Banning plastic carrier bags, putting up a few wind turbines or raising the tax on X won't do anything.
You are correct. That is why we're setting new efficiency standards on everything from light bulbs to cars to home appliances and even entire buildings. We're also working on setting a cap on the amount of carbon dioxide industry can emit. We also need to look at many different alternative energy sources, including nuclear, solar power, and biofuels.
We've known that the Arctic ice has been melting for quite some time. Not only is the surface area of the ice decreasing, but the total volume of Arctic ice is also decreasing. In a few decades, the Arctic might be completely ice free during the summer.
If anyone, including noted scientists, say anything remotely the opposite of the climate change cabal, they are run out of town, belitted by their peers. They have their jobs & credentials taken away.
So Senator Inhofe, John Cristy, Richard Lindzen, and Peter Taylor have been run out of town and have lost their jobs and credentials? Maybe you should call them up and tell them. I'm sure they have no idea!
Agreed. Exactly how nuclear reactors operate makes a big difference, though. If we do not use breeder reactors and build lots of new nuclear power plants, our nuclear fuel might last only a few decades and will generate lots of radioactive waste. Breeder reactors would be able to use most of that waste as fuel, allowing the fuel to last hundreds of years with a fraction of the waste generated.
The use of IE8 is increasing mainly at the expense of IE7 use. IE6 remains in use at companies with older versions of Windows or where they have intranet applications that require IE6.
I have never understood why people make such a big deal over Firefox startup times. It's a few seconds. On my two-year-old laptop, Firefox 3.5.1 starts in two seconds. Granted, Chrome starts in less than one second, but in absolute difference it's about a second.
My point is that we need to get past the incessant denial of basic reality, such as continuing to try to claim that the warming is not happening or is not manmade, before we can confront what to do about the problem. In any case, there seems to be widespread agreement that a rise in temperatures of more than a few degrees Celsius will cause serious problems. That's why we're trying to keep the rise in temperature to no more than 2 degrees Celsius.
A report on Antarctic ice from this year concludes that "On average, west Antarctica is losing more ice than the east is gaining." To see the effects of global warming most clearly, you should look to the Arctic, where the warming is expected to be greatest. Climate models predict that that the temperatures in the Antarctic will change little due to the deep ocean currents there. It's no coincidence that we see exactly this predicted pattern of warming.
If the world has been cooling for the last ten years, someone should tell all that Arctic ice to stop melting. Hey, get with the program Arctic ice! Cooling, I tell you! Cooling!1!
The Haber process combines hydrogen and nitrogen in the presence of a catalyst and high temperatures and pressures to make ammonia. The Haber process does not use fossil fuels. You can use fossil fuels to obtain the hydrogen used in the process, and use fossil fuels to generate the energy used in the process, but fossil fuels really aren't a part of the Haber process itself. You can also used fossil fuels to power the machinery used to harvest and deliver the food. But still the carbon in the food came from the atmosphere. Exhaling therefore cannot increase the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
Fertilizer contains nitrogen, phosphorus,and potassium. Not carbon. The carbon in plants comes from carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. You know, photosynthesis.
The problem with cars running on gasoline is that the carbon in the carbon dioxide they emit used to be stored deep underground. Once it is emitted into the atmosphere as carbon dioxide, about half of it will remain for hundreds of years, thus increasing the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
This is as opposed to the carbon in the carbon dioxide you exhale, which came from plants. The plants got the carbon from carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Thus, exhaling carbon dioxide does not cause a increase in the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
Firefox generally uses less memory than other browsers. I do hope Opera is paying you to promote their browser. Do you have a big red "O" on your shirt, too?
How new does the book need to be for the language standard when it hasn't changed much in 2 decades? It's a simple, easy to use tool for serious engineering.
Actually, Fortran has changed quite a bit in the last two decades. The Fortran 90, Fortran 95, and Fortran 2003 standards have come out during that time. They added quite a number of major features, such as free-form source code, recursive procedures, operator overloading, dynamic memory allocation, and object-oriented programming. The Fortran of 2009 is not like the Fortran of 1989 at all.
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You are correct. That is why we're setting new efficiency standards on everything from light bulbs to cars to home appliances and even entire buildings. We're also working on setting a cap on the amount of carbon dioxide industry can emit. We also need to look at many different alternative energy sources, including nuclear, solar power, and biofuels.
We've known that the Arctic ice has been melting for quite some time. Not only is the surface area of the ice decreasing, but the total volume of Arctic ice is also decreasing. In a few decades, the Arctic might be completely ice free during the summer.
So Senator Inhofe, John Cristy, Richard Lindzen, and Peter Taylor have been run out of town and have lost their jobs and credentials? Maybe you should call them up and tell them. I'm sure they have no idea!
Agreed. Exactly how nuclear reactors operate makes a big difference, though. If we do not use breeder reactors and build lots of new nuclear power plants, our nuclear fuel might last only a few decades and will generate lots of radioactive waste. Breeder reactors would be able to use most of that waste as fuel, allowing the fuel to last hundreds of years with a fraction of the waste generated.
The use of IE8 is increasing mainly at the expense of IE7 use. IE6 remains in use at companies with older versions of Windows or where they have intranet applications that require IE6.
I was responding to "it still takes 5x Chrome's startup time with the fix."
I have never understood why people make such a big deal over Firefox startup times. It's a few seconds. On my two-year-old laptop, Firefox 3.5.1 starts in two seconds. Granted, Chrome starts in less than one second, but in absolute difference it's about a second.
It's already patched, and there are test builds of Firefox 3.5.1 available.
They mean that they publicly released the example exploit code. Of course they coded the vulnerability!
You mean that you actually want example exploit code to be available to everyone? Why?
How about PuTTY for ssh and FileZilla for sftp? They're both open source.
My point is that we need to get past the incessant denial of basic reality, such as continuing to try to claim that the warming is not happening or is not manmade, before we can confront what to do about the problem. In any case, there seems to be widespread agreement that a rise in temperatures of more than a few degrees Celsius will cause serious problems. That's why we're trying to keep the rise in temperature to no more than 2 degrees Celsius.
A report on Antarctic ice from this year concludes that "On average, west Antarctica is losing more ice than the east is gaining." To see the effects of global warming most clearly, you should look to the Arctic, where the warming is expected to be greatest. Climate models predict that that the temperatures in the Antarctic will change little due to the deep ocean currents there. It's no coincidence that we see exactly this predicted pattern of warming.
If the world has been cooling for the last ten years, someone should tell all that Arctic ice to stop melting. Hey, get with the program Arctic ice! Cooling, I tell you! Cooling!1!
The Haber process combines hydrogen and nitrogen in the presence of a catalyst and high temperatures and pressures to make ammonia. The Haber process does not use fossil fuels. You can use fossil fuels to obtain the hydrogen used in the process, and use fossil fuels to generate the energy used in the process, but fossil fuels really aren't a part of the Haber process itself. You can also used fossil fuels to power the machinery used to harvest and deliver the food. But still the carbon in the food came from the atmosphere. Exhaling therefore cannot increase the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
Fertilizer contains nitrogen, phosphorus,and potassium. Not carbon. The carbon in plants comes from carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. You know, photosynthesis.
The problem with cars running on gasoline is that the carbon in the carbon dioxide they emit used to be stored deep underground. Once it is emitted into the atmosphere as carbon dioxide, about half of it will remain for hundreds of years, thus increasing the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
This is as opposed to the carbon in the carbon dioxide you exhale, which came from plants. The plants got the carbon from carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Thus, exhaling carbon dioxide does not cause a increase in the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
The carbon cycle... learn it, live it, love it!
Those that don't understand the carbon cycle are doomed to... uh... make stupid comments about global warming, I guess.
A quick Internet search revealed that up to one-third of electricity use in the U.S. is for lighting. The current administration is also ordering the DoE to require many household appliances to be more energy efficient. The fine-tuning is happening. It will just take a while to get over the foot-dragging that characterized the Bush administration.
Firefox generally uses less memory than other browsers. I do hope Opera is paying you to promote their browser. Do you have a big red "O" on your shirt, too?
Can you say "huge honking security hole"?
Actually, Fortran has changed quite a bit in the last two decades. The Fortran 90, Fortran 95, and Fortran 2003 standards have come out during that time. They added quite a number of major features, such as free-form source code, recursive procedures, operator overloading, dynamic memory allocation, and object-oriented programming. The Fortran of 2009 is not like the Fortran of 1989 at all.
Yes, IE8 has great support for CSS 2.1.
Now Microsoft needs to work on supporting JavaScript well. And the DOM. Oh, and XML. Oh, yeah, there's SVG. And HTML5...
You do know that General Motors does not have a monopoly on cars, don't you?