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Comment Re: No real surprise (Score 1) 710

If the hypothesis of AGW is valid, and the Hypocrits like Gore believe that Un-Green lifestyles is destroying the climate and dooming humanity to death, famine and pestilance, and those hypocrits continue to engage in those lifestyles then what kind of monsters are they? At least the deniers honestly think that the past warming was predominately due to natural cycles and any anthropological input is self-limiting so if they destroy the world it's through ignorance instead of malice.

Comment Re:No real surprise (Score 1) 710

It certainly is a bizzare world we live in, Al Gore, the high priest of Apocolyptic Global Warming has a home in Tennesee that uses more energy the Goerge W Bush's ranch does, flies all over the world in a private jet and owns a condo in San Francisco that's 3 feet above sea-level; while Anthony Watts the leader of the Denier Illuminati has solar PV panels on his home and drives an electric vehicle.

Comment Re:So was the landing successful? (Score 1) 112

The rocket launched Monday suffered a similar fate. "Rocket booster re-entry, landing burn & leg deploy were good, but lost hull integrity right after splashdown (aka kaboom)," Musk wrote on Twitter.
The failure may have been a bit on the energetic side; trying for a soft touch down with enough rocket fuel ant oxidiser to do a soft touch down is always potentially exciting.

Comment Re:Creepy (Score 1) 188

What I've pieced together is it's a 50 cal smooth-bore discarding sabot system, the round is aerodynamically stable with the center of gravity ahead of the aerodynamic center and is fin stabilized. The round has no inertial guidance so I assume that it wouldn't be able to use nutating scanning techniques and any spin would be unnecessary complication.
Cryptographic modulation, more likely none in the first interation, then a very profitable MWO to add a simple coherency signal adapted by reading a barcode on the round as it's loaded.

Comment Re:Creepy (Score 1) 188

An obvious countermeasure would be to have the laser turn on only when the trigger is pulled. With a velocity of about a km per sec, the bullet won't give you much time to "remove yourself from the area".

So it'll be easy to recognise the important bad-guy because he'll be the one wearing the MILES gear, a second doesn't give you enough time to vacate the area, but you only have to move farther that the bullet has time to correct.

The likely target of this weapon is going to be some impoverished kid wiring up a dud mortar round as an IED by the side of the road.

Yeah right, the chain of command is going to authorize shooting a $50K bullet at a kid; also if somebody has to paint the target, then only a few dollars more gets you a live video feed so command can watch and control any engagements. I see this as being a replacement for the AGM-114, Hellfire missile on Predator and Reaper drones against soft, point targets. One problem we're having now is the bad-guys is using tactics that maximise collateral damage. these bullets will counter those tactics and give our drones he ability to engage many more targets.

Comment Re:wrong. (Score 1) 389

They better, Asia is the contenent that's the greatest net emmiter of CO2 in the world, after them it's Africa, then Europe, then North America; Antartica is at breakeven, South America is a net sequesterer and surprisingly Australian is the biggest land CO2 sink.

Comment Re:Climate Change on Slashdot? Bring on the fun! (Score 1) 389

" The GCMs really do not seem to work."
why do you think that? they work very well. They have even lead us to make new discoveries about the climate.

" They clearly run way too hot. "
no, they doi not. Another baseless statement I suspect you have no clue how models work. in general, much less in any specific field.

When I keep seeing graphics like this and and this which all show the majority of computer climate models over-prediction the current temperatures.

I'm going to ask you a question. If you can not answer it, then you need to STFU and learn some science.

My turn, What is Equilibrium Climate Sensitivity and how much is it? for extra point don't WattsUpWithThis, Skeptical Science or Wikipedia.

Comment Re:X-2 and X-3 (Score 1) 103

This might be an interesting concept, a combined land/water speed record where the land speed is made with the boat trailered, then the boat's speed on water is added to that, of course the boat would have to be launched from the trailer and tow vehicle. That would be right up Top Gear's alley.

Comment Re:How about (Score 1) 385

The LLNL-led research shows that climate models can and do simulate short, 10- to 12-year "hiatus periods" with minimal warming, even when the models are run with historical increases in greenhouse gases and sulfate aerosol particles. They find that tropospheric temperature records must be at least 17 years long to discriminate between internal climate noise and the signal of human-caused changes in the chemical composition of the atmosphere. ...
The research team is made up of Santer and Livermore colleagues Charles Doutriaux, Peter Caldwell, Peter Gleckler, Detelina Ivanova, and Karl Taylor, and includes collaborators from Remote Sensing Systems, the National Center for Atmospheric Research, the University of Colorado, the Canadian Centre for Climate Modeling and Analysis, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the U.K. Meteorology Office Hadley Centre, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

More Information
"Separating signal and noise in atmospheric temperature changes:The Importance of Time Scale,"Journal of Geophysical Research, Atmospheres, Nov. 18, 2011

Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison

"Climate models confirm more moisture in atmosphere attributed to humans," LLNL news release, Aug. 10, 2009

"Tropopause height becomes another climate-change 'fingerprint,' " Science & Technology Review, March 2004

"Livermore Researchers Discover Uncertainties in Climate Satellite Data Hamper Detection of Global Warming," LLNL news release, May 1, 2003
Separating signal and noise in climate warming

Comment Re:How about (Score 1) 385

Of the 7 sources 7 were flat or possible cooling while the CO2 line still trended up, and the 17 years wasn't just cherry picked, although I can't find the actual quatation, I believe Hanson said if there were no warming for 15 years that global warming would be falsified, then as 15 years passed, some else said 17 years would be the falsification point. So now we're just months shy of 18 years, the expected El Nino is turning mild, and this solar cycle is looking mild as well the prospects of some warming in the near future is unlikely so for the climate to reproduce the temperatures predicted by the models for this century is going to take some real hell fire to get there.

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