Make Congress ratify Kyoto just like the other 142 countries did?
Increase the car efficiency standards at least to the Chinese level in the USA?
Stop trying to deny the manmade global warming, which the scientific consensus supports and engage in a worldwide debate about what steps need to be taken in order to minimize CO2 output? Just off the top of my head...
The US is only #10th because there are some very small countries insignificant to the global economy that outdo the country per capita. The US is the first if you compare countries of economic significance.
The source can be found at the bottom of the page, which you would have found by very little effort.
It's here. There is a small lag between the C02 and temperature levels, which is insignificant in the grand scheme of things, but means a few decades for us.
Noone is talking about the doom of the human race, but I guess we'd all like to avoid moving 100-200 million people in the next few decades if possible.
What about it? There were actually three small periods like that. Temperature strongly correlated with CO2 levels. So? We have change on a much bigger scale now. CO2 is way way up and temperature with it. Forgive me for not subscribing to the conspiracy theories about falsification and sticking to the data...
Like um 20 years? If your five minute attention span can't handle events that far in the future you might want to reconsider visiting a website for geeks.
I know you were sarcastic, but the statement is actually not true for two reasons:
Transportation is on the permafrost, only problem is that the frost is not really perma now, if you get my drift. Cars, houses, etc "sink". Pipelines have the same problem, making it a maintenance nightmare.
Are you on Crack? USA largest polluter in the world? Yeah when you look at numbers like per person polution. When you look at total polution out put china and India both top the US by a large margin May I suggest you at least google pollution. (or visit mexico city)
Ok, so...there have been past dramatic climate changes on the earth that have happend and were certainly not caused by humans. ...
Given that the earth has had dramatic climate changes well before people could have possibly had anything to do with it...why is that anyone who believes this could be the case here must be some type of moronic fool?
You have to look at the scale of the change. In the last 600'000 years the CO2 levels never exceeded a certain threshold. We are now over that threshold roughly 2-3x. Temperature change strongly correlates with CO2 levels, and while correlation doesn't mean causation, it is reasonably certain to assume that such correlation will be true in the future aswell since the previous half million years of data about temperature correlates the CO2 levels so closely.
So my question is, given strong correlation and that CO2 levels are 2-3x higher NOW than they were previously, what kind of change in temperature would you diagnose?
Yeah well, under travel in context of public officials you usually mean a planned official visit, not passing through a country on your way to a destination. In this sense as president he never travelled to the USA. But thanks for nitpicking...
The Hungarian President (of State) Laszlo Solyom won't travel to the USA until the US keeps up the fingerprinting and the visa requirement against hungarian citizens, as citizens of a EU member state.
One time he did travel to New York, but that was to UN grounds, so technically not part of the USA.
Why are people so hell bent on using voting machines? What benefits could voting machines provide that can counterbalance the loss of transparency and accountability that inevitably occurs even if open source/standardized protocols and machines were to be used, compared to voting with paper? Is it really more important that people know a result of their vote faster than that they know that the result is what they actually voted for?
While it's just a nitpick I thought I'd correct you that Eastern Europe is GMT+3 at max, so there is three hours of difference, not suprising since GMT is in Western Europe...
In my experience with debian, upgrading between releases were mostly flawless.
I've did it from potato to woody, from woody to sarge, from sarge to etch, from woody to sid and a lot of other combinations...
It took three steps: 1. changing the repositories in/etc/apt/sources.list 2. apt-get update 3. apt-get dist-upgrade
Then of course, sid is the "perpetual fresh" or "cutting edge" release, so you don't tend to upgrade from there. I'm sure there are lots of breakages in sid, but what I had noticed in roughly 4 years of sid usage was that an X library broke mplayer for two week until an updated package was pushed, that's all.
My point in rambling about debian in an ubuntu article is that ubuntu is debian based, so it is a step backwards to lose relatively painless upgradeability.
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Make Congress ratify Kyoto just like the other 142 countries did?
Increase the car efficiency standards at least to the Chinese level in the USA?
Stop trying to deny the manmade global warming, which the scientific consensus supports and engage in a worldwide debate about what steps need to be taken in order to minimize CO2 output? Just off the top of my head...
200 meters is way too much, if the Antarctic would melt today it would only rise the sea level by 60 meters.
The US is only #10th because there are some very small countries insignificant to the global economy that outdo the country per capita. The US is the first if you compare countries of economic significance.
The source can be found at the bottom of the page, which you would have found by very little effort.
Noone is talking about the doom of the human race, but I guess we'd all like to avoid moving 100-200 million people in the next few decades if possible.
The WTC memorial under water! I'll go join you in that bonfire!
I know you were sarcastic, but the statement is actually not true for two reasons:
Transportation is on the permafrost, only problem is that the frost is not really perma now, if you get my drift. Cars, houses, etc "sink". Pipelines have the same problem, making it a maintenance nightmare.
So my question is, given strong correlation and that CO2 levels are 2-3x higher NOW than they were previously, what kind of change in temperature would you diagnose?
According the Canadian Ice Service, the amount of ice in Canada's eastern Arctic Archipelago decreased by 15% between 1969 and 2004.
Here's a pretty picture for your convenience.
...to go watch The Inconvenient Truth.
Part of the documentary deals with the disappearing/melting ice on the polar ice caps and at Greenland.
Yeah well, under travel in context of public officials you usually mean a planned official visit, not passing through a country on your way to a destination. In this sense as president he never travelled to the USA. But thanks for nitpicking...
The Hungarian President (of State) Laszlo Solyom won't travel to the USA until the US keeps up the fingerprinting and the visa requirement against hungarian citizens, as citizens of a EU member state.
One time he did travel to New York, but that was to UN grounds, so technically not part of the USA.
The got this brilliant idea from a french engineer. Maginot or wotshisname...
Skeptics: publish your findings contrary to the original findings in Science and then we'll talk. That's how it works.
Why are people so hell bent on using voting machines? What benefits could voting machines provide that can counterbalance the loss of transparency and accountability that inevitably occurs even if open source/standardized protocols and machines were to be used, compared to voting with paper? Is it really more important that people know a result of their vote faster than that they know that the result is what they actually voted for?
You just defeated your own logic by posting this on slashdot. You are a slashdotter aswell. You got modded +5.
Why do you insist that 10^6 uids have the same opinion? They don't. Personally I even tend to see a slight bend towards posts like yours.
"It's not dead, it's just restin'."
Anyone wants to adopt the parrot sketch to this situation?
Its is possibility that a spill chick can actually decrease the correctness for spilling.
In my experience with debian, upgrading between releases were mostly flawless.
/etc/apt/sources.list 2. apt-get update 3. apt-get dist-upgrade
I've did it from potato to woody, from woody to sarge, from sarge to etch, from woody to sid and a lot of other combinations...
It took three steps: 1. changing the repositories in
Then of course, sid is the "perpetual fresh" or "cutting edge" release, so you don't tend to upgrade from there. I'm sure there are lots of breakages in sid, but what I had noticed in roughly 4 years of sid usage was that an X library broke mplayer for two week until an updated package was pushed, that's all.
My point in rambling about debian in an ubuntu article is that ubuntu is debian based, so it is a step backwards to lose relatively painless upgradeability.