I just find it really odd that you're so interested in cleaning things, and then claim that you need extensive chemistry knowledge to understand how that works.
And sorry, but being proud of not owning a periodic table? Isn't that a bad female stereotype?
I probably shouldn't have said anything, but I found your "oh, I couldn't possibly know anything" attitude offensive. Especially when you feel the need to point out that you're female in the 3rd word. And while I know guys with irons, and I don't use mine for much, I do happen to be female.
Yeah, I figured this guy was going to force me to pull up cites, so here we go:
http://www.gfdl.gov/~tk/glob_warm_hurr.html A quick first search turned this one up, and it seems to list all the papers along with dissents. If you look at section #4, those are the papers I'm thinking of. Dissenters seem to say that our instrumentation isn't accurate(*) and that the data set isn't long enough. Too bad we won't actually put up more and better instrumentation.
(*) There's six hurricane basins to look at. Some satelites only cover a small area, some may be old and not very sensitive. Etc.
Formula goes: undergraduate education graduate education postdoc until you can get hired low-level faculty (tenure track, if you are lucky) where you work like mad until you finally (if ever) get tenure
Instead most people I know dropped out of physics and went into... wait for it... programming.
And folks, we need some serious investment in science right now.
Um, isn't that practically the case now, given that it is harder and harder to get?
Do you actually see tenured profs slacking off? Because I have to say, that hasn't been my experience. They might not be able to fire you, but there's still pay raises to get.
You can always do forced retirement, and then you don't have to worry about it. That is certainly the case at some institutions.
Or are you just making it up? I wouldn't be surprised if they've increased military spending, and a lot of that gets back into research grants. But spending on "global warming sciences"? No. They've cut money to NASA that would have put up new satelites to monitor the short-term weather and long-term climate.
This shouldn't really surprise anyone, because oil companies have a vested interest in us not going off fossil fuels anytime soon. They also give lots of political contributions. Thus we have a populace that thinks global warming is a myth, or a media doomsday saga. And everytime there's a cold spell, someone is happy to point it out, all the while ignoring that the average temperature is climbing.
I did that once. Shorted the battery, and because I didn't realize I should rinse it, I must have corroded the board, since it never quite worked right. Yours must have had a better casing or something.
In my going for sarcasm in the last sentence, I didn't mean to imply that ocean temperatures are only slightly correlated with hurricanes. They are: warmer water gives you stronger hurricanes, because that's how they build up their energy.
Now here's the interesting part: the warmer waters given to us by climate change so far haven't actually been also giving us stronger storms. Instead they've been giving us more frequent storms. And so hurricane season actually started several weeks early this year, whereas when I was a kid, I remember them announcing the start of hurricane season, but then you didn't actually have any storms out there until August. And now you get them in May!
No, it's part of the new policy on global warming: if you can't detect it, it isn't there.
And so funding was cut on climate monitoring satelites. Even though we need more monitoring on ocean temperatures and the like to refine computer models. I imagine this was just caught up in it, since ocean temperatures are sorta coorelated with strong hurricanes...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intergovernmental_Pan el_on_Climate_Change If you go and try to read the entry on the IPCC (ie just released UN report on climate change) to try and get an idea of what the report says, and what problems there might be with it, well, good luck. You get the current conclusions at the top, but with no practical discussion. And then no actual scientific discussion of where the errors are. None. Everything mentioned as "problems" seems to be a pseudoscience flamewar. Problems with earlier reports blend in to be problems with this report. The whole article is a mess.
The report itself is easier to read!
(I do like that someone linked to the Stern Review at the end though. *grin*)
Can someone explain why he is in jail now? If the case were in 2001... And it's a misdemeanor?
I called the Attorney General's office, they said there were ways to protest against judges and whatnot. I'm not sure what a really useful thing to tell them is, but presumably more public exposure would help.
So far/. seems to be the biggest news outlet this has hit. So he's probably screwed.
Posting Anon to not get flooded with requests. My training services are availabe online and I will not train any kitten older than 7 weeks. YOU HAVE TO start early and for 2-3 months. and no I will not give out my secrets, I make big bucks at this.
Your post left me thinking of a mysterious billionaire cat-trainer decked out in gold, furs, and diamonds.
Yeah... If this guy is rich training *kittens*, he must have it easy. Now if he would tell me how to get my adult cat to stop attempting to groom me when hair dangles her way, or wake me up by licking my hair (both of which tangle it endlessly), THEN I'd be impressed.
I have a poofball cat!
Keep in mind that "we" are being "prosperous" on the back of cheap oil. At least in the USA, I'm not sure that actually equates to "good quality of life".
As for aid, you have corrupt governments to deal with, which is a reasonable excuse for placing certain demands on it. But don't use that as an excuse for not giving any.
This doesn't mean we should throw up our hands---indeed many of our trade policies make the First World countries richer at the expense of the Third. See http://www.lwr.org/advocacy/tradeprimer.pdf for more information.
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Um, did you see the url I posted later on? I admit my memories are not scientific data, which is why we have the NOAA. :>
I just find it really odd that you're so interested in cleaning things, and then claim that you need extensive chemistry knowledge to understand how that works.
And sorry, but being proud of not owning a periodic table? Isn't that a bad female stereotype?
I probably shouldn't have said anything, but I found your "oh, I couldn't possibly know anything" attitude offensive. Especially when you feel the need to point out that you're female in the 3rd word. And while I know guys with irons, and I don't use mine for much, I do happen to be female.
So, I guess that's "no, I don't have any cites".
And last I checked NASA was the only agency the USA had that launched things into space.
Yeah, I figured this guy was going to force me to pull up cites, so here we go:
http://www.gfdl.gov/~tk/glob_warm_hurr.html
A quick first search turned this one up, and it seems to list all the papers along with dissents.
If you look at section #4, those are the papers I'm thinking of. Dissenters seem to say that our instrumentation isn't accurate(*) and that the data set isn't long enough. Too bad we won't actually put up more and better instrumentation.
(*) There's six hurricane basins to look at. Some satelites only cover a small area, some may be old and not very sensitive. Etc.
Don't be so harsh on people who don't want a stupid America. Because that's where we've been headed.
Joint projects are nice, but they only work if you *have* people you can actually send.
This is sad but quite true.
Formula goes:
undergraduate education
graduate education
postdoc until you can get hired
low-level faculty (tenure track, if you are lucky) where you work like mad until you finally (if ever) get tenure
Instead most people I know dropped out of physics and went into... wait for it... programming.
And folks, we need some serious investment in science right now.
it emits water vapor, which is a greenhouse gas
Um, isn't that practically the case now, given that it is harder and harder to get?
Do you actually see tenured profs slacking off? Because I have to say, that hasn't been my experience. They might not be able to fire you, but there's still pay raises to get.
You can always do forced retirement, and then you don't have to worry about it. That is certainly the case at some institutions.
Or are you just making it up? I wouldn't be surprised if they've increased military spending, and a lot of that gets back into research grants. But spending on "global warming sciences"? No. They've cut money to NASA that would have put up new satelites to monitor the short-term weather and long-term climate.
This shouldn't really surprise anyone, because oil companies have a vested interest in us not going off fossil fuels anytime soon. They also give lots of political contributions. Thus we have a populace that thinks global warming is a myth, or a media doomsday saga. And everytime there's a cold spell, someone is happy to point it out, all the while ignoring that the average temperature is climbing.
How did this guy get modded up? This is such a troll!
Replace "global warming" with "evolution" and reread the post and you'll see what I mean.
I did that once. Shorted the battery, and because I didn't realize I should rinse it, I must have corroded the board, since it never quite worked right. Yours must have had a better casing or something.
You're telling me that because you're a "real female" you don't know that you ought to use distilled water? What else do you put in your iron?
Now think about why.
In my going for sarcasm in the last sentence, I didn't mean to imply that ocean temperatures are only slightly correlated with hurricanes. They are: warmer water gives you stronger hurricanes, because that's how they build up their energy.
Now here's the interesting part: the warmer waters given to us by climate change so far haven't actually been also giving us stronger storms. Instead they've been giving us more frequent storms. And so hurricane season actually started several weeks early this year, whereas when I was a kid, I remember them announcing the start of hurricane season, but then you didn't actually have any storms out there until August. And now you get them in May!
No, it's part of the new policy on global warming: if you can't detect it, it isn't there.
And so funding was cut on climate monitoring satelites. Even though we need more monitoring on ocean temperatures and the like to refine computer models. I imagine this was just caught up in it, since ocean temperatures are sorta coorelated with strong hurricanes...
No science is good science!
Bet you transferred out.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intergovernmental_Pan el_on_Climate_Change
If you go and try to read the entry on the IPCC (ie just released UN report on climate change) to try and get an idea of what the report says, and what problems there might be with it, well, good luck. You get the current conclusions at the top, but with no practical discussion. And then no actual scientific discussion of where the errors are. None. Everything mentioned as "problems" seems to be a pseudoscience flamewar. Problems with earlier reports blend in to be problems with this report. The whole article is a mess.
The report itself is easier to read!
(I do like that someone linked to the Stern Review at the end though. *grin*)
So is there evidence the DA or judge was corrupt? What details do we give? It sounds like mass protest write-ins would be most useful at this point.
Can someone explain why he is in jail now? If the case were in 2001... And it's a misdemeanor?
/. seems to be the biggest news outlet this has hit. So he's probably screwed.
I called the Attorney General's office, they said there were ways to protest against judges and whatnot. I'm not sure what a really useful thing to tell them is, but presumably more public exposure would help.
So far
To contact the California Attorney General's office, there is
http://ag.ca.gov/contact/index.php
(916) 322-3360
But what do you say? Are we already overtaken?
...in all of California. Remember that CA stretches for a good distance North/South. The temperature is also moderated by the proximity to the ocean.
But wait a few years and it'll get hotter.
That would mean, what? Kernel hacking? Yeah, that is pretty sick. But HOT.
You know how at concerts, chicks throw underwear at hot rock stars?
Well, ten years ago, I meant to email Linus some ASCII art underwear.
(Wow but that was a long time ago.)
Publishers should divide their textbooks into two parts. Easier to lug around that way...
Maybe even three or four parts with some of 'em.
As for aid, you have corrupt governments to deal with, which is a reasonable excuse for placing certain demands on it. But don't use that as an excuse for not giving any.
This doesn't mean we should throw up our hands---indeed many of our trade policies make the First World countries richer at the expense of the Third. See http://www.lwr.org/advocacy/tradeprimer.pdf for more information.
And I have to agree with the OP.
Maybe they'll invest in mom-n-pop brick & mortar bookstores. Oh, wait, those don't show a profit either!