I once accidentally put a USB pendrive through a washing machine cycle (cold with detergent) and dryer (hot spin). I've done that too. And the pendrive still works fine.
This makes little sense considering when product support for XP ends:
Mainstream product support for XP ends on April 14th, 2009, with extended support (security patches only) until April 8th, 2014.
That's actually better than Windows 2000's support: 13 years of security updates as against 10 years for Win 2000 (whose extended support ends on July 13th, 2010).
That recent Primeval thing on ITV beat seven shades out of the modern Doctor Who. It might not have been as sparkly or as hyped or have the pedigree (which the new Doctor Who series almost criminally squandered) but at the very least it had decent dialogue, consistency, non-dumbass characters and a certain measure of restraint.
You have got to be kidding. Primeval was dire beyond belief. Lousy acting, characters who were totally unengaging, the same story told half a dozen times with only the monsters changed.
He boldly asserts on that page without a shred of evidence that "barring a sudden change in input from the sun, changes in climate upwards can only occur in a smooth, slow and limited fashion".
So the sudden change (by geological standards) of radiative forcing effects caused by mankind's consumption of fossil fuels over the last 200 years has no effect?
Feedback loops all take time to stabilise - what we're seeing now is a rapid increase in GHG concentrations in the atmosphere, possibly unprecedented.
Our ancestors and the dinosaurs certainly didn't burn fossil fuels at the rates we do.
It's bogus pseudo-science, I'm afraid. It's way too easy to come up with comforting conclusions if you ignore half the evidence.
This is from the draft of the upcoming 4th Scientific Assessment by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change:
"1.4.3 Solar Variability and the Total Solar Irradiance As early as 1910, Abbot believed that he had detected a downward trend in Total Solar Irradiance (TSI) that coincided with a general cooling of climate. The solar cycle variation in irradiance corresponds to an 11-year cycle in radiative forcing of about 0.23 W m-2. There is increasingly reliable evidence of its influence on atmospheric temperatures and circulations, particularly in the higher atmosphere (Labitzke and van Loon, 1997; Reid, 1991, van Loon and Labitzke, 2000; Balachandran and Rind, 1995; Brasseur, 1993; Haigh, 1996). Calculations with energy balance models (Wigley and Raper, 1990a; Reid, 1991; Crowley and Kim, 1996; Bertrand et al., 1999) and 3-dimensional models (Wetherald and Manabe, 1975; Cubasch et al., 1997; Cubasch and Voss, 2000; Lean and Rind, 1998; Tett et al., 1999) suggest that such relatively small changes in solar radiation could cause surface temperature changes on the order of a few tenths of a degree centigrade. The solar radiation can be derived from the sunspot number. Naked-eye observations of sunspots date back to ancient times, but it was only after the invention of the telescope in 1607 that it became possible to monitor routinely the number, size and position of these "stains" on the surface of the Sun. Throughout the 17th and 18th centuries, numerous observers noted the variable concentrations and ephemeral nature of sunspots, but very few sightings were reported between 1672 and 1699 (for an overview see Hoyt et al.,1994). This period of low solar activity, now known as the Maunder Minimum, was one of several which occurred during the climate period now commonly referred to as the Little Ice Age (Eddy, 1976). There is no exact agreement as to which dates mark the beginning and end of the Little Ice Age, but from about 1350 to about 1850 is one reasonable estimate. During the latter part of the 18th century Wilhelm Herschel (1801) noted the presence not only of sunspots but of bright patches, now referred to as faculae, and of granulations on the solar surface. He believed that when these indicators of activity were more numerous, solar emissions of light and heat were greater and could affect the weather on Earth. Heinrich Schwabe (1844) published his discovery of a "10-year cycle" in sunspot numbers. Samuel Langley (1876) compared the brightness of sunspots with the surrounding photosphere. He concluded that they would block the emission of radiation and estimated that at solar maximum the sun would be about 0.1% less bright than at the minimum of the cycle, and that the Earth would be 0.1-0.3C cooler. Measurement of the absolute value of total solar irradiance (TSI) is difficult from the Earth's surface because of the need to correct for the influence of the atmosphere. Langley (1884) attempted to minimise the atmospheric effects by taking measurements from high on Mt. Whitney in California, and to estimate the correction for atmospheric effects by taking measurements at several times of day, i.e. with the solar radiation having passed through different atmospheric path-lengths. Langley's value of TSI of 2903 W m-2 is considerably larger than current estimates, of about 1365 W m-2. Between 1902 and 1957 thousands of measurements of TSI were made from mountain sites by Charles Abbot and a number of other scientists around the globe. Values ranged from 1322 to 1465 W m-2. Foukal et al. (1977) deduced from Abbot's daily observations that higher values of TSI were associated with more solar faculae. In 1978 the Nimbus-7 satellite was launched with a cavity radiometer and provided evidence of variations in TSI (Hickey et al., 1980). Additional observations were made from the Solar Maximum Mission, launched in 1980, with an active cavity radiometer (Willson et al., 1980). Both of these missions showed that the passage of sunspots and faculae across the Sun's disk influenced TSI. At the maximum of
Oh, do you homework before spouting such nonsense next time, please.
In 1859 John Tyndall discovered the radiative forcing effect of water vapour, carbon dioxide, and ozone [for the details see James Rodger Fleming, Historical Perspectives on Climate Change (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998)]. He later postulated that changes in the atmospheric concentrations of these gases may be responsible for climate change.
His lab work showed causation, not correlation.
*sighs at the general ignrance of the loudmouths on here*
Except that "close that window button" is not accessible if you're on an 800x600 display. And when you try to scroll the page that flipping ad moves with you.
Consigning "Web 2.0 Journal" to the trashcan where it so obviously belongs.
The easy way to convert is to install mercury32 on your pc as an IMAP server, connect to it in Thunderbird, and drag and drop the email folders across.
I haven't found a conversion utility which does a better job than that.
Letting corporations plead insanity would amount to giving them carte blanche torape, pillage, murder, and burn the planet.
Hey, they are doing this on a grand scale already without ever having to plead anything.
Very recently published research indicates that the warming we are experiencing on earth is due to radiative forcing (i.e. greenhouse gases), and not increased solar irradiation.
Keep up to date with the scientific literature or shut up.
You're exactly right, something always comes along. We should disregard any concerns for an expected shortage in supply in the future, because as history has shown, something will clearly come along.
Hmm, logical induction. Very dodgy. This is a statement of faith and not at all rational. There is no a priori reason why something should come along.
It's a bit like arguing that because you've survived the last n days, you'll survive n+1 days, and repeating that EVERY day. One day you're going to be wrong.
You're expressing one of the great logical fallacies, the "law" of infinite substitutablilty.
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This makes little sense considering when product support for XP ends:
Mainstream product support for XP ends on April 14th, 2009, with extended support (security patches only) until April 8th, 2014.
That's actually better than Windows 2000's support: 13 years of security updates as against 10 years for Win 2000 (whose extended support ends on July 13th, 2010).
http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/
That recent Primeval thing on ITV beat seven shades out of the modern Doctor Who. It might not have been as sparkly or as hyped or have the pedigree (which the new Doctor Who series almost criminally squandered) but at the very least it had decent dialogue, consistency, non-dumbass characters and a certain measure of restraint.
You have got to be kidding. Primeval was dire beyond belief. Lousy acting, characters who were totally unengaging, the same story told half a dozen times with only the monsters changed.Utter bilge.
Try Autopatcher:
http://www.autopatcher.com/
USA, 300 million (5% of world population), around 25% of global GHG production.
Carbon dioxide emissions per capita in the USA are 8 times that of China.
I'll let you do the rest of the arithmetic.
He boldly asserts on that page without a shred of evidence that "barring a sudden change in input from the sun, changes in climate upwards can only occur in a smooth, slow and limited fashion".
So the sudden change (by geological standards) of radiative forcing effects caused by mankind's consumption of fossil fuels over the last 200 years has no effect?
Feedback loops all take time to stabilise - what we're seeing now is a rapid increase in GHG concentrations in the atmosphere, possibly unprecedented.
Our ancestors and the dinosaurs certainly didn't burn fossil fuels at the rates we do.
It's bogus pseudo-science, I'm afraid. It's way too easy to come up with comforting conclusions if you ignore half the evidence.
See also this discussion on RealClimate.org about Martian warming:
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php?p=192
This is from the draft of the upcoming 4th Scientific Assessment by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change:
"1.4.3 Solar Variability and the Total Solar Irradiance
As early as 1910, Abbot believed that he had detected a downward trend in Total Solar Irradiance (TSI) that coincided with a general cooling of climate. The solar cycle variation in irradiance corresponds to an 11-year cycle in radiative forcing of about 0.23 W m-2. There is increasingly reliable evidence of its influence on atmospheric temperatures and circulations, particularly in the higher atmosphere (Labitzke and van Loon, 1997; Reid, 1991, van Loon and Labitzke, 2000; Balachandran and Rind, 1995; Brasseur, 1993; Haigh, 1996). Calculations with energy balance models (Wigley and Raper, 1990a; Reid, 1991; Crowley and Kim, 1996; Bertrand et al., 1999) and 3-dimensional models (Wetherald and Manabe, 1975; Cubasch et al., 1997; Cubasch and Voss, 2000; Lean and Rind, 1998; Tett et al., 1999) suggest that such relatively small changes in solar radiation could cause surface temperature changes on the order of a few tenths of a degree centigrade.
The solar radiation can be derived from the sunspot number. Naked-eye observations of sunspots date back to ancient times, but it was only after the invention of the telescope in 1607 that it became possible to monitor routinely the number, size and position of these "stains" on the surface of the Sun. Throughout the 17th and 18th centuries, numerous observers noted the variable concentrations and ephemeral nature of sunspots, but very few sightings were reported between 1672 and 1699 (for an overview see Hoyt et al.,1994). This period of low solar activity, now known as the Maunder Minimum, was one of several which occurred during the climate period now commonly referred to as the Little Ice Age (Eddy, 1976). There is no exact agreement as to which dates mark the beginning and end of the Little Ice Age, but from about 1350 to about 1850 is one reasonable estimate.
During the latter part of the 18th century Wilhelm Herschel (1801) noted the presence not only of sunspots but of bright patches, now referred to as faculae, and of granulations on the solar surface. He believed that when these indicators of activity were more numerous, solar emissions of light and heat were greater and could affect the weather on Earth. Heinrich Schwabe (1844) published his discovery of a "10-year cycle" in sunspot numbers. Samuel Langley (1876) compared the brightness of sunspots with the surrounding photosphere. He concluded that they would block the emission of radiation and estimated that at solar maximum the sun would be about 0.1% less bright than at the minimum of the cycle, and that the Earth would be 0.1-0.3C cooler.
Measurement of the absolute value of total solar irradiance (TSI) is difficult from the Earth's surface because of the need to correct for the influence of the atmosphere. Langley (1884) attempted to minimise the atmospheric effects by taking measurements from high on Mt. Whitney in California, and to estimate the correction for atmospheric effects by taking measurements at several times of day, i.e. with the solar radiation having passed through different atmospheric path-lengths. Langley's value of TSI of 2903 W m-2 is considerably larger than current estimates, of about 1365 W m-2. Between 1902 and 1957 thousands of measurements of TSI were made from mountain sites by Charles Abbot and a number of other scientists around the globe. Values ranged from 1322 to 1465 W m-2. Foukal et al. (1977) deduced from Abbot's daily observations that higher values of TSI were associated with more solar faculae.
In 1978 the Nimbus-7 satellite was launched with a cavity radiometer and provided evidence of variations in TSI (Hickey et al., 1980). Additional observations were made from the Solar Maximum Mission, launched in 1980, with an active cavity radiometer (Willson et al., 1980). Both of these missions showed that the passage of sunspots and faculae across the Sun's disk influenced TSI. At the maximum of
The lab tests were done way back in 1859 by John Tyndall when he discovered the radiative forcing effects of water vapour, carbon dioxide, and ozone.
Oh, do you homework before spouting such nonsense next time, please.
In 1859 John Tyndall discovered the radiative forcing effect of water vapour, carbon dioxide, and ozone [for the details see James Rodger Fleming, Historical Perspectives on Climate Change (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998)]. He later postulated that changes in the atmospheric concentrations of these gases may be responsible for climate change.
His lab work showed causation, not correlation.
*sighs at the general ignrance of the loudmouths on here*
empty vessels indeed...
Except that "close that window button" is not accessible if you're on an 800x600 display. And when you try to scroll the page that flipping ad moves with you.
Consigning "Web 2.0 Journal" to the trashcan where it so obviously belongs.
The easy solution is to block everything apart from the following netblocks
.spam domain for all spammers and a requirement that all spam be sent from a given netblock?
10/8
127/8
172.16/12
192.168/16
No more porn (except the stuff you host locally).
And while we're at it, how about a
(tongue firmly in cheek)
Aham. Planet Earth is not just the USA. There will be plenty of offshore .com porn sites to fill any void created.
And I'm kind of looking forward to slashdot.xxx - "Nudes for Nerds"
The best take I've seen on this (Northern Hemisphere) winter's weather is over at the Real Climate blog:
7 /01/el-nino-global-warming-and-anomalous-winter-wa rmth/
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/200
The easy way to convert is to install mercury32 on your pc as an IMAP server, connect to it in Thunderbird, and drag and drop the email folders across.
I haven't found a conversion utility which does a better job than that.
cross out "slowly" and replace with "rapidly"
Get real!!!!
The NYT doesn't have to say a thing, the current bogus Bush regime is damaging the USA all by itself.
Hey, they are doing this on a grand scale already without ever having to plead anything.
20 oz most definitely is a pint if you live in England, Australia, or New Zealand, and probably in a few other countries too.
Last time I looked, CO2 wasn't bad-smelling.
Very recently published research indicates that the warming we are experiencing on earth is due to radiative forcing (i.e. greenhouse gases), and not increased solar irradiation.
Keep up to date with the scientific literature or shut up.
Your "facts" are bullshit
At least they don't lie in their site name.
And some guy in two year's time would be using your profile and login? Get real!
In about:config set browser.sessionstore.resume_from_crash to false.
Simple.
Solution found with a quick web search. You might like to try using a search engine before you mouth off next time.
That printing bug is a bummer. It's Bug 154892.
Kenneth Deffeyes said that back in February:
6 -02.html
http://www.princeton.edu/hubbert/current-events-0
You're exactly right, something always comes along. We should disregard any concerns for an expected shortage in supply in the future, because as history has shown, something will clearly come along.
Hmm, logical induction. Very dodgy. This is a statement of faith and not at all rational. There is no a priori reason why something should come along.
It's a bit like arguing that because you've survived the last n days, you'll survive n+1 days, and repeating that EVERY day. One day you're going to be wrong.
You're expressing one of the great logical fallacies, the "law" of infinite substitutablilty.