So its the Rube Goldberg inefficiencies for you is it?
Why don't you see the waste of letting the light from the sun hit the ground, re-radiate it as heat that warms up the air, that moves the air through convection, that if you're lucky and supply some additional energy to stabilize it, might form a controllable vortex, from which you can try to siphon off some of the kinetic energy in a turbine... but not too much lest you kill the vortex, leaving the rest of the energy floating away in the wind...... or... let the light hit a solar cell and directly generate electricity.
It's all the same energy. If you would rather waste it by making a nifty vortex before you gather it, go right ahead, you're welcome to go bankrupt.
Where does the energy to move the vortex come from huh?... not just from the 30m diameter structure.. but from the hot air above the hot ground all around the structure for some distance away... and without all that hot air being drawn in from all around, the vortex dies a quick death of starvation.
Take the same affected area, put the new high efficiency solar cells on it and you'll collect the energy in a much more efficient manner.
You'll also be able to collect energy any time the sun is up. The amount will very with the weather and time of day, but it won't be shut off the moment the temperature and intensity conditions aren't perfect to make the vortex work.
Still don't like solar cells?... then use an array of mirrors to heat a central boiler. It's been done, and can easily produce megawatts of electricity.. and also avoids the rediculous inefficiencies of the vortex system.
The vortex system described is nothing more than a very inefficient solar power collector.
What a joke. Invest your money in researching higher efficiency solar cells. There's no need for this Rube Goldburg contraption that sits between the solar power and the generation of the electricity.
The effort required to get a stable vortex going will prevent any profitability. How much energy will have to be added to the system to start it, and to ensure that the heat supply at the bottom is strong enough and continuous?
Even natural tornadoes don't last for very long, and they would die faster if they didn't move. The movement ensures they don't deplete their heat source nearly instantly.
The current version of MS Office can read the XML files, it just doesnt save to that format unless you have the top end license.
And its time to learn some XML buddy, if your so worried about it just write your own MS Office XML translator or find one online that someone else has written.
Anyone out there know?... I bet Open Office 2.0 can or soon will read the open XML format, after all OO's native format is XML.
It's 'open XML'.... the 'open' part being somewhat redundant i would say.
Yes, the builders may just facilitate the building... but they need to be responsible for the quality of the finished work, not just for minimizing the dollars spent.
Adera has been forced to do some repairs, such as fixing all the popped bits of drywall where they didnt let the mud dry properly before painting it.
They get away with it by not getting all the building permits they need, so inspectors arent necessarily aware of all the work being done, or they enclose in parts of their work before the inspectors come around because most of the lazy inspectors wont force the contractors to open things back up for proper inspection.
Then there's the public inspectors you hire when buying a place (as opposed to the city building code inspectors)... Our inspector never signed his inspection form. The bank didnt seem to care for our mortagage, they accepted it, but really if there's a problem, that inspector's ass is covered because his name isn't on it. We know better now for our next home.
But mainly most of the bad work in this city is because... they just do bad work, sell the product, shut down, open under a new name. The criminals can't be tied back to the previous company.
I'm not worried about resale value, Vancouver is insane. This townhouse has gone up in value from $200,000 to $300,000 in 4 years time. The trick will be to sell before the problems start costing us in repairs i guess.
I'm not surprised that the builder is trying to screw over the lady, while making a huge mess of their construction site.
The 'Award Winning' company that built my townhouse in Burnaby BC... Adera... is the same kind of company.
They knowingly built my whole complex below code. You can not get a queen sized mattress to the top floor going up the stairs, they are too narrow (yes, this is a building code they ignored). In fact some of the original owners here forced Adera to buy special two-piece mattress sets.
Then there's the brutal water heating system. They knew damn well that once the place had sold out, the water heater system would be totally inadequate and prone to breakdowns, forcing our strata to look into a Boiler system.
Then there's the creaky floors due to various other codes being ignored, such as distance between the stringers, and the methods of tying down the floor.
Then there's the fact that every damn outlet in the house is crooked, the builders couldnt take 2 seconds to level them, not even the ones cut through tiles!
And how about the severe cracking in the cement foundation in part of our underground parking.
And the insufficient gutters and downspouts, built below code, that overflow in a heavy rain.
And there's the landscaping that has been eroding away due to poor construction, one person has pretty much lost their back yard.
Our building is only 6 or 7 years old. These are just the bigger problems... again all from an AWARD WINNING building company! No wonder there's so many leaky condos in this city.
I wish the lady luck, take down those bastards... even though they will simply shut down, start up under a new name, and carry on with their crap.
Take a look at the US economy, The record deficit and debt levels from your hugely irresponsible president, and refusal to follow trade agreements you willingly signed on to has destroyed world confidence in your finances and the value of your dollar.
So you can't see that THAT is the whole point of the leased software?... To force you to follow the rules that YOU AGREED TO in the EULA?
Can you modify and sell today's software despite the EULA's you've agreed to? Yes, of course you can... I could walk around like a dumb american and shoot people for not liking Texas... and just like you, I will be caught and dealt with eventually.
If you don't like the agreements, then don't agree with them... BY NOT BUYING OR USING THEIR SOFTWARE.
the liquid crystal diodes within an LCD display work to block specific frequencies of light depending on the voltage applied to each pixel. The crystal for each pixel mutes all the frequencies of light from the white light except for the desired colour which passes through.
How is this the same as using a light guide to pipe light to the display from an LED of a specific colour?
Ignore the fact that more and more, Open Source is taking over, giving easy options to avoid the software vendors. Let them charge however they want. YOU DONT HAVE TO BUY IT.
Or, if you really are totally useless, and ignorant of these strange 'workstation' video cards, here's a link, read all of its many pages:
http://anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=2307&p=1... Note the many descriptions of geometry engines and hardware antialiased lines and points, drivers optimized specificly for AutoCad, ArcGIS, and other softwares... implemented especially for workstation applications.... Note the many benchmark tests where the workstation cards perform way better than the gamer cards in workstation applications.... but fail horribly in the game tests.
Hey buddy... its becauase you are using a workstation video card instead of a regular gaming card.
Most workstation cards have hardware tuned for CAD / GIS type work, and when benchmarked against gaming cards with similar cores of the same generation, they kick ass on the CAD, and suck ass on the games... by a large factor.
AIDS was accidently created in africa in the 1950's by British scientists.
The scientists were helping the people of Africa by vaccinating them against polio.... a wonderful thing.
BUT
The dumasses used the kidneys of local monkeys to grow the cultures of polio vaccine.
But the scientists didnt work under the same standards used in Europe and North America, so thousands of Africans were injected with a dirty mixture. Yes they were protected against polio, but they were exposed to viruses carried by the monkeys to which they had no immunity.
Yes, AIDS was 'discovered' in the 1980's... but research since has found people in the right part of Africa that acquired new unknown diseases in the right time period, with all the symptoms of AIDS. And there is a retro virus native to the monkeys in that area that are very closely related to the HIV virus.
Of course the old British scientists deny it all, despite plenty of paperwork that still exists, and accounts from people who used to bring in the monkeys and work in the labs.
You'd NEVER do that bad stuff.... instead, you just give the technology away so that other countries can do it for you.
You do recall that incident back when Hussein was your friend, where he missused the technology YOU game him don't you? I'm sure the thousands of dead Iranians have families that still remember the results of what you did.
You do recall the Millions of gallons of Agent Orange you sprayed on Vietnam don't you? To this day it is causing thousands of horrid birth defects in the descendants of the PEOPLE who were 'defoliated' by your supposed herbacide.
Your BULLSHIT country has broken dozens of treaties around the world in the last few years, from hugely destabilizing events like leaving the ABM treaty, to imposing illegal treaty breaking trade tariffs on YOUR FRIENDS in Canada.
Intel's business plan includes the nasty evil concept of making money!
How dare they produce a product for less than what they sell it for!
All good companies operate under a plan similar to the airlines, where the whole point is go bankrupt as fast as possible... most often accomplished by trying to steal all the market share you can at any cost, regardless of screwed customers and workers put out on the street.
The outlandish point i was making... that Iran will be nuked within 5 years because the US can not invade Iran conventionaly was what I was referring to.
The fact that I used Bush's common street name in Canada is irrelevant.
Your inability to extract the meaning of my post, be shocked, and do something about your damn country "only shows immaturity, and detracts from your otherwise logical arguement"
"Why as an American, I must wear a Canadian flag when travelling the world."
Here's a hint for America, It's worked for decades for Canada, leading in general to great respect and friendship from most countries of the world....
Help your neighbours instead of screwing them at every chance with illegal trade tariffs!
Don't go around making the world hate you because you can't restrain your greed!
Treat the world as if they have a right to exist, acknowledging that your laws stop at your border, that you must follow their laws within their borders.
Enforce your own constitution instead of constantly breaking it in the name of 'security'... setting a nasty example for the rest of the world.
And dont fucking attack other countries claiming they have WMD's when you know damn well they don't... and then politically attacking your best neighbour (canada) when they had the sense and the balls to do what was right by not taking part in your murderous actions.
And finally, an alternate title to my post...
"why i wont spend my money by vacationing in the USA, and why I avoid buying american products as much as possible"
Lets use a WMD in a pre-emptive strike against groups that MAY have WMD's!
How proud would you as an American be if you had nuked Iraq... given that we now know that there was absolutely no trace of WMD's whatsoever?... Or would you have even known how big a mistake your country had made, given that some dumbass like Bush would just tell you that the WMD's were destroyed in the blast.
Bush and his cohorts are the problem, not the answer. They are the terrorists bent on destabilizing the world's security. He is a firm believer in the book of Revelations and Armeggedon.... and may just force that myth to become a reality at your expense.
IRAN is the new target.
Within 5 years Iran plans to have the bomb.
Iran is too big for Dubyafucker to invade in a conventional manner, without massive conscription.
Iran will be pre-emptively nuked by the time they are ready to test their first bomb. Hopefully it won't result in the immediate retaliatory destruction of the USA by the nations of the world whom this attack will anger.
The preparations are happening, this is not a troll, this is not flamebait.
Go ahead and ask your local representative why your airforce just ordered new flight simulators programmed specificaly for the topography of Iran.
my GUESS of 4 tons of CO2 from 1 ton of oil was surprisingly close to your calculation. A pure guess only about 25% different from your calculation. In other words, my numbers are basically right when compared with the meaningless crap in the parent message that did not even consider the fact that 1 ton of oil produces more than 1 ton of CO2.
I absolutely proved my point that we produce far more CO2 by burning fossil fuels than from the total amount exhaled by humans..... Roughly 10 times more just from burning oil, without even considering the enormous amount of coal and natural gas that is also burned each year.
Now as for bad science
GET A CLUE YOU STUPID FUCK.
The output of energy from the sun has increased over time. Solar energy output was about 20% less in the ordovician than it is today.
If it wasn't for the massive amount of CO2 in the atmosphere at the time and the resulting greenhouse effect, an ice age would be the least of the problems, average surface temperatures would be closer to -40.
You may not have noticed, but the earth no longer needs the help, its warm enough!
CO2 contributes to about 25% of the greenhouse effect, no where near as much as water vapour, but still very significant. We have increased CO2 by 50% in 200 years yet you can sit there saying it has no meaningful effect.
You have failed to consider that by adding CO2 to the atmosphere, the resulting increase in temperature adds more water vapour to the atmosphere with it's even more powerful greenhouse effect.
You also have not considered that the amounts of greenhouse gases may not be extreme over geologic time, but that the RATE of CHANGE is unprecedented! Life has not had time to adapt.
Already many species of birds have had their life cycles disturbed, reacting to the earlier spring temperatures before their food sources are available. Already many plant species have started flowering out of synch with the insects / animals that pollenate them.
If you can actually do some real science, without the slanted / biased information to show that CO2 is meaningless, then please do so... but in the mean time you are only hurting your own future and your children's future by ignoring the THOUSANDS of scientists around the world who have compiled the compelling evidence that global warming is happening, and is in step with our CO2 emissions.
Indeed, nothing between the covers of PC World has ever been groundbreaking. In fact it is generally way dumbed down, with articles that are little more than an advertisements.
I recall a PC World article some time ago... the headline was something like '101 windows tricks no one knows'
The first trick was using the ' X ' in the top right corner of a window to close the window.
If you believe that was unknown, i bet you also believed in WMD's in Iraq, and that 'no one could have anticipated a levee break' in New Orleans.
The emission of CO2 from soil has in fact NOT eliminated the benefit of the UK cutting their emissions.
The soil did not start emitting CO2 in 1990. It has been emitting CO2 all along.
The UK has still in fact reduced its overall emissions from industrial sources by the same amount, they just weren't aware of how big the rest of the CO2 pie was.
What a piece o crap article... we better not bother cutting emissions because theres other things we dont understand! run in fear! hide hide!... its better to go ahead blind and ensure that what we are doing damages the world we have to live in!
Slashdot Mirror
So its the Rube Goldberg inefficiencies for you is it?
... but not too much lest you kill the vortex, leaving the rest of the energy floating away in the wind ... ... or ... let the light hit a solar cell and directly generate electricity.
... not just from the 30m diameter structure .. but from the hot air above the hot ground all around the structure for some distance away ... and without all that hot air being drawn in from all around, the vortex dies a quick death of starvation.
... then use an array of mirrors to heat a central boiler. It's been done, and can easily produce megawatts of electricity .. and also avoids the rediculous inefficiencies of the vortex system.
Why don't you see the waste of letting the light from the sun hit the ground, re-radiate it as heat that warms up the air, that moves the air through convection, that if you're lucky and supply some additional energy to stabilize it, might form a controllable vortex, from which you can try to siphon off some of the kinetic energy in a turbine
It's all the same energy. If you would rather waste it by making a nifty vortex before you gather it, go right ahead, you're welcome to go bankrupt.
Where does the energy to move the vortex come from huh?
Take the same affected area, put the new high efficiency solar cells on it and you'll collect the energy in a much more efficient manner.
You'll also be able to collect energy any time the sun is up. The amount will very with the weather and time of day, but it won't be shut off the moment the temperature and intensity conditions aren't perfect to make the vortex work.
Still don't like solar cells?
dumbass.
The vortex system described is nothing more than a very inefficient solar power collector.
What a joke. Invest your money in researching higher efficiency solar cells. There's no need for this Rube Goldburg contraption that sits between the solar power and the generation of the electricity.
The effort required to get a stable vortex going will prevent any profitability. How much energy will have to be added to the system to start it, and to ensure that the heat supply at the bottom is strong enough and continuous?
Even natural tornadoes don't last for very long, and they would die faster if they didn't move. The movement ensures they don't deplete their heat source nearly instantly.
Thanks slashdot, you've now reported this non-story 3 times.
... instead of maybe reporting every 5th problem.
How about we start reporting every little problem with non-MS products 3 times each
It's time for a little balance here!
hehehe
... I bet Open Office 2.0 can or soon will read the open XML format, after all OO's native format is XML.
.... the 'open' part being somewhat redundant i would say.
what a funny little dumbass you are.
The current version of MS Office can read the XML files, it just doesnt save to that format unless you have the top end license.
And its time to learn some XML buddy, if your so worried about it just write your own MS Office XML translator or find one online that someone else has written.
Anyone out there know?
It's 'open XML'
Yes, the builders may just facilitate the building ... but they need to be responsible for the quality of the finished work, not just for minimizing the dollars spent.
... Our inspector never signed his inspection form. The bank didnt seem to care for our mortagage, they accepted it, but really if there's a problem, that inspector's ass is covered because his name isn't on it. We know better now for our next home.
... they just do bad work, sell the product, shut down, open under a new name. The criminals can't be tied back to the previous company.
Adera has been forced to do some repairs, such as fixing all the popped bits of drywall where they didnt let the mud dry properly before painting it.
They get away with it by not getting all the building permits they need, so inspectors arent necessarily aware of all the work being done, or they enclose in parts of their work before the inspectors come around because most of the lazy inspectors wont force the contractors to open things back up for proper inspection.
Then there's the public inspectors you hire when buying a place (as opposed to the city building code inspectors)
But mainly most of the bad work in this city is because
I'm not worried about resale value, Vancouver is insane. This townhouse has gone up in value from $200,000 to $300,000 in 4 years time. The trick will be to sell before the problems start costing us in repairs i guess.
I'm not surprised that the builder is trying to screw over the lady, while making a huge mess of their construction site.
... Adera ... is the same kind of company.
... again all from an AWARD WINNING building company! No wonder there's so many leaky condos in this city.
... even though they will simply shut down, start up under a new name, and carry on with their crap.
The 'Award Winning' company that built my townhouse in Burnaby BC
They knowingly built my whole complex below code. You can not get a queen sized mattress to the top floor going up the stairs, they are too narrow (yes, this is a building code they ignored). In fact some of the original owners here forced Adera to buy special two-piece mattress sets.
Then there's the brutal water heating system. They knew damn well that once the place had sold out, the water heater system would be totally inadequate and prone to breakdowns, forcing our strata to look into a Boiler system.
Then there's the creaky floors due to various other codes being ignored, such as distance between the stringers, and the methods of tying down the floor.
Then there's the fact that every damn outlet in the house is crooked, the builders couldnt take 2 seconds to level them, not even the ones cut through tiles!
And how about the severe cracking in the cement foundation in part of our underground parking.
And the insufficient gutters and downspouts, built below code, that overflow in a heavy rain.
And there's the landscaping that has been eroding away due to poor construction, one person has pretty much lost their back yard.
Our building is only 6 or 7 years old. These are just the bigger problems
I wish the lady luck, take down those bastards
Nice, but extremely old and outdated joke.
Take a look at the US economy, The record deficit and debt levels from your hugely irresponsible president, and refusal to follow trade agreements you willingly signed on to has destroyed world confidence in your finances and the value of your dollar.
So, its about $100 USD now.
Dumbass.
... To force you to follow the rules that YOU AGREED TO in the EULA?
... I could walk around like a dumb american and shoot people for not liking Texas ... and just like you, I will be caught and dealt with eventually.
... BY NOT BUYING OR USING THEIR SOFTWARE.
So you can't see that THAT is the whole point of the leased software?
Can you modify and sell today's software despite the EULA's you've agreed to? Yes, of course you can
If you don't like the agreements, then don't agree with them
Where do these dumbfucks come from?
It's been what 20 years or more since any software you've 'bought' has actually been yours, instead of simply licensed for your use.
Hey dumbass.
...
Do some research before you respond.
the liquid crystal diodes within an LCD display work to block specific frequencies of light depending on the voltage applied to each pixel. The crystal for each pixel mutes all the frequencies of light from the white light except for the desired colour which passes through.
How is this the same as using a light guide to pipe light to the display from an LED of a specific colour?
I'll make it easy for you
ITS NOT.
wow.
what a bullshit slanted article.
run be scared! wooo! the boogey man is coming!
Ignore the fact that more and more, Open Source is taking over, giving easy options to avoid the software vendors. Let them charge however they want. YOU DONT HAVE TO BUY IT.
wow, thats a lot of sarcasm in so few words.
1 ... Note the many descriptions of geometry engines and hardware antialiased lines and points, drivers optimized specificly for AutoCad, ArcGIS, and other softwares ... implemented especially for workstation applications. ... Note the many benchmark tests where the workstation cards perform way better than the gamer cards in workstation applications .... but fail horribly in the game tests.
you have google, do some research.
Or, if you really are totally useless, and ignorant of these strange 'workstation' video cards, here's a link, read all of its many pages:
http://anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=2307&p=
Hey buddy ... its becauase you are using a workstation video card instead of a regular gaming card.
... by a large factor.
Most workstation cards have hardware tuned for CAD / GIS type work, and when benchmarked against gaming cards with similar cores of the same generation, they kick ass on the CAD, and suck ass on the games
Use the right hardware for the right job.
Must be some DAMN IGNORANT BRITISH BASTARDS out there that can't the world knowing how their scientists have given the world AIDS.
Thanks for the ignorant flamebait mods.
No buddy,
... a wonderful thing.
... but research since has found people in the right part of Africa that acquired new unknown diseases in the right time period, with all the symptoms of AIDS. And there is a retro virus native to the monkeys in that area that are very closely related to the HIV virus.
The rumour is wrong.
AIDS was accidently created in africa in the 1950's by British scientists.
The scientists were helping the people of Africa by vaccinating them against polio.
BUT
The dumasses used the kidneys of local monkeys to grow the cultures of polio vaccine.
But the scientists didnt work under the same standards used in Europe and North America, so thousands of Africans were injected with a dirty mixture. Yes they were protected against polio, but they were exposed to viruses carried by the monkeys to which they had no immunity.
Yes, AIDS was 'discovered' in the 1980's
Of course the old British scientists deny it all, despite plenty of paperwork that still exists, and accounts from people who used to bring in the monkeys and work in the labs.
Right.
... instead, you just give the technology away so that other countries can do it for you.
You'd NEVER do that bad stuff.
You do recall that incident back when Hussein was your friend, where he missused the technology YOU game him don't you? I'm sure the thousands of dead Iranians have families that still remember the results of what you did.
You do recall the Millions of gallons of Agent Orange you sprayed on Vietnam don't you? To this day it is causing thousands of horrid birth defects in the descendants of the PEOPLE who were 'defoliated' by your supposed herbacide.
Your BULLSHIT country has broken dozens of treaties around the world in the last few years, from hugely destabilizing events like leaving the ABM treaty, to imposing illegal treaty breaking trade tariffs on YOUR FRIENDS in Canada.
You have ZERO credibility.
Shock and horror!
... most often accomplished by trying to steal all the market share you can at any cost, regardless of screwed customers and workers put out on the street.
Intel's business plan includes the nasty evil concept of making money!
How dare they produce a product for less than what they sell it for!
All good companies operate under a plan similar to the airlines, where the whole point is go bankrupt as fast as possible
Why didnt anyone send Intel the memo!
calm and rational.
ya, you're all about the calm and rational.
hypocrite bastard!
hahaha!
no wonder you are marked as 'freak'
The outlandish point i was making ... that Iran will be nuked within 5 years because the US can not invade Iran conventionaly was what I was referring to.
The fact that I used Bush's common street name in Canada is irrelevant.
Your inability to extract the meaning of my post, be shocked, and do something about your damn country "only shows immaturity, and detracts from your otherwise logical arguement"
congratulations on restating perfectly what I said. Did you even bother to read the next line?
Alternate title for the parent post:
....
... setting a nasty example for the rest of the world.
... and then politically attacking your best neighbour (canada) when they had the sense and the balls to do what was right by not taking part in your murderous actions.
...
"Why as an American, I must wear a Canadian flag when travelling the world."
Here's a hint for America, It's worked for decades for Canada, leading in general to great respect and friendship from most countries of the world
Help your neighbours instead of screwing them at every chance with illegal trade tariffs!
Don't go around making the world hate you because you can't restrain your greed!
Treat the world as if they have a right to exist, acknowledging that your laws stop at your border, that you must follow their laws within their borders.
Enforce your own constitution instead of constantly breaking it in the name of 'security'
And dont fucking attack other countries claiming they have WMD's when you know damn well they don't
And finally, an alternate title to my post
"why i wont spend my money by vacationing in the USA, and why I avoid buying american products as much as possible"
Does it make any sense at all?
... given that we now know that there was absolutely no trace of WMD's whatsoever? ... Or would you have even known how big a mistake your country had made, given that some dumbass like Bush would just tell you that the WMD's were destroyed in the blast.
.... and may just force that myth to become a reality at your expense.
Lets use a WMD in a pre-emptive strike against groups that MAY have WMD's!
How proud would you as an American be if you had nuked Iraq
Bush and his cohorts are the problem, not the answer. They are the terrorists bent on destabilizing the world's security. He is a firm believer in the book of Revelations and Armeggedon
IRAN is the new target.
Within 5 years Iran plans to have the bomb.
Iran is too big for Dubyafucker to invade in a conventional manner, without massive conscription.
Iran will be pre-emptively nuked by the time they are ready to test their first bomb. Hopefully it won't result in the immediate retaliatory destruction of the USA by the nations of the world whom this attack will anger.
The preparations are happening, this is not a troll, this is not flamebait.
Go ahead and ask your local representative why your airforce just ordered new flight simulators programmed specificaly for the topography of Iran.
Not bad at all,
.... Roughly 10 times more just from burning oil, without even considering the enormous amount of coal and natural gas that is also burned each year.
... but in the mean time you are only hurting your own future and your children's future by ignoring the THOUSANDS of scientists around the world who have compiled the compelling evidence that global warming is happening, and is in step with our CO2 emissions.
my GUESS of 4 tons of CO2 from 1 ton of oil was surprisingly close to your calculation. A pure guess only about 25% different from your calculation. In other words, my numbers are basically right when compared with the meaningless crap in the parent message that did not even consider the fact that 1 ton of oil produces more than 1 ton of CO2.
I absolutely proved my point that we produce far more CO2 by burning fossil fuels than from the total amount exhaled by humans.
Now as for bad science
GET A CLUE YOU STUPID FUCK.
The output of energy from the sun has increased over time. Solar energy output was about 20% less in the ordovician than it is today.
If it wasn't for the massive amount of CO2 in the atmosphere at the time and the resulting greenhouse effect, an ice age would be the least of the problems, average surface temperatures would be closer to -40.
You may not have noticed, but the earth no longer needs the help, its warm enough!
CO2 contributes to about 25% of the greenhouse effect, no where near as much as water vapour, but still very significant. We have increased CO2 by 50% in 200 years yet you can sit there saying it has no meaningful effect.
You have failed to consider that by adding CO2 to the atmosphere, the resulting increase in temperature adds more water vapour to the atmosphere with it's even more powerful greenhouse effect.
You also have not considered that the amounts of greenhouse gases may not be extreme over geologic time, but that the RATE of CHANGE is unprecedented! Life has not had time to adapt.
Already many species of birds have had their life cycles disturbed, reacting to the earlier spring temperatures before their food sources are available. Already many plant species have started flowering out of synch with the insects / animals that pollenate them.
If you can actually do some real science, without the slanted / biased information to show that CO2 is meaningless, then please do so
Indeed, nothing between the covers of PC World has ever been groundbreaking. In fact it is generally way dumbed down, with articles that are little more than an advertisements.
... the headline was something like '101 windows tricks no one knows'
I recall a PC World article some time ago
The first trick was using the ' X ' in the top right corner of a window to close the window.
If you believe that was unknown, i bet you also believed in WMD's in Iraq, and that 'no one could have anticipated a levee break' in New Orleans.
Hey Dumbasses!
... we better not bother cutting emissions because theres other things we dont understand! run in fear! hide hide! ... its better to go ahead blind and ensure that what we are doing damages the world we have to live in!
The emission of CO2 from soil has in fact NOT eliminated the benefit of the UK cutting their emissions.
The soil did not start emitting CO2 in 1990. It has been emitting CO2 all along.
The UK has still in fact reduced its overall emissions from industrial sources by the same amount, they just weren't aware of how big the rest of the CO2 pie was.
What a piece o crap article