Yes, and by the time you figure out that the climatic momentum is poised to wipe out entire ecosystems with 100 years, you will be knee deep migrants from climate change at your doorstep.
But don't worry with regard to wealth distribution as regardless of how much wealth is redistributed, we are all about to bake ever and ever so slowly bake until we are done.
As a biologist, Hawkins may be close in his prediction of 100 years. pH in the ocean is falling so fast that 300 years is an outer limit to human survival (people seem to forget that about 50% of all protein consumed comes from the sea). However, getting off Earth because we will have to will be the easy part. Getting to Mars will be no panacea. Its cold there. Make sure you take your jacket.
Just provide a pedestrian override button that gives pedestrians the right-of-way in every context, with a 10 year jail sentence for anyone caught misusing the system to cause traffic snafus.
Great idea, but there is one technological issue that needs to be addressed before the idea will work.
Who will pay when things go horribly wrong?
Will it be the stoplight manufacturers? Will it be the software design company? Will it be the city in which they are installed , namely city taxpayers?
What will happen when two or more autonomous vehicles crash in the intersection?
I'm guessing it will be the last, so it will behoove citizens to also install virtual taxpayers, who will foot the bill by instantaneously generating bit coins, virtual.police, virtual police, virtual insurance companies, virtual body shops, and virtual lawyers, and virtual judges as a back-up plan just in case all involved fail to obey Murphy's Law.
"What's really odd is that Trump let this circus go on as long as he did..."
Its only odd because many of the "leaks" about the investigation seem to be coming from foreign agents embedded within the Russian Intelligence Service.
Yes, no doubt the embarrassing part of the "sensitive" information that keeps leaking about Trump campaign ties to Russia is actually coming from foreign agents within the Russian Intelligence Services. This makes it rather awkward for those on intelligence committees, who nominally are supposed to know what's going on.
Yes, no doubt the FBI needs more independence. Surely, Trump will listen to Foreign Minister Lavrov, who arrives just in time to provide him guidance to who to appoint as Trump "cleans house".
Well, at least we can all breath a sigh of relief that Foreign Minister Lavrov's visit with Trump is scheduled tomorrow so he can provide the President with guidance and recommendations about who to appoint as the new FBI Director.
Plastics are largely hydrocarbon molecules. The degradation process is thus likely to release lots of carbon molecules, probably much as methane and carbon dioxide. Although this effort may well solve the problem of solid plastic litter in the environment if totally successful, it could still be an environmental catastrophe by releasing far more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere than might otherwise be the case, if plastics were buried and permitted to only degrade slowly.
The site is really weak tea. If one really want to follow the money, one has to trace it right back to which specific Corporate Officers, Corporate Lobbyists, Politicians, and Political Consultants, Law Firms and Foreign Leaders are actually putting the money into their pockets. The site simply doesn't take this essential step, but rather sets up yet another mechanism for the already fat cats to steer political dialog in their already posh direction.
Activists really need to scrape this site to the bone and then go about filling in all the details, particularly highlighting the exact wallets where most federal spending winds up.
Any word yet as to how easily it will be for these nanoparticles to rub off and get into people's lungs?
Very small particle pollution is a major source of lung cancer. As is often the case with most of new technology, there is little thought as to the long term health and environmental consequences of production and use. Such issues tend to be ignored in the rush to make money, but can end up costing everyone more than anyone expected, in many cases their very lives.
Farmers should seriously consider why they would want to vote for Mike Pence, since he has been a staunch receiver of campaign contributions from tractor manufacturers and others championing the DCMA.
Nothing in your rant will in anyway alter the reality that as the planet warms, thermal expansion of the seas will result. Sure you, can kill all those climatologist and oceanographers bringing the bad news, just as you can kill all those biologists that note that the rate of current warming (about 35 times faster than occurred during the great Permian mass extinctions) will likely lead to mass extinction of entire ecosystems in the very near very near future (order of several hundreds of years), but killing the messengers won't alter the fact that the news is bad.
Unless we can get past our personal ideologies and personal economic circumstances, whether you sit in the board rooms of Wall Street or live in a home extending out over the ocean in Lagos, Nigeria the outcome is going to be the same, very bad indeed for Homo sapiens everywhere, regardless, of creed, color, religion, nationality, political party, personal wealth, or age.
Electric cars, ships, and planes, and manufacturing plants powered completely by the wind and the sun are probably the most urgently needed commodity.
The tragedy is that given the exponential nature of the global warming problem, if we don't see a major shift to such commodities in the next 25-50 years, there will be nothing that humans can do to stop the increased warming that will occur after that, even if we never burn fossil fuels afterwards, because several large positive feedback mechanisms not included in current climate models will come to dominate the global climate system.
These positive feedbacks include Arctic amplification due to dramatic increase in albedo of the Arctic, release of huge stores of carbon trapped in permafrost, release of huge stores of carbon trapped in methane clathrates, and release of carbon from peat bogs and rainforests as soils dessicate and decomposition dominates carbon fixation from photosynthesis. These sources are so large that they dwarf what humans could do to lower carbon dioxide levels. Of course, the effects on total carbon dioxide will be additive in any event.
Few notice, but the trend in oceanic environments are not good, as the sea warm more and more phytoplankton and zooplankton move northward to physiologically optimal zones leaving behind the equivalent of photosynthetic deserts. Tropical marine ecosystems are now collapsing everywhere on the planet as the Earth shifts toward a new oceanic/atmospheric thermal equilibrium.
What you fail to see is that markets don't actually work that way. The reason is that insurance companies can effectively buy politicians and judges and insurance industry regulators to insure that in many cases insurance policies can be manipulated after they are written and signed to so that the payout for what has been indemnified is vastly different from what is actually stated on the policy. Having experienced Hurricane Katrina and how the legal system handles such situations, I can assure you that the system doesn't work like it does on insurance company commercials.
There is no place worse to be caught between your lawyers and insurance company lawyers in a process run by people who are more than happy to see "justice" be carried out on the behalf of the insurers to whom they are beholden for their jobs.
Interestingly those that sell insurance for boats will not sell policies that cover certain areas. For example, given the dangerous conditions at the mouth of Knysna Estuary in South Africa no insurance policy in the world will cover damage to your vessel if you attempt to transverse the mouth of the estuary. The risk is all yours.
Obviously, you haven't done a lot of farming. Tending an orchard and accepting the fact that some years produce reduced harvests makes farming rather different than just going to the supermarket.
In 100-200 years with soil temperatures rising, glacial meltwater a thing of the past, it is going to be very much harder to grow food. Glacier meltwater that permit rivers to flow year around and consequently provide water available to irrigate crops during the summer months will no longer be available for irrigation. LIkewise, more and more arable land is lost to other activities. This is a major driver of the current riots in India. People who used to rely on agriculture and agricultural production are being displaced by national and multinational corporations building out into the outskirts of New Dehli that used to support a predominantly agricultural economy and population. Soon it will be more than rogue elephants sneaking into gardens and farms to steal the produce, it will be millions of displaced and hungry persons with no other recourse.
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If you believe that, I have some property at Chernobyl and Fukushima I would like to sell you.
Yes, and by the time you figure out that the climatic momentum is poised to wipe out entire ecosystems with 100 years, you will be knee deep migrants from climate change at your doorstep.
But don't worry with regard to wealth distribution as regardless of how much wealth is redistributed, we are all about to bake ever and ever so slowly bake until we are done.
As a biologist, Hawkins may be close in his prediction of 100 years. pH in the ocean is falling so fast that 300 years is an outer limit to human survival (people seem to forget that about 50% of all protein consumed comes from the sea). However, getting off Earth because we will have to will be the easy part. Getting to Mars will be no panacea. Its cold there. Make sure you take your jacket.
Just provide a pedestrian override button that gives pedestrians the right-of-way in every context, with a 10 year jail sentence for anyone caught misusing the system to cause traffic snafus.
Why stop there? Companies will find it far more profitable to provide VR salaries, VR pensions, and even VR restrooms and VR retirement parties.
Does anyone have the patent on on-click firing yet?
Great idea, but there is one technological issue that needs to be addressed before the idea will work.
Who will pay when things go horribly wrong?
Will it be the stoplight manufacturers? Will it be the software design company? Will it be the city in which they are installed , namely city taxpayers?
What will happen when two or more autonomous vehicles crash in the intersection?
I'm guessing it will be the last, so it will behoove citizens to also install virtual taxpayers, who will foot the bill by instantaneously generating bit coins, virtual.police, virtual police, virtual insurance companies, virtual body shops, and virtual lawyers, and virtual judges as a back-up plan just in case all involved fail to obey Murphy's Law.
They probably don't have time for that. They are too busy celebrating the soon to be announced appointment of Steve Bannon as the new FBI director.
"What's really odd is that Trump let this circus go on as long as he did..."
Its only odd because many of the "leaks" about the investigation seem to be coming from foreign agents embedded within the Russian Intelligence Service.
Yes, no doubt the embarrassing part of the "sensitive" information that keeps leaking about Trump campaign ties to Russia is actually coming from foreign agents within the Russian Intelligence Services. This makes it rather awkward for those on intelligence committees, who nominally are supposed to know what's going on.
" Because if Trump said the sun is shining, I'd still have to check the window."
Better check one more time, as Trump has a proven record of placing bright and shiny objects in people's eyes to distract them.
Yes, no doubt the FBI needs more independence. Surely, Trump will listen to Foreign Minister Lavrov, who arrives just in time to provide him guidance to who to appoint as Trump "cleans house".
Well, at least we can all breath a sigh of relief that Foreign Minister Lavrov's visit with Trump is scheduled tomorrow so he can provide the President with guidance and recommendations about who to appoint as the new FBI Director.
Plastics are largely hydrocarbon molecules. The degradation process is thus likely to release lots of carbon molecules, probably much as methane and carbon dioxide. Although this effort may well solve the problem of solid plastic litter in the environment if totally successful, it could still be an environmental catastrophe by releasing far more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere than might otherwise be the case, if plastics were buried and permitted to only degrade slowly.
The site is really weak tea. If one really want to follow the money, one has to trace it right back to which specific Corporate Officers, Corporate Lobbyists, Politicians, and Political Consultants, Law Firms and Foreign Leaders are actually putting the money into their pockets. The site simply doesn't take this essential step, but rather sets up yet another mechanism for the already fat cats to steer political dialog in their already posh direction.
Activists really need to scrape this site to the bone and then go about filling in all the details, particularly highlighting the exact wallets where most federal spending winds up.
Any word yet as to how easily it will be for these nanoparticles to rub off and get into people's lungs?
Very small particle pollution is a major source of lung cancer. As is often the case with most of new technology, there is little thought as to the long term health and environmental consequences of production and use. Such issues tend to be ignored in the rush to make money, but can end up costing everyone more than anyone expected, in many cases their very lives.
Farmers should seriously consider why they would want to vote for Mike Pence, since he has been a staunch receiver of campaign contributions from tractor manufacturers and others championing the DCMA.
Perhaps this is what the UK had to institute in order to attract Chinese state investors to bail out the UK economy.
The article claims that China will ad 20 GW in 2016.
You misread the article. The 20 GW figure was for a current annual increase in solar, not the total current amount of solar power.
One can melt an enormous amount of steel with 140 GW of power.
Nothing in your rant will in anyway alter the reality that as the planet warms, thermal expansion of the seas will result. Sure you, can kill all those climatologist and oceanographers bringing the bad news, just as you can kill all those biologists that note that the rate of current warming (about 35 times faster than occurred during the great Permian mass extinctions) will likely lead to mass extinction of entire ecosystems in the very near very near future (order of several hundreds of years), but killing the messengers won't alter the fact that the news is bad.
Unless we can get past our personal ideologies and personal economic circumstances, whether you sit in the board rooms of Wall Street or live in a home extending out over the ocean in Lagos, Nigeria the outcome is going to be the same, very bad indeed for Homo sapiens everywhere, regardless, of creed, color, religion, nationality, political party, personal wealth, or age.
Electric cars, ships, and planes, and manufacturing plants powered completely by the wind and the sun are probably the most urgently needed commodity.
The tragedy is that given the exponential nature of the global warming problem, if we don't see a major shift to such commodities in the next 25-50 years, there will be nothing that humans can do to stop the increased warming that will occur after that, even if we never burn fossil fuels afterwards, because several large positive feedback mechanisms not included in current climate models will come to dominate the global climate system.
These positive feedbacks include Arctic amplification due to dramatic increase in albedo of the Arctic, release of huge stores of carbon trapped in permafrost, release of huge stores of carbon trapped in methane clathrates, and release of carbon from peat bogs and rainforests as soils dessicate and decomposition dominates carbon fixation from photosynthesis. These sources are so large that they dwarf what humans could do to lower carbon dioxide levels. Of course, the effects on total carbon dioxide will be additive in any event.
Few notice, but the trend in oceanic environments are not good, as the sea warm more and more phytoplankton and zooplankton move northward to physiologically optimal zones leaving behind the equivalent of photosynthetic deserts. Tropical marine ecosystems are now collapsing everywhere on the planet as the Earth shifts toward a new oceanic/atmospheric thermal equilibrium.
What you fail to see is that markets don't actually work that way. The reason is that insurance companies can effectively buy politicians and judges and insurance industry regulators to insure that in many cases insurance policies can be manipulated after they are written and signed to so that the payout for what has been indemnified is vastly different from what is actually stated on the policy. Having experienced Hurricane Katrina and how the legal system handles such situations, I can assure you that the system doesn't work like it does on insurance company commercials.
There is no place worse to be caught between your lawyers and insurance company lawyers in a process run by people who are more than happy to see "justice" be carried out on the behalf of the insurers to whom they are beholden for their jobs.
Interestingly those that sell insurance for boats will not sell policies that cover certain areas. For example, given the dangerous conditions at the mouth of Knysna Estuary in South Africa no insurance policy in the world will cover damage to your vessel if you attempt to transverse the mouth of the estuary. The risk is all yours.
"it is not hard to grow food"
Obviously, you haven't done a lot of farming. Tending an orchard and accepting the fact that some years produce reduced harvests makes farming rather different than just going to the supermarket.
In 100-200 years with soil temperatures rising, glacial meltwater a thing of the past, it is going to be very much harder to grow food. Glacier meltwater that permit rivers to flow year around and consequently provide water available to irrigate crops during the summer months will no longer be available for irrigation. LIkewise, more and more arable land is lost to other activities. This is a major driver of the current riots in India. People who used to rely on agriculture and agricultural production are being displaced by national and multinational corporations building out into the outskirts of New Dehli that used to support a predominantly agricultural economy and population. Soon it will be more than rogue elephants sneaking into gardens and farms to steal the produce, it will be millions of displaced and hungry persons with no other recourse.