Your questions are talking points from global warming deniers and they have long since been answered.
It's interesting that you criticize the poster for asking these questions and describe them as long-ago debunked. But then in your answers, you respond with "Who knows exactly why" or "See #3" (which says "Who knows exactly why") or "there are a variety of factors to consider." You even say "Admittedly, that's a correlation, not a proof of causation, but is reason for concern."
Then, having not sufficiently answered a single question, you have the gall to end with:
But it gets tiresome to listen to global warming skeptics, as opposed to skeptical scientists, most of whom know better than to bring up these long resolved questions, bring up the same fallacies time after time.
You yourself were unable to answer these supposedly long-resolved fallaces, so perhaps these questions are more challenging to your premise than you're willing to admit, which makes them worth repeating in discussions such as these.
At least the global warming skeptics have become "global warming is man made"-skeptics. During the 90ies, the dispute was about weither there actually was any warming going on at all.
Well, when the global temperature record shows no rise in temperatures since 1999, and New York is under inches of snow, and we had the least inactive storm season in 10 years despite dire predictions to the contrary, one tends to grow skeptical of alarmist claims of global warming.
Running around as if the sky is falling and having people dictate to us how to live our lives like holier-than-thou priests because we can't take care of ourselves is not living. It's the opposite of living. Why must we change if something is not our fault? How many times have we screwed something up trying to fix something that needed no fixing?
What you describe sounds more like the mantra of ultra-liberalism, which dictates that we must self-loathe at every opportunity and feel ashamed at ourselves so that we'll be more willing to pay higher taxes to a government to "fix" the messes we cause.
Always be wary of people who want you to feel guilty for your own existence. They usually have agendas.
Are there any Slashdotters in this article who aren't going to link to that same blog over and over again? Just curious.
The fact remains that by the best known observations and theory there is no way to explain the current observations WITHOUT major to dominant human greenhouse gas forcing.
This is completely, utterly false. There are tons of ways to explain it, and this article is proof of one. Heck, we only contribute less than 0.5% of gases in the atmosphere according to the actual measurements--most comes from two things, volcanoes and water vapor exchange on the oceans. The greenhouse gases theory is so weak and dependent on notions of correlation that climate scientists justify it by calling it "fingerprints," referring to the fact there is no direct evidence, only conclusions they're drawing from data they believe is correlative.
The global warming alarmism is seeing the beginning of a backlash. In its place will, hopefully, be a more rational debate. Otherwise, we're going to get more yahoos predicting violent hurricane seasons and scaring everybody (Yeah, remember that? How 2006 was supposed to be packed with hurricanes because of global warming? What happened there?).
So are you really suggesting that the claims made by the small handful of climate deniers are more credible than the scientific establishment? If not what is your evidence that my interpretation isn't the correct one?
It's the pursuit of science to smash establishments and to disprove interpretations. The very moment people begin to discuss a consensus is the very moment another Einstein comes along with a theory that throws everybody's preconceived notions out of whack.
I'm not really sure what's happened to this country when people are actually criticized for skeptical doubt, the cornerstone of a healthy scientific community.
You've got to be the 500th person to link to RealClimate. Is RealClimate the Jesus of global warming or something?
All RealClimate did was claim that the cloud condensation "building blocks" weren't necessarily large enough and that further research was required. That's hard to do when nobody will publish your work and all the alarmist climatologists are getting the funding because they've latched onto the "greenhouse gases" trend where all the political donors are.
The experiment doesn't necessarily dispute that global temperatures are rising. It suggests, however, that the cause is not greenhouse gases, or at the least that cosmic rays play a part based on how many the sun's magnetic field are preventing from entering the atmosphere and forming clouds.
Although, it should be noted that it's mentioned right in the article (and it's been mentioned in other articles) that global temperature records show that global temps haven't risen since late 1998.
It already does search that folder only and not the entire computer. You can change sources in the little metal bar that appears at the top of the window. Notice that it defaults to the current folder.
With all the shameless cloning in Vista, it's just really hard to overlook when comparing it to OS X. Blame Microsoft. Being demoed a year ago doesn't mean much since Apple demoed these things too. Vista only just came out for consumers, and Leopard is due out any month now. No doubt Microsoft will install it on their Macs (ex-devs have admitted they were looking at Macs when designing Vista's interface) and try to find new things to clone in Vienna. It's pretty clear that's how Microsoft operates today under the Steve Ballmer Marketing Regime. Until you guys get rid of him as CEO, you'll continue down this path of lameness. Excuse me, I meant to say "Windows Lameness Home Premium Limited Signed Edition SP2."
All these features, except network search, are available in Tiger too. They're just updating the Spotlight search field so you can input them more easily.
Funny, every review of a feature of Windows Vista that I read mentioned Apple and OS X. *Every single one.* It was incredible.
That's because the media has woken up and taken Microsoft, supposedly the #1 software company in the world, to task for not being able to update its aging Win32 codebase when their most well-known competitor has been cranking out successful updates every 2-3 years and are still years ahead.
If this was a Vista review, there would have probably been no fewer than 5 comparisons to OS X.
Because for Mac users, it's a case of "been there, done that." The majority of Vista is an indisputable clone of OS X features that Mac users have taken for granted for years, from hardware-accelerated desktop compositing to vector-based graphics APIs to non-admin user accounts to shiny two-tone plastic highlights and translucencies. And on and on.
Christ, even the filesystem layout was shamelessly cloned from OS X.
Spotlight actually already let you do that kind of specific searching in Tiger when you used the search field of the Finder. As for Beagle, it only came to be after Microsoft's and Apple's announced search plans years ago, so I think it's silly to act like Beagle is being cloned by anybody.
You actually think most people care about middle-click paste? Where is the Linux equivalent of Time Machine or Quick Look? How about Core Animation? These claims that Linux features are creeping into OS X is bogus; Beagle only started getting attention after Microsoft and Apple announced their metadata search plans, so if anything, it's the other way around. After all, Linux desktop environments have been cloning features for years from the big boys. It's no coincidence you have a Start menu, task bar, recycle bin, and so forth in KDE, so enough with the claims of theft on the part of Apple.
Obama is running for president and will boost broadband! You are nerds, so here are a bunch of other reasons that I, kdawson, think you should vote for Obama and forget that Hillary is far ahead in the polls and that everybody knows 2008 will be Giuliani versus Hillary. Hey, he talks about something that might be stem cell research! You guys are for that, right? I know it hasn't given us any results like adult and cord cells have, but let's stick it to those mean conservatives by opposing them for the sake of it. Oh, and he mentions ethanol! Isn't that wonderful? Nobody else has ever mentioned ethanol, including Bush! And the mere fact he mentions ethanol means the dream will come true. And laying down broadband lines in every city! Wow, nobody in any city ever has thought of doing that before! Google who? *orgasm*
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To me, Obama is just another Howard Dean. A guy who gets all hyped up by liberals in the media who love charismatic people with no substance but goes onto fail on the national stage. I mean, Obama fans keep telling me Obama represents a "new direction" and a "change in politics," but none of them will actually describe what that means or what he will actually change. They're caught up in pre-election hype.
Hillary will get the nomination, Giuliani will get his, and I'll be voting for Giuliani because he's economically conservative but socially liberal, more like a libertarian. Plus, Giuliani goes into an interview and flat-out answers any questions you throw at him and clearly defines his position. Hillary retreats from direct interviews and lives in Kerry's ambiguous world, where you can claim you voted to go to war because you knew Saddam was dangerous and your husband's experience with the U.N. told you they wouldn't do anything about it, then the polls shift and suddenly you're against the war and Bush "tricked" you. Puh-leeze.
Well, it's the truth that if you have Affirmative Action propping you up, you technically had to work less than someone who didn't have Affirmative Action guaranteeing them that job or that scholarship. It's unbalancing the playing field based on race--which is racial discrimination in reverse. We should treat everybody the same like MLK wanted.
There were some black leaders on TV actually condemning the president for using the word "articulate" to describe Obama because it's somehow racist. We are at the point where you can't compliment a well-spoken guy who also has darker skin. It's ridiculous. I believe black leaders today do more to segregate black communities from white communities than any whites do.
Do you know what "NeoCons" are? Why do Democrats keep using this term without realizing it doesn't mean what they think it means? It originally referred to Democratic Jews who switched to the Republican party at the start of the Reagan era.
For some reason, liberals online have turned this word into some sort of insult, I guess because it has "con" in it which sounds all mean and powerful like the word "kahn." I don't know.
It is if the only reason for the spike is the pulling of stock the week before, as stated by NPD this week.
Prediction--Microsoft will do what they did to mask XP's disappointing sales by only citing figures of retailer orders and not actual sales to consumers.
Wow, put down the MSDN marketing brochure and take deep breaths.
Really? Because, your rant notwithstanding, the numbers tell otherwise.
You didn't do your homework on these numbers, as I'm about to point out.
PC sales for the week of Vista's release are up 173% compared to the week previous, and up 67% versus the same week in 2006.
According to NPD, that has nothing to do with Vista and everything to do with retailers clearing out XP inventory the week before. So yeah, when you destock and then restock the next week, you're going to get a spike in sales from the previous week.
A lot of this is because of the massive FUD campaign against Vista that seems to be prevelent in the media. It is too early for most users to upgrade, but Vista isn't going to destroy the internet or eat your children. It's a solid, stable OS.
Hey, this "FUD campaign" (the term used whenever someone doesn't want to address criticism) is Microsoft's fault. They promised and promised and promised. It's not my fault their engineers can't engineer while Apple kept on truckin'. Vista isn't that solid or that stable, the interface is terrible and inconsistent, it takes more clicks to do the same things, and it even runs your games slower while requiring more RAM just to display windows on the screen. The thing is so rushed and incomplete that they're already working on releasing SP1 later this year, or as I call it, "Vista 1.0."
When I opened the wireless connection dialog and saw a Properties button above another Properties button, it really hit home how completely disorganized Microsoft is. Did you know they had months of meetings just to determine the shutdown menu? Or that they had Macs sitting in their offices to copy from? Vista is a gigantic clusterfuck of legacy Win32 code dating back to the 1980s. Windows engineer Phillip Su actually wrote an entire article on MSDN about how bad it is--how it's riddled with circular dependencies, how nobody knows what all the layers are doing, and so forth. Not exactly confidence-inspiring.
And now they're doing it all over again with Vienna. I'll pass, thanks.
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It's interesting that you criticize the poster for asking these questions and describe them as long-ago debunked. But then in your answers, you respond with "Who knows exactly why" or "See #3" (which says "Who knows exactly why") or "there are a variety of factors to consider." You even say "Admittedly, that's a correlation, not a proof of causation, but is reason for concern."
Then, having not sufficiently answered a single question, you have the gall to end with:
You yourself were unable to answer these supposedly long-resolved fallaces, so perhaps these questions are more challenging to your premise than you're willing to admit, which makes them worth repeating in discussions such as these.
No use linking to the IPCC. Their supported research isn't going to be released for several months.
That's right--they released the conclusion first before the evidence.
Well, when the global temperature record shows no rise in temperatures since 1999, and New York is under inches of snow, and we had the least inactive storm season in 10 years despite dire predictions to the contrary, one tends to grow skeptical of alarmist claims of global warming.
Running around as if the sky is falling and having people dictate to us how to live our lives like holier-than-thou priests because we can't take care of ourselves is not living. It's the opposite of living. Why must we change if something is not our fault? How many times have we screwed something up trying to fix something that needed no fixing?
What you describe sounds more like the mantra of ultra-liberalism, which dictates that we must self-loathe at every opportunity and feel ashamed at ourselves so that we'll be more willing to pay higher taxes to a government to "fix" the messes we cause.
Always be wary of people who want you to feel guilty for your own existence. They usually have agendas.
This is completely, utterly false. There are tons of ways to explain it, and this article is proof of one. Heck, we only contribute less than 0.5% of gases in the atmosphere according to the actual measurements--most comes from two things, volcanoes and water vapor exchange on the oceans. The greenhouse gases theory is so weak and dependent on notions of correlation that climate scientists justify it by calling it "fingerprints," referring to the fact there is no direct evidence, only conclusions they're drawing from data they believe is correlative.
The global warming alarmism is seeing the beginning of a backlash. In its place will, hopefully, be a more rational debate. Otherwise, we're going to get more yahoos predicting violent hurricane seasons and scaring everybody (Yeah, remember that? How 2006 was supposed to be packed with hurricanes because of global warming? What happened there?).
Ah, the ol' response to anything critical of the consensus. It must be petrol-funded!
Meanwhile, let's ignore all the "donations" and other grants the global warming alarmists get from Greenpeace and other groups.
It's the pursuit of science to smash establishments and to disprove interpretations. The very moment people begin to discuss a consensus is the very moment another Einstein comes along with a theory that throws everybody's preconceived notions out of whack.
I'm not really sure what's happened to this country when people are actually criticized for skeptical doubt, the cornerstone of a healthy scientific community.
You've got to be the 500th person to link to RealClimate. Is RealClimate the Jesus of global warming or something?
All RealClimate did was claim that the cloud condensation "building blocks" weren't necessarily large enough and that further research was required. That's hard to do when nobody will publish your work and all the alarmist climatologists are getting the funding because they've latched onto the "greenhouse gases" trend where all the political donors are.
The experiment doesn't necessarily dispute that global temperatures are rising. It suggests, however, that the cause is not greenhouse gases, or at the least that cosmic rays play a part based on how many the sun's magnetic field are preventing from entering the atmosphere and forming clouds.
Although, it should be noted that it's mentioned right in the article (and it's been mentioned in other articles) that global temperature records show that global temps haven't risen since late 1998.
It already does search that folder only and not the entire computer. You can change sources in the little metal bar that appears at the top of the window. Notice that it defaults to the current folder.
With all the shameless cloning in Vista, it's just really hard to overlook when comparing it to OS X. Blame Microsoft. Being demoed a year ago doesn't mean much since Apple demoed these things too. Vista only just came out for consumers, and Leopard is due out any month now. No doubt Microsoft will install it on their Macs (ex-devs have admitted they were looking at Macs when designing Vista's interface) and try to find new things to clone in Vienna. It's pretty clear that's how Microsoft operates today under the Steve Ballmer Marketing Regime. Until you guys get rid of him as CEO, you'll continue down this path of lameness. Excuse me, I meant to say "Windows Lameness Home Premium Limited Signed Edition SP2."
That's because the media has woken up and taken Microsoft, supposedly the #1 software company in the world, to task for not being able to update its aging Win32 codebase when their most well-known competitor has been cranking out successful updates every 2-3 years and are still years ahead.
Because for Mac users, it's a case of "been there, done that." The majority of Vista is an indisputable clone of OS X features that Mac users have taken for granted for years, from hardware-accelerated desktop compositing to vector-based graphics APIs to non-admin user accounts to shiny two-tone plastic highlights and translucencies. And on and on.
Christ, even the filesystem layout was shamelessly cloned from OS X.
18 million Mac OS X users already do.
Spotlight actually already let you do that kind of specific searching in Tiger when you used the search field of the Finder. As for Beagle, it only came to be after Microsoft's and Apple's announced search plans years ago, so I think it's silly to act like Beagle is being cloned by anybody.
You actually think most people care about middle-click paste? Where is the Linux equivalent of Time Machine or Quick Look? How about Core Animation? These claims that Linux features are creeping into OS X is bogus; Beagle only started getting attention after Microsoft and Apple announced their metadata search plans, so if anything, it's the other way around. After all, Linux desktop environments have been cloning features for years from the big boys. It's no coincidence you have a Start menu, task bar, recycle bin, and so forth in KDE, so enough with the claims of theft on the part of Apple.
What did I do with the term liberal? You guys are the ones who don't like to be called that name. Conservatives happily call themselves conservatives.
He's just taking a page from the Hillary Clinton playbook.
Summarizing the article summary:
Obama is running for president and will boost broadband! You are nerds, so here are a bunch of other reasons that I, kdawson, think you should vote for Obama and forget that Hillary is far ahead in the polls and that everybody knows 2008 will be Giuliani versus Hillary. Hey, he talks about something that might be stem cell research! You guys are for that, right? I know it hasn't given us any results like adult and cord cells have, but let's stick it to those mean conservatives by opposing them for the sake of it. Oh, and he mentions ethanol! Isn't that wonderful? Nobody else has ever mentioned ethanol, including Bush! And the mere fact he mentions ethanol means the dream will come true. And laying down broadband lines in every city! Wow, nobody in any city ever has thought of doing that before! Google who? *orgasm*
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To me, Obama is just another Howard Dean. A guy who gets all hyped up by liberals in the media who love charismatic people with no substance but goes onto fail on the national stage. I mean, Obama fans keep telling me Obama represents a "new direction" and a "change in politics," but none of them will actually describe what that means or what he will actually change. They're caught up in pre-election hype.
Hillary will get the nomination, Giuliani will get his, and I'll be voting for Giuliani because he's economically conservative but socially liberal, more like a libertarian. Plus, Giuliani goes into an interview and flat-out answers any questions you throw at him and clearly defines his position. Hillary retreats from direct interviews and lives in Kerry's ambiguous world, where you can claim you voted to go to war because you knew Saddam was dangerous and your husband's experience with the U.N. told you they wouldn't do anything about it, then the polls shift and suddenly you're against the war and Bush "tricked" you. Puh-leeze.
Well, it's the truth that if you have Affirmative Action propping you up, you technically had to work less than someone who didn't have Affirmative Action guaranteeing them that job or that scholarship. It's unbalancing the playing field based on race--which is racial discrimination in reverse. We should treat everybody the same like MLK wanted.
There were some black leaders on TV actually condemning the president for using the word "articulate" to describe Obama because it's somehow racist. We are at the point where you can't compliment a well-spoken guy who also has darker skin. It's ridiculous. I believe black leaders today do more to segregate black communities from white communities than any whites do.
And here's the part where I plant my tongue in my cheek and sarcastically ask the question, "What liberal media?"
Do you know what "NeoCons" are? Why do Democrats keep using this term without realizing it doesn't mean what they think it means? It originally referred to Democratic Jews who switched to the Republican party at the start of the Reagan era.
For some reason, liberals online have turned this word into some sort of insult, I guess because it has "con" in it which sounds all mean and powerful like the word "kahn." I don't know.
It is if the only reason for the spike is the pulling of stock the week before, as stated by NPD this week.
Prediction--Microsoft will do what they did to mask XP's disappointing sales by only citing figures of retailer orders and not actual sales to consumers.
When I opened the wireless connection dialog and saw a Properties button above another Properties button, it really hit home how completely disorganized Microsoft is. Did you know they had months of meetings just to determine the shutdown menu? Or that they had Macs sitting in their offices to copy from? Vista is a gigantic clusterfuck of legacy Win32 code dating back to the 1980s. Windows engineer Phillip Su actually wrote an entire article on MSDN about how bad it is--how it's riddled with circular dependencies, how nobody knows what all the layers are doing, and so forth. Not exactly confidence-inspiring.
And now they're doing it all over again with Vienna. I'll pass, thanks.