Comment Re:Most rational people never believe in AGW (Score 1) 207
Has anyone taken into account the number of active underwater volcanoes?
Yes.
Next question?
Has anyone taken into account the number of active underwater volcanoes?
Yes.
Next question?
So, we don't have a parallel where we can go run experiments, although I have had some interesting discussions with people about using Mars for this purpose.
-- Dr William Collins, before the American Physical Society climate change statement review subcommittee.
There are 99 comments as I write this. Most filled with desperate and condescending excuses why this is no in any way indicative that the Church of the Global Warming is in danger of having it orthodoxy overturned.
What part of Global warming do you not understand?
This shows that local warming can be caused by wind bringing heat from somewhere else.
I assume that you are bright enough to understand that such a mechanism cannot explain global warming. On this planet we obey the law of conservation of energy.
I left Gnome when they insisted on making the volume controls vertical instead of horizontal (like everyone else).
Which wouldn't have been such a big deal if that also didn't reverse the scroll wheel direction you had to use to change the volume.
If you're out to annoy your users, don't be surprised when you're out of users shortly...
Odd.
If I move the mouse over the little loudspeaker icon I scroll down to reduce the volume, scroll up to increase the volume.
If I click on the icon I see a horizontal slider for the volume.
Aha, but you're right - in gnome control center the scroll wheel works backwards.
Time for a bug report.
Ah, no need.
When you install Jessie you get the Debian desktop with Gnome by default.
If you don't want a GUI you just deselect the desktop.
If you want KDE or Xfce you just select them instead of Gnome.
It's not hard.
Software to install:
[x] Desktop
"Linux noobs generally do NOT use Debian."
I don't think I'm a noob (programmer since 1977, Unix user since 1990) but I use a GUI on my Debian workstations. Not on the servers of course.
And, in my experience, neither Gnome nor KDE are particularly robust. I got tired of fighting graphics drivers and configurations, and have XFCE installed to run those things which simply won't work without.
What are these "configurations" of which you speak?
Exit row seating usually offers a bit more leg room with no reclining seats in front of you. It used to be free, now many airlines charge for it. Therer is no shortage of takers.
Unfortunately it's also often off-limits for minors - my 16 year old son is not allowed to book exit row seats, and he's a hell of a lot bigger than me.
The best thing about "The Sheep Look Up" is the happy ending.
I kinda like the idea of Linux/systemd being a full featured mini computer OS while Linux/SysV (or better Linux/OpenRC is more like a traditional lightweight Unix).
What a strange idea.
My phone runs systemd.
the natural carbon cycle deals out no where near the amount of CO2 humans do
What the hell are you talking about? Estimates for natural emissions are around 150 billion tonnes per year. That's thirty times Human emissions.
True.
And that estimate is from the IPCC so it's likely the figures have been carefully massaged down to make Human emissions appear bigger than they are.
Oh dear, you were doing so well until you had to put your conspiracy theorists hat on.
No, you dummy, the estimate isn't "from the IPCC". The IPCC don't deal in estimates. They just report the published science. That's where the estimates of the the size of the carbon cycle come from.
The purpose of the climate models is to forecast climate, not short-term events that have no effect on the trend.
You don't know that it has no long-term effects on the trend. ENSO hasn't been understood long enough. THEORETICALLY, it may be true, but it sure as hell isn't proven. Even now it is not well understood... which was part of my point.
The "theory" that says that ENSO has no long term effect is conservation of mass/energy.
I know you guys like to imagine that your vague hand-waving trumps basic science, but that's going a little far, don't you think?
ENSO has no long--term effect on climate. ENSO is a short term variation.
THE PURPOSE of models is to do forecasting. So far, no models can accurately project the behavior of ENSO.
The purpose of the climate models is to forecast climate, not short-term events that have no effect on the trend.
ENSO is irrelevant to climate, it's interesting for weather forecasting.
Thermohaline circulation.
Two parts - "thermo" and "haline".
Of course hotter water rises, if the salinity is unchanged.
But add salt and things get more interesting.
That is not a climate model. It has no physical basis. Models are not curve fitting.
No, what religions do is torture and murder heretics...
And prevent their papers from being published in scientific journals.
Oh, go on, just for laughs.
Please name one paper that was prevented from being published.
Biology is the only science in which multiplication means the same thing as division.
