There is no scientific consensus on what should be done about global warming.
The commonly accepted way to reduce climate change (archaic form: global warming) is to reduce emissions of greenhouse gasses (GHG). The largest sources of human caused GHG emissions are a. coal fired electricity generation b. industrial agriculture. The total CO2 equivalent emitted by you, me and what we consume, every year is 30 Billion tons. That needs to be reduced by at least 50% within two decades or so.
Coal fired electricity generation produces prodigious amounts of CO2. The problem with reducing coal based emissions is many fold: on one side are entrenched interests in coal mining, and built infrastructure, that influence politics and public opinion. Renewables were once very expensive but are competitive now. The mass production of PV panels shows what can be achieved. The Germans have done a great deal of research to evolve technology solutions to maintain modern lifestyles.
Industrial agriculture produces prodigious amounts of CH4 (aka methane). The waste of up-converting feed stock into live stock will be reduced by increasingly poorer climate conditions. Since the ratio of petrochemical energy in to food energy out is something like 10:1 all food will get expensive as fuel costs keep rising with the inexorable increased cost of oil exploitation (aka peak oil).
Obama's $1B will fund a lot of US research to help you maintain your life without ruining the earth's ecological systems
It's not global warming, at least not caused by our burning BILLIONS of tones of fossil fuels. Simply, it's all God's fault for being such a homophobic sociopathetic but supreme being
A UKIP councillor has blamed the recent storms and heavy floods across Britain on the Government's decision to legalise gay marriage. David Silvester said the Prime Minister had acted "arrogantly against the Gospel".
I LOVE A SUNBURNT COUNTRY (with apologies to Dorothea Mackellar)
I love a sunburnt country A land of sunburnt plains, Of sunburnt mountain ranges, Of droughts and sunburnt rains. I love sunburnt horizons I love her sunburnt sea Her sunburn and her sunburn This sunburnt land for me.
Micheal Leunig, 16 December 2006
Yup; Australia has never been hotter / dryer / more sunburnt...
This thread is hilarious if you use GreaseMonkey to change each instance of Elsevier to Elrentier. If you dont and read it straight, then its very sad that the rentier business model (IP trolling, patent trolling, etc) is such viscous immorality.
A common complaint about the all-electric Nissan LEAF has been its short range, officially 75 miles on a full charge according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. To address that challenge, Nissan could add options for consumers to purchase bigger battery packs to boost the LEAF’s all-electric range, Pierre Loing, vice president of product and advanced planning and strategy told PluginCars.com. “The packaging easiness (of the battery) makes it easier to put more batteries in the car, and you will see this,” Loing said during an interview this week at the 2013 Los Angeles Auto Show.
EV range is such a hard problem, unless you think about it.
Nevertheless, we need to understand that $SUBJECT's inability to see reality is rooted in his faith, and in powerful psychological conditioning, and that will never be changed by exposure to anything as simple as facts.
Something the EPA should look at is huge health (bill) implication for veterans exposed to dense acrid smoke from open-air burn pits on military bases in Iraq and Afghanistan. This is a seriously appalling way to run garbage disposal: 10 acre open pit fires going 24/7 burning all camp waste.
The next advancement from a phone that catch on fire from overheating Lithium battery, is a phone, with super duper silicon caps, that will experience uncontrolled disassembly.
Back last century, returning to Australia from MacWorld Boston ('97 as it was the infamous Jobs' praising MS-IE), I presented an empty 'pineapple' grenade, for inspection to the 'anti-hijacking' pre boarding security at Los Angeles. I had unscrewed the fuse out of the body of the grenade and I presented the two pieces saying: "You may not like this..."
But once they saw the grenade was mounted on a small base board with a small plaque that read: "Customer Service. Please take a number" with a square tag with the number "1" on the pull ring of the pin, they laughed and waved me through...
Just lifted this from boing boing because it fits...
Known for his biting satire and his dedication to Socialism, [dissident East German songwriter Wolf Biermann] chronicled his life under surveillance with a powerful sense of humor, and nowhere better than in the “Stasi Ballad” from 1974, with its classic refrain – “Die Stasi ist mein Eckermann.” That is a reference to the German poet Johann Peter Eckermann, who patiently chronicled the utterances of that Olympian figure of German literature, Johann Wolfgang Goethe – ultimately published in Goethe’s Conversations With Eckermann in the Last Years of His Life, which Nietzsche called the “greatest work in the German language”. Here is an English rendition:
I feel a common humanity With the poor Stasi dogs, Required to sit through snow and downpours of rain Tediously listening to me through the Microphone they have installed Which catches every sound, Songs, jokes and soft curses Sitting on the toilet and in the kitchen Brothers from state security – you alone Know all my troubles.
You alone can attest, How my whole human effort Is committed with passionate tenderness And zest to Our Great Cause. Words which otherwise would be lost, Are captured firmly on your tapes, And – I’m sure of it – now and again You sing my songs in bed. I sing my gratitude to you, Stasi is my Ecker, Stasi is my Ecker, Stasi is my Eckermann.
When I buy oranges that are naturally grown, I know what I'm getting.
RTFA please. Your naturally grown oranges are suffering an insect-borne bacterial disease that is killing the industry, by stunting/souring the fruit. The current BAU solution to this problem is: more insecticide. Much more.
Hope you enjoy your orange juice, now you know that it contains 3x as many pesticide residues. The GMO technology is about saving orange juice as a product, by inserting a gene from spinach.
Monsatan really sucks. More about patent raping for $billions than better food.
The latest medical procedure is a Glasstrostomy. It is a means for removing a Google Glass device from a wearer of Google Glass ("a Glasshole") with a swift blow upside the head.
And so you should. The minor annoyances that people seem to want to blow up [joke] into traumatizing life ruining experiences will quickly dissipate, when the Transportation Security Administration is rebranded to a warmer fuzzier name... To save issuing new badges etc, the same acronym TSA will be used, so we can have
Travel Safe, America
Votes? More suggestions?
Take Scissors Away Take Stuff Away Terrorism Support Agency Terrorists Still Allowed Theatrical Self Aggrandizement The Silly Agency The Stupid Agency They Steal Anything This $u(k$ @$$ Three Stooges Audition Tin Star Alert Totally Suspicious Agency Tourism Sabotage Activity Transparently Senseless Aggravation Travellers Subjected Arbitrarily Treasonous Sinister Axis Tuff Stubborn Anal Turpitude Summarily Accepted Twisted Sexual Abusers
And also lets rebrand the Department of Homeland Security DHS: Delusive Hollow Sham Deplorable Harrassment of Selectees, Treatment Simply Abusive Desperate Hopeless Situation D!(k Head Screeners Dirty Handed Shakedown Doesn't Have Sanity Doesn't Help Security Dollars Horribly Spent Dysfunctional Hassle Spree Don't Have a Seizure
The cost was just too high for the production offered. Make me the same offer at say $15K for 3K or maybe a little more for 4K and I think I'd have jumped on it.
mean that a 3kW grid connected solar system would cost you $15,000 ? If so, please wind your calendar forward 5 years to 2103. I can source grade A solar panels for $0.80 per watt; that's a $2400 panel cost for 3kW, $3200 for 4kW. Maybe another $4K for inverter and installation. Solar is so damn cheap now.
A strategy to get them to talk: Either talk and rat out the rapist brother, or the €1m DNA test is done to confirm the exact perpetrator. The rapist get time in the big house but the twist is that the innocent brother get fined €1m for obstruction of justice.
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Let me repeat:
The commonly accepted way to reduce climate change (archaic form: global warming) is to reduce emissions of greenhouse gasses (GHG).
There IS scientific consensus. Just no political consensus. Equals: we are so screwed.
If we add in Solyndra at $570 million he's managed to piss away about $2.5 billion on those ten companies.
Don't worry, That's just 24 hours of Federal Reserve QE's money printing time (@$85B/month)!
There is no scientific consensus on what should be done about global warming.
The commonly accepted way to reduce climate change (archaic form: global warming) is to reduce emissions of greenhouse gasses (GHG).
The largest sources of human caused GHG emissions are a. coal fired electricity generation b. industrial agriculture.
The total CO2 equivalent emitted by you, me and what we consume, every year is 30 Billion tons.
That needs to be reduced by at least 50% within two decades or so.
Coal fired electricity generation produces prodigious amounts of CO2.
The problem with reducing coal based emissions is many fold:
on one side are entrenched interests in coal mining, and built infrastructure, that influence politics and public opinion.
Renewables were once very expensive but are competitive now. The mass production of PV panels shows what can be achieved.
The Germans have done a great deal of research to evolve technology solutions to maintain modern lifestyles.
Industrial agriculture produces prodigious amounts of CH4 (aka methane).
The waste of up-converting feed stock into live stock will be reduced by increasingly poorer climate conditions.
Since the ratio of petrochemical energy in to food energy out is something like 10:1 all food will get expensive
as fuel costs keep rising with the inexorable increased cost of oil exploitation (aka peak oil).
Obama's $1B will fund a lot of US research to help you maintain your life without ruining the earth's ecological systems
So you're saying that a Tesla with AWD will use the same amount of petrol as a FWD/RWD model.
Like, still zero?
It's not global warming, at least not caused by our burning BILLIONS of tones of fossil fuels.
Simply, it's all God's fault for being such a homophobic sociopathetic but supreme being
A UKIP councillor has blamed the recent storms and heavy floods across Britain on the Government's decision to legalise gay marriage.
David Silvester said the Prime Minister had acted "arrogantly against the Gospel".
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-25793358
I LOVE A SUNBURNT COUNTRY
(with apologies to Dorothea Mackellar)
I love a sunburnt country
A land of sunburnt plains,
Of sunburnt mountain ranges,
Of droughts and sunburnt rains.
I love sunburnt horizons
I love her sunburnt sea
Her sunburn and her sunburn
This sunburnt land for me.
Micheal Leunig, 16 December 2006
Yup; Australia has never been hotter / dryer / more sunburnt ...
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This thread is hilarious if you use GreaseMonkey to change each instance of Elsevier to Elrentier.
If you dont and read it straight, then its very sad that the rentier business model (IP trolling, patent trolling, etc) is such viscous immorality.
A common complaint about the all-electric Nissan LEAF has been its short range, officially 75 miles on a full charge according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. To address that challenge, Nissan could add options for consumers to purchase bigger battery packs to boost the LEAF’s all-electric range, Pierre Loing, vice president of product and advanced planning and strategy told PluginCars.com. “The packaging easiness (of the battery) makes it easier to put more batteries in the car, and you will see this,” Loing said during an interview this week at the 2013 Los Angeles Auto Show.
EV range is such a hard problem, unless you think about it.
Nevertheless, we need to understand that $SUBJECT's inability to see reality
is rooted in his faith, and in powerful psychological conditioning,
and that will never be changed by exposure to anything as simple as facts.
Something the EPA should look at is huge health (bill) implication for veterans exposed to dense acrid smoke from open-air burn pits on military bases in Iraq and Afghanistan.
This is a seriously appalling way to run garbage disposal: 10 acre open pit fires going 24/7 burning all camp waste.
http://www.theverge.com/2013/10/28/4771164/the-next-agent-orange-why-burn-pits-are-making-soldiers-sick
First, there is no such thing as an "assault rifle."
Oh I get it now. All guns are DEFENCE weapons. Gotcha.
Great :(
The next advancement from a phone that catch on fire from overheating Lithium battery,
is a phone, with super duper silicon caps, that will experience uncontrolled disassembly.
IN.YOUR.POCKET
but I ran out of money.
64GB iPhone 5 with gold plating plus $10,000 iTunes credit.
Get that over-reaching sense of entitlement embedded early.
Back last century, returning to Australia from MacWorld Boston ('97 as it was the infamous Jobs' praising MS-IE),
I presented an empty 'pineapple' grenade, for inspection to the 'anti-hijacking' pre boarding security at Los Angeles.
I had unscrewed the fuse out of the body of the grenade and I presented the two pieces saying: "You may not like this..."
But once they saw the grenade was mounted on a small base board with a small plaque that read:
"Customer Service. Please take a number" with a square tag with the number "1" on the pull ring of the pin,
they laughed and waved me through...
Just lifted this from boing boing because it fits ...
Known for his biting satire and his dedication to Socialism, [dissident East German songwriter Wolf Biermann] chronicled his life under surveillance with a powerful sense of humor, and nowhere better than in the “Stasi Ballad” from 1974, with its classic refrain – “Die Stasi ist mein Eckermann.”
That is a reference to the German poet Johann Peter Eckermann, who patiently chronicled the utterances of that Olympian figure of German literature, Johann Wolfgang Goethe – ultimately published in Goethe’s Conversations With Eckermann in the Last Years of His Life, which Nietzsche called the “greatest work in the German language”. Here is an English rendition:
I feel a common humanity
With the poor Stasi dogs,
Required to sit through snow and downpours of rain
Tediously listening to me through the
Microphone they have installed
Which catches every sound,
Songs, jokes and soft curses
Sitting on the toilet and in the kitchen
Brothers from state security – you alone
Know all my troubles.
You alone can attest,
How my whole human effort
Is committed with passionate tenderness
And zest to Our Great Cause.
Words which otherwise would be lost,
Are captured firmly on your tapes,
And – I’m sure of it – now and again
You sing my songs in bed.
I sing my gratitude to you,
Stasi is my Ecker,
Stasi is my Ecker,
Stasi is my Eckermann.
Arab spring
Climate change summer
American fall
Nuclear winter
Fuck the parade.
Demand that Obama appoint Snowden to head a presidential agency charged with NSA oversight!
When I buy oranges that are naturally grown, I know what I'm getting.
RTFA please.
Your naturally grown oranges are suffering an insect-borne bacterial disease that is killing the industry, by stunting/souring the fruit.
The current BAU solution to this problem is: more insecticide. Much more.
Hope you enjoy your orange juice, now you know that it contains 3x as many pesticide residues.
The GMO technology is about saving orange juice as a product, by inserting a gene from spinach.
Monsatan really sucks. More about patent raping for $billions than better food.
It's what's for dinner!
The latest medical procedure is a Glasstrostomy.
It is a means for removing a Google Glass device
from a wearer of Google Glass ("a Glasshole")
with a swift blow upside the head.
I just love the TSA.
And so you should.
The minor annoyances that people seem to want to blow up [joke] into traumatizing life ruining experiences will quickly dissipate,
when the Transportation Security Administration is rebranded to a warmer fuzzier name...
To save issuing new badges etc, the same acronym TSA will be used, so we can have
Travel Safe, America
Votes? More suggestions?
Take Scissors Away
Take Stuff Away
Terrorism Support Agency
Terrorists Still Allowed
Theatrical Self Aggrandizement
The Silly Agency
The Stupid Agency
They Steal Anything
This $u(k$ @$$
Three Stooges Audition
Tin Star Alert
Totally Suspicious Agency
Tourism Sabotage Activity
Transparently Senseless Aggravation
Travellers Subjected Arbitrarily
Treasonous Sinister Axis
Tuff Stubborn Anal
Turpitude Summarily Accepted
Twisted Sexual Abusers
And also lets rebrand the Department of Homeland Security DHS:
Delusive Hollow Sham
Deplorable Harrassment of Selectees, Treatment Simply Abusive
Desperate Hopeless Situation
D!(k Head Screeners
Dirty Handed Shakedown
Doesn't Have Sanity
Doesn't Help Security
Dollars Horribly Spent
Dysfunctional Hassle Spree
Don't Have a Seizure
Does your shorthand statement
The cost was just too high for the production offered. Make me the same offer at say $15K for 3K or maybe a little more for 4K and I think I'd have jumped on it.
mean that a 3kW grid connected solar system would cost you $15,000 ?
If so, please wind your calendar forward 5 years to 2103.
I can source grade A solar panels for $0.80 per watt; that's a $2400 panel cost for 3kW, $3200 for 4kW.
Maybe another $4K for inverter and installation.
Solar is so damn cheap now.
A strategy to get them to talk:
Either talk and rat out the rapist brother, or the €1m DNA test is done to confirm the exact perpetrator.
The rapist get time in the big house but the twist is that the innocent brother get fined €1m for obstruction of justice.