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Submission + - Finnish Paper: Most Climate Science Models Overestimate Human Climate Impact (arxiv.org)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: A paper out of Finnland and verified in Japan has found nearly all models being used to study climate change grossly overestimate human impact by discounting the profound influence of cloudcover. Or per their conclusion:

We have proven that the GCM-models used in IPCC report AR5 cannot compute correctly the natural component included in the observed global temperature. The reason is that the models fail to derive the influences of low cloud cover fraction on the global temperature. A too small natural component results in a too large portion for the contribution of the greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide. That is why IPCC represents the climate sensitivity more than one order of magnitude larger than our sensitivity 0.24C. Because the anthropogenic portion in the increased CO 2 is less than 10 %, we have practically no anthropogenic climate change. The low clouds control mainly the global temperature.

Submission + - Buzz Aldrin is looking forward, not back—and he has a plan to bring NASA a (arstechnica.com)

Submitted by schwit1
schwit1 writes: The famed science fiction author Robert Heinlein is credited with saying, “If you can get your ship into orbit, you’re halfway to anywhere.” The basic gist of this is that, for any space mission, getting off the surface of the Earth and into free fall around the planet consumes half of your energy cost.

For this reason, a lot of aerospace engineers have long argued that deep space missions should be staged out of low-Earth orbit. And as Aldrin has thought about the current state of NASA and private industry, he has come around to this way of thinking, too. He therefore envisions building the “Gateway” not near the Moon but rather in low-Earth orbit. From this gathering point, missions could be assembled to go to the Moon or elsewhere. Aldrin calls this a “TransWay Orbit Rendezvous,” or T.O.R., because it represents a point of transferring from one orbit around Earth to another.

“This T.O.R. plan may be the most important thing I’ve ever done in my life,” Aldrin said.

Comment Re:iPad is not a PC (Score 1) 624

by fataugie (#31733004) Attached to: iPad Jailbroken

The term "100% IBM Compatiable" was still in use in the late 90's on some machines and software.

Now the real question is....has anyone EVER seen the label that has said "95% IBM Compatiable"?

Comment Re:They forgot one (Score 1) 235

by fataugie (#30696198) Attached to: The 9 Most Tested Lab Animals

So am I supposed to feel guilty that they couldn't defend themselves better? There was horrible atrocities committed by indians and whites.....so?
How is that different than normal life in that time, previous or even present day?

We won...they lost.
Or did they....they own the casinos that vacuum dollars out of our pockets...eh?

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