So. Cal has a ways to go before it sees its "worst droughts". A paper published last year shows evidence of 2 multicentury droughts in Southern California in the last 3000 years. Not a typo. They were multi-CENTURY droughts.
You can call me a moron if you want. I really don't care, but it detracts from your credibility. My point was to mirror your comment but swap the IPCC with Mr. Moore in order to show that your argument applies to anyone who makes an income related climate change.
On the other hand, the wallets of people working for IPCC are dependent on global warming. If global warming is not a problem, the IPCC goes away and they are all looking for new jobs.
He shows he hasn't looked at paleoclimate reconstructions
Neither have you.
We are still well below the average temperatures for the Cenozoic era (and life goes on). For a majority of the Cenozoic there have been no polar ice caps (and life went on). We are currently in an ice age inter-glacial period. 50, 100, even 1000 years is an extremely short period geologically speaking.
Patrick Moore believes that anthropogenic global warming is not a grave threat to the planet and that climate change is being used as a scare tactic for political purposes. Based on the geologic record, I'd have to agree.
People running large organizations generally try to increase their business by increasing their customer base. This rewards them by increasing their income and influence. It's the human nature of personality types that gravitate to running large organizations. Now what if the large organization is a government entity? How do they expand their "business"? How do the people running them increase their income and influence? They do it by increasing the output of their "product". Unfortunately for citizens, the government's "product" is regulations and control.
TLDR: Due to human nature, unless some definite boundaries are set in law, any government entity will eventually try to expand its powers and influence.
"The planet is irrevocably getting hotter" Pure speculation on your part and contrary to the geologic record. For most of the Cenozoic it has been so warm that there have been no polar ice caps and yet, here we are now, back in an ice age.
That's all well and good but my concern is that parts of the legislation seem to be intentionally vague, leaving the door open to shenanigans like the IRS targeting specific political groups. The EFF is concerned about this also.
Who are you quoting in your comment? Mr. AdHominem?
I don't think you have read the article or you don't understand what they were investigating. So let's stop being juvenile with the attacks and discuss the science.
It's certainly different, but i don't see the issue.
The issue is that some people like to bitch... a lot... about anything.
From the linked article: "Then, there's pluizebol, who says that, because of the icons, he removed Windows 10 from his computer." Ridiculous. It would've been easier to change the icons. What next? Don't like a default font or default color scheme? Remove the entire OS!
War on STEM? Chill. The site is copied on the Internet Archive as the previous post points out. The site is redundant. Students could get answers to most of the questions posted by using google. Searching for "Ask a Scientist" returns scores of similar websites. There are still lots of websites like HowStuffWorks.com. The students still have teachers they can ask too.
This site shutdown may be an inconvenience to folks that have it bookmarked but I wouldn't call it a war on STEM.
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Please, please don't use the term "virtual" to describe the use of this real water.
Use iWater instead.
So. Cal has a ways to go before it sees its "worst droughts". A paper published last year shows evidence of 2 multicentury droughts in Southern California in the last 3000 years.
Not a typo. They were multi-CENTURY droughts.
I've noticed that the last few summers the oranges in our local groceries in Ohio are coming from South Africa and Austrailia instead of California.
You can call me a moron if you want. I really don't care, but it detracts from your credibility.
My point was to mirror your comment but swap the IPCC with Mr. Moore in order to show that your argument applies to anyone who makes an income related climate change.
On the other hand, the wallets of people working for IPCC are dependent on global warming. If global warming is not a problem, the IPCC goes away and they are all looking for new jobs.
The rest of your post is pure speculation.
Neither have you.
We are still well below the average temperatures for the Cenozoic era (and life goes on).
For a majority of the Cenozoic there have been no polar ice caps (and life went on).
We are currently in an ice age inter-glacial period.
50, 100, even 1000 years is an extremely short period geologically speaking.
Patrick Moore believes that anthropogenic global warming is not a grave threat to the planet and that climate change is being used as a scare tactic for political purposes. Based on the geologic record, I'd have to agree.
People running large organizations generally try to increase their business by increasing their customer base. This rewards them by increasing their income and influence. It's the human nature of personality types that gravitate to running large organizations.
Now what if the large organization is a government entity? How do they expand their "business"? How do the people running them increase their income and influence? They do it by increasing the output of their "product". Unfortunately for citizens, the government's "product" is regulations and control.
TLDR: Due to human nature, unless some definite boundaries are set in law, any government entity will eventually try to expand its powers and influence.
Real? It's not fake. Number one OS for total users.
We'll have autonomous driving cars in the US before this type of law widely adopted here.
The Wikipedia activity brewing at 1 Police Plaza took a distinctly more bizarre turn with edits to the pages "Ice Cream Soda," "Who Moved My Cheese?" "Chumbawamba," and "Stone Cold Steve Austin."
"The planet is irrevocably getting hotter"
Pure speculation on your part and contrary to the geologic record. For most of the Cenozoic it has been so warm that there have been no polar ice caps and yet, here we are now, back in an ice age.
Google could offer the choice of which way you want your searches ranked. What would people bitch about then?
It would be interesting how it would rank the various contradictory claimed facts related to cases like Michael Brown/Ferguson MO.
Why do you care what is popular?
If 6 was 9...
That's all well and good but my concern is that parts of the legislation seem to be intentionally vague, leaving the door open to shenanigans like the IRS targeting specific political groups. The EFF is concerned about this also.
Who are you quoting in your comment? Mr. AdHominem?
I don't think you have read the article or you don't understand what they were investigating. So let's stop being juvenile with the attacks and discuss the science.
Besides, icon file view is for kids, old folks and newbs.
Use detail view to get stuff done.
The issue is that some people like to bitch... a lot... about anything.
From the linked article: "Then, there's pluizebol, who says that, because of the icons, he removed Windows 10 from his computer."
Ridiculous. It would've been easier to change the icons. What next? Don't like a default font or default color scheme? Remove the entire OS!
War on STEM? Chill.
The site is copied on the Internet Archive as the previous post points out.
The site is redundant. Students could get answers to most of the questions posted by using google.
Searching for "Ask a Scientist" returns scores of similar websites.
There are still lots of websites like HowStuffWorks.com.
The students still have teachers they can ask too.
This site shutdown may be an inconvenience to folks that have it bookmarked but I wouldn't call it a war on STEM.
But if they hold the patent, anybody who does put thought into it to make it work has to pay them.
Does this mean that CDMA is more secure than GSM?
That may be why they are being so secretive.
Can we wait at least until our global temperature is above the average for the Cenozoic era? We are still technically in an ice age.
Every single person that I know that drinks alcohol drank milk first.
Milk. Not even once.
Why no mention of part time jobs?