Except when it killed off 95+% of marine species during the "great dying". Life can adapt to a wide range of environmental extremes, what it cannot do so well is keep up with a rapidly changing environment, it retreats with mass extinctions but eventually adapts to the new environment over millions of years. Geologically speaking there is little difference between the speed of an asteroid strike and the speed at which humans are changing the planet's oceans, atmosphere, and land surface.
Are you suggesting that agricultural lobby groups should be displeased by higher food prices? If you want to know here these groups focus their "mitigation efforts" try looking at government drought relief packages for commercial farmers.
One of the things that came out of the diplomatic cable leaks was the concern diplomats had for the mass migration the 2009-10 drought was causing, 10% of Syria's population simply abandoned the rural area due to lack of water and sought refuge in the cities. One US diplomat even correctly identified where the social strain would reach flashpoint. The fact there was an unprecedented regional drought with widespread food riots just prior to the "Arab spring" seems to have escaped people notice. The obvious cause-effect link between food shortages, internal displacement, and civil unrest seems to be lost in the noise of a bitter civil war and tens (if not hundreds) of millions of disillusioned revolutionaries now enduring the "Arab summer".
Sure it's silly to blame an historic drought and subsequent civil unrest on AGW alone, the point is not that "AGW caused the civil war or toppled Mubarak", the point is that such "dustbowl" scenarios are much more likely to occur with AGW than without it. The issue of "climate refugees" is why for almost a decade now the pentagon has put AGW at the top of it's medium term future threat list.
I call it a report written by climatologists. You know, SCIENTISTS...
This is the WG2 "summary for policy-makers" report. It is based on the WG1 scientific report, unlike the scientific report the summary is also reviewed, edited, and signed off, by the 195 governments who participate in the IPCC. When taken as a whole I can not think of any other formal review process that comes close to the scale and accuracy of the IPCC.
This is the same kind of report that made the infamous 2035 error about glaciers, however in 20+yrs nobody has spotted an error in the WG1 scientific reports. Given the scale and controversy involved that is strong evidence of an extraordinary robust process. Yet they still took the glacier error seriously enough to tighten up the process even further
With a budget of US$5-6 million per year split between 195 countries, the IPCC is a bargain. One of the main reasons it is so cheap is that the authors are not paid a dime, the budget pays for conference facilities, air fares, and a handful of full time admin staff. Detailed financial accounts are publicly available on the IPCC web site. Pity we don't get to see the accounts of the paid character assassins who attack it.
Yep, the devil is in the details and when I look at things like the (democratically mandated) gulags my government is running for "boat people", this issue amounts to naught but a trivial distraction.
I mean, every human on earth already carries a device that records everything they see and hear for later review anyway.
I'm in my 50's, I haven't owned a mobile phone for well over 5yrs now, does that mean I'm not human? Wasn't deliberate, the old phone died and I simply said to myself I will get another one when I figure out why I wanted one in the first place...
You will not develop the capacity to police yourselves. That is for the state.
We developed the capacity to police ourselves a long time ago, the tool we use for that is called the rule of law, it's enforced by courts and (wait for it...) the police. If you have a better idea I assure you I and many others are all ears, but the naïve notion that people will nice to each other if "government just gets out of the way" was disproven with every one of the thousands of hippie communes that started and failed in my youth during the late 60's early seventies. It was said to be the largest US internal migration since the civil war, most communes lasted less than two years the main problem being that since politics was taboo, verbal and physical bullying won the day and the group disintegrated, often leaving the bully with a nice piece of real estate and the "quitters" with nothing.
I find it ironic (and endlessly amusing) that the flower power people and the hard core libertarians suffer from the same naïve delusion that people will nice to each other if "government just gets out of the way". Anthropology and even the most tenuous grasp of history says that given the opportunity we won't "just all get along". Without enforceable laws (democratic or otherwise) society would simply not exist beyond the basic extended family tribe, almost by definition "civilization" would be impossible.
Throwing out "the state" is the easy bit, the real problem has always been and will always be - then what, Napoleon, Mugabe? - We already know anarchy does not work, if it did we wouldn't be "trapped" within our respective democratic nation sates at this point in our evolution, right?
They can print using many different materials including metals but your point is still valid, they're not practical for things that are already being mass produced. They are a practical alternative for replicating "out of production" parts. I don't see them in every home any day soon but I can see that hardware stores may start offering cheap replication services, drop off your broken oddball part today and pick up a new one tomorrow.
Also there are still plenty of materials with properties that you simply can't print, eg: an ordinary mechanic's spanner is a very simple one material design that can easily be printed however a printed spanner will never have the tensile strength of a traditional drop forged spanner.
This one is real justice, particularly if they have to foot the bill for the regular audits, something they should have been doing in the first place. Just because a PHB makes the moronic decision to "bend the truth" does not mean everyone else in the company should suffer a loss of employment.
PHB - Actually it sounds more like a geek "technical argument" to me - "Supports SSL" is open to creative interpretation when a deadline is looming.
Incidentally Microsoft include a disclaimer on third party stuff that goes something like. "...supports Berkley Sockets, for the parts of Berkley Sockets that are implemented". Which is a weasel's way of saying "not be fully implemented".
Your brain matter has the same consistency as a bowl of fruit jelly, it barely supports its own weight and would certainly spatter if it fell from your head to the ground. A non-penetrating brain injury such as concussion is where your skull stops suddenly and the jelly inside of it squishes up on one side, it's the jelly's own kinetic energy that does the damage. If you want a car analogy it's the car drivers own kinetic energy that "throws" him through the windscreen when his car abruptly loses all of its kinetic energy.
"Waaaaaa, someone else might benifit if I pool my resouces with them!" - This ignorant, greedy, selfish, and ultimately self-defeating, worldview is the reason why UHC will never work in the US, it's also the reason why private insurance costs so much in the US. Lots of luck finding a private insurance company that will give you a discount after you have given them a pile of extra work adding/removing individual clauses from a boiler plate contract that are clearly irrelevant to you personally.
Don't know about the US but here in my 1970's HS in Oz all the boys had to line up for hair inspections every few months. The headmaster would walk behind you and if your hair was anywhere near your collar he would draw a line on the back of your neck with a black marker pen and send you to the barber.
Why were there so many ancient "Romans"? - They didn't all come from Rome, they just called themselves Roman citizens in order to qualify for free bread from the empire (to the tune of 30kg/month in grain). Once the Roman army had basically conquered the known world and pillaged it's crops, the bread stopped being "free" and the empire disintegrated.
Flying on an passenger jet is statistically very safe because of the enormous effort the international community puts into investigating the cause the crashes that do occur then enforcing strict procedural regimes to avoid the same thing occurring again. It makes perfect sense to throw everything available at the search until the batteries run out on the acoustic pinger, not only for the bereaved but for the millions of passengers boarding a jet five years from now.
As developer who has been involved with hiring quite a few other developers over the years I have to ask - Do you really want to interview a corporate plumber who is so inept at navigating corporate departments that he can not find his way to your office via the HR department? Someone who has failed the "creativity test" of matching the laundry list of technologies in a job advert? Do you want to hand hold a "delicate genius" every time they have to navigate mundane corporate bureaucracy?
BTW: The "laundry lists" are normally supplied by the project manager, HR have no idea what they mean. HR's only rational course of action is to treat them all as equally important.
The Sahara was once like the congo, it dried out due to geologic changes that saw rain water drain to the east of N. Africa where it had previously drained to the west. The same gelogic movements created the Nile river ~12ky ago.
Mendel also cheated, just dumb luck that he had the right answer to start with. It's no surprise that people don't remember Newton because he was a prolific theologian, they remember him for telescopes, gravity, calculus, and giving the world Pink Floyd's DSOTM album cover.
High precision timers are everywhere these days, for example the raw windows performance counters are expressed in units of 100 nanoseconds (10^-7 seconds). Coincidently GPS uses a 50 nanosecond clock tick, which is only twice as fast as what your PC is doing right now.
In case you are wondering, light travels about 15 meters in 50 nanoseconds, the accuracy of GPS is improved to better than 15 meters by using multiple satellites and a bit more math.
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"waves measuring almost 2 meters (6 1/2 feet) struck ahead of a tsunami that was expected to come ashore later"
Except when it killed off 95+% of marine species during the "great dying". Life can adapt to a wide range of environmental extremes, what it cannot do so well is keep up with a rapidly changing environment, it retreats with mass extinctions but eventually adapts to the new environment over millions of years. Geologically speaking there is little difference between the speed of an asteroid strike and the speed at which humans are changing the planet's oceans, atmosphere, and land surface.
Are you suggesting that agricultural lobby groups should be displeased by higher food prices? If you want to know here these groups focus their "mitigation efforts" try looking at government drought relief packages for commercial farmers.
One of the things that came out of the diplomatic cable leaks was the concern diplomats had for the mass migration the 2009-10 drought was causing, 10% of Syria's population simply abandoned the rural area due to lack of water and sought refuge in the cities. One US diplomat even correctly identified where the social strain would reach flashpoint. The fact there was an unprecedented regional drought with widespread food riots just prior to the "Arab spring" seems to have escaped people notice. The obvious cause-effect link between food shortages, internal displacement, and civil unrest seems to be lost in the noise of a bitter civil war and tens (if not hundreds) of millions of disillusioned revolutionaries now enduring the "Arab summer".
Sure it's silly to blame an historic drought and subsequent civil unrest on AGW alone, the point is not that "AGW caused the civil war or toppled Mubarak", the point is that such "dustbowl" scenarios are much more likely to occur with AGW than without it. The issue of "climate refugees" is why for almost a decade now the pentagon has put AGW at the top of it's medium term future threat list.
I call it a report written by climatologists. You know, SCIENTISTS...
This is the WG2 "summary for policy-makers" report. It is based on the WG1 scientific report, unlike the scientific report the summary is also reviewed, edited, and signed off, by the 195 governments who participate in the IPCC. When taken as a whole I can not think of any other formal review process that comes close to the scale and accuracy of the IPCC.
This is the same kind of report that made the infamous 2035 error about glaciers, however in 20+yrs nobody has spotted an error in the WG1 scientific reports. Given the scale and controversy involved that is strong evidence of an extraordinary robust process. Yet they still took the glacier error seriously enough to tighten up the process even further
With a budget of US$5-6 million per year split between 195 countries, the IPCC is a bargain. One of the main reasons it is so cheap is that the authors are not paid a dime, the budget pays for conference facilities, air fares, and a handful of full time admin staff. Detailed financial accounts are publicly available on the IPCC web site. Pity we don't get to see the accounts of the paid character assassins who attack it.
I mean, every human on earth already carries a device that records everything they see and hear for later review anyway.
I'm in my 50's, I haven't owned a mobile phone for well over 5yrs now, does that mean I'm not human? Wasn't deliberate, the old phone died and I simply said to myself I will get another one when I figure out why I wanted one in the first place...
You will not develop the capacity to police yourselves. That is for the state.
We developed the capacity to police ourselves a long time ago, the tool we use for that is called the rule of law, it's enforced by courts and (wait for it...) the police. If you have a better idea I assure you I and many others are all ears, but the naïve notion that people will nice to each other if "government just gets out of the way" was disproven with every one of the thousands of hippie communes that started and failed in my youth during the late 60's early seventies. It was said to be the largest US internal migration since the civil war, most communes lasted less than two years the main problem being that since politics was taboo, verbal and physical bullying won the day and the group disintegrated, often leaving the bully with a nice piece of real estate and the "quitters" with nothing.
I find it ironic (and endlessly amusing) that the flower power people and the hard core libertarians suffer from the same naïve delusion that people will nice to each other if "government just gets out of the way". Anthropology and even the most tenuous grasp of history says that given the opportunity we won't "just all get along". Without enforceable laws (democratic or otherwise) society would simply not exist beyond the basic extended family tribe, almost by definition "civilization" would be impossible.
Throwing out "the state" is the easy bit, the real problem has always been and will always be - then what, Napoleon, Mugabe? - We already know anarchy does not work, if it did we wouldn't be "trapped" within our respective democratic nation sates at this point in our evolution, right?
They can print using many different materials including metals but your point is still valid, they're not practical for things that are already being mass produced. They are a practical alternative for replicating "out of production" parts. I don't see them in every home any day soon but I can see that hardware stores may start offering cheap replication services, drop off your broken oddball part today and pick up a new one tomorrow.
Also there are still plenty of materials with properties that you simply can't print, eg: an ordinary mechanic's spanner is a very simple one material design that can easily be printed however a printed spanner will never have the tensile strength of a traditional drop forged spanner.
This one is real justice, particularly if they have to foot the bill for the regular audits, something they should have been doing in the first place. Just because a PHB makes the moronic decision to "bend the truth" does not mean everyone else in the company should suffer a loss of employment.
PHB - Actually it sounds more like a geek "technical argument" to me - "Supports SSL" is open to creative interpretation when a deadline is looming.
Incidentally Microsoft include a disclaimer on third party stuff that goes something like. "...supports Berkley Sockets, for the parts of Berkley Sockets that are implemented". Which is a weasel's way of saying "not be fully implemented".
Far too many people confuse rights with abilities, unfortunately some of these people end up in parliament/congress.
Your brain matter has the same consistency as a bowl of fruit jelly, it barely supports its own weight and would certainly spatter if it fell from your head to the ground. A non-penetrating brain injury such as concussion is where your skull stops suddenly and the jelly inside of it squishes up on one side, it's the jelly's own kinetic energy that does the damage. If you want a car analogy it's the car drivers own kinetic energy that "throws" him through the windscreen when his car abruptly loses all of its kinetic energy.
"Waaaaaa, someone else might benifit if I pool my resouces with them!" - This ignorant, greedy, selfish, and ultimately self-defeating, worldview is the reason why UHC will never work in the US, it's also the reason why private insurance costs so much in the US. Lots of luck finding a private insurance company that will give you a discount after you have given them a pile of extra work adding/removing individual clauses from a boiler plate contract that are clearly irrelevant to you personally.
Don't know about the US but here in my 1970's HS in Oz all the boys had to line up for hair inspections every few months. The headmaster would walk behind you and if your hair was anywhere near your collar he would draw a line on the back of your neck with a black marker pen and send you to the barber.
An Italian can swear at you in Italian all day and never repeat himself.
Why were there so many ancient "Romans"? - They didn't all come from Rome, they just called themselves Roman citizens in order to qualify for free bread from the empire (to the tune of 30kg/month in grain). Once the Roman army had basically conquered the known world and pillaged it's crops, the bread stopped being "free" and the empire disintegrated.
Flying on an passenger jet is statistically very safe because of the enormous effort the international community puts into investigating the cause the crashes that do occur then enforcing strict procedural regimes to avoid the same thing occurring again. It makes perfect sense to throw everything available at the search until the batteries run out on the acoustic pinger, not only for the bereaved but for the millions of passengers boarding a jet five years from now.
True Malaysia has a large population of ethic Chinese, but let's not forget that 250 of the passengers were Chinese nationals.
As developer who has been involved with hiring quite a few other developers over the years I have to ask - Do you really want to interview a corporate plumber who is so inept at navigating corporate departments that he can not find his way to your office via the HR department? Someone who has failed the "creativity test" of matching the laundry list of technologies in a job advert? Do you want to hand hold a "delicate genius" every time they have to navigate mundane corporate bureaucracy?
BTW: The "laundry lists" are normally supplied by the project manager, HR have no idea what they mean. HR's only rational course of action is to treat them all as equally important.
The Sahara was once like the congo, it dried out due to geologic changes that saw rain water drain to the east of N. Africa where it had previously drained to the west. The same gelogic movements created the Nile river ~12ky ago.
Now the question becomes, how do we get rid of it without the loss of millions of lives?
Here's a revolutionary idea - pay the fucking speeding fine.
Mendel also cheated, just dumb luck that he had the right answer to start with. It's no surprise that people don't remember Newton because he was a prolific theologian, they remember him for telescopes, gravity, calculus, and giving the world Pink Floyd's DSOTM album cover.
A landlord can go into your apartment without your permission also.
What third world hell hole do you live in that still allows that sort of crap? Surely a man's home is still his castle in the US?
Yes, that plus the fact a private individual or company will not be given a search warrant for anything.
Merchants of Doubt and Sagan's Demon Hunted World should both be standard HS Science textbooks.
ping timing would be too small to measure
High precision timers are everywhere these days, for example the raw windows performance counters are expressed in units of 100 nanoseconds (10^-7 seconds). Coincidently GPS uses a 50 nanosecond clock tick, which is only twice as fast as what your PC is doing right now. In case you are wondering, light travels about 15 meters in 50 nanoseconds, the accuracy of GPS is improved to better than 15 meters by using multiple satellites and a bit more math.