It scarcely mattered what the Milankovitch orbital changes might do, wrote Murray Mitchell in 1972, since
"man's intervention... would if anything tend to prolong the present interglacial." Human industry would prevent an advance of the ice by blanketing the Earth with CO2. A panel of top experts convened by the National Academy of Sciences in 1975 tentatively agreed with Mitchell. True, in recent years the temperature had been dropping (perhaps as part of some unknown "longer-period climatic oscillation"). Nevertheless, they thought CO2 "could conceivably" bring half a degree of warming by the end of the century.(27) The outspoken geochemist and oceanographer Wallace Broecker went farther. He suspected that there was indeed a natural cycle responsible for the cooling in recent decades, perhaps originating in cyclical changes on the Sun. If so, it was only temporarily canceling the greenhouse warming. Within a few decades that would climb past any natural cycle. "Are we on the brink of a pronounced global warming?" he asked.(28*)
Meanwhile in 1975, two New Zealand scientists reported that while the Northern Hemisphere had been cooling over the past thirty years, their own region, and probably other parts of the Southern Hemisphere, had been warming.(29) There were too few weather stations in the vast unvisited southern oceans to be certain, but other studies tended to confirm it. The cooling since around 1940 had been observed mainly in northern latitudes. Perhaps cooling from industrial haze counteracted the greenhouse warming there? After all, the Northern Hemisphere was home to most of the world's industry. It was also home to most of the world's population, and as usual, people had been most impressed by the weather where they lived.(30*)
If there had almost been a consensus in the early 1970s that the entire world was cooling, the consensus now broke down. Science journalists reported that climate scientists were openly divided, and those who expected warming were increasingly numerous. In an attempt to force scientists to agree on a useful answer, in 1977 the U.S. Department of Defense persuaded two dozen of the world's top climate experts to respond to a complicated survey. Their main conclusion was that scientific knowledge was meager and all predictions were unreliable. The panel was nearly equally divided among three opinions: some thought further cooling was likely, others suspected that moderate greenhouse warming would begin fairly soon, and most of the rest expected the climate would stay about the same at least for the next couple of decades. Only a few thought it probable that there would be considerable global warming by the year 2000 (which was what would in fact happen).
A: Sun output didn't continuously increase for many decades, unlike global warming. Instead changes slightly around an average. Not plausible.
B: Where does water vapor come from? From global warming created by water vapor? Unstoppable vicious cycle, needs any possible countermeasure -> reduce CO2.
C: see A
D: Ahh, so both water vapor and lack thereof are the reason. Okay.
While the countries of the EU produce 31.5% of GWP and only 15.3% of global CO2 emissions. Looks like the US is far from making good use and is proud of being as energy efficient as 2nd world countries.
Maybe sticking to low tech is fashionable in the US these days, but we Europeans will pass, thanks.
Yeah, risking to look freaking stupid to future generations for ignoring all proof, simply because some people claim that "sky rocketing markets, wars over energy rights, mass unemployment and rioting" would result is nothing compared to that.
We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight them in our under-pants.
Of course the Shuttle (as it was build) is inherrently flawed. The government wanted more features for less money. And NASA wanted to make something better a long time ago - but they don't get the money to even start planing.
I have an old astronomy book from the late 1920s that doesn't mention a ninth planet named Pluto. Hey, the way things are going, it will be right again in a couple of years;-)
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Let's go on quoting the discussion/interrogation between Winston and O'Brien:
'But the rocks are full of the bones of extinct animals -- mammoths and mastodons and enormous reptiles which lived here long before man was ever heard of.'
'Have you ever seen those bones, Winston? Of course not. Nineteenth-century biologists invented them. Before man there was nothing. After man, if he could come to an end, there would be nothing. Outside man there is nothing.'
'But the whole universe is outside us. Look at the stars! Some of them are a million light-years away. They are out of our reach for ever.'
'What are the stars?' said O'Brien indifferently. 'They are bits of fire a few kilometres away. We could reach them if we wanted to. Or we could blot them out. The earth is the centre of the universe. The sun and the stars go round it.'
Winston made another convulsive movement. This time he did not say anything. O'Brien continued as though answering a spoken objection:
'For certain purposes, of course, that is not true. When we navigate the ocean, or when we predict an eclipse, we often find it convenient to assume that the earth goes round the sun and that the stars are millions upon millions of kilometres away. But what of it? Do you suppose it is beyond us to produce a dual system of astronomy? The stars can be near or distant, according as we need them. Do you suppose our mathematicians are unequal to that? Have you forgotten doublethink?'
Controlled by a dc voltage and presenting a capacitive load, the lens consumes virtually zero power, which for battery powered portable applications gives it a real advantage.
Yeah, and instead of waiting a full year for a full retail version, you only had to wait for 9 months - and get the data from a Windows version. Running on Intel obviously helped here - and the Linux version was supposed to ship shortly after the Windows version, while the Mac version was only announced then.
The Bush administration is objecting to the creation of a.xxx domain, saying it has concerns about a virtual red-light district reserved exclusively for Internet pornography.
Easy solution: make half the sites for children, no more exclusivity for porn. Hello, that is the fucking (no pun intended) point of.xxx.
Yeah, and the fact that the date of death is only given as this year doesn't tip anyone off. And how would one get to the page in the first place, unless one knows about who Jamie Kane "is" in the first place?
Being a regular "Random article"-er, I come about much more annoying pages than this, like pages about local bands only a houndred people ever heard of, or stuff like Lynn Deerfield was an ex-wife of former WABC-TV anchorman Bill Beutel. Yup, that's the whole article, not even a single wiki-link. Or stuff that is just plain, non-viral marketing.
Hell, vandalisations to some wikis last longer than this article is old, yet people go all ballistic over what is not (much) more than the product of an over-enthusiastic fan.
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When someone posts with a broad brush, I usualy don't bother getting out my fine-liner. ;-)
B: Where does water vapor come from? From global warming created by water vapor? Unstoppable vicious cycle, needs any possible countermeasure -> reduce CO2.
C: see A
D: Ahh, so both water vapor and lack thereof are the reason. Okay.
E: see A.
Maybe sticking to low tech is fashionable in the US these days, but we Europeans will pass, thanks.
Yeah, risking to look freaking stupid to future generations for ignoring all proof, simply because some people claim that "sky rocketing markets, wars over energy rights, mass unemployment and rioting" would result is nothing compared to that.
Weather vs. climate.
You had me until you claimed economists were scientists. Might as well have said astrologers.
We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight them in our under-pants.
Eugen Sänger's Junkers RT8 Study from 1961 and based on that the Sänger II. Why use a huge rocket in the atmosphere?
Of course the Shuttle (as it was build) is inherrently flawed. The government wanted more features for less money. And NASA wanted to make something better a long time ago - but they don't get the money to even start planing.
Will we? Will they do a demo of a 4 GHz P4 too? Will they tell us it will use just as little power as the new Transmeta processors again?
And will anyone believe them?
Maybe nobody told you, but they didn't. It was all about increased performance/Watt that Intel promised Jobs.
I have an old astronomy book from the late 1920s that doesn't mention a ninth planet named Pluto. Hey, the way things are going, it will be right again in a couple of years ;-)
And even those games (unless the programmer is an idiot) will be handled quite nicely by any "low-level" 3D card.
There is more to gaming than 3D.
Even if that were true, the PC was even less of a game machine.
Yeah, and instead of waiting a full year for a full retail version, you only had to wait for 9 months - and get the data from a Windows version. Running on Intel obviously helped here - and the Linux version was supposed to ship shortly after the Windows version, while the Mac version was only announced then.
Easy solution: make half the sites for children, no more exclusivity for porn. Hello, that is the fucking (no pun intended) point of .xxx.
The hard part is to keep it that way.
But some here scream like them ;-)
Random pick.
StarWars? Heck, there are entries for every single of Digimon.
Being a regular "Random article"-er, I come about much more annoying pages than this, like pages about local bands only a houndred people ever heard of, or stuff like Lynn Deerfield was an ex-wife of former WABC-TV anchorman Bill Beutel. Yup, that's the whole article, not even a single wiki-link. Or stuff that is just plain, non-viral marketing.
Hell, vandalisations to some wikis last longer than this article is old, yet people go all ballistic over what is not (much) more than the product of an over-enthusiastic fan.