Sorry, that was certainly not the intent. Of course "the" (this particular topic: AGW) was implied, and everyone else understood it that way.

"utilizing the scientific process honestly, let alone correctly"

Well ok, mistakes happen ... but these don't meet the suggested criterion of "ignoring science entirely".

"skeptics would like [to own the term skeptic]"

And the people's front of judea would like the splitters to call themselves the front of judean people.

"other than that, the story was accurate"

"the denier ignores [science] entirely"

Do such people actually exist? (e.g., "scientist X, Y, Z don't have credibility with me" is not "ignoring science entirely".)

I'd really like to hear what Bennett Haselton has to say about that.

Read some of Michael Totten's series on Cuba.
It's not much better than North Korea, if you get beyond the goo served up by the michigan documentator.

I don't know anything about the physics of this paper.

But I love figure 3 (also highlighted at the aps.org URL),
because it highlights outliers from the theory, and points
to the supplementary information for theories about why
those points didn't fit the otherwise nice curve.

Bringing attention to errors as well as successes - that's
good honest work.

Well sure, but the point is that it's not up to the whims of the license or licensor what those legal terms mean. They exist outside.

The authors of a license, even the GPL, cannot simply redefine the pre-established legal concept of "derivation" (absence of which implies irrelevance of license, no matter what the licensor prefers).

... well, considering the supposedly the purpose of the medallion was to keep meanie drivers out of cabs, then they should reflect the deemed safety of the -driver-, not the car.

The trick is that the light source varies with different samples. What this apparatus appears to be computing is a dot product (overall image intensity) with a series of 2D wavelets. Then inverse-transform the coefficients to a 2D image.

Thanks for the links. I was indeed feeling a little lazy.

"How should the writer of the article know what you want to know?"

That seemed like a natural enough question. The writer ought to set the context. If we were talking about only a pittance of generation overall, then its exact decomposition of renewable vs. not would not be interesting. As it is, scotland produces some 15% of the UK total, so not too shabby.

... plus they don't talk about energy *consumed* in scotland, only generated. It would be more useful if there were a statement that scotland is a net importer vs. exporter of electricity.

OK. So the original question remains how the temperature of the object can be multiple degrees cooler, in the steady state, than the ambient air. Why would those two heat flows not apprx. balance?