and the rate of change is already exceeding anything in the geological record, including past climate changes events associated with widespread extinctions
Like the asteroid impact that marks the end of the Cretacious? That climate change event probably took a fraction of a second to go from a rock in deep space to dinosaur ending fireball.
but for anyone who allows for the possibility of things beyond the physical world our human bodies are constrained to, the Bible may offer insights and illuminations greater than any other book.
Only if you ignore all the other religious books making the same sorts of claims. But having said that, I think "Engines of Creation" would give the Bible a run for its money on the above claim.
At this point nobody in the scientific community is predicting global warming - you don't predict it's going to start raining when you're already getting wet. The evidence is in, GW is real and getting rapidly worse.
How many degrees per decade again? And why is that considered "getting rapidly worse"? Global warming denying is not the only anti-scientific belief system causing waves here. The catastrophic climate change people are another such problem.
2) You can prove them wrong - on scientific turf, not the comments section of a news article - and earn yourself a nobel prize and the undying thanks of millions of concerned citizens
The problem is that 2) requires time. With sufficiently massaged paleoclimate data you can conclude just about anything. But it takes decades to gather high quality satellite data to confirm or falsify the claims made.
You either have healthcare or you don't. No picking and choosing what procedures or medications fit your chosen lifestyle.
Most of the "news" on here is days or even weeks old by the time its posted. I remember when sites actually linked to slashdot for news.
More people have been persecuted, hounded, ruined, tortured, burned, murdered, and just exterminated en-masse because of a book called the Bible than any other document in human history including Mein Kampf and Das Capital put together.
The order is Das Capital, then Mein Kampf, then the Bible. Admittedly a large part of that is because there was a lot more people around to die from these other ideologies due to the population growth of the last few centuries.
Right now, on Mars, there is a one-ton six wheeled robot with a laser strapped to it's head.
How many rovers does that make again? Four right? Over forty years of Mars exploration. Low expectations strike again.
Well, and to also sit around comfortably while remotely exploring the next frontier into this decade thanks to the quality of our engineering.
Too bad there's no ambition to go with that engineering.
X had its day in the sun. I want a responsive and fast GUI with network connectivity being somewhere in 10th place. Make that socket/DRI/whatever they cooked up this year into a module so the rest of us don't suffer.
For books and for CDs, there are fine stores for digital versions of the content. It's easy to pay if you want to (but won't buy any more physical media). For DVDs, the digital alternatives are just crap, and it's damn hard to pay if you want to (but won't buy any more physical media). The MPAA needs to get with the times.
THERE IS NO WAY ON GODS FUCKING GREEN EARTH THAT ONCE SOMEBODY HAS SOMETHING HAPPEN TO THEM THAT THEY CAN AFFORD THEIR HEALTH.
If they can't afford their health, then who can? Health care is a bottomless pit of need which can suck up any sum of money thrown at it. There has to be limits or that demand will completely break society. I think it quite reasonable that you only get the health care you paid for.
For Christ's sake, at least have the fucking decency to hike up minimum wage the amount needed to pay an average insurance policy.
Minimum wage is zero for being unemployed. If you aren't working, then you're not earning money which can be used to pay an insurance policy.
Anyone can make an omelet with eggs. The trick is to make one with none.
