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Comment Re:data. (Score 1) 552

No, it would not. The age of a 35 year old in minutes would be 18,408,600. 30 minutes would roughly 0.00163% of that. Terra is approximately 4 billion years old. Simple math yields 6,518 years, not one year. The time frame I provided was actually six times longer than the time frame looked at by the scientists. That also means that we should be looking at the last five minutes, not the last 30. In both cases, the time frame is too short

Now, to your second point, seeing climate change and showing that it is caused by humans is different things. Most of what I see is people saying "the climate has changed in the last 200 years and the industrial revolution started 200 years ago so climate change must have been caused by humans", which is the questionable cause fallacy.

Comment Re:A Better Question (Score 1) 104

If a for-profit business isn't making at least as much money "today" as it was "yesterday" then it is a failing concern. All for-profit business want to make more money because it is the measure of a businesses success.

You are using an overly broad generalization to makes something seem true that is, in fact, false. Specifically, which diseases can be cured but haven't been so only "treatments" exist? How do you know a cure is not only achievable but also viable?

Let us look at HIV/AIDS. A patient with both HIV and Leukemia received a bone marrow transplant from a donor who had a natural mutation which made him basically immune to HIV (malformed CCR5 receptor). The patient appears to have been cured. So, the cure for HIV is to destroy the patient's bone marrow, harvest bone marrow from an HIV immune donor, and place it into the patient. Of course, the harvesting procedure is painful and the immunity is vanishingly rare so there will be few donors and each donor can only help a single patient. Unless we are willing to enslave and torture people who are immune and hundreds of thousands of dollars per patient to provide each one with a bone marrow transplant, that cure is not viable.

Basically, you are committing a version of the composition fallacy by saying "Some diseases have been cured with current technology therefore all diseases can be cured with current technology."

Comment Re:The master owns everything, including your *LIF (Score 3, Insightful) 243

he believes the virtual currency should be returned to him because Bitcoins are "not subject to seizure" by federal law.

See the bolded part?
Both you and Ulbricht don't get it. What you believe has no bearing on reality.

Ulbricht isn't claiming that the government violated the constitution. He is claiming Bitcoins aren't property and thus can't be seized under federal law. That is for a judge to decide, but lawyers don't think he will prevail because intangible property is still property and federal law allows for the seizure property that are the products, or purchased with the products, of federal criminal acts.

Unless you were at Waco, you don't know what happened at Waco.

Comment Re:data. (Score 1) 552

Why is the climate from 2 billion years ago relevant now? Let me ask you, If we looked at what you have done for the last 30 minutes, would we be able to tell what is "normal" for you? If you spent the last 30 minutes sitting down, should we be shocked if you try to stand up and try to keep you sitting down because that is what you have done for the last 30 minutes? What if you hadn't eaten or drank anything in that time, should we try to stop you from eating or drinking because you haven't done so in the last 30 minutes so it isn't "normal" for you?

Comment Re:More BS (Score 1) 552

Kilauea discharges between 8,000 and 30,000 metric tonnes of CO2 into the atmosphere each day. That is a single volcano. Roughly 20 volcanoes are erupting at any given time. That would mean that between 160,000 and 600,000 metric tonnes of CO2 are being put into the atmosphere by volcanoes every single day.

Global emissions of carbon dioxide by people in a recent year totaled over 30 gigatonnes (or 30 Gt), That is roughly 82,000 metric tones per day from humans. That is between one half and one seventh the amount put out by volcanoes. While the GPAC overstates the amount, he is not as wrong as you are.

Sources:
http://www.volcano.si.edu/faq.cfm#q3
http://hvo.wr.usgs.gov/volcanowatch/archive/2007/07_02_15.html
http://www.globalccsinstitute.com/insights/authors/derektaylor/2011/11/11/how-much-carbon-dioxide

Comment A whole thousand years of data? (Score 0) 552

Let's see, that is the last 0.000025% of Terra's 4 billion year age. That is the equivalent of deciding what is normal for a 35 year old man by looking at what he did in last 20 minutes. What would someone decide is normal for you if they looked at the last 20 minutes of your life?

I am very interested to know how this researcher determined solar output for the last 1000 years with no records.

As near as I can tell, this is simply a rehash of other people's research say "I concur with what they said even though I did no actual research"

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