The atmospheric lifetime for methane is about 12 years. Methane breaks down into CO2 and water vapor. So while it has a stronger greenhouse effect, it's short lifetime makes methane itself not really contribute much to the overall effect if it's just a spike. If there is a long continuous increase in methane production then that has a larger impact, but for an event like a "clathrate gun" temperatures would have a temporary surge then cool back down a bit.
The resulting bump in CO2 however would have a longer term effect. The atmospheric lifetime of CO2 is around 150+ years. So after the stronger effect of methane goes away, your left with a smaller but longer lasting effect from the CO2.
And we weren't here. Neither was our agricultural infrastructure, our food crops, our livestock, our climate, or really anything that has helped humans survive and thrive.
Sure, let's gamble by throwing the system we all depend on to survive off-kilter. What could possibly go wrong?
Nothing convinces people with irrational fears. How did you think Trump got elected in the first place? By appealing to people's intelligence?
Regardless, "nuclear" has been branded as a bad word (unless you want to use it on North Korea, then apparently it's now a good word). No amount of facts or reasoning is going to work until things get bad enough that there's no real alternative.
It would be extremely difficult for the Earth to achieve the right conditions to induce a runaway greenhouse effect similar to Venus. It's just not plausible based on known sources of carbon and are distance from the sun.
In about a billion years or so, that will change. But a worse case for Earth is somewhere in the neighborhood of +12C-15C. That would pretty much wipe out all but the hardiest life forms on the surface today, but it wouldn't be a runaway greenhouse.
It's because the swill they swallow encourages them to shut off their brains. They create a boogeyman, then push a message of hate. It can be Mexicans or African Americans or gays or whatever. It doesn't matter. Once they have people being afraid, they got them by the balls. The will do and defend anything, regardless of how stupid or self destructive it is.
Hence why Trump is president and no matter what he does his supporters will still back him. And they have proven that time and time again. A solid percentage of his supporters get their healthcare from Obamacare, yet they want it destroyed. A solid percentage think the rich elite should pay their share, yet cheer on blatant tax cuts for the rich. The list goes on and on.
The ironic thing is, these people don't actually want Trump. They have been so brainwashed that liberals are evil that you could put a mass murdering psychopath up against a democratic candidate and they would vote for the mass murdering psychopath. It's quite fascinating from a psychological and sociological stand point. Perhaps if future generations ever study this time period after digging up our remains from the toxic and nuclear ash, they'll gather some insight about how such a civilization could end so quickly and make it a point NOT to do that.
No, no there not. They're commercial social spaces created to make money. They are owned wholly and fully by said companies.The companies can do whatever they want with them, including censoring. They can make them whites only, blacks only, jews only, etc. There are no laws anywhere stating otherwise.
It doesn't matter what you think. Until the laws change, facebook and other such sites can do whatever they want with their sites.
No, hurricane seasons haven't been "tame as shit". Hurricanes have hit other areas. Hurricanes have gone out to sea. But hurricanes didn't suddenly "stop". You just didn't hear about them because they weren't hitting the US.
Superstorm Sandy was a hybrid tropical system, transitioning to extratropical. The reason it cost so much was because there was no way TO PREPARE. What, you think they could erect a 6 foot sea wall along all of New York in a span of days? You think New York was the only place to suffer damage? you're either stupid or terribly ignorant. Even if they had a weeks notice there would have been little that could have been done to prevent the damage. Get people out of harms way? Sure. Prevent the damage? Not even remotely. It would take a major public works project to do so, and likely a good 5-10 years to complete.
But more to the point, when you're establishing a premise, pick a side. "The storm was overhyped" or "they weren't prepared". Pick one.
Also, no California isn't always on fire. It's really not that hard to look up wildfire statistics and notice the trend.
This is what I've been saying for a while. The Repulican party hasn't been "Republican" for quite some time. It's now become some sort of far right wing corporatists/neo-fascist group hell bent and bending the nation over for their own profit.
Seriously, can you imagine someone like Reagan being in the RINO party today? Do you think Reagan would support a man shaped turd like Trump? There's no way. There are maybe a handful of true Republicans left in congress, and they're under full attack by their own party because they can't in good conscience support the chaos and sociopathy brought on by these RINOs.
I laugh every time I here a Trump supporter say, "Wait, I didn't want this!". Do you not research people you vote for? What in Trump's history would have made anyone think he would be a competent moral president? "I just didn't want Hillary!" So you choose a well known narcissistic sociopathic asshole instead? What kind of logical reasoning is that?
Whatever. Hope all those red-staters are enjoying their "winning".
It all started with Fox News winning cases for being an "entertainment" company as opposed to a news organization. It's pretty much all gone downhill from there.
There should be an asterisk next to that statement. Propaganda always works IF you know the population you are targeting.
Russia knew EXACTLY who they were targeting. They knew the issues, the hot buttons, the ideologues. In fact, the world of global media made their job almost idiotically simple. Most Americans don't give a shit about what happens in the rest of the world, but the rest of the world certainly gets more than they care for of America via our never ending stream of media. No subterfuge or spying necessary. The Russians literally just watched our 24 hour news networks and built a targeted propaganda campaign from that.
And of course, that never-ending stream of idiocy also primed the pump to the point where it was almost impossible for the Russian campaign to fail. People WANTED to believe. They turned off the critical thinking parts of their brain long ago, and would just vacuum up anything that agreed with their world view no matter how ludicrous or questionable the source might be. The Russian troll masters didn't even need to try. One comment and an entire forum would go up like a tinder box.
Oh, and pretty much every employer - especially large employers - are pushed to have all people (regardless of age, sex, etc) at a given position level to be within a certain spread. If you're in the upper end of the spread, then HR pushes for a promotion so they can keep the numbers relatively close together. If you're at the bottom of the spread, then HR pushes for pay raises. Essentially, the position might have a spread of $20k, but HR pushes to keep folks within $5-10k of each other.
But that brings about a problem. They force their good people out of what they're good at and into something like management because they exceed the salary range. This leads to their top talent leaving the company because not everyone wants to climb the corporate ladder or become management.
Sometimes an engineer just wants to be an engineer.
Do your research on the area before entering into a negotiation.
Most companies are looking to get a bargain basement deal. Ask them the range that they are looking for if it isn't provided. If the range isn't at or near the average (or worse, compensate adequately for the cost of living for the area) then you don't want to work for them.
That doesn't mean you can't aim higher. But if a company isn't even offering comparable salaries you can be pretty sure everything else won't be comparable either.
This is about fall foliage, and how the warm weather will reduce the appearance of certain colors. There is no "panic" here.
But to correct your obvious (Russian) trolling, La Nina typically results in cooler temperatures for the Eastern US. If anything the temperatures should have been cooler, but they weren't due to a huge blocking ridge over the western half of the country. Blocking ridges such as these have become a more common occurrence as the northern jet weakens. The northern jet has been weakening over the past few decades as a result of a decreasing temperature differential between the southern and northern air masses. That differential has been decreasing because the arctic regions have seen a persistent and large positive temperature anomaly. That persistent large positive temperature anomaly is the result of an increase in greenhouse gases that has occurred, mostly centered in the northern hemisphere where most of the worlds population and production centers reside.
But back to the original article, there is no panicking going on. Just a simple scientific observation. I understand how that could confuse someone like you.
Scott Pruitt is an asshole. He's that amoral jackass in the movie who always realizes at the end of the movie just how fucking stupid they are, and die gruesomely as a result. Think of "the company" in the Alien movies. People like Burke. They just have no fucking clue what they're dealing with, and when reality catches up to them them get their faces eaten.
The aren't a regulated public utility. Sure, by pure legal definition they are but they are a monopoly in a state where their quarterly corporate profits exceed the entire state's budget. They own enough "interests" and have deep enough pockets that they can pretty much get away with anything they want, and they do.
That's a lie. The most recent map showing where fiber rollouts show they are confined to small areas of the state, mainly due to comcrap's...how shall we say...influence preventing the expansion.
Comcrap is comcrap. They serve only comcrap.. They have not and will not do ANYTHING in a state where they hold a veritable monopoly for the customer unless they are absolutely forced to. Comcrap is like a new version of AT&T: We're Comcast. We don't care. We don't have to.
It's not the language. If you aren't taught basic security concepts you're not going to write secure code regardless of the language. Worse if the language gives you a rocket launcher to blow your own foot off with (like C).
Secure programming isn't something you take one class on to become an expert in, anymore than taking a single course on building a safe makes you capable of building a crack-proof safe. Secure application development is not something you just "pick up". It requires study, resources, and effort. You know, things a number of companies just aren't willing to pay for.
Puerto Rico could easily meet it's power needs with wave power. They have multiple sources of renewable power on the island so I'm not sure why the focus is just on solar.
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The atmospheric lifetime for methane is about 12 years. Methane breaks down into CO2 and water vapor. So while it has a stronger greenhouse effect, it's short lifetime makes methane itself not really contribute much to the overall effect if it's just a spike. If there is a long continuous increase in methane production then that has a larger impact, but for an event like a "clathrate gun" temperatures would have a temporary surge then cool back down a bit.
The resulting bump in CO2 however would have a longer term effect. The atmospheric lifetime of CO2 is around 150+ years. So after the stronger effect of methane goes away, your left with a smaller but longer lasting effect from the CO2.
When has academia paid as well as the commercial sector?
You'll see real change when people like you crack open a physics book and realize the universe doesn't run on your ideology.
And we weren't here. Neither was our agricultural infrastructure, our food crops, our livestock, our climate, or really anything that has helped humans survive and thrive.
Sure, let's gamble by throwing the system we all depend on to survive off-kilter. What could possibly go wrong?
Nothing convinces people with irrational fears. How did you think Trump got elected in the first place? By appealing to people's intelligence?
Regardless, "nuclear" has been branded as a bad word (unless you want to use it on North Korea, then apparently it's now a good word). No amount of facts or reasoning is going to work until things get bad enough that there's no real alternative.
It would be extremely difficult for the Earth to achieve the right conditions to induce a runaway greenhouse effect similar to Venus. It's just not plausible based on known sources of carbon and are distance from the sun.
In about a billion years or so, that will change. But a worse case for Earth is somewhere in the neighborhood of +12C-15C. That would pretty much wipe out all but the hardiest life forms on the surface today, but it wouldn't be a runaway greenhouse.
It's because the swill they swallow encourages them to shut off their brains. They create a boogeyman, then push a message of hate. It can be Mexicans or African Americans or gays or whatever. It doesn't matter. Once they have people being afraid, they got them by the balls. The will do and defend anything, regardless of how stupid or self destructive it is.
Hence why Trump is president and no matter what he does his supporters will still back him. And they have proven that time and time again. A solid percentage of his supporters get their healthcare from Obamacare, yet they want it destroyed. A solid percentage think the rich elite should pay their share, yet cheer on blatant tax cuts for the rich. The list goes on and on.
The ironic thing is, these people don't actually want Trump. They have been so brainwashed that liberals are evil that you could put a mass murdering psychopath up against a democratic candidate and they would vote for the mass murdering psychopath. It's quite fascinating from a psychological and sociological stand point. Perhaps if future generations ever study this time period after digging up our remains from the toxic and nuclear ash, they'll gather some insight about how such a civilization could end so quickly and make it a point NOT to do that.
No, no there not. They're commercial social spaces created to make money. They are owned wholly and fully by said companies.The companies can do whatever they want with them, including censoring. They can make them whites only, blacks only, jews only, etc. There are no laws anywhere stating otherwise.
It doesn't matter what you think. Until the laws change, facebook and other such sites can do whatever they want with their sites.
No, hurricane seasons haven't been "tame as shit". Hurricanes have hit other areas. Hurricanes have gone out to sea. But hurricanes didn't suddenly "stop". You just didn't hear about them because they weren't hitting the US.
Superstorm Sandy was a hybrid tropical system, transitioning to extratropical. The reason it cost so much was because there was no way TO PREPARE. What, you think they could erect a 6 foot sea wall along all of New York in a span of days? You think New York was the only place to suffer damage? you're either stupid or terribly ignorant. Even if they had a weeks notice there would have been little that could have been done to prevent the damage. Get people out of harms way? Sure. Prevent the damage? Not even remotely. It would take a major public works project to do so, and likely a good 5-10 years to complete.
But more to the point, when you're establishing a premise, pick a side. "The storm was overhyped" or "they weren't prepared". Pick one.
Also, no California isn't always on fire. It's really not that hard to look up wildfire statistics and notice the trend.
This is what I've been saying for a while. The Repulican party hasn't been "Republican" for quite some time. It's now become some sort of far right wing corporatists/neo-fascist group hell bent and bending the nation over for their own profit.
Seriously, can you imagine someone like Reagan being in the RINO party today? Do you think Reagan would support a man shaped turd like Trump? There's no way. There are maybe a handful of true Republicans left in congress, and they're under full attack by their own party because they can't in good conscience support the chaos and sociopathy brought on by these RINOs.
I laugh every time I here a Trump supporter say, "Wait, I didn't want this!". Do you not research people you vote for? What in Trump's history would have made anyone think he would be a competent moral president? "I just didn't want Hillary!" So you choose a well known narcissistic sociopathic asshole instead? What kind of logical reasoning is that?
Whatever. Hope all those red-staters are enjoying their "winning".
It all started with Fox News winning cases for being an "entertainment" company as opposed to a news organization. It's pretty much all gone downhill from there.
There should be an asterisk next to that statement. Propaganda always works IF you know the population you are targeting.
Russia knew EXACTLY who they were targeting. They knew the issues, the hot buttons, the ideologues. In fact, the world of global media made their job almost idiotically simple. Most Americans don't give a shit about what happens in the rest of the world, but the rest of the world certainly gets more than they care for of America via our never ending stream of media. No subterfuge or spying necessary. The Russians literally just watched our 24 hour news networks and built a targeted propaganda campaign from that.
And of course, that never-ending stream of idiocy also primed the pump to the point where it was almost impossible for the Russian campaign to fail. People WANTED to believe. They turned off the critical thinking parts of their brain long ago, and would just vacuum up anything that agreed with their world view no matter how ludicrous or questionable the source might be. The Russian troll masters didn't even need to try. One comment and an entire forum would go up like a tinder box.
Easiest intelligence operation ever.
Oh, and pretty much every employer - especially large employers - are pushed to have all people (regardless of age, sex, etc) at a given position level to be within a certain spread. If you're in the upper end of the spread, then HR pushes for a promotion so they can keep the numbers relatively close together. If you're at the bottom of the spread, then HR pushes for pay raises. Essentially, the position might have a spread of $20k, but HR pushes to keep folks within $5-10k of each other.
But that brings about a problem. They force their good people out of what they're good at and into something like management because they exceed the salary range. This leads to their top talent leaving the company because not everyone wants to climb the corporate ladder or become management.
Sometimes an engineer just wants to be an engineer.
Do your research on the area before entering into a negotiation.
Most companies are looking to get a bargain basement deal. Ask them the range that they are looking for if it isn't provided. If the range isn't at or near the average (or worse, compensate adequately for the cost of living for the area) then you don't want to work for them.
That doesn't mean you can't aim higher. But if a company isn't even offering comparable salaries you can be pretty sure everything else won't be comparable either.
Ignorance is bliss. Unfortunately it's hard to ignore twitter when the Idiot President Trump is threatening nuclear war. :P
Panicking? About what?
This is about fall foliage, and how the warm weather will reduce the appearance of certain colors. There is no "panic" here.
But to correct your obvious (Russian) trolling, La Nina typically results in cooler temperatures for the Eastern US. If anything the temperatures should have been cooler, but they weren't due to a huge blocking ridge over the western half of the country. Blocking ridges such as these have become a more common occurrence as the northern jet weakens. The northern jet has been weakening over the past few decades as a result of a decreasing temperature differential between the southern and northern air masses. That differential has been decreasing because the arctic regions have seen a persistent and large positive temperature anomaly. That persistent large positive temperature anomaly is the result of an increase in greenhouse gases that has occurred, mostly centered in the northern hemisphere where most of the worlds population and production centers reside.
But back to the original article, there is no panicking going on. Just a simple scientific observation. I understand how that could confuse someone like you.
Why bother cheating? It's a game. It's like saying, "Woohoo, I won the marathon!" while driving a hemi.
Seriously, if you have to cheat in a video game to make yourself feel 733t, you need to re-examine your priorities.
He speaks the truth! I mean, why else would he post as Anonymous Koward Comrade?
"Otherwise folks are going to keep voting GOP because, well, what have you got to lose?"
You know what? You're right. All our problems will go away once we go away! YAY TRUMP! NUKE NK! WW3 FTW!
Scott Pruitt is an asshole. He's that amoral jackass in the movie who always realizes at the end of the movie just how fucking stupid they are, and die gruesomely as a result. Think of "the company" in the Alien movies. People like Burke. They just have no fucking clue what they're dealing with, and when reality catches up to them them get their faces eaten.
You don't fuck with mother nature.
The aren't a regulated public utility. Sure, by pure legal definition they are but they are a monopoly in a state where their quarterly corporate profits exceed the entire state's budget. They own enough "interests" and have deep enough pockets that they can pretty much get away with anything they want, and they do.
That's a lie. The most recent map showing where fiber rollouts show they are confined to small areas of the state, mainly due to comcrap's...how shall we say...influence preventing the expansion.
Comcrap is comcrap. They serve only comcrap.. They have not and will not do ANYTHING in a state where they hold a veritable monopoly for the customer unless they are absolutely forced to. Comcrap is like a new version of AT&T: We're Comcast. We don't care. We don't have to.
Ever see how secure a student level C program is?
It's not the language. If you aren't taught basic security concepts you're not going to write secure code regardless of the language. Worse if the language gives you a rocket launcher to blow your own foot off with (like C).
Secure programming isn't something you take one class on to become an expert in, anymore than taking a single course on building a safe makes you capable of building a crack-proof safe. Secure application development is not something you just "pick up". It requires study, resources, and effort. You know, things a number of companies just aren't willing to pay for.
Puerto Rico could easily meet it's power needs with wave power. They have multiple sources of renewable power on the island so I'm not sure why the focus is just on solar.
Count yourself lucky. I've been screaming into the void for years as well. Then it started screaming back.