That $90 million figure is complete BS. It's the budget of the entire Sierra Club Foundation, which funds the Sierra Club's outreach and legal work. It does not fund any basic climate research.
That figure seems to be repeated by climate conspiracy theorist senator James Inhofe (R-OK) here.
Sorry, there's no substitute for political action. We're not going to stop the Iraq war by not buying gas, and we're not going to stop climate change by buying hybrids.
It's because Carl Bialik is the new Roland Piquepaille. He submits a million articles, and they all get posted. Which is not to say he's the new Beatles-Beatles.
Climate models are not the same as ice sheet models. They work on different spatial scales (climate models: world, ice sheet model: Antarctica/Greenland) and different time scales. In an ideal world they would both work perfectly, but sorry, you can't just make science work like that.
If you bothered to do a bit of cursory research into climate change (like seeing Al Gore's movie), you would learn that while climate models have been shockingly accurate, ice sheet models are poor for specific and challenging reasons, like nonlinear feedbacks from ice sheet reflectance, meltwater-induced ice slippage, etc. Current ice sheet models are a very conservative estimate of the potential damage from global warming.
When they're covered by permanent icepack, they're invisible from space (at least with visible light wavelengths).
There was an article a while back about explorers wading through slush to find the northernmost landmass in the world (an islet off the north coast of Greenland). He had to actually travel to the spot to be certain.
However, the Navy probably has some seafloor maps that would tell you where to look...
The problem right now is there is no central authority for validating documents.
If you think about it, the Federal government could set an authority up easily, in a matter of months (they already have the taxpayer data). They haven't, because the current rules benefit Republican-friendly corporations, who have all the cheap illegal labor they could possibly want but no legal liability.
The administration puts on theatrical raids (like the ones currently in the news) to please the anti-immigrant Right. However, they have no appreciable effect on the market for illegal labor. (Nor are they intended to.)
I haven't heard the Democrats proposing anything like worker verification, but if they did, it would be interesting to hear Bush try to explain his veto.
Wow. You've identified the important issue, but astonishingly, you've gotten it exactly backwards. That's quite unusual, congratulations.
Go take a two second look at the two volume IPCC report, which represents the international consensus of climatologists. The first volume addresses questions (1) and (2), and the second volume addresses (3) and (4).
The reason (3) and (4) aren't being asked in the media, is because the few denialists (most of whom have ties to, and sponsorship from, the oil industry -- but you know that already) have managed to stir up enough "controversy" to keep the idiot media focused on the settled question of whether global warming is occurring or not. Thus, the important questions about mitigation of its effects never get addressed.
William Gray is an emeritus professor, over 70, and more evidence that scientific ideas don't go away until their proponents do. He's seized on a particularly paranoid explanation for his scientific irrelevance.
He "concedes that he hasn't published [his theory of how thermohaline circulation has caused recent warming of the planet] in any peer-reviewed journal. He's working on it, he says."
The impression I get from RealClimate and the Washington Post is that Gray is not capable of doing numerical modeling, or even, necessarily, understanding the models which dominate the field.
About the only scientifically respectable semi-skeptic, Richard Lindzen, says of Gray: "His knowledge of theory is frustratingly poor, but he knows more about hurricanes than anyone in the world. I regard him in his own peculiar way as a national resource."
That's a very complimentary way of saying he should be put out to pasture.
You're right that "Separation of Powers" is a designed inefficiency in government.
But within each branch (except the judiciary, which is almost ridiculously lean -- workloads are astronomical) there's plenty of fat. During the Clinton years, Al Gore's "reinventing government" initiative cut the federal payroll by 330,000 positions (15.4%). Of course, Bush bulked it up again.
Malcolm "Steve" Forbes Jr. inherited his business and his wealth from his dad Malcolm Forbes. Even the "Capitalist Tool" slogan was his dad's.
Like W Bush, he had a 'successful' birth, didn't do much after that.
Mozilla already auto-closed inactive bugs a year ago.
The success of Firefox, compared to Netscape and Seamonkey, testifies in part to the fact that its developers know how to prioritize bugs.
Paleontologists will be fascinated to know that their fossil giant marine reptiles had breath weapons. (But not as surprised as marine biologists, since the proper translation is "whale".)
19 Firebrands stream from his mouth; sparks of fire shoot out.
20 Smoke pours from his nostrils as from a boiling pot over a fire of reeds.
21 His breath sets coals ablaze, and flames dart from his mouth.
I'm sure they'll be able to confirm this amazing prediction within hours once they put their minds to it. The Bible is such a rich source of zoological information. What would scientists do without it?
I do, as an alternative to supporting AT&T's illegal wiretapping and internet traffic monitoring.
They cost about $2 more a month for DSL + phone + long distance. The cost difference isn't really their fault, the FCC allowed AT&T and the phone monopolies to charge whatever they wanted for line access. But they make it up in other ways, like with 500 minutes of free long distance
Also, Earthlink's DSL service (provided by Covad) is faster than AT&T's was.
The reasonable tactic would have been to approach Target and offer to work with them to find a solution. Not only would it be cheaper for all sides in the short and long terms
"The NFB wrote to Target in May, asking it to make the site more accessible, according to the plaintiffs. Negotiations broke down in January, which led to the filing of the lawsuit, the organization said."
I know that bashing lawyers is instinctual for some people, but at least think first, OK?
Using public transit is a good thing, but it's not a realistic option for everyone (particularly celebrities, given how the rest of us react to them).
By going Carbon Neutral in his personal life and business ventures, Gore is personally doing as much to fight global warming as anyone can reasonably do. I'm not going to judge him based on whether he uses compact fluorescent bulbs in his laundry room.
It's dangerous trying to expand on comments from the Firefox devs (see Brett Wilson's comment) but it's never been the 'Firefox way' to offer every confusing user preference and compatibility option in a dialog.
Seamonkey (former Mozilla Suite) has different practices.
He was recording with electrodes from the visual cortex of monkeys under general anesthesia and subsequent paralysis. Although the monkeys are completely anesthetized and feel nothing, many visual areas of their brains are still active and can be studied.
The monkeys are housed in cages (of a government mandated size) for a short period, then anesthetized, then studied, then euthanized.
Typically dishonest, the animal terrorists fail to mention the anesthesia in their public communications.
Can someone explain to me why Acid 2 is important (or even relevant)?
As far as I can tell it's just a meaningless statistic. It reminds me of the processor clock speed wars. You don't buy a processor because it runs at 3.3 GHz as opposed to 1.9 GHz, you buy it because it's actually faster in real-world usage scenarios.
And in real-world web rendering tasks, Firefox is the best browser I've used.
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That figure seems to be repeated by climate conspiracy theorist senator James Inhofe (R-OK) here.
Sorry, there's no substitute for political action. We're not going to stop the Iraq war by not buying gas, and we're not going to stop climate change by buying hybrids.
Exxon has paid Milloy at least $100,000 (that we know of) to promote global warming denial. And probably several times that.
The topic of discussion is the corrupting effect of $10,000. How much more corruption do you think $1 million would buy?
Antarctic ice cores do, and you can see the ice ages in the linked charts.
It's because Carl Bialik is the new Roland Piquepaille. He submits a million articles, and they all get posted. Which is not to say he's the new Beatles-Beatles.
If you bothered to do a bit of cursory research into climate change (like seeing Al Gore's movie), you would learn that while climate models have been shockingly accurate, ice sheet models are poor for specific and challenging reasons, like nonlinear feedbacks from ice sheet reflectance, meltwater-induced ice slippage, etc. Current ice sheet models are a very conservative estimate of the potential damage from global warming.
There was an article a while back about explorers wading through slush to find the northernmost landmass in the world (an islet off the north coast of Greenland). He had to actually travel to the spot to be certain.
However, the Navy probably has some seafloor maps that would tell you where to look...
"You're very clever, young man, very clever," said the old lady. "But it's ducks all the way down!"
The problem right now is there is no central authority for validating documents.
If you think about it, the Federal government could set an authority up easily, in a matter of months (they already have the taxpayer data). They haven't, because the current rules benefit Republican-friendly corporations, who have all the cheap illegal labor they could possibly want but no legal liability.
The administration puts on theatrical raids (like the ones currently in the news) to please the anti-immigrant Right. However, they have no appreciable effect on the market for illegal labor. (Nor are they intended to.)
I haven't heard the Democrats proposing anything like worker verification, but if they did, it would be interesting to hear Bush try to explain his veto.
The systems in Jurassic Park (the book) were running on a 680x0 Mac. It was obvious from the dialog boxes and the font (Geneva, IIRC).
That Mac and the "Land Rovers" were placeholders indicating where the studio could negotiate sponsorship deals. (With SGI and Jeep, respectively).
Crichton's such a shill -- I hope the studio "forgot" to give him his cut.
Wow. You've identified the important issue, but astonishingly, you've gotten it exactly backwards. That's quite unusual, congratulations.
Go take a two second look at the two volume IPCC report, which represents the international consensus of climatologists. The first volume addresses questions (1) and (2), and the second volume addresses (3) and (4).
The reason (3) and (4) aren't being asked in the media, is because the few denialists (most of whom have ties to, and sponsorship from, the oil industry -- but you know that already) have managed to stir up enough "controversy" to keep the idiot media focused on the settled question of whether global warming is occurring or not. Thus, the important questions about mitigation of its effects never get addressed.
He "concedes that he hasn't published [his theory of how thermohaline circulation has caused recent warming of the planet] in any peer-reviewed journal. He's working on it, he says."
The impression I get from RealClimate and the Washington Post is that Gray is not capable of doing numerical modeling, or even, necessarily, understanding the models which dominate the field.
About the only scientifically respectable semi-skeptic, Richard Lindzen, says of Gray: "His knowledge of theory is frustratingly poor, but he knows more about hurricanes than anyone in the world. I regard him in his own peculiar way as a national resource."
That's a very complimentary way of saying he should be put out to pasture.
See the following articles:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/artic le/2006/05/23/AR2006052301305_pf.html
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2006 /04/gray-on-agw/
As always, I should mention that the National Federation for the Blind took $1 million from Diebold back in 2000 so that they could pretend they were being sympathetic to the disabled, while screwing the rest of us. Probably the best million Diebold ever spent.
But within each branch (except the judiciary, which is almost ridiculously lean -- workloads are astronomical) there's plenty of fat. During the Clinton years, Al Gore's "reinventing government" initiative cut the federal payroll by 330,000 positions (15.4%). Of course, Bush bulked it up again.
Malcolm "Steve" Forbes Jr. inherited his business and his wealth from his dad Malcolm Forbes. Even the "Capitalist Tool" slogan was his dad's.
Like W Bush, he had a 'successful' birth, didn't do much after that.
It would be too easy to mistake one brace for another, especially when there are several tags
I hack LISP, you insensitive clod!
Mozilla already auto-closed inactive bugs a year ago.
The success of Firefox, compared to Netscape and Seamonkey, testifies in part to the fact that its developers know how to prioritize bugs.
I do, as an alternative to supporting AT&T's illegal wiretapping and internet traffic monitoring.
They cost about $2 more a month for DSL + phone + long distance. The cost difference isn't really their fault, the FCC allowed AT&T and the phone monopolies to charge whatever they wanted for line access. But they make it up in other ways, like with 500 minutes of free long distance
Also, Earthlink's DSL service (provided by Covad) is faster than AT&T's was.
The reasonable tactic would have been to approach Target and offer to work with them to find a solution. Not only would it be cheaper for all sides in the short and long terms
They did. Target refused to make any reasonable effort to make their site accessible.
"The NFB wrote to Target in May, asking it to make the site more accessible, according to the plaintiffs. Negotiations broke down in January, which led to the filing of the lawsuit, the organization said."
I know that bashing lawyers is instinctual for some people, but at least think first, OK?
Both the movie and the book An Inconvenient Truth were carbon neutral (via purchase of wind power carbon credits from NativeEnergy). According to various interviews, Gore also has offset his personal carbon consumption.
Using public transit is a good thing, but it's not a realistic option for everyone (particularly celebrities, given how the rest of us react to them).
By going Carbon Neutral in his personal life and business ventures, Gore is personally doing as much to fight global warming as anyone can reasonably do. I'm not going to judge him based on whether he uses compact fluorescent bulbs in his laundry room.
Seamonkey (former Mozilla Suite) has different practices.
Because, you know, other sources of heat (e.g. gas or oil furnaces, log stoves) are much cheaper to operate than lightbulbs.
Electric lightbulbs are one of the least efficient ways you could possibly heat your home.
It would almost be cheaper to stay warm by burning the packaging they come in.
The monkeys are housed in cages (of a government mandated size) for a short period, then anesthetized, then studied, then euthanized.
Typically dishonest, the animal terrorists fail to mention the anesthesia in their public communications.
As far as I can tell it's just a meaningless statistic. It reminds me of the processor clock speed wars. You don't buy a processor because it runs at 3.3 GHz as opposed to 1.9 GHz, you buy it because it's actually faster in real-world usage scenarios.
And in real-world web rendering tasks, Firefox is the best browser I've used.