Nuclear and hydro are on-demand power generation technologies, solar and wind are as-available power generation technologies so they are more price sensitive.
You said "CO2 is a greenhouse gas, but its effect on temperature depends on poorly understood feedback effects."
CO2 is not the only greenhouse gas, but it's direct contribution to temperature rise is a direct result of principles taught in undergraduate physics and astronomy classes.
That there are other feedback effects is relevant to predicting with precision how the system as a whole will respond, but the gross signals of increased heat in the system (global average sea temperatures, sea level rise due to water temperature rise, sea level rise due to ice melt) are giving consistent results with global aggregate temperature increase.
But you are right, panic is an inappropriate response. Panic shuts down thought at a time when we would seem to need clear thinking to plan for what may be very serious dislocation of populations combined with changes in agricultural conditions.
It won't be "The Day After Tomorrow" with an immediate global catastrophe, it will be the death of a thousand pinpricks, until we stop feeling them anymore...
Heating of the atmosphere by direct solar irradiation is not the greenhouse effect, and as you note it should be neutral in impact due to the re-radiation of the heat to space.
Re-read the text you quoted, it says why your assertion is irrelevant.
Multistage configurations with nuclear rockets/ramjets are a waste of mass. Single stage configurations are lighter and an aerospike can be used as effectively as on a chemical rocket to provide high-efficiency altitude-adaptive exhaust channels.
As to "raining radiation", I have to inform you that it already is. Don't look up cosmic rays if you are prone to radiation fear.
Though free beer can enter into it if you know or are the right people.
We've had commercial software, with commercial support contracts to go along with them. I personally didn't get much sleep assurance from that. If something happens that requires a service call at 2:30 AM it doesn't matter if I'm fixing it myself or babysitting a vendor/contractor, I'm still up.
Have to find 12 veterans trained in both the law of the land and the law of war to do that.
Unfortunately, less than 10% of Americans serve in the armed forces. So you are right, good luck finding 12 of them and getting them together on one jury.
Of course it's only supported on laptops. Laptops are where there is a solid business case for the feature.
I'm sure it will show up on desktop systems when it becomes more expensive to not do it.
Ideology nothing.
Most Linux users will happily pay for software if it is better than what they can get for free.
This is sometimes true for games, less often for "productivity" software, and even less often for core components.
Besides, apart from those horribly addictive web games, consoles are simply better for gaming.
Well, just off the top of my head, four of those findings are false themselves.
The arctic sea ice hit a record minimum this fall, there are signs that the Northwest Passage will be open for shipping within a couple years at the current year-on-year melt rate.
The Greenland Ice sheet has likewise been melting at an accelerating rate. If nothing happens to reverse current trends we're looking at decades rather than centuries or millenia for it to melt.
Shifts in any of the Atlantic ocean currents can cause major climate change in Europe. It is not possible to predict *precisely* which changes *will* occur, but enough of the potential outcomes are problematic to the folks living there to warrant serious attention.
The 40 cm figure is the watered down version from the IPCC, it was the highest number that they could get through without any objections. In short: 40cm rise will happen, no matter what. 7m is well within the error bars given significant land-based ice pack melt which appears from the latest published data to be accelerating.
I haven't researched the rest yet, but there's almost half your case gone right there. Most of the rest are presentational problems, using illustrative events as proxies for predicted trends. This is an intrinsic problem whenever putting together a fixed presentation to explain a complicated issue to a lay audience. The vast majority of the people who will be watching the film don't have the background to understand thermohaline convection, black-body emission profiles, carbon cycle drivers, or any of a dozen other key elements necessary to realisticly begin to debate global warming theory in a rational manner.
Just because a judge can be convinced of something doesn't make it true. Just because they can't be convinced of it doesn't make it false. Physics doesn't care if you believe in it or not, it just keeps happening.
Thanks for the suggestion, but because it isn't the exact way I'd already decided upon, I'm going to discount it out of hand, despite any [performance|feature|flexibility] advantages I may get from checking it out.
Cygwin is MSWindows-Native implementations of a bunch of really handy Unix utilities, many of which predate Micro-Soft. These applications are frequently simpler (and almost always smaller) than the equivalent GUI-layer implementations of similar features, and having a GUI at all almost always prevents or makes more complicated the process of automating functionality (i.e. will it work if you aren't logged in?)
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To pull out an ancient quote:
Unix is user friendly, it's just picky about who it makes friends with.
I guess Linux just doesn't like you.
Nuclear and hydro are on-demand power generation technologies, solar and wind are as-available power generation technologies so they are more price sensitive.
You said "CO2 is a greenhouse gas, but its effect on temperature depends on poorly understood feedback effects."
CO2 is not the only greenhouse gas, but it's direct contribution to temperature rise is a direct result of principles taught in undergraduate physics and astronomy classes.
That there are other feedback effects is relevant to predicting with precision how the system as a whole will respond, but the gross signals of increased heat in the system (global average sea temperatures, sea level rise due to water temperature rise, sea level rise due to ice melt) are giving consistent results with global aggregate temperature increase.
But you are right, panic is an inappropriate response. Panic shuts down thought at a time when we would seem to need clear thinking to plan for what may be very serious dislocation of populations combined with changes in agricultural conditions.
It won't be "The Day After Tomorrow" with an immediate global catastrophe, it will be the death of a thousand pinpricks, until we stop feeling them anymore...
Heating of the atmosphere by direct solar irradiation is not the greenhouse effect, and as you note it should be neutral in impact due to the re-radiation of the heat to space.
Re-read the text you quoted, it says why your assertion is irrelevant.
The one that makes you comfortable.
But how much money does Exxon stand to gain by delaying things another year or two?
The businessmen will always find a way to make money, climate change scientists aren't likely to be getting rich by selling carbon credits.
No. Just no.
CO2 is transparent in visible light and opaque to infrared (heat) light.
When visible sunlight hits a material surface a portion of it is absorbed and converted to heat.
CO2 in the atmosphere doesn't let all of that heat re-radiate back out to space, resulting in a net energy gain for the systerm.
The more CO2 is in the atmosphere, the less heat can escape, and the warmer things get.
Just because you don't understand it doesn't mean that nobody else does.
Somebody needs to learn how to recognize patterns and outlyers.
The pattern of anti-AGW "research" is ignorant and/or dishonest.
A few dishonest scientists sexing-up their research to try to get more grant money doesn't invalidate the data collected by others.
Some religious movements stopped people from fornicating.
They died out...
Multistage configurations with nuclear rockets/ramjets are a waste of mass. Single stage configurations are lighter and an aerospike can be used as effectively as on a chemical rocket to provide high-efficiency altitude-adaptive exhaust channels.
As to "raining radiation", I have to inform you that it already is. Don't look up cosmic rays if you are prone to radiation fear.
Free speech, not free beer.
Though free beer can enter into it if you know or are the right people.
We've had commercial software, with commercial support contracts to go along with them. I personally didn't get much sleep assurance from that. If something happens that requires a service call at 2:30 AM it doesn't matter if I'm fixing it myself or babysitting a vendor/contractor, I'm still up.
Your contracted support organization. Typically Novell or Redhat.
You do have a support contract, don't you?
Asterisk works beautifully in either configuration.
I've run * with multiple PRI's, POTS, and VOIP, and it's all happy.
No service lasts forever, and this is why buying a product with a required on-line component is a bad idea.
How many times do people need to be taught this lesson before it sticks?
Have to find 12 veterans trained in both the law of the land and the law of war to do that. Unfortunately, less than 10% of Americans serve in the armed forces. So you are right, good luck finding 12 of them and getting them together on one jury.
That just adds to the list of people who need to be prosecuted.
Regardless of the extensions, 75 years is unlimited as far as I'm concerned.
People who worry about copyright piracy don't read.
Just ask Bernie Madoff. Or whichever alt he passed the money off to...
Of course it's only supported on laptops. Laptops are where there is a solid business case for the feature. I'm sure it will show up on desktop systems when it becomes more expensive to not do it.
Besides, apart from those horribly addictive web games, consoles are simply better for gaming.
We've optimized Uranus!
The arctic sea ice hit a record minimum this fall, there are signs that the Northwest Passage will be open for shipping within a couple years at the current year-on-year melt rate.
The Greenland Ice sheet has likewise been melting at an accelerating rate. If nothing happens to reverse current trends we're looking at decades rather than centuries or millenia for it to melt.
Shifts in any of the Atlantic ocean currents can cause major climate change in Europe. It is not possible to predict *precisely* which changes *will* occur, but enough of the potential outcomes are problematic to the folks living there to warrant serious attention.
The 40 cm figure is the watered down version from the IPCC, it was the highest number that they could get through without any objections. In short: 40cm rise will happen, no matter what. 7m is well within the error bars given significant land-based ice pack melt which appears from the latest published data to be accelerating.
I haven't researched the rest yet, but there's almost half your case gone right there. Most of the rest are presentational problems, using illustrative events as proxies for predicted trends. This is an intrinsic problem whenever putting together a fixed presentation to explain a complicated issue to a lay audience. The vast majority of the people who will be watching the film don't have the background to understand thermohaline convection, black-body emission profiles, carbon cycle drivers, or any of a dozen other key elements necessary to realisticly begin to debate global warming theory in a rational manner.
Just because a judge can be convinced of something doesn't make it true. Just because they can't be convinced of it doesn't make it false. Physics doesn't care if you believe in it or not, it just keeps happening.
Thanks for the suggestion, but because it isn't the exact way I'd already decided upon, I'm going to discount it out of hand, despite any [performance|feature|flexibility] advantages I may get from checking it out. Cygwin is MSWindows-Native implementations of a bunch of really handy Unix utilities, many of which predate Micro-Soft. These applications are frequently simpler (and almost always smaller) than the equivalent GUI-layer implementations of similar features, and having a GUI at all almost always prevents or makes more complicated the process of automating functionality (i.e. will it work if you aren't logged in?)