Anything that promotes literacy will help comic book sales. I'm taking my 3 kids and hitting at least one shop. Reading is the most important thing anyone can learn to help them with the rest of their lives. Getting them early is important.
A core component of the scientific method is convincing others that you are correct. So in that regard Mann, Hansen and Gore have done a good job. Another core component is matching theory to reality. On that regard, they have not done a good job. We are still awaiting the runaway warming predicted by Mann, Hansen and Gore. Still waiting for New York to be under water and the arctic to be ice free. Those are, for sane people, good things. Unless your livelihood depends on runaway global warming, in which case you continue to spout the same nonsense and hope that someday these things will come to pass.
As part of the 97% that believes that the climate is changing and that man is responsible for some of it, I try to keep up on the science as much as anyone. The difference is that I believe the heat trapping effects and lifespan of CO2 are low and that the feedbacks are not all positive. Compare that to M H & G who all believe the opposite.
Hillary has no real accomplishments short of getting her husband and herself elected to numerous offices and then using those offices to make as much money as they possibly can. How much do they charge the secret service rent? Is it really enough to pay their mortgages? I bet it is enough to pay the average American's mortgage. Probably the average 10 Americans. How much do they charge to speak? How many foreign governments and companies have they taken money from? What exactly does their non-profit do besides pay for their travel expenses to speaking engagements?
She talks about giving the average American the same chances she had. How is she going to do that? Seminars on trading in cattle futures? Maybe how to setup a large scale chicken farm with her moneyed friends?
Her term as secretary of state was a disaster. She chose to intervene in Libya and not to confront ISIS. She made a big deal out of pressing a big red reset button with Vladimir Putin, who reset Russian expansionism.
As far as her policies, it would be better to look at whatever Bernie Sanders said two weeks ago. That's assuming she really means what she says and what the definition of is is.
'You're either part of the solution or part of the problem' are the problem.
I'm so glad that the El Nino is fading. The Warmistas certainly enjoyed the last year. Finally some warming to talk about. Statistically it's rather small and insignificant, and they had to cool the past again, but it's there. Now they have their fingers and toes crossed hoping that the slight rebound in Artic ice will take a nosedive. Where's the next major conference? Somewhere nice I'm guessing.
Octavia wrote the first Sci Fi book I ever read, Patternmaster. Not particularly great, but I still remember the plot and the characters.
As far as Heinlein politics, I don't think they are consistent in his works. Starship Troopers was marshall law, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress was ultra capitalism and Stranger in a Strange Land was kind of communal, hippie style. His characters had politics.
Instead of asking what are the best works in all of sci fi, better to ask what are the best works of sci fi authors.
Heinlein: Starship Troopers, Moon is a Harsh Mistress (although for younger reader I would recommend The Rolling Stones or Orphans of the Sky) Brin: Startide Rising, The Postman, Uplift Wars Asimov: Foundation trilogy, I Robot Cherryh: Cuckoo's Egg, Cyteen Banks: Excession, Player of Games, Feersum Enjin Niven/Pournelle: The Mote in God's Eye, Legacy of Heorot
It's still subjective, but you'll get a better list. If I am trying to find something new to read, I will look over the Hugo and Nebula nominees. Most of the time the same books will appear on both lists. I saw a couple of red flags on the sites listed in the summary. One had 'Consider Phlebas' as the only Banks book on the list. It's not a bad book, but I wouldn't say it was one of his best. Also, the same list had 'The Color of Magic' as the only Pratchett book. I definitely wouldn't recommend that as the first book to introduce someone to the Disk World series.
Read Stranger in a Strange Land or To Sail Beyond the Sunset and then get back to us. Heinlein, like every human ever, was a product of his times and a lot of his juvenile works (including Starship Troopers) were written as serials, often to specifications by the publisher. A lot of his later novels are not right wing at all.
It is the hubris of the living to cast shade on the morality of the past.
Two of my favorite authors died recently, Pratchett and Banks. I still have about 5 Banks books, although none of them are science fiction. I have about 8 Pratchett books left. I'm not going to stop reading and saying there is a shortage of good authors is about stupid. I remember a flame war on the old SciFi Weekly site where some idiot said women can't write. I listed off about 8 women who can hold their own with any man, and I didn't even include Heinlein. The Sad Puppy website that someone posted didn't seem to have any overt political overtones. It seemed more like a bunch of nerds talking about what books they read that they liked. I'll probably go back and write some names down after I finish off the last of my Pratchett and Banks books.
I remember when the Hugo and Nebula would award the same book with their awards. I can't think of one book that did win that after reading didn't appear to deserve it.
Is there 97% consensus on that 90% or is that just a few studies? Was there 97% consensus on the Arctic being ice free? What year is that going to be, I've heard so many predictions from the 97% that I'm not sure anymore. How about New York, Holland, Florida being underwater? You'd think someone could post some satellite images of these events.
If this year is hotter than last year, and therefore the hottest evah, it won't be by much and will probably be accomplished by cooling some of those previous hottest years evah. I can't think of any other discipline that routinely alters the records of the past as much as climate science. Is there a limit to the tweaks that are made? I know there are some data sets that have been so thoroughly altered that the original data may no longer be available.
"...his stories about seeing Muslims celebrating in the streets as the WTC collapsed are demonstrably false"
There were Muslims dancing in the street during and after 9/11. Maybe not in New Jersey, or even on US soil, but they were certainly dancing in the streets of several of the Islamic countries. Funny that the only religion to have entire countries and regions under their theocratic thumb are Islamic. Except maybe Vatican City and Israel, although one is really an oligarchy and the other is a democracy.
Climate sensitivity to CO2 Longevity of CO2 in the atmosphere Positive feedbacks Natural variability
None of which are known except that the current guestimates don't match reality. They certainly don't match the predictions from Hansen, Mann and Gore.
All the rest is just bollocks. Studies about studies are bollocks. Meta-studies about studies about studies are bollocks. Climate science is an embarrassment. Lost records, withheld data, pal review, gobs of money being thrown at it, global conferences in really nice places, mansions on the beach, private fucking planes, grants going to family members, etc. Run by the same body that puts totalitarian governments on their Human Rights Commission.
Trump says he will build a wall on our southern border and enforce our immigration laws. Trump says he will enforce the H1B program in the way it was intended instead of allowing foreign workers to take American jobs. Trump says he will halt immigration of Islamists until we can be sure they are not radicalized. Trump says he will allow health insurance companies to compete across state lines and take other measures to make health care affordable. Trump says he will renegotiate trade pacts that do not favor the United States. Trump says he will reform the VA and ensure our vets get the care they were promised.
Maybe you can actually post some more things he said about what he is going to do. Those seem to be the main things that I've heard. Not sure what is so scary about any of that.
This election for me is about the rule of law. Either we are a country where everyone is equal under the law and laws have to be obeyed, or we are not. It's as simple as that. All the talk about Trump being a fascist is way off base. Trump doesn't have a fascist organization behind him. He's got no brown shirts or brigades, it's just the democratic process and some people reckoning that at least he might do some of things he has promised.
If nothing else, a Trump presidency would shake up the Washington first virus that has infected both parties.
It's 97% and even that figure is bunk, based on a flawed analysis that excluded the vast majority of studies and then hand-picked through the rest with a bias that even global warming supporters recognize.
This is not FUD, these are open questions that the 97% gloss over:
The heat trapping effects of CO2 -- somewhere between.5 and 2 -- where.5 means a slight warming and 2 means Earth is on a path to become like Venus The half life of CO2 in the atmosphere -- somewhere between 30 yrs and 1000 yrs -- probably can get 99% with that spread The availability of new CO2 sinks -- somewhere between none and more than enough -- another tent pole that can fit 99% The effects of feedbacks -- somewhere between all negative and all positive -- yay consensus science that can mean anything
The skeptics are doing more to answer these questions then the so-called scientists who are busy covering their collective asses because nature hasn't cooperated and produced scary hockey sticks or flooding of coastal regions. Instead they keep floating out new adjustments to produce the warmest year ever even if it is only by a few tenths of a degree and within the error bars.
The funniest thing about all of this is how a few skeptics pointing out the large flaws can produce such vitriol and FUD, of which this paper is just the latest.
In Belgium they have an egg and milk fund that every family with children gets every month. You can't use it to buy processed foods.
In the United States of America, food stamps (well, credit cards now) can be used to buy processed foods. It's too demeaning to have any proper controls and limit things to rice, flour, sugar, eggs, milk, etc. The big food manufacturers love it, the poor love it and changing it back to the basics (remember government cheese), will be next to impossible to do.
I've noticed that there is a correlation to the people who use food credit cards that they usually have two carts with free food and another with beer and yet more crap that isn't free. Usually they are in front of me in line and yes they are usually fat pushing obese.
I have three kids. I like the way Belgium does it better. The rich have always had a really good deal in the US, because taxes are based on non-investment income (why Warren Buffet still pays a lower percentage in taxes then his secretary). Now the poor also have a good deal. The middle class get jack all in this country. Poor kids get free breakfast and lunch and free after school programs (50$ for my kids). Poor families get free phones, free cable, free housing, free food, etc. But being poor is based on reported income. So there are literally millions in this country who get all the free stuff and can still drive around in a brand new mega truck cause they don't report their income.
More and more are gaming the system and for some getting on the government dole is the new American dream. And in instead of doing anything about this, the government keeps rolling out more and more programs for the fraudsters. I blame the baby boomers and their offspring, of which I am neither.
Let's go with the assumption posited so frequently by the press that Donald Trump called women Bimbos and Pigs. He never said 'All women are bimbos and pigs'. He said 'Rosie O'Donnel is a pig' and 'Megyn Kelly is a bimbo'. By this same logic, it could be said that Bill Clinton thinks all women want a cigar up their coochie, which explains a lot really.
Same thing with illegal immigrants. Trump never said 'All illegal immigrants are murderers, rapists and drug dealers'. Maybe that is what you heard, but in reality that is what he said Mexico is sending us. Along with some good people. There were good Nazis and good Communists and good Anarchists, Chumbawamba and Noam Chomsky I guess, but none of that matters. Being a nation of immigrants doesn't mean we have no system of immigration. We have had varying levels of control through out our history. Until now, where there is a system that is being completely ignored and subverted by Presidential decree.
The H1B stuff is more of the same. There is direct evidence of companies violating key provisions and except for social media and the press, not much is being done.
If nothing else, Trump running means the Democrats and about 1/2 the Republicans will never again be able to offer amnesty for a promise to build the wall. That ship has sailed.
Exxon looked at the data and came to the right conclusion. Gasoline produces a miniscule amount of the human contribution and stopping its use would be more catastrophic than stopping it. Might as well float that rumor of a car that runs on tap water while you are at it.
Cars and trucks produce a miniscule amount of the human contribution to CO2 and cumulatively less then insects produce yearly.
The only thing that will end this debate is if the James Hansons of the World look at the data objectively and stop making ridiculous statements. Of course he believes global warming will be more sudden and worse then predicted because if it doesn't start doing that soon he's going to look really stupid. He predicted parts of New York would be permanently underwater in his lifetime.
Anywhile, CO2 has a lower half life, lots of plants to sink into and effects that are logarithmic. Like most debates, I always end up on the 'wrong' side. I see all of the activists flying all over the world for their cause and wonder if they could ever give up that lifestyle. They are almost rock stars. I know when working for Darpa, the conventions were awesome and the company paid for it all. Not glamorous but still pretty sweet.
Let them bask in the warming glow of the fading El Nino. The Earth abides and that should give all of us comfort.
It would be nice if we stopped painting entire organizations, professions, states and countries every time a story like this comes out. In the discussion of this story, the role call of villains includes the USA or 'murica, Texas, the city of Irving, Republicans, Teachers, Police and most of all White People. At most there was a handful of people involved and a free press with an activist citizenry turned the whole thing around.
This kid has gone from oppressed to a likely poster child in about 6 hours. Good for him. I hope he makes the most of this opportunity.
As far as politics is concerned, it is just as likely that a cop and a teacher are registered Democrat as Republican. They both belong to a union, not that there is anything wrong with that. As far as immigration is concerned, I don't see how this applies. Republicans want technical people to legally immigrate and immigrants in general to not burden our welfare system or behave criminally.
About 1/3 of all CO2 produced by humans in all of history has occurred in the last 18 years and yet there is no statistical warming during that time. CO2 is logarithmically challenged, as discovered by Arrehnius, the demi-god of the AGW movement who first proposed that CO2 is a greenhouse gas. It's funny that the AGW crowd only ever cites his first paper on the subject and its ridiculous sensitivity. It is tragic that after all these years of doom and gloom from the AGW crowd that they are finally bringing down that sensitivity to the levels that Arrehnius determined in his follow up work.
Most so-called deniers only deny that there is a run-away effect, that all feedbacks are positive, that you can retroactively alter the temperature records to compensate for time of day and siting issues, that you can splice one proxy temperature record with another and put it on the cover of an official IPCC document and that you can continue to cite models and studies based on those models when CO2 is following the worst case scenario and the actual temperature is below the best case scenario.
Finally, quoting the 97% consensus is just plain stupid. It's either made up from whole cloth or based on a severely flawed study. You can't scream anti-science at people and ignore the mountains of bad science published in the name of AGW every year.
Mars is a great big, dry gravity well. We as a species are better off learning how to live in space. There are more resources between the Earth and Jupiter then we have access too currently.
Even with advanced propulsion, humans will have to learn to live in space. We are a long way from colonizing mars, it's such a pipe dream.
If there is a fire in a crowded theatre, you should yell "Fire!". That is why all of these people speaking out against the 'Draw Mohammed' contests as shouting fire in a crowded theatre are wrong. Radical Islamists, including those that would kill to prevent or avenge cartoons of their prophet, is a real issue, as proven in Garland, Texas.
Some teachers unions have negotiated that a first offence is not fireable. There are 100s of teachers in the LA school district who are on the payroll but are not allowed to teach. Some for drug crimes, some for sex crimes.
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Anything that promotes literacy will help comic book sales. I'm taking my 3 kids and hitting at least one shop. Reading is the most important thing anyone can learn to help them with the rest of their lives. Getting them early is important.
A core component of the scientific method is convincing others that you are correct. So in that regard Mann, Hansen and Gore have done a good job. Another core component is matching theory to reality. On that regard, they have not done a good job. We are still awaiting the runaway warming predicted by Mann, Hansen and Gore. Still waiting for New York to be under water and the arctic to be ice free. Those are, for sane people, good things. Unless your livelihood depends on runaway global warming, in which case you continue to spout the same nonsense and hope that someday these things will come to pass.
As part of the 97% that believes that the climate is changing and that man is responsible for some of it, I try to keep up on the science as much as anyone. The difference is that I believe the heat trapping effects and lifespan of CO2 are low and that the feedbacks are not all positive. Compare that to M H & G who all believe the opposite.
Hillary has no real accomplishments short of getting her husband and herself elected to numerous offices and then using those offices to make as much money as they possibly can. How much do they charge the secret service rent? Is it really enough to pay their mortgages? I bet it is enough to pay the average American's mortgage. Probably the average 10 Americans. How much do they charge to speak? How many foreign governments and companies have they taken money from? What exactly does their non-profit do besides pay for their travel expenses to speaking engagements?
She talks about giving the average American the same chances she had. How is she going to do that? Seminars on trading in cattle futures? Maybe how to setup a large scale chicken farm with her moneyed friends?
Her term as secretary of state was a disaster. She chose to intervene in Libya and not to confront ISIS. She made a big deal out of pressing a big red reset button with Vladimir Putin, who reset Russian expansionism.
As far as her policies, it would be better to look at whatever Bernie Sanders said two weeks ago. That's assuming she really means what she says and what the definition of is is.
'You're either part of the solution or part of the problem' are the problem.
I'm so glad that the El Nino is fading. The Warmistas certainly enjoyed the last year. Finally some warming to talk about. Statistically it's rather small and insignificant, and they had to cool the past again, but it's there. Now they have their fingers and toes crossed hoping that the slight rebound in Artic ice will take a nosedive. Where's the next major conference? Somewhere nice I'm guessing.
Octavia wrote the first Sci Fi book I ever read, Patternmaster. Not particularly great, but I still remember the plot and the characters.
As far as Heinlein politics, I don't think they are consistent in his works. Starship Troopers was marshall law, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress was ultra capitalism and Stranger in a Strange Land was kind of communal, hippie style. His characters had politics.
Instead of asking what are the best works in all of sci fi, better to ask what are the best works of sci fi authors.
Heinlein: Starship Troopers, Moon is a Harsh Mistress (although for younger reader I would recommend The Rolling Stones or Orphans of the Sky)
Brin: Startide Rising, The Postman, Uplift Wars
Asimov: Foundation trilogy, I Robot
Cherryh: Cuckoo's Egg, Cyteen
Banks: Excession, Player of Games, Feersum Enjin
Niven/Pournelle: The Mote in God's Eye, Legacy of Heorot
It's still subjective, but you'll get a better list. If I am trying to find something new to read, I will look over the Hugo and Nebula nominees. Most of the time the same books will appear on both lists. I saw a couple of red flags on the sites listed in the summary. One had 'Consider Phlebas' as the only Banks book on the list. It's not a bad book, but I wouldn't say it was one of his best. Also, the same list had 'The Color of Magic' as the only Pratchett book. I definitely wouldn't recommend that as the first book to introduce someone to the Disk World series.
Read Stranger in a Strange Land or To Sail Beyond the Sunset and then get back to us. Heinlein, like every human ever, was a product of his times and a lot of his juvenile works (including Starship Troopers) were written as serials, often to specifications by the publisher. A lot of his later novels are not right wing at all.
It is the hubris of the living to cast shade on the morality of the past.
Two of my favorite authors died recently, Pratchett and Banks. I still have about 5 Banks books, although none of them are science fiction. I have about 8 Pratchett books left. I'm not going to stop reading and saying there is a shortage of good authors is about stupid. I remember a flame war on the old SciFi Weekly site where some idiot said women can't write. I listed off about 8 women who can hold their own with any man, and I didn't even include Heinlein. The Sad Puppy website that someone posted didn't seem to have any overt political overtones. It seemed more like a bunch of nerds talking about what books they read that they liked. I'll probably go back and write some names down after I finish off the last of my Pratchett and Banks books.
I remember when the Hugo and Nebula would award the same book with their awards. I can't think of one book that did win that after reading didn't appear to deserve it.
Is there 97% consensus on that 90% or is that just a few studies? Was there 97% consensus on the Arctic being ice free? What year is that going to be, I've heard so many predictions from the 97% that I'm not sure anymore. How about New York, Holland, Florida being underwater? You'd think someone could post some satellite images of these events.
If this year is hotter than last year, and therefore the hottest evah, it won't be by much and will probably be accomplished by cooling some of those previous hottest years evah. I can't think of any other discipline that routinely alters the records of the past as much as climate science. Is there a limit to the tweaks that are made? I know there are some data sets that have been so thoroughly altered that the original data may no longer be available.
"...his stories about seeing Muslims celebrating in the streets as the WTC collapsed are demonstrably false"
There were Muslims dancing in the street during and after 9/11. Maybe not in New Jersey, or even on US soil, but they were certainly dancing in the streets of several of the Islamic countries. Funny that the only religion to have entire countries and regions under their theocratic thumb are Islamic. Except maybe Vatican City and Israel, although one is really an oligarchy and the other is a democracy.
The key points are:
Climate sensitivity to CO2
Longevity of CO2 in the atmosphere
Positive feedbacks
Natural variability
None of which are known except that the current guestimates don't match reality. They certainly don't match the predictions from Hansen, Mann and Gore.
All the rest is just bollocks. Studies about studies are bollocks. Meta-studies about studies about studies are bollocks. Climate science is an embarrassment. Lost records, withheld data, pal review, gobs of money being thrown at it, global conferences in really nice places, mansions on the beach, private fucking planes, grants going to family members, etc. Run by the same body that puts totalitarian governments on their Human Rights Commission.
Bollocks
Trump says he will build a wall on our southern border and enforce our immigration laws.
Trump says he will enforce the H1B program in the way it was intended instead of allowing foreign workers to take American jobs.
Trump says he will halt immigration of Islamists until we can be sure they are not radicalized.
Trump says he will allow health insurance companies to compete across state lines and take other measures to make health care affordable.
Trump says he will renegotiate trade pacts that do not favor the United States.
Trump says he will reform the VA and ensure our vets get the care they were promised.
Maybe you can actually post some more things he said about what he is going to do. Those seem to be the main things that I've heard. Not sure what is so scary about any of that.
This election for me is about the rule of law. Either we are a country where everyone is equal under the law and laws have to be obeyed, or we are not. It's as simple as that. All the talk about Trump being a fascist is way off base. Trump doesn't have a fascist organization behind him. He's got no brown shirts or brigades, it's just the democratic process and some people reckoning that at least he might do some of things he has promised.
If nothing else, a Trump presidency would shake up the Washington first virus that has infected both parties.
It's 97% and even that figure is bunk, based on a flawed analysis that excluded the vast majority of studies and then hand-picked through the rest with a bias that even global warming supporters recognize.
This is not FUD, these are open questions that the 97% gloss over:
The heat trapping effects of CO2 -- somewhere between .5 and 2 -- where .5 means a slight warming and 2 means Earth is on a path to become like Venus
The half life of CO2 in the atmosphere -- somewhere between 30 yrs and 1000 yrs -- probably can get 99% with that spread
The availability of new CO2 sinks -- somewhere between none and more than enough -- another tent pole that can fit 99%
The effects of feedbacks -- somewhere between all negative and all positive -- yay consensus science that can mean anything
The skeptics are doing more to answer these questions then the so-called scientists who are busy covering their collective asses because nature hasn't cooperated and produced scary hockey sticks or flooding of coastal regions. Instead they keep floating out new adjustments to produce the warmest year ever even if it is only by a few tenths of a degree and within the error bars.
The funniest thing about all of this is how a few skeptics pointing out the large flaws can produce such vitriol and FUD, of which this paper is just the latest.
In Belgium they have an egg and milk fund that every family with children gets every month. You can't use it to buy processed foods.
In the United States of America, food stamps (well, credit cards now) can be used to buy processed foods. It's too demeaning to have any proper controls and limit things to rice, flour, sugar, eggs, milk, etc. The big food manufacturers love it, the poor love it and changing it back to the basics (remember government cheese), will be next to impossible to do.
I've noticed that there is a correlation to the people who use food credit cards that they usually have two carts with free food and another with beer and yet more crap that isn't free. Usually they are in front of me in line and yes they are usually fat pushing obese.
I have three kids. I like the way Belgium does it better. The rich have always had a really good deal in the US, because taxes are based on non-investment income (why Warren Buffet still pays a lower percentage in taxes then his secretary). Now the poor also have a good deal. The middle class get jack all in this country. Poor kids get free breakfast and lunch and free after school programs (50$ for my kids). Poor families get free phones, free cable, free housing, free food, etc. But being poor is based on reported income. So there are literally millions in this country who get all the free stuff and can still drive around in a brand new mega truck cause they don't report their income.
More and more are gaming the system and for some getting on the government dole is the new American dream. And in instead of doing anything about this, the government keeps rolling out more and more programs for the fraudsters. I blame the baby boomers and their offspring, of which I am neither.
Let's go with the assumption posited so frequently by the press that Donald Trump called women Bimbos and Pigs. He never said 'All women are bimbos and pigs'. He said 'Rosie O'Donnel is a pig' and 'Megyn Kelly is a bimbo'. By this same logic, it could be said that Bill Clinton thinks all women want a cigar up their coochie, which explains a lot really.
Same thing with illegal immigrants. Trump never said 'All illegal immigrants are murderers, rapists and drug dealers'. Maybe that is what you heard, but in reality that is what he said Mexico is sending us. Along with some good people. There were good Nazis and good Communists and good Anarchists, Chumbawamba and Noam Chomsky I guess, but none of that matters. Being a nation of immigrants doesn't mean we have no system of immigration. We have had varying levels of control through out our history. Until now, where there is a system that is being completely ignored and subverted by Presidential decree.
The H1B stuff is more of the same. There is direct evidence of companies violating key provisions and except for social media and the press, not much is being done.
If nothing else, Trump running means the Democrats and about 1/2 the Republicans will never again be able to offer amnesty for a promise to build the wall. That ship has sailed.
Exxon looked at the data and came to the right conclusion. Gasoline produces a miniscule amount of the human contribution and stopping its use would be more catastrophic than stopping it. Might as well float that rumor of a car that runs on tap water while you are at it.
Cars and trucks produce a miniscule amount of the human contribution to CO2 and cumulatively less then insects produce yearly.
The only thing that will end this debate is if the James Hansons of the World look at the data objectively and stop making ridiculous statements. Of course he believes global warming will be more sudden and worse then predicted because if it doesn't start doing that soon he's going to look really stupid. He predicted parts of New York would be permanently underwater in his lifetime.
Anywhile, CO2 has a lower half life, lots of plants to sink into and effects that are logarithmic. Like most debates, I always end up on the 'wrong' side. I see all of the activists flying all over the world for their cause and wonder if they could ever give up that lifestyle. They are almost rock stars. I know when working for Darpa, the conventions were awesome and the company paid for it all. Not glamorous but still pretty sweet.
Let them bask in the warming glow of the fading El Nino. The Earth abides and that should give all of us comfort.
And the Danish cartoons and the cartoons drawn in Garland.
You can call me Islamaphobic, but that doesn't mean there aren't muslims willing to kill me over a cartoon.
It would be nice if we stopped painting entire organizations, professions, states and countries every time a story like this comes out. In the discussion of this story, the role call of villains includes the USA or 'murica, Texas, the city of Irving, Republicans, Teachers, Police and most of all White People. At most there was a handful of people involved and a free press with an activist citizenry turned the whole thing around.
This kid has gone from oppressed to a likely poster child in about 6 hours. Good for him. I hope he makes the most of this opportunity.
As far as politics is concerned, it is just as likely that a cop and a teacher are registered Democrat as Republican. They both belong to a union, not that there is anything wrong with that. As far as immigration is concerned, I don't see how this applies. Republicans want technical people to legally immigrate and immigrants in general to not burden our welfare system or behave criminally.
Dictionary would come in handy, I'm thinking.
Other words you might want to look up:
Logarithmic
Inter-Glacial
Ice Age
"Even if you ignore the facts. Ask anyone over the age of 40 about the heat this summer."
Pretty mild summer here. I heard it is hot in Mumbai.
Slashdot editors, not so much. Still, the linked article is an interesting read.
About 1/3 of all CO2 produced by humans in all of history has occurred in the last 18 years and yet there is no statistical warming during that time. CO2 is logarithmically challenged, as discovered by Arrehnius, the demi-god of the AGW movement who first proposed that CO2 is a greenhouse gas. It's funny that the AGW crowd only ever cites his first paper on the subject and its ridiculous sensitivity. It is tragic that after all these years of doom and gloom from the AGW crowd that they are finally bringing down that sensitivity to the levels that Arrehnius determined in his follow up work.
Most so-called deniers only deny that there is a run-away effect, that all feedbacks are positive, that you can retroactively alter the temperature records to compensate for time of day and siting issues, that you can splice one proxy temperature record with another and put it on the cover of an official IPCC document and that you can continue to cite models and studies based on those models when CO2 is following the worst case scenario and the actual temperature is below the best case scenario.
Finally, quoting the 97% consensus is just plain stupid. It's either made up from whole cloth or based on a severely flawed study. You can't scream anti-science at people and ignore the mountains of bad science published in the name of AGW every year.
Mars is a great big, dry gravity well. We as a species are better off learning how to live in space. There are more resources between the Earth and Jupiter then we have access too currently.
Even with advanced propulsion, humans will have to learn to live in space. We are a long way from colonizing mars, it's such a pipe dream.
If there is a fire in a crowded theatre, you should yell "Fire!". That is why all of these people speaking out against the 'Draw Mohammed' contests as shouting fire in a crowded theatre are wrong. Radical Islamists, including those that would kill to prevent or avenge cartoons of their prophet, is a real issue, as proven in Garland, Texas.
Some teachers unions have negotiated that a first offence is not fireable. There are 100s of teachers in the LA school district who are on the payroll but are not allowed to teach. Some for drug crimes, some for sex crimes.