I could care less about global average temperatures. What I care about is the temperatures around places people live in. I wouldn't trust global average temperature statistics with a barge pole since we have only been able to get accurate measurements since we started putting satellites in the sky and that wasn't long enough ago to extrapolate into long term centennial trends for anything. We used to have weather stations in places people lived or work by centuries ago. But not in the middle of nowhere.
As for dark energy and dark matter and negative energy and other similar pieces of marvelous crap i've read about the answer is pretty simple. So you can't detect enough mass or energy to account for what's supposed to be there? Get a better measuring instrument! Every couple of months their stupid estimates of this nebulous whatever that's missing keeps going down. Pretty soon it will be down to irrelevance.
AGW believers can't be proven wrong either. A lot of us have realized this a long time ago. To me it just doesn't pass the smell test. I know too much history and college grade physics. Sorry.
Coal is made up of dead plant matter. So the carbon was available and in the environment at one point. I don't like coal power plants either but not because of CO2. I am more concerned about fly ash, coal mining deaths, carbon monoxide poisoning and things like that. CO2 doesn't even compute. There are alternatives like nuclear. Yes even wind with pumped storage hydro is a partial alternative. However I could care less about the amount of 'fossil fuels' we burn. The end state of the universe if we continue is heat death as entropy increases. The Sun itself will burn out at one point. So talk about 'renewables' is a misnomer. Its a matter of timescales of availability. No resource is infinite since the universe is finite.
Max Planck was the guy who said what I mentioned. I would say he did enough too. Genetics at one time was a banned subject in the Soviet Union and don't let me start about Darwin. It took a long time for evolution to be accepted as a theory and in fact some people still don't accept it.
AGW is a bunch of hyperbole and crap science all around. We should be focusing on real issues not make crap up. As if there isn't enough trouble trying to provide energy for everyone in this planet to live a comfortable life given real problems.
I haven't been around that long. But from what I remember the weather is, once again, as cold and wet as it was when I was a kid. People who read a bit are aware that the weather fluctuates and blaming it all on human activity when you know the magnitudes of energy involved in the process is naive. We don't even exploit a significant portion of energy in this planet yet.
As for warming, the Romans had men wearing togas and women wearing silk clothes in the street around 250 BC, so I would say the 1990s weren't hot enough.
His comment sounds like utter bullshit though. You can put all the CO2 in an atmosphere you want. If you don't have solar flux the heat on the surface will be minimal. One good example is Mars. There have been plenty of examples along history of temperatures decreasing by more than.1 or.3 Celsius even when there were no humans on the planet.
The next ice age is going to come eventually. We aren't that far away from the point when its supposed to happen again. In fact some people claim we would already be experiencing its effect it it wasn't for the elevated CO2 and higher than usual solar activity in the last decade. Now that the Sun is abnormally inactive, which is something which may be indicative of an ice age, since the causes phenomenon are not completely well defined, we shall see.
When Al Gore bought real estate in NY which was close to sea level, that was enough to tell you that even he doesn't believe the crap he spouts.
CO2 is plant food and people as well as animals produce it by exhaling. Once you start on that path, the usual consequences are death, famine and misery.
do you realize that the best possible thing to happen to a scientist is for him/her to make a discovery that tosses the widely accepted hypotheses on their head?
You clearly haven't done much research. As one guy used to say science progresses when the last generation dies. That's how fossilized fields become when all the people doing peer review have the same mindset.
No the 'denialist' argument is that it isn't a cause to change policy. The temperature change, if it has any impact, is irrelevant compared to existing natural causes. That is the whole point. So before you start proposing for people to freeze in the winter or overheat in the summer from closing down coal power plants, or other dumbass ideas i've heard proposed, consider the consequences.
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I could care less about global average temperatures. What I care about is the temperatures around places people live in. I wouldn't trust global average temperature statistics with a barge pole since we have only been able to get accurate measurements since we started putting satellites in the sky and that wasn't long enough ago to extrapolate into long term centennial trends for anything. We used to have weather stations in places people lived or work by centuries ago. But not in the middle of nowhere.
As for dark energy and dark matter and negative energy and other similar pieces of marvelous crap i've read about the answer is pretty simple. So you can't detect enough mass or energy to account for what's supposed to be there? Get a better measuring instrument! Every couple of months their stupid estimates of this nebulous whatever that's missing keeps going down. Pretty soon it will be down to irrelevance.
AGW believers can't be proven wrong either. A lot of us have realized this a long time ago. To me it just doesn't pass the smell test. I know too much history and college grade physics. Sorry.
Coal is made up of dead plant matter. So the carbon was available and in the environment at one point. I don't like coal power plants either but not because of CO2. I am more concerned about fly ash, coal mining deaths, carbon monoxide poisoning and things like that. CO2 doesn't even compute. There are alternatives like nuclear. Yes even wind with pumped storage hydro is a partial alternative. However I could care less about the amount of 'fossil fuels' we burn. The end state of the universe if we continue is heat death as entropy increases. The Sun itself will burn out at one point. So talk about 'renewables' is a misnomer. Its a matter of timescales of availability. No resource is infinite since the universe is finite.
Another piece of junk science IMO is dark energy and negative energy. Its like we've gone back to the ether theory again.
Max Planck was the guy who said what I mentioned. I would say he did enough too. Genetics at one time was a banned subject in the Soviet Union and don't let me start about Darwin. It took a long time for evolution to be accepted as a theory and in fact some people still don't accept it.
AGW is a bunch of hyperbole and crap science all around. We should be focusing on real issues not make crap up. As if there isn't enough trouble trying to provide energy for everyone in this planet to live a comfortable life given real problems.
I haven't been around that long. But from what I remember the weather is, once again, as cold and wet as it was when I was a kid. People who read a bit are aware that the weather fluctuates and blaming it all on human activity when you know the magnitudes of energy involved in the process is naive. We don't even exploit a significant portion of energy in this planet yet.
As for warming, the Romans had men wearing togas and women wearing silk clothes in the street around 250 BC, so I would say the 1990s weren't hot enough.
See? God himself wills it so. Makes as much sense as some of the crackpot theories i've heard.
His comment sounds like utter bullshit though. You can put all the CO2 in an atmosphere you want. If you don't have solar flux the heat on the surface will be minimal. One good example is Mars. There have been plenty of examples along history of temperatures decreasing by more than .1 or .3 Celsius even when there were no humans on the planet.
You don't have a clue man. There are places in Europe where frost is showing up when it usually doesn't all year. This week has been horrible.
Like the guy used to say, just use another sweater. Good luck doing that at -20 C though.
Taxes are high man. Especially here in Europe. What is low is interest rates.
The next ice age is going to come eventually. We aren't that far away from the point when its supposed to happen again. In fact some people claim we would already be experiencing its effect it it wasn't for the elevated CO2 and higher than usual solar activity in the last decade. Now that the Sun is abnormally inactive, which is something which may be indicative of an ice age, since the causes phenomenon are not completely well defined, we shall see.
When Al Gore bought real estate in NY which was close to sea level, that was enough to tell you that even he doesn't believe the crap he spouts.
CO2 is plant food and people as well as animals produce it by exhaling. Once you start on that path, the usual consequences are death, famine and misery.
do you realize that the best possible thing to happen to a scientist is for him/her to make a discovery that tosses the widely accepted hypotheses on their head?
You clearly haven't done much research. As one guy used to say science progresses when the last generation dies. That's how fossilized fields become when all the people doing peer review have the same mindset.
No the 'denialist' argument is that it isn't a cause to change policy. The temperature change, if it has any impact, is irrelevant compared to existing natural causes. That is the whole point. So before you start proposing for people to freeze in the winter or overheat in the summer from closing down coal power plants, or other dumbass ideas i've heard proposed, consider the consequences.
Now you're oversimplifying things.
License costs, lack of complete control over the source code, you name it.
The belligerence is usually when they have high glucose levels. When the glucose is low they usually look sedated.
Of course I had an automated procedure to replicate the issue which is something a lot of people don't bother doing.
Use e-mail. It works for me. I've talked with RedHat engineers on IRC and by e-mail and they fixed my issues. Plus I did not pay a dime.
Lots of which are being replaced by laptops and mobile devices. Most of the mobile devices run either Linux or some other UNIX like OS.
In the case of Apple they probably do patent cross-licensing with Microsoft so in the end it doesn't cost them a dime.
Nothing wrong with infinite growth. The problem is they don't care about the neighborhood any more.
Its a matter of tit for that. Plus Chinese don't speak English.