But also a lot of older music actually sounds better on vinyl - mostly due to how the music was mastered, and the difference in output turntables use compared to cd players. Also classic rock has a nice "vintage" sound to it on vinyl.
I buy most of my CDs off places like Amazon, some used if needed, so that they end up costing between $2-10. I've even bought some LPs (records if you don't know what those are haha) for around $1 (LPs are regaining some popularity again due to their extremely cheap cost)
Also as long as CDs can be played, they can be copied (through loopback recording). The only way around that is content encryption, but the buyer of the content would have access to the audio and thus be able to copy it.
The idea of a product not actually being sold, but "licensed" is fairly new - under the old (true) ideas, if you buy something, it's yours - completely. The DRM nonsense is just a reflection of the attacks on VHS copying in the 80's - there's really nothing you can do to stop it without declaring martial law and ushering in a communist political system, which even then won't really stop it.
"Send in the troops!" - already did, 50 years ago. "What's that? We're going to use diplomacy instead?" - we've been using diplomacy for over 50 years. I guess a century might be better lol. "We're going to try to avoid tens of thousands of deaths and injured?" - hmm... what happened to South Korea back then?
I've also got some scripts on my anti-spam website that I use to analyze spam stored in mbox files. One script lists all of the machines that sent the spam, in decending order according to the amount of spam they sent, like so (this is the top of the most recent results):
and then another script takes all of the IPs that sent 3 or more spams and dumps them into a block list. Machines that connect to the server are first checked by a script to see if they exist in the block list, then are checked to see if they are listed in Spamhaus, and then are checked to see if they are listed in the ORDB. Finally the message is transmitted, and sent to Spamassassin, which tags the message if it's spam. Another script moves the message to the user's inbox if it's not tagged, and to the spam archive (/var/mail/spam) if it is. Then the webmail system filters out certain messages based on it's own rules.
I don't know if the CAN-SPAM act is directly responsible for the overall increase of spam (there isn't really any data that shows a good correlation), but the general amount of spam has definately been going up. I run a small email server that serves a handful of users, and also has an extremely aggressive spam filtering system that I designed (a 5-stage filter, including Spamassassin, Spamhaus, realitime blacklists based on number of spams from machines, etc) and the amount of spam is still going up. A while back when I added the 5th stage to the filtering system, there seemed to be a noticable increase in spam, even though the machine was filtering much more accurately. It's just insane
I have a webpage on the machine with all the stats, graphs, etc of the spam, and even the spam itself archives in gzipped mbox files (used for graph generation and other analysis) at:
http://www.tliquest.net/spam
That's what I'm wondering too. The Open Group (formerly OSF) owns/licenses the CDE, and is under the same license (as far as I know) as Motif. I used to search regularly for CDE implementations for Linux, and only came across 2 somewhat official ones, one of which was for RedHat 6.2. They were the Xi Graphics CDE and the TriTeal Enhanced Desktop; both are closed-source. Hopefully Sun has the complete rights to open-source the CDE, mainly because it was co-developed by them, IBM, HP and Novell (SCO Unix has a version of it, but they only have a license for it haha) Mainly what I've been wanting is both an open-source version of the CDE environment itself, and also the calendar client and server applications (since there are no direct Linux equivalents).
For now, the best alternative is XFCE 4, which is an open-source CDE clone, and by using the "stellar" themes, it can look very similar to the official CDE.
I just looked around a little more and found this stuff. Here's Sun's (and IBM's) licenses for the Calendar system: http://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/regist er/ds.htm
Here's the CDE licenses: http://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/regi ster/xd.htm
So I'm guessing that the Open Group would have to allow the CDE to be open-sourced; Sun wouldn't be able to do that itself because they didn't wholly develop the CDE.
Most of the "logic" that comes with the global warming situation tends to be only politically based, and is primarily groups of people wanting to tell others what to do, according to their own personal opinions. Patrick Moore, the founder and former leader of Greenpeace (who is now anti-Greenpeace), describes it perfectly:
from http://www.basinelectric.com/NewsCenter/Ne ws/Featu redArticles/Greenpeace_founder_d.html
--------- Climate change
Moore outlined the extreme positions of opposing sides of the climate change issue, including the commonly held belief that increases in atmospheric CO2 from fossil fuels' emissions are warming the planet. "Climate change, to me, is one of the most interesting subjects because it points out the limitations of science," Moore said. "Most people think that if you take enough people in lab coats and throw enough money at them, then you can find the answer to any question. Of course that isn't true. Science actually has its absolute limit." He said there are so many variables that trigger climate change - other than CO2 - that it is "impossible to sort out the root cause."
Moore emphasized that the most important point in the climate change debate is "the fact that there is only one planet Earth, and it's very hard to do statistics on a sample of one, when you're trying to predict the future. If there were 50 planet Earths that were identical, you could increase CO2 on 25 of them and leave the other 25 alone, and you might get statistical probability." Moore said scientists who produce studies about global warming are reduced to best guesswork, plus some questionable computer models.
All parties need to engage in a "logically consistent global analysis" of data involving current scientific, environmental, social and governmental policies relative to how people interact with each other and the biosphere, Moore said. He cautioned the audience not to "turn the Earth into a junk heap, but manage it carefully as stewards. Learn to be better gardeners of the Earth... and may the force be with you."
Moore is a frequent speaker on national television shows, magazines, radio, public forums and the speaking platform both here and abroad. Find out more about Dr. Patrick Moore's activities and philosophy on www.greenspirit.com.
Well we'd still have the established environmental fascism that's in place (the almost complete federal and legal control of private entities) - that especially becomes clear when poor people can't afford cars when their car fails the emissions tests.
Yep mainly what's going on, when you look at the environazi viewpoints (where some might have admitted to humans being pollutants just by breathing; i forgot though) and other nuts stuff like PETA's plan to fully liberate all animals (which means no pets, no seeing-eye dogs for the blind, no meat, no embarrasing animals, etc) directly shows an enormous hatred for humans. At first that hatred is not visible, but it gets extremely clear once you hear stuff like people claiming that the 9/11 attacks were somehow good because it would reduce the amount of chicken eaten (this was said by a chicken-rights activist woman) - where the last thing they would care about is people.
>Perhaps you should contemplate the meaning of the word "exactly." The meditation may help you gain some perspective.
Ok; looking back, doomsday and immediate threat scenarios focused on people are nothing new; the Global Warming tactics blame most of the human race (except of course the blamers). Here's some good but somewhat loose examples of total foundationless blame:
Nazi scare tactic against gun ownership:
"The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the subject races to possess arms. History shows that all conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by so doing. Indeed, I would go so far as to say that the supply of arms to the underdogs is a sine qua non for the overthrow of any sovereignty. So let's not have any native militia or native police. German troops alone will bear the sole responsibility for the maintenance of law and order throughout the occupied Russian territories, and a system of military strong-points must be evolved to cover the entire occupied country." --Adolf Hitler, dinner talk on April 11, 1942
Let's scare everybody about free-market capitalism... "We are socialists, we are enemies of today's capitalistic economic system for the exploitation of the economically weak, with its unfair salaries, with its unseemly evaluation of a human being according to wealth and property instead of responsibility and performance, and we are all determined to destroy this system under all conditions." --Adolf Hitler (Speech of May 1, 1927. Quoted by Toland, 1976, p. 306)
Looks like Carl Marx was spreading scare tactics about Jews around the time: "Let us consider the actual, worldly Jew -- not the Sabbath Jew, as Bauer does, but the everyday Jew. Let us not look for the secret of the Jew in his religion, but let us look for the secret of his religion in the real Jew. What is the secular basis of Judaism? Practical need, self-interest. What is the worldly religion of the Jew? Huckstering. What is his worldly God? Money. Very well then! Emancipation from huckstering and money, consequently from practical, real Jewry, would be the self-emancipation of our time.... We recognize in Jewry, therefore, a general present-time-oriented anti-social element, an element which through historical development -- to which in this harmful respect the Jews have zealously contributed -- has been brought to its present high level, at which it must necessarily dissolve itself. In the final analysis, the emancipation of the Jews is the emancipation of mankind from Jewry" - Carl Marx
If the sun is indeed warming up, and is causing any possible global climate change, the humans are not entirely to blame, if at all. Mainly the questions should be directed at natural occurrences first, before blaming any person/group, etc (it seems like everybody nowadays is constantly playing the blame game).
>Today and for the last 150 - 200 years or so we have got increasingly more accurate and reliable data and that is what is telling us that the world climate is warming.
And also data says that the sun is getting hotter.
>Hundreds of thousands of years worth of data from ice cores, thousands of years worth of data from tree rings. This data may be basic but it gives scientists a good indication of what the global temperature was during the periods studied.
The problem there is that the statistics are indirect - no actual measurements were taken *at the time*, to form a direct measurement. So most of it is speculation.
>You forget, the wacko leftists are not capable of logic because it quickly dispatches 99.9% of their emotionally-driven pseudo-arguments.
That reminds me of a liberal girl who once told me that men in general are an inferior race when compared to women, and that I was racist; except that was right after I said that men and women are equal lol
You also have to take into account the studies that show that the sun it getting hotter, due to maturity.
Mainly the general idea is that CO2 is the primary cause of the problem, but the problem with that idea is that humans and animals give off enormous amounts of CO2 - there have been recent articles claiming that anything that emits CO2 should be considered a pollutant.
>we dont have 'a hundred' years worth of data, we have thousands of years of data.
Thousands of years of direct meteorological statistical data? There are thousands of years of very basic info, but nowhere near the scale of today's data. Even then, a thousand years compared to millions/billions is still a miniscule amount.
>>> Global warming effects may have been masked by particulate pollution
>> Where were those studies performed? I'm presuming that they were taken near very large cities with dense smog - not at the practical locations
>When studying the effects of pollution, one would presume the practical location would be near the source of pollution.
The problem with that statement is that the study is about *Global* climate change. To study the effects of *Global* climate change, you would have to take into account all areas, not just the highly polluted areas.
>They are conveniently ignoring the fact that 6 Billion human beings BREATHING emit more CO2 in one year than all of the fossil fuels that have been combusted since they were first extracted from the ground.
Actually they're not ignoring that lol;) A while back one group claimed that *anything* that emits CO2 was a pollutant. By using a little logic (which is a good thing haha), that would immediately include humans and all animals. Countries might as well just start doing Stalin-like population reduction tactics (and my family history goes into that - my grandpa escaped the Ukraine during Stalin's mass starvation tactics; my grandma lived in West Germany and her dad was very outspoken against Hitler; her family was always afraid he was going to be taken away)
>Given that the earth is warming, and that this warming will cause catastrophes in excess of anything we've seen, shouldn't we be trying to do something about it? Does it matter if it's caused by us or something else? Does it matter if the problems will arrive in 100 years or 1,000 years?
Many scientists have recently said that the Sun is getting hotter; part of the maturing process, causing a slight increase in global temperatures on Earth. If you want to go cool down the sun, be my guest;) - those CO2 emissions must be fairly sophisticated to be able to fly through space directly to the sun... lol
I can tell you skimmed the article, without reading what it really says.
The article refers to the doomsday hype of the mass media, scaring millions of people in what appears to be an elaborate extortion tactic. These scare tactics are exactly what Nazi Germany (and even SCO lol) used to gain power.
>Global warming states that the maxima of BOTH hot and cold will increase. Nice to see people are too ignorant to even know what the actual theory is.
Then "Global Warming" should be completely renamed "Global Climate Change" - the word "warming" will never directly imply the duplex nature of warming with cooling.
>Remember, if it gets warmer or cooler it is global warning. How can you argue with 100 years of decent weather data when the Earth has been here for hundreds of millions years?
Because 100 years out of millions is not a substantial amount of data.
>Precis on dimming: Global warming effects may have been masked by particulate pollution which appears to have reduced the amount of sunlight getting to the Earth by a massive 30% in some cases).
Where were those studies performed? I'm presuming that they were taken near very large cities with dense smog - not at the practical locations, which of course would be out in remote rural areas.
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But also a lot of older music actually sounds better on vinyl - mostly due to how the music was mastered, and the difference in output turntables use compared to cd players. Also classic rock has a nice "vintage" sound to it on vinyl.
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I buy most of my CDs off places like Amazon, some used if needed, so that they end up costing between $2-10. I've even bought some LPs (records if you don't know what those are haha) for around $1 (LPs are regaining some popularity again due to their extremely cheap cost)
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Also as long as CDs can be played, they can be copied (through loopback recording). The only way around that is content encryption, but the buyer of the content would have access to the audio and thus be able to copy it.
The idea of a product not actually being sold, but "licensed" is fairly new - under the old (true) ideas, if you buy something, it's yours - completely. The DRM nonsense is just a reflection of the attacks on VHS copying in the 80's - there's really nothing you can do to stop it without declaring martial law and ushering in a communist political system, which even then won't really stop it.
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Ever heard of the Korean War? Thought not...
"Send in the troops!" - already did, 50 years ago.
"What's that? We're going to use diplomacy instead?" - we've been using diplomacy for over 50 years. I guess a century might be better lol.
"We're going to try to avoid tens of thousands of deaths and injured?" - hmm... what happened to South Korea back then?
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I've also got some scripts on my anti-spam website that I use to analyze spam stored in mbox files. One script lists all of the machines that sent the spam, in decending order according to the amount of spam they sent, like so (this is the top of the most recent results):
(instance, IP, hostname)
5 81.198.237.219 unknown
5 211.243.68.48 unknown
5 209.58.246.26 softdnserror
4 67.140.111.166 h166.111.140.67.ip.alltel.net
4 219.6.220.121 yahoobb219006220121.bbtec.net
4 203.227.243.182 unknown
4 201.6.33.39 c9062127.virtua.com.br
and then another script takes all of the IPs that sent 3 or more spams and dumps them into a block list. Machines that connect to the server are first checked by a script to see if they exist in the block list, then are checked to see if they are listed in Spamhaus, and then are checked to see if they are listed in the ORDB. Finally the message is transmitted, and sent to Spamassassin, which tags the message if it's spam. Another script moves the message to the user's inbox if it's not tagged, and to the spam archive (/var/mail/spam) if it is. Then the webmail system filters out certain messages based on it's own rules.
All of this and still an increase in spam lol
The stuff (including statistic graphs) is here:
http://www.tliquest.net/spam
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I don't know if the CAN-SPAM act is directly responsible for the overall increase of spam (there isn't really any data that shows a good correlation), but the general amount of spam has definately been going up. I run a small email server that serves a handful of users, and also has an extremely aggressive spam filtering system that I designed (a 5-stage filter, including Spamassassin, Spamhaus, realitime blacklists based on number of spams from machines, etc) and the amount of spam is still going up. A while back when I added the 5th stage to the filtering system, there seemed to be a noticable increase in spam, even though the machine was filtering much more accurately. It's just insane
I have a webpage on the machine with all the stats, graphs, etc of the spam, and even the spam itself archives in gzipped mbox files (used for graph generation and other analysis) at: http://www.tliquest.net/spam
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It possibly means people attempting to claim code witten by others as their own.
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You can't run DTrace on Solaris 9 and earlier; the kernel's incompatable.
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That's what I'm wondering too. The Open Group (formerly OSF) owns/licenses the CDE, and is under the same license (as far as I know) as Motif. I used to search regularly for CDE implementations for Linux, and only came across 2 somewhat official ones, one of which was for RedHat 6.2. They were the Xi Graphics CDE and the TriTeal Enhanced Desktop; both are closed-source. Hopefully Sun has the complete rights to open-source the CDE, mainly because it was co-developed by them, IBM, HP and Novell (SCO Unix has a version of it, but they only have a license for it haha) Mainly what I've been wanting is both an open-source version of the CDE environment itself, and also the calendar client and server applications (since there are no direct Linux equivalents).
t er/ds.htm
i ster/xd.htm
For now, the best alternative is XFCE 4, which is an open-source CDE clone, and by using the "stellar" themes, it can look very similar to the official CDE.
I just looked around a little more and found this stuff. Here's Sun's (and IBM's) licenses for the Calendar system:
http://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/regis
Here's the CDE licenses:
http://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/reg
So I'm guessing that the Open Group would have to allow the CDE to be open-sourced; Sun wouldn't be able to do that itself because they didn't wholly develop the CDE.
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Most of the "logic" that comes with the global warming situation tends to be only politically based, and is primarily groups of people wanting to tell others what to do, according to their own personal opinions. Patrick Moore, the founder and former leader of Greenpeace (who is now anti-Greenpeace), describes it perfectly:
e ws/Featu redArticles/Greenpeace_founder_d.html
... and may the force be with you."
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from
http://www.basinelectric.com/NewsCenter/N
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Climate change
Moore outlined the extreme positions of opposing sides of the climate change issue, including the commonly held belief that increases in atmospheric CO2 from fossil fuels' emissions are warming the planet. "Climate change, to me, is one of the most interesting subjects because it points out the limitations of science," Moore said. "Most people think that if you take enough people in lab coats and throw enough money at them, then you can find the answer to any question. Of course that isn't true. Science actually has its absolute limit." He said there are so many variables that trigger climate change - other than CO2 - that it is "impossible to sort out the root cause."
Moore emphasized that the most important point in the climate change debate is "the fact that there is only one planet Earth, and it's very hard to do statistics on a sample of one, when you're trying to predict the future. If there were 50 planet Earths that were identical, you could increase CO2 on 25 of them and leave the other 25 alone, and you might get statistical probability." Moore said scientists who produce studies about global warming are reduced to best guesswork, plus some questionable computer models.
All parties need to engage in a "logically consistent global analysis" of data involving current scientific, environmental, social and governmental policies relative to how people interact with each other and the biosphere, Moore said. He cautioned the audience not to "turn the Earth into a junk heap, but manage it carefully as stewards. Learn to be better gardeners of the Earth
Moore is a frequent speaker on national television shows, magazines, radio, public forums and the speaking platform both here and abroad. Find out more about Dr. Patrick Moore's activities and philosophy on www.greenspirit.com.
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Also from
http://www.queensjournal.ca/article.php?point=v
"Which is easiest: to prevent global warming or to adjust to it?" Moore asked.
Moore argued that preventing climate change and global warming would require an 80 per cent reduction in fossil fuels in the near future.
"Hundreds of millions of people would die because we changed civilization," Moore said.
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Another:
http://www.abd.org.uk/pr/338.ht
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Well we'd still have the established environmental fascism that's in place (the almost complete federal and legal control of private entities) - that especially becomes clear when poor people can't afford cars when their car fails the emissions tests.
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Yep mainly what's going on, when you look at the environazi viewpoints (where some might have admitted to humans being pollutants just by breathing; i forgot though) and other nuts stuff like PETA's plan to fully liberate all animals (which means no pets, no seeing-eye dogs for the blind, no meat, no embarrasing animals, etc) directly shows an enormous hatred for humans. At first that hatred is not visible, but it gets extremely clear once you hear stuff like people claiming that the 9/11 attacks were somehow good because it would reduce the amount of chicken eaten (this was said by a chicken-rights activist woman) - where the last thing they would care about is people.
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>Perhaps you should contemplate the meaning of the word "exactly." The meditation may help you gain some perspective.
Ok; looking back, doomsday and immediate threat scenarios focused on people are nothing new; the Global Warming tactics blame most of the human race (except of course the blamers). Here's some good but somewhat loose examples of total foundationless blame:
Nazi scare tactic against gun ownership:
"The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the subject races to possess arms. History shows that all conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by so doing. Indeed, I would go so far as to say that the supply of arms to the underdogs is a sine qua non for the overthrow of any sovereignty. So let's not have any native militia or native police. German troops alone will bear the sole responsibility for the maintenance of law and order throughout the occupied Russian territories, and a system of military strong-points must be evolved to cover the entire occupied country." --Adolf Hitler, dinner talk on April 11, 1942
Let's scare everybody about free-market capitalism...
"We are socialists, we are enemies of today's capitalistic economic system for the exploitation of the economically weak, with its unfair salaries, with its unseemly evaluation of a human being according to wealth and property instead of responsibility and performance, and we are all determined to destroy this system under all conditions." --Adolf Hitler (Speech of May 1, 1927. Quoted by Toland, 1976, p. 306)
Looks like Carl Marx was spreading scare tactics about Jews around the time:
"Let us consider the actual, worldly Jew -- not the Sabbath Jew, as Bauer does, but the everyday Jew. Let us not look for the secret of the Jew in his religion, but let us look for the secret of his religion in the real Jew. What is the secular basis of Judaism? Practical need, self-interest. What is the worldly religion of the Jew? Huckstering. What is his worldly God? Money. Very well then! Emancipation from huckstering and money, consequently from practical, real Jewry, would be the self-emancipation of our time.... We recognize in Jewry, therefore, a general present-time-oriented anti-social element, an element which through historical development -- to which in this harmful respect the Jews have zealously contributed -- has been brought to its present high level, at which it must necessarily dissolve itself. In the final analysis, the emancipation of the Jews is the emancipation of mankind from Jewry" - Carl Marx
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If the sun is indeed warming up, and is causing any possible global climate change, the humans are not entirely to blame, if at all. Mainly the questions should be directed at natural occurrences first, before blaming any person/group, etc (it seems like everybody nowadays is constantly playing the blame game).
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>Today and for the last 150 - 200 years or so we have got increasingly more accurate and reliable data and that is what is telling us that the world climate is warming.
And also data says that the sun is getting hotter.
>Hundreds of thousands of years worth of data from ice cores, thousands of years worth of data from tree rings. This data may be basic but it gives scientists a good indication of what the global temperature was during the periods studied.
The problem there is that the statistics are indirect - no actual measurements were taken *at the time*, to form a direct measurement. So most of it is speculation.
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>You forget, the wacko leftists are not capable of logic because it quickly dispatches 99.9% of their emotionally-driven pseudo-arguments.
That reminds me of a liberal girl who once told me that men in general are an inferior race when compared to women, and that I was racist; except that was right after I said that men and women are equal lol
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You also have to take into account the studies that show that the sun it getting hotter, due to maturity.
Mainly the general idea is that CO2 is the primary cause of the problem, but the problem with that idea is that humans and animals give off enormous amounts of CO2 - there have been recent articles claiming that anything that emits CO2 should be considered a pollutant.
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>we dont have 'a hundred' years worth of data, we have thousands of years of data.
Thousands of years of direct meteorological statistical data? There are thousands of years of very basic info, but nowhere near the scale of today's data. Even then, a thousand years compared to millions/billions is still a miniscule amount.
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>>> Global warming effects may have been masked by particulate pollution
>> Where were those studies performed? I'm presuming that they were taken near very large cities with dense smog - not at the practical locations
>When studying the effects of pollution, one would presume the practical location would be near the source of pollution.
The problem with that statement is that the study is about *Global* climate change. To study the effects of *Global* climate change, you would have to take into account all areas, not just the highly polluted areas.
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>They are conveniently ignoring the fact that 6 Billion human beings BREATHING emit more CO2 in one year than all of the fossil fuels that have been combusted since they were first extracted from the ground.
;) A while back one group claimed that *anything* that emits CO2 was a pollutant. By using a little logic (which is a good thing haha), that would immediately include humans and all animals. Countries might as well just start doing Stalin-like population reduction tactics (and my family history goes into that - my grandpa escaped the Ukraine during Stalin's mass starvation tactics; my grandma lived in West Germany and her dad was very outspoken against Hitler; her family was always afraid he was going to be taken away)
Actually they're not ignoring that lol
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>Given that the earth is warming, and that this warming will cause catastrophes in excess of anything we've seen, shouldn't we be trying to do something about it? Does it matter if it's caused by us or something else? Does it matter if the problems will arrive in 100 years or 1,000 years?
;) - those CO2 emissions must be fairly sophisticated to be able to fly through space directly to the sun... lol
Many scientists have recently said that the Sun is getting hotter; part of the maturing process, causing a slight increase in global temperatures on Earth. If you want to go cool down the sun, be my guest
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>Climate science is morally equivalent to Nazism?
I can tell you skimmed the article, without reading what it really says.
The article refers to the doomsday hype of the mass media, scaring millions of people in what appears to be an elaborate extortion tactic. These scare tactics are exactly what Nazi Germany (and even SCO lol) used to gain power.
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>Global warming states that the maxima of BOTH hot and cold will increase. Nice to see people are too ignorant to even know what the actual theory is.
Then "Global Warming" should be completely renamed "Global Climate Change" - the word "warming" will never directly imply the duplex nature of warming with cooling.
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>Remember, if it gets warmer or cooler it is global warning. How can you argue with 100 years of decent weather data when the Earth has been here for hundreds of millions years?
Because 100 years out of millions is not a substantial amount of data.
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>Precis on dimming: Global warming effects may have been masked by particulate pollution which appears to have reduced the amount of sunlight getting to the Earth by a massive 30% in some cases).
Where were those studies performed? I'm presuming that they were taken near very large cities with dense smog - not at the practical locations, which of course would be out in remote rural areas.
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