The interior of the Bolt is probably larger than the Model 3.
The Bolt does have its downsides, though. The Model 3 is faster, has better aerodynamics and probably handles better. The Model 3's charging network is much superior, especially since GM is relying on the market to supply chargers.
Nonetheless, like the Woz, I think I'd prefer a Bolt. None of them will handle four children, though.
Ok, the research may be new but the broad result sure isn't. Bill Ruddiman proposed in 2003 that humans have been modifying the climate for thousands of years, mostly through agriculture and cattle raising. Mind you, if he's right, I'm glad we did. But it's warm enough now and the rate of warming is getting out of control; it's time to stop.
Ok, we already knew that Bill Nye is not a scientist, and in particular not a climatologist, but let's look at what he said in detail.
As the ocean gets warmer, which it is getting, it expands.
That seems true enough.
Molecules spread apart,
Redundant with what he just said, but ok.
and then as the sea surface is warmer, more water evaporates,
There's a bit more to than that, but in the real world that's correct.
and so it's very reasonable that these storms are connected to these big effects.
That's a little fuzzy. We might guess that the rainfall goes up with the water in the air, which is around 7% over the last century or two. Seven percent isn't all that much of the recent rain in Louisiana. Other effects of global warming might raise or lower that estimate significantly.
He is a science popularizer, not a scientist. He listens to the experts and echos what they say, but in a folksy way. I guess that's what a 'science guy' is. This doesn't mean he's wrong; he has a fairly good understanding of the climate issue. He is sometimes a little fuzzy on the details, though.
There might be life there, but this is an early result and subject to change. I'd estimate the chance of life on Mars to be higher, and Mars is a lot more accessible.
So I watched that whole tedious hour. I've had enough shaky cam to last me for another decade.
Ouch. I probably should have put a warning on it. I guess I spent less than half an hour watching it. I downloaded it and used mplayer to play it. That makes skipping through it by minutes easy. That was still more than it deserved.
They didn't show one square centimeter of the second floor, where Panasonic is building their cell production line.
I said they excluded the most sensitive areas.
I was amazed that so many wanted to go to the event. Visiting the Nevada desert in July doesn't sound like fun.
Prior to the collision, Autosteer was in use periodically throughout the approximately 50-minute trip.
The most recent such use ended when, approximately 40 seconds prior to the collision, the vehicle did not detect the driverâ(TM)s hands on the wheel and began a rapidly escalating set of visual and audible alerts to ensure the driver took proper control.
When the driver failed to respond to 15 seconds of visual warnings and audible tones, Autosteer began a graceful abort procedure in which the music is muted, the vehicle begins to slow and the driver is instructed both visually and audibly to place their hands on the wheel.
Approximately 11 seconds prior to the collision, the driver responded and regained control by holding the steering wheel, applying leftward torque to turn it, and pressing the accelerator pedal to 42%. Over 10 seconds and approximately 300m later and while under manual steering control, the driver drifted out of the lane, collided with a barrier, overcorrected, crossed both lanes of the highway, struck a median barrier, and rolled the vehicle.
Now, you can believe this or not, but it doesn't match up with your hypothesis.
There's no rare earths used anywhere in the Model S, for example.
I very much doubt that's true. I would expect some rare earth use in the phosphors of the LED lights, for example. The amount used is probably pretty trivial since the main motors don't use them.
Coral bleaching is reaching levels never seen before due to ocean acidification, which will get much worse as the CO2 level continues to rise.
Most of the current coral bleaching seems to be more caused by high ocean temperatures than acidification. Acidification may become important for bleaching coral in the future.
No. The amount of water in the atmosphere is mostly independent of what we put there. It goes away on its own in a few days.
The main reason for the increase in the water in the air is the warming of the Earth, which is mostly caused by carbon dioxide. If we want less moisture in the air we need to reduce long lived greenhouse gases.
A scientist is someone who seeks to find the truth via the scientific process. Bill Nye is not this.
In particular, he is not a climate scientist. This is not just a matter of his credentials, but if you listen to him in debates he gets the start and end points right but gets fuzzy about the steps in between. He listens to scientists though, unlike Sarah, which makes him a decent popularizer.
Name a single coral reef on the planet that doesn't have pH changes greater than.1 every day.
Doesn't matter. There is plenty of evidence of increased coral bleaching now. Whether it is from increased temperature or acidification, I don't really know.
Some places get wetter, some get drier.
And that can happen with or without any global average temperature change.
We can't be sure what will happen in a specific place, but we expect that at the poleward ends of the Hadley cells to generally get drier. That's where many people live. These long term droughts will be caused by anthropogenic global warming.
As for "rain prefers to fall where it is cooler", I think you misunderstand precipitation - what you're looking for is warm, soggy air hitting cold air.
Air flows over a mountain so it gets cooler. That's where the most rain falls. There are other reasons for rain to fall in other places, but that doesn't invalidate this one.
It's our inability to accurately predict the consequences that is most worrying. Uncertainty is not our friend.
Since warming increases water vapor, and increased water vapor means more precipitation, you've got to be making an argument that this more precipitation magically happens only over the ocean causing more droughts over land. I don't think there's any reasonable proposed mechanism for that kind of peculiar distribution.
Some places get wetter, some get drier. It's hard to be certain where it will be drier, but it will some places. Note that the warming is greatest over land and rain prefers to fall where it is cooler, but this may not be a large effect.
Many corals do not face huge daily pH changes. These are most at risk.
So far it's been about a draw. Many plants are growing better, but we're getting more droughts. The developed world can handle droughts (deionized ocean water) while the developing world can't, at least not for now.
Much of the coral on this planet appears to be near it's limit, but not all. I think it's worth a lot to keep it healthy, but I can't say destroying it will affect you in any major way.
Florida appears to have no way to adapt to rising sea level except by evacuation. There is plenty of time for people to move but it gets expensive.
If we keep burning a lot of coal we will have a major extinction event, but it will take tens of thousands of years to occur. Stopping it will at least be expensive.
Overall that's the main point: It's more expensive to fix it later than to do something about it now. Personally, I'm not going to live long enough to see the problems and in the mean time I get to grow mangoes. Yumm!
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I don't have any children. If you do have four children it might limit your choices in what cat to buy, though.
The interior of the Bolt is probably larger than the Model 3.
The Bolt does have its downsides, though. The Model 3 is faster, has better aerodynamics and probably handles better. The Model 3's charging network is much superior, especially since GM is relying on the market to supply chargers.
Nonetheless, like the Woz, I think I'd prefer a Bolt. None of them will handle four children, though.
Ok, the research may be new but the broad result sure isn't. Bill Ruddiman proposed in 2003 that humans have been modifying the climate for thousands of years, mostly through agriculture and cattle raising. Mind you, if he's right, I'm glad we did. But it's warm enough now and the rate of warming is getting out of control; it's time to stop.
Ok, we already knew that Bill Nye is not a scientist, and in particular not a climatologist, but let's look at what he said in detail.
That seems true enough.
Redundant with what he just said, but ok.
There's a bit more to than that, but in the real world that's correct.
That's a little fuzzy. We might guess that the rainfall goes up with the water in the air, which is around 7% over the last century or two. Seven percent isn't all that much of the recent rain in Louisiana. Other effects of global warming might raise or lower that estimate significantly.
He is a science popularizer, not a scientist. He listens to the experts and echos what they say, but in a folksy way. I guess that's what a 'science guy' is. This doesn't mean he's wrong; he has a fairly good understanding of the climate issue. He is sometimes a little fuzzy on the details, though.
There might be life there, but this is an early result and subject to change. I'd estimate the chance of life on Mars to be higher, and Mars is a lot more accessible.
Ouch. I probably should have put a warning on it. I guess I spent less than half an hour watching it. I downloaded it and used mplayer to play it. That makes skipping through it by minutes easy. That was still more than it deserved.
I said they excluded the most sensitive areas.
I was amazed that so many wanted to go to the event. Visiting the Nevada desert in July doesn't sound like fun.
Tours were given of the inside of the factory; and video was allowed. Not the most sensitive areas, though. Video link.
It doesn't matter. That's the normal meaning nowadays. I suggest you use 'assumes the question' if that's what you mean.
How did Apple get into the Pokemon business?
The Tesla logs were reported as saying:
Now, you can believe this or not, but it doesn't match up with your hypothesis.
Gerrymandering by the legislature is no longer possible in:
Arizona
California
Hawaii
Idaho
New Jersey
Washington
If you don't live in one of these states put the pressure on to change the process.
I very much doubt that's true. I would expect some rare earth use in the phosphors of the LED lights, for example. The amount used is probably pretty trivial since the main motors don't use them.
Most of the current coral bleaching seems to be more caused by high ocean temperatures than acidification. Acidification may become important for bleaching coral in the future.
Ramen.
No. The amount of water in the atmosphere is mostly independent of what we put there. It goes away on its own in a few days.
The main reason for the increase in the water in the air is the warming of the Earth, which is mostly caused by carbon dioxide. If we want less moisture in the air we need to reduce long lived greenhouse gases.
Methane is causing much less warming than carbon dioxide. It is a big worry for the future, though, and much attentions is being paid to it.
Water vapor falls back to land very quickly. It can only cause local warming.
Clouds cause cooling by day but warming by night. The net effect varies by type of cloud. Too many clouds can interfere with growing crops.
I realize that Donald is the front runner, but switching to Ted only makes things worse.
No. I don't think there was any survey done asking that question.
If the models are right it will probably be somewhere between 2040 to 2080. If the models are wrong it could be earlier.
Not the best example. Egyptians are clearly from Africa, and if they migrate to the USA they are African Americans.
They're not Black, though.
In particular, he is not a climate scientist. This is not just a matter of his credentials, but if you listen to him in debates he gets the start and end points right but gets fuzzy about the steps in between. He listens to scientists though, unlike Sarah, which makes him a decent popularizer.
If you get free neutrons you can get all sorts of nasty stuff. Luckily, the amounts involved are too small to matter.
Doesn't matter. There is plenty of evidence of increased coral bleaching now. Whether it is from increased temperature or acidification, I don't really know.
We can't be sure what will happen in a specific place, but we expect that at the poleward ends of the Hadley cells to generally get drier. That's where many people live. These long term droughts will be caused by anthropogenic global warming.
Air flows over a mountain so it gets cooler. That's where the most rain falls. There are other reasons for rain to fall in other places, but that doesn't invalidate this one.
It's our inability to accurately predict the consequences that is most worrying. Uncertainty is not our friend.
Some places get wetter, some get drier. It's hard to be certain where it will be drier, but it will some places. Note that the warming is greatest over land and rain prefers to fall where it is cooler, but this may not be a large effect.
Many corals do not face huge daily pH changes. These are most at risk.
So far it's been about a draw. Many plants are growing better, but we're getting more droughts. The developed world can handle droughts (deionized ocean water) while the developing world can't, at least not for now.
Much of the coral on this planet appears to be near it's limit, but not all. I think it's worth a lot to keep it healthy, but I can't say destroying it will affect you in any major way.
Florida appears to have no way to adapt to rising sea level except by evacuation. There is plenty of time for people to move but it gets expensive.
If we keep burning a lot of coal we will have a major extinction event, but it will take tens of thousands of years to occur. Stopping it will at least be expensive.
Overall that's the main point: It's more expensive to fix it later than to do something about it now. Personally, I'm not going to live long enough to see the problems and in the mean time I get to grow mangoes. Yumm!