I couldn't believe the overwhelmingly disbelieving posts that were being put up. Sure, global warming has been exaggerated in the media over the past decade, and the massively complex effects of CO2 emissions are not completely understood, but global warming is a very, very clear reality. I'm doing some computer modeling of this stuff for NASA this summer, and the "theory of global warming from antropogenic CO2" is about as solid as the "theory of evolution". This is reality... the effects of CO2 production are perhaps not so dramatic right now, but very significant changes are afoot.
Some of the textbooks now are chock-full of history... in some of my CS classes each textbook chapter will start with how whatever you're discussing was developed, i.e. pipelined datapaths, etc. etc.
They read like intro physics books, in other words.
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I couldn't believe the overwhelmingly disbelieving posts that were being put up. Sure, global warming has been exaggerated in the media over the past decade, and the massively complex effects of CO2 emissions are not completely understood, but global warming is a very, very clear reality. I'm doing some computer modeling of this stuff for NASA this summer, and the "theory of global warming from antropogenic CO2" is about as solid as the "theory of evolution". This is reality... the effects of CO2 production are perhaps not so dramatic right now, but very significant changes are afoot.
Some of the textbooks now are chock-full of history... in some of my CS classes each textbook chapter will start with how whatever you're discussing was developed, i.e. pipelined datapaths, etc. etc.
They read like intro physics books, in other words.
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