FYI, CO2 gets up there up by mixing (wind, turbulence, & diffusion); but since it's heavier than N2 & O2, CO2 is a lesser percentage of air at higher altitudes than at lower altitudes.
Not really. GW is caused by conversion of high energy photons (light) into low energy photons (heat). If CO2 increases this conversion rate . . .
Stop right there. CO2 does not convert light into infrared. It absorbs infrared. The conversion from visible light to infrared occurs when the earth absorbs visible light, heats up, and subsequently re-emits the heat as infrared waves.
Re-read TFA (if you really read it the first time) and note that this is about the increased CO2 in the upper atmosphere gaining energy from collisions with O2, and re-emitting that energy as infrared, much of which makes it into space, since it is happening above most of the atmosphere. Has nothing to do with trapping heat from the sun that is causing gloabl warming, other than both involve CO2 & infrared.
#Java is sufficiently flaky that it's very common for particular applications to need particular versions very carefully installed and configured . .
Exactly. I do work for a client that uses Primavera - which we have to access thru a browser for all records and communication on their construction projects. A recent update to their installation required us to install a very particular Java version that is not at all up-to-date or secure, fuck whatever else we might need Java for. The kicker is that both Java and Primvera are Oracle products.
I'll just note that none of those storms followed the very unusual path, heading against the direction of prevailing winds, that Sandy took, nor did they make landfall in the Northeast US in late October. So, global warming or not, Sandy was a very unusual hurricane, and caused much more destruction than most.
Then why does my commute so often have to wait for a freight train?
Metra runs on tracks owned by the freight lines. I'm sure that there are agreements in place about how to schedule the freights vs commuters, but the commuters do not "have control" over the freights.
. . . . make some "biochar" operations financially workable: they make electricity by burning trees and burying the charcoal.
The fund eventually reaches a steady state where as much carbon is being re-buried as extracted.
This seems like a misunderstanding of charcoal production. Charcoal is what is left unburned; burying it will not offset the carbon burned, let alone offset all the nasty pollutants released from burning the other elements in wood, nevermind that not burning all the carbon is a terribly inefficient way of getting energy from wood.
The stove and/or oven would most likely trigger a lot of commercial kitchen ventilation and plumbing work costing 10s of thousands of dollars, if not upwards of $100,000.
To me, sans serif fonts are much better looking and easier to read. Could be, it's because my eyes are getting old and the serifs add to the fuzz. YMMV.
I don't see how being far north would make this any more or less of an issue . . .
Well, for one, if you're far enough North to be between the geographic north and the magnetic north, then the magnetic compass could be pointing in the opposite direction to "true" north, which is significantly more of an issue than the differences seen between Texas and Florida.
It's also helps to take this into perspective, look at this graph [uaf.edu], you'll see that we keep talking about the summer extent; the winter extent hasn't changed much. The past year was right up there with 1990s average
And looking at that graph, the maximum winter extent in 2011 was less than 2000s average maximum winter extent, and the 2000s average was less than the 1990s average, and the 1990s average was less than the 1980s average. Not as big of a swing, but still the same trend as the minimum summer extent. Even the 2010s winter average, so far, appears a little lower than the 2000s winter average, for whatever 2 years is worth.
When I first started out I was at a drafting desk, standing or sitting on a stool, changing positions all the time. It was more comfortable than sitting at a desk all day. An excuse to get up a walk around is half the reason I drink so much coffee. Back to the point, they (?used to?) make drafting stools that are much more comfortable than a typical utilitarian bar stool. In my experience they almost all had backs, most had cushioned seats, and some of them had arm rests. Even on an uncushioned stool with no back, I was more comfortable than I am now-a-days.
. . . the jury should be highly skilled technologists - Those are the plaintiff and defendant's 'peers,' . . .
No, they aren't, at least not for the meaning in 'jury of your peers': If you are a commoner; your peers are commoners; if you are a nobleman, then your peers are noblemen.
How was it we successfully educated generations of students prior to the unions and now we consistently produce students which can barely read, write, and spell.
You sound like someone who needs some perspective.
My dad tells the story on how his high school was visited by reporters from a magazine (I believe that it was Life). When the article came out, the headline was about the poor state of education in the country, next to a picture of his high school. This was in the 1930's.
By the way, my Dad (as well as a lot of people who have gone to that school over the years) managed to get a good high school and college education. He continued to pursue education throughout his life (and continues to, to the best of his ablility). Education depends most on the student, second on the influence of family, friends, and maybe teachers, and last on the length of the school year.
So the requirements were for a Kindle and only a Kindle?
That's how government contracts work.
In my experience (construction) government bids do not work that way. In fact, the contract documemts I have made for various federal, state, and local governments were typically required to explicitly list at least three manufacturers for each product. (The hard part that sometimes gets overlooked is that companies are so busy buying each other, merging, and selling off parts, that three different brands that were made by three different companies yesterday may very well be all under one corporation today.)
We've been able to horizontally drill for 50 years, but great improvements in drilling accuracy and well productivity have been much more recent. That said, if the price of oil and gas had not risen, it would still not be economical.
My brother is running a natural gas fracking project, and, according to him, the only reason it was considered viable in the first place was because they projected a few years of getting oil (at what are historically high prices) in addition to natural gas. The project may be shut down because, not only has the price of methane dropped and stayed low, the prices of natural gas liquids like ethane, propane, butane, etc., have dropped to about 1/3 of their previous values. That is a story that's undertold because consumers don't directly notice those prices.
If you are someone who just wants the price of natural gas to rebound , rather than stopping fracking, you should be promoting the use of natural gas (like T. Boone Pickens) for fuel for transportation, electricity generation, and heating.
. . perhaps the most common reason for the check engine light is a loose gas cap.
Perhaps the most common reason for the check engine light is that the manufacturer programs it go on every 20,000 miles or so to get you to bring the car in for routine maintenance, and the dealer charges you $75 or so to turn it off. Fat chance that they would have it tell you what is wrong rather than have you bring it in for 'diagonstics'.
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FYI, CO2 gets up there up by mixing (wind, turbulence, & diffusion); but since it's heavier than N2 & O2, CO2 is a lesser percentage of air at higher altitudes than at lower altitudes.
Stop right there. CO2 does not convert light into infrared. It absorbs infrared. The conversion from visible light to infrared occurs when the earth absorbs visible light, heats up, and subsequently re-emits the heat as infrared waves.
Re-read TFA (if you really read it the first time) and note that this is about the increased CO2 in the upper atmosphere gaining energy from collisions with O2, and re-emitting that energy as infrared, much of which makes it into space, since it is happening above most of the atmosphere. Has nothing to do with trapping heat from the sun that is causing gloabl warming, other than both involve CO2 & infrared.
Actually, it was named for Willis Group Holdings, a leaseholder who got the naming rights in 2009.
Exactly. I do work for a client that uses Primavera - which we have to access thru a browser for all records and communication on their construction projects. A recent update to their installation required us to install a very particular Java version that is not at all up-to-date or secure, fuck whatever else we might need Java for. The kicker is that both Java and Primvera are Oracle products.
I'll just note that none of those storms followed the very unusual path, heading against the direction of prevailing winds, that Sandy took, nor did they make landfall in the Northeast US in late October. So, global warming or not, Sandy was a very unusual hurricane, and caused much more destruction than most.
The scroll "bar" on iPad only shows up while you are scrolling, and you are usually looking at the content, and not the scroll "bar", while scrolling.
I believe that GP was talking about PCs, as in Personal Computers, not "PC"s as in "IBM Compatible Personal Computers".
Then why does my commute so often have to wait for a freight train?
Metra runs on tracks owned by the freight lines. I'm sure that there are agreements in place about how to schedule the freights vs commuters, but the commuters do not "have control" over the freights.
This seems like a misunderstanding of charcoal production. Charcoal is what is left unburned; burying it will not offset the carbon burned, let alone offset all the nasty pollutants released from burning the other elements in wood, nevermind that not burning all the carbon is a terribly inefficient way of getting energy from wood.
The stove and/or oven would most likely trigger a lot of commercial kitchen ventilation and plumbing work costing 10s of thousands of dollars, if not upwards of $100,000.
To me, sans serif fonts are much better looking and easier to read. Could be, it's because my eyes are getting old and the serifs add to the fuzz. YMMV.
Haven't visited Chicago lately or looked into the racial make-up of various schools in the Chicago Public Schools system, have you?
Well, for one, if you're far enough North to be between the geographic north and the magnetic north, then the magnetic compass could be pointing in the opposite direction to "true" north, which is significantly more of an issue than the differences seen between Texas and Florida.
Everything else you said might be true, but none of it shows an Apple bubble.
And looking at that graph, the maximum winter extent in 2011 was less than 2000s average maximum winter extent, and the 2000s average was less than the 1990s average, and the 1990s average was less than the 1980s average. Not as big of a swing, but still the same trend as the minimum summer extent. Even the 2010s winter average, so far, appears a little lower than the 2000s winter average, for whatever 2 years is worth.
When I first started out I was at a drafting desk, standing or sitting on a stool, changing positions all the time. It was more comfortable than sitting at a desk all day. An excuse to get up a walk around is half the reason I drink so much coffee. Back to the point, they (?used to?) make drafting stools that are much more comfortable than a typical utilitarian bar stool. In my experience they almost all had backs, most had cushioned seats, and some of them had arm rests. Even on an uncushioned stool with no back, I was more comfortable than I am now-a-days.
No, they aren't, at least not for the meaning in 'jury of your peers': If you are a commoner; your peers are commoners; if you are a nobleman, then your peers are noblemen.
You sound like someone who needs some perspective.
My dad tells the story on how his high school was visited by reporters from a magazine (I believe that it was Life). When the article came out, the headline was about the poor state of education in the country, next to a picture of his high school. This was in the 1930's.
By the way, my Dad (as well as a lot of people who have gone to that school over the years) managed to get a good high school and college education. He continued to pursue education throughout his life (and continues to, to the best of his ablility). Education depends most on the student, second on the influence of family, friends, and maybe teachers, and last on the length of the school year.
That is not true. World population growth has been slowing.
So the requirements were for a Kindle and only a Kindle?
In my experience (construction) government bids do not work that way. In fact, the contract documemts I have made for various federal, state, and local governments were typically required to explicitly list at least three manufacturers for each product. (The hard part that sometimes gets overlooked is that companies are so busy buying each other, merging, and selling off parts, that three different brands that were made by three different companies yesterday may very well be all under one corporation today.)
We've been able to horizontally drill for 50 years, but great improvements in drilling accuracy and well productivity have been much more recent. That said, if the price of oil and gas had not risen, it would still not be economical.
My brother is running a natural gas fracking project, and, according to him, the only reason it was considered viable in the first place was because they projected a few years of getting oil (at what are historically high prices) in addition to natural gas. The project may be shut down because, not only has the price of methane dropped and stayed low, the prices of natural gas liquids like ethane, propane, butane, etc., have dropped to about 1/3 of their previous values. That is a story that's undertold because consumers don't directly notice those prices.
If you are someone who just wants the price of natural gas to rebound , rather than stopping fracking, you should be promoting the use of natural gas (like T. Boone Pickens) for fuel for transportation, electricity generation, and heating.
Must know what a QR code is.
I had no need to know, just printed from the airlines web page, had no idea it was called a QR code.
Must have a smartphone
Nope
Must have a QR reader app
No, though the airlines and the TSA needed to be able to read the QR code, it was probably not an 'app'.
Must be close enough to scan code
True, I guess, but the TSA agent and the flight attendants were close enough when I handed them the boarding pass.
Must be quick enough to leap of the sofa and scan TV (for QR codes in ads
No, just had to find the 'Print' button in the confirmation page.
Perhaps the most common reason for the check engine light is that the manufacturer programs it go on every 20,000 miles or so to get you to bring the car in for routine maintenance, and the dealer charges you $75 or so to turn it off. Fat chance that they would have it tell you what is wrong rather than have you bring it in for 'diagonstics'.