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Comment Re:Shoot the Schoolmaster CIO (Score 1) 89

Haven't you heard? HTML5 and JavaScript are the solutions to all problems these days. Do you need to write an operating system? Just use JavaScript! Did your dog just shit on the carpet? Use HTML5 to clean it up! Did you just drive over a nail, rupturing your car's tire? You can patch that hole with WebSockets! Did you accidentally pour acid on your genitals? Use jQuery to make yourself feel better.

Except don't use jQuery if your page is XHTML, as there is a bug in the latest version (bug id : #9479).

Comment Re:"These observations should dispel..." (Score 0) 458

I didn't make any statements that required sources. Also, I wasn't rude to you, but you chose to be rude to me. Perhaps you are trolling, perhaps you are drunk, perhaps you are simply an idiot. Whatever, I'm not interested in anything else you have to say. Continue to piss into the wind if you like, you'll just get wet.

Comment Re:Go away, oil industry shill! (Score 1) 458

Where in the law-book of nature does it specify things are always required to happen at the same rate? Things often build up over time and then have major, relatively immediate shifts... volcanoes, plate tectonics, plagues and diseases, to name a few.

Nowhere at all. You're absolutely right that there are rapid changes (or 'phase changes' in the jargon of some fields). However, if those happened to ice sheets, we might reasonably expect to have seen them before, right?

Comment Re:"These observations should dispel..." (Score 1) 458

Ice melts naturally as per nature

Sorry to say this, but this statement is nonsense. Yes, ice melts - that much is obvious - but the observation is that it is melting faster than records show. We can't conclusively prove it is humans except by removing everyone from the planet and watching what happens. Since (thankfully) we're not going to do that, the next best proof is to check what happened before we arrived. If there is no other cause - like massive new volcanoes in the pacific or penguins inventing explosives - I think it makes sense to at least look in humanities direction, if not point the finger at us.

Comment Re:There were glaciers all over Montana (Score 1) 458

No, but we have documented proof that both Europe and North America were experiencing a "mini ice age" as late at the mid-1800's, and that before the early 1700's (when the mini ice-age started) it was warmer than it is now. However as none of these records were written by "climate scientists" the AGW lot tend to deny them.

Well, but they might reasonably object that little ice ages are not the same as melting ice shelves? A short term drop in temperature is different to a rapid rise in temperature - assuming that the shelves are breaking up due to increased temperatures

Comment Re:"These observations should dispel..." (Score 1) 458

Agreed!

what kind of scientist uses their biast opinion instead of facts.

I agree that it is unwise to pass opinion as fact, especially in climate change science.

F'in prove it's not natural, then open your mouth Mr. Steven, till then your just another wannabe Jesus.

One problem is the question : "what is natural?". The assumption (I think) is that the change is happening too fast to be natural. Or, more exactly, the change is faster than previously observed. Obviously, we haven't watched ice shelves for millions of years, but I suppose that there are ice core records

Personally, I don't want the ice to melt - whether it is faster than normal or not - but you could claim that there is a non-human ('natural') cause. The difficulty as always is to find this other cause...

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