Nowhere in the article or summary does it mention anything about acceleration, or even comment on the rate of increase at all.
Then you didn't dig far enough. Their article is based on this paper which says its "research builds on a growing body of literature which suggests that SLR is occurring at a more rapid pace than even some of the more liberal projections can account for".
So - accelerating sea level.
Meanwhile the page you linked clearly shows a steady upward trend in tide height.
Correct - to show there's no acceleration, so it's nothing about "climate change" from man. It's natural. Moral of the story? Don't build on land that is subsiding, has zero altitude, or in a flood plain. We've had an increasing sea level for thousands of years, and it's going to continue until the next ice age.
OK, what acceleration rate do you spot? You can download the raw data from that site, do a fit. Exponential, polynomial (2nd order), it's all pretty much a straight line.
Then read what he originally proposed as the basis for the 2nd Amendment; I quoted it, and you can follow the link. It's that the right to keep and bear arms is unambiguous and explicit, and that a well-armed society is the best way to ensure freedom of governance (given that the US was, at that time, barely 10 years old). Don't take your misunderstanding and extrapolate it - go and learn about it, see what was written in the vernacular of the day, and go forward.
Mass shooting victims per capita over the last 10 years or so are much higher in a lot of Europe than in the US. The US is 11th on the list, trailing places like Norway, France, Belgium and Finland (and several others).
No, they didn't. It was plain language for their time. In fact, the original 2nd Amendment concept, as written by James Madison (who wrote most of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights), wrote:
"The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained to arms, is the best and most natural defense of a free country."
- James Madison
You can find his words in the annals of Congress. The 2nd Amendment is a more concise and clear version of what he wrote. It's only when you don't like what it clearly and plainly states (in the vernacular of the time it was written) that it becomes unclear or cloudy. If you're in doubt about what it said - then go back and read what was debated and proffered by the original writers.
Not to mention that total accumulated cyclone energy is on a decided downtrend, historically. We're having fewer storms, and fewer big storms. We're building more expensive buildings right on the beach though, so when there IS a storm, it does more financial damage.
Alaska, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Indiana, Ohio, and Maine wave "hi". More coastal States went for Trump than went for Clinton. That's why President Trump won 57% of the votes that matter - the Electoral College.
Really what you want is a way to give the Government a wad of cash, so you can go ahead and fill in the marshes, and not have to worry about the impact of your filling in the marshes because you paid your indulgence fee. So you can destroy all the marshes you want and it's all OK because you paid to the great priests of climate change!
What? To raise the sea levels worldwide by ~2.5cm, you need about 9200 cubic kilometers of volume (a bit over 360 million square km of ocean). There are about 6.5 barrels of oil per cubic meter (42 gallons per barrel, 3.78 liters per gallon), and we pump about 83 million barrels of oil a day. Doing the math, it would take about 1900 YEARS of pumping at today's rate to create enough volume to raise sea-level by 25mm - assuming 100% conversion to plastic and dumped into the ocean.
Your statement is patently false, doesn't even pass a sniff test. But I guess that is what passes for science these days...
You know, I believe Climate Change made you post what you just did, and your doubting of Climate Change is, in fact, the direct result of Climate Change! Now excuse me whilst I go and respond to Climate Change and use the bathroom. Because Climate Change.
In fact, we want to fill in those marshes and wetlands so we can build more homes close to the beach! Swamp land is so cheap that way! Buffer shmuffer, cheaper land to build - and more tax base for the city/county/State!
I guess folks at Slashdot have never heard of this new invention called a VPN? With it, you can actually appear to be in another country! Amazing, I know - but true!
Battery Park in Manhattan shows effectively ZERO acceleration over the last 150 years or so, but I guess that's not an exciting Gloom And Doom headline...
Previous exchanges... And where doesn't it state he's not? Additionally, if you have a VPN - you're in the US and you can get a Google Voice number. Unless that is too difficult for you to do?
"The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained to arms, is the best and most natural defense of a free country." - James Madison, I Annals of Congress 434, June 8, 1789
The man who wrote the 2nd Amendment itself, wrote a shorter, more concise, clearer version of what he originally stated to Congress and quoted here. It is unequivocal - the concept was the people can keep and bear arms, unequivocally. And that this arming of the citizenship provides the best final defense of a nation. Flat out.
But what did he know, he's just some dead white slaveholder who wrote some old words on a piece of paper...
If you want to read a few more thoughts of the guys who wrote the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, here are a few for you. I also like the words of George Washington...
The US Supreme Court has indeed been wrong before; however, what contemporaneous sources would you use to claim the 2A means what you want, other than how the SC has ruled?
Self entitlement, and the fact that optics matter more than results. Better to spend half a billion a mile for 100 MPH trains that go from nowhere to nowhere, than to actually put money into things like making sure we can buy appropriate voice service, or update our fire-fighting equipment.
Huh. Seems to work for me other than China - but then, I use a VPN for China and can get whatever I need. Canada, the EU, Mexico, Central America - all have my Google Voice work fine as long as I have some sort of Internet connectivity (either WIFI or 3G or better).
A personal anecdote: I have a GMail account I use at home, everything works well enough (despite the awful interface).
I sometimes want to use it at the local hackerspace, I try to log in, and after I enter my password it tells me "we don't recognize this computer, give us your phone number and we'll send you an SMS message to continue"(*).
I absolutely do not want to give Google my phone number, but there's no way around this.
Get a free Google Voice number - then use that. It works great. It will receive the SMS no problem.
You can buy that level of service, if you like. Or you can buy cheaper service (like our State department did - yes, I live in CA) and live with the consequences. Of course, Verizon Business also makes it so you can go on-line and change your service level (to unlimited for everyone, no restrictions) at any time and the problem would have been solved in a matter of minutes, but that's not the California way. We prefer to wait until things not only fail, but do so spectacularly, then try to shame private people and institutions into covering for our incompetent leadership, toss more tax dollars at the problem - then go build a few more miles of useless infrastructure (HSR in the desert) and ignore the root of the problem.
Because of the cost of reproduction/distribution (essentially zero), software will ALWAYS race to that cost. There will always be someone willing to take your idea and write it for cheaper, and sell it for cheaper. There is no "hard floor" in terms of materials or required infrastructure to make each copy. The barrier to entry is simply the cost of marketing - and the cost of sales/distribution is nearly zero.
Confessing to "crimes" and "violations" that simply don't exist. Even corporations are now getting into the act - responding to criticism that simply doesn't apply.
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Nowhere in the article or summary does it mention anything about acceleration, or even comment on the rate of increase at all.
Then you didn't dig far enough. Their article is based on this paper which says its "research builds on a growing body of literature which suggests that SLR is occurring at a more rapid pace than even some of the more liberal projections can account for". So - accelerating sea level.
Meanwhile the page you linked clearly shows a steady upward trend in tide height.
Correct - to show there's no acceleration, so it's nothing about "climate change" from man. It's natural. Moral of the story? Don't build on land that is subsiding, has zero altitude, or in a flood plain. We've had an increasing sea level for thousands of years, and it's going to continue until the next ice age.
OK, what acceleration rate do you spot? You can download the raw data from that site, do a fit. Exponential, polynomial (2nd order), it's all pretty much a straight line.
Then read what he originally proposed as the basis for the 2nd Amendment; I quoted it, and you can follow the link. It's that the right to keep and bear arms is unambiguous and explicit, and that a well-armed society is the best way to ensure freedom of governance (given that the US was, at that time, barely 10 years old). Don't take your misunderstanding and extrapolate it - go and learn about it, see what was written in the vernacular of the day, and go forward.
Mass shooting victims per capita over the last 10 years or so are much higher in a lot of Europe than in the US. The US is 11th on the list, trailing places like Norway, France, Belgium and Finland (and several others).
Weapons are prohibited from the area by their own rules.
You are wrong. Please see section E, part b. Weapons are prohibited. This was a gun free zone.
"The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained to arms, is the best and most natural defense of a free country." - James Madison
You can find his words in the annals of Congress. The 2nd Amendment is a more concise and clear version of what he wrote. It's only when you don't like what it clearly and plainly states (in the vernacular of the time it was written) that it becomes unclear or cloudy. If you're in doubt about what it said - then go back and read what was debated and proffered by the original writers.
Not to mention that total accumulated cyclone energy is on a decided downtrend, historically. We're having fewer storms, and fewer big storms. We're building more expensive buildings right on the beach though, so when there IS a storm, it does more financial damage.
Alaska, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Indiana, Ohio, and Maine wave "hi". More coastal States went for Trump than went for Clinton. That's why President Trump won 57% of the votes that matter - the Electoral College.
Really what you want is a way to give the Government a wad of cash, so you can go ahead and fill in the marshes, and not have to worry about the impact of your filling in the marshes because you paid your indulgence fee. So you can destroy all the marshes you want and it's all OK because you paid to the great priests of climate change!
What? To raise the sea levels worldwide by ~2.5cm, you need about 9200 cubic kilometers of volume (a bit over 360 million square km of ocean). There are about 6.5 barrels of oil per cubic meter (42 gallons per barrel, 3.78 liters per gallon), and we pump about 83 million barrels of oil a day. Doing the math, it would take about 1900 YEARS of pumping at today's rate to create enough volume to raise sea-level by 25mm - assuming 100% conversion to plastic and dumped into the ocean.
Your statement is patently false, doesn't even pass a sniff test. But I guess that is what passes for science these days...
You know, I believe Climate Change made you post what you just did, and your doubting of Climate Change is, in fact, the direct result of Climate Change! Now excuse me whilst I go and respond to Climate Change and use the bathroom. Because Climate Change.
In fact, we want to fill in those marshes and wetlands so we can build more homes close to the beach! Swamp land is so cheap that way! Buffer shmuffer, cheaper land to build - and more tax base for the city/county/State!
I guess folks at Slashdot have never heard of this new invention called a VPN? With it, you can actually appear to be in another country! Amazing, I know - but true!
Battery Park in Manhattan shows effectively ZERO acceleration over the last 150 years or so, but I guess that's not an exciting Gloom And Doom headline...
Previous exchanges... And where doesn't it state he's not? Additionally, if you have a VPN - you're in the US and you can get a Google Voice number. Unless that is too difficult for you to do?
"The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained to arms, is the best and most natural defense of a free country." - James Madison, I Annals of Congress 434, June 8, 1789
The man who wrote the 2nd Amendment itself, wrote a shorter, more concise, clearer version of what he originally stated to Congress and quoted here. It is unequivocal - the concept was the people can keep and bear arms, unequivocally. And that this arming of the citizenship provides the best final defense of a nation. Flat out.
But what did he know, he's just some dead white slaveholder who wrote some old words on a piece of paper...
If you want to read a few more thoughts of the guys who wrote the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, here are a few for you. I also like the words of George Washington...
Okian Warrior - the original person I responded to - is in the US. So... your point?
The US Supreme Court has indeed been wrong before; however, what contemporaneous sources would you use to claim the 2A means what you want, other than how the SC has ruled?
Self entitlement, and the fact that optics matter more than results. Better to spend half a billion a mile for 100 MPH trains that go from nowhere to nowhere, than to actually put money into things like making sure we can buy appropriate voice service, or update our fire-fighting equipment.
Huh. Seems to work for me other than China - but then, I use a VPN for China and can get whatever I need. Canada, the EU, Mexico, Central America - all have my Google Voice work fine as long as I have some sort of Internet connectivity (either WIFI or 3G or better).
A personal anecdote: I have a GMail account I use at home, everything works well enough (despite the awful interface).
I sometimes want to use it at the local hackerspace, I try to log in, and after I enter my password it tells me "we don't recognize this computer, give us your phone number and we'll send you an SMS message to continue"(*).
I absolutely do not want to give Google my phone number, but there's no way around this.
Get a free Google Voice number - then use that. It works great. It will receive the SMS no problem.
You can buy that level of service, if you like. Or you can buy cheaper service (like our State department did - yes, I live in CA) and live with the consequences. Of course, Verizon Business also makes it so you can go on-line and change your service level (to unlimited for everyone, no restrictions) at any time and the problem would have been solved in a matter of minutes, but that's not the California way. We prefer to wait until things not only fail, but do so spectacularly, then try to shame private people and institutions into covering for our incompetent leadership, toss more tax dollars at the problem - then go build a few more miles of useless infrastructure (HSR in the desert) and ignore the root of the problem.
Because of the cost of reproduction/distribution (essentially zero), software will ALWAYS race to that cost. There will always be someone willing to take your idea and write it for cheaper, and sell it for cheaper. There is no "hard floor" in terms of materials or required infrastructure to make each copy. The barrier to entry is simply the cost of marketing - and the cost of sales/distribution is nearly zero.
Confessing to "crimes" and "violations" that simply don't exist. Even corporations are now getting into the act - responding to criticism that simply doesn't apply.