The climate is already changing because of the CO2 currently in the atmosphere. We could stop burning fossil carbon today and global warming would still be a problem.
And what, you don't believe in peak oil? You think the earth is like a Tardis, bigger inside than out, with infinite reserves of oil? There will have to come a time when production starts to decline.
I just don't get how deniers can ignore simple logic. Oil companies will always find new reserves. We can keep pumping CO2 into the atmosphere without it ever affecting anything. Yeah, right. Just because things are bigger than your tiny mind can comprehend doesn't mean they're infinite. If something isn't going to happen in your lifetime, that doesn't mean it's never going to happen.
It's more akin to a library going out and photocopying magazines off shop shelves (the Internet Archive didn't pay for their copy, and made it without permission) and then letting anyone else view or even make a copy of them whenever they want.
Personally, I don't think what the Internet Archive is doing is wrong (as a rule), but I don't think the internet can be compared to any existing media -- it has aspects of many, but any analogy is going to break down somewhere. New rules have to be written.
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Off the top of my head... as the liquid is moving horizontally along the surface, it encounters air molecules, which causes the leading edge of the surface to pile up. As it piles up, it acquires the vertical component. Less air pressure -> less air molecules encountered -> less piling up -> less vertical component -> less splashing.
Friction with the surface will slow down the liquid at the surface, but without the air resistance liquid not in contact with the surface just flows over the slower liquid at the surface and so doesn't pile up.
Of course, IANAP, so this worth exactly what you paid for it. If, on the other hand, I happen to be right -- remember, you heard it here first!
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The climate is already changing because of the CO2 currently in the atmosphere. We could stop burning fossil carbon today and global warming would still be a problem.
And what, you don't believe in peak oil? You think the earth is like a Tardis, bigger inside than out, with infinite reserves of oil? There will have to come a time when production starts to decline.
I just don't get how deniers can ignore simple logic. Oil companies will always find new reserves. We can keep pumping CO2 into the atmosphere without it ever affecting anything. Yeah, right. Just because things are bigger than your tiny mind can comprehend doesn't mean they're infinite. If something isn't going to happen in your lifetime, that doesn't mean it's never going to happen.
Do you have children?
It's more akin to a library going out and photocopying magazines off shop shelves (the Internet Archive didn't pay for their copy, and made it without permission) and then letting anyone else view or even make a copy of them whenever they want.
Personally, I don't think what the Internet Archive is doing is wrong (as a rule), but I don't think the internet can be compared to any existing media -- it has aspects of many, but any analogy is going to break down somewhere. New rules have to be written.
Off the top of my head... as the liquid is moving horizontally along the surface, it encounters air molecules, which causes the leading edge of the surface to pile up. As it piles up, it acquires the vertical component. Less air pressure -> less air molecules encountered -> less piling up -> less vertical component -> less splashing.
Friction with the surface will slow down the liquid at the surface, but without the air resistance liquid not in contact with the surface just flows over the slower liquid at the surface and so doesn't pile up.
Of course, IANAP, so this worth exactly what you paid for it. If, on the other hand, I happen to be right -- remember, you heard it here first!