nome is so that users associate it with Illustrator.
God I hate that, windows boxes seem to do it periodically, for no reason whatsoever. On a 192.168.x.x network, it breaks about one in 255 sites. The fix is easy (renew DHCP leases) but it confuses and angers the hell out of lusers.
If there is a patch for this anywhere, let me know
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http://www4.nationalacademies.org/news.nsf/isbn/03 09068916?OpenDocument
A lot of people have been posting a link to this article as proof that global warming is real, PLEASE, take the time to read it.
This article clarly shows thet the global warming crowd has no evidence at all. The only light spot in their report is thet they managed to smudge their computer model suffeciently so that it would still predict global warming.
The only place they found warming was in the surface temperatures. Unfortunately, this collected data is far from reliable since the detection of surface temperatures very often is done in urban areas (like at an airport, or in a cities downtown centers). These detectors will show an increase in temperature because of the heat island effect of larger and larger urban areas (feel the temerature of the concrete or street vs natural grass or dirt).
The only reliable data they used (satallites and weather ballons) showed no change in temperature. However, to receive continued funding, their computer model had to show global warming was real, so they fudged their computer model until it did.
"For example, natural events such as the eruption of
Mt. Pinatubo in 1991 tended to decrease atmospheric
temperature for several years. And burning coal and
oil for energy produces tiny aerosol particles in the
atmosphere that can have a cooling effect. Upper-air
temperatures also can be reduced by depletion of ozone
in the stratosphere caused by chlorofluorocarbons and
other chemicals being emitted into the atmosphere. When
these variables are accounted for in atmospheric models,
satellite and balloon data more closely align with
surface-temperature observations"
Yes, once they include effects that they are claming warm the atmosphere as cooling effects, their model works. Note that they can pick and choose their fudge factors to make their model come out just right.
Its amazing to me that so many people blindly believe hollywood celibs when they say "global warming is real, be afraid". Interestingly enough, its about the same percentage that believe psychic phenomenon.
the GAIM issue, and the Killusrtator issue, are two completely different things.
gaim was created after AOL released their GPL client. If you release a GPL aol messaging client, I think that it opening the doors to have people create their own client based on that code/protocol and call it something like "mike's aim client", since that is what it is. This is especially true if you have not trademarked the acronym, AIM.
KDE developers have a long time history of making programs that do bascally what a paticular windows program does and then calling in K (kcalc, kword, kicq, etc) so that the program is easier to find/identify. Adobe Illustrator has been around a very long time, and is very likely a trademarked name. KIllustrator is not an adobe Illustrator client, the only reason it has Illustrator in its nome is so that users associate it with Illustrator.
God I hate that, windows boxes seem to do it periodically, for no reason whatsoever. On a 192.168.x.x network, it breaks about one in 255 sites. The fix is easy (renew DHCP leases) but it confuses and angers the hell out of lusers.
If there is a patch for this anywhere, let me know