I understand that the readers of /. tend to be more educated than the "normal" citizen. I also understand that as a result of this higher level of education, they have a higher level of understanding of the scientific models that are used in climate science.

Here's my problem, reading through all of these posts.

I see a bunch of "well these agencies said" "well these scientists said" "well this percentage of people said" "well it's accurate according to what we know" blah blah blah. I'm not saying these arguments have no merit... But what about scientists such as Richard Lindzen? One of the most respected and intelligent climate scientists in the world. What about the scientists that get canned left and right if they speak out against the man made climate change/global warming/whatever it's called now(simply type in "scientist fired for questioning global warming", there's more than just one, so I wont post a reference). I see people referencing NASA, but what about the former NASA scientists that dispute(http://www.businessinsider.com/nasa-scientists-dispute-climate-change-2012-4)?

I know it's a hard thought to believe that you could be tricked, duped even. But claiming there's all this evidence, and claiming there's all these scientists claiming something is definitive, in a field that will destroy their career for going against the grain. IDK you're not really contributing anything new. The skepticism comes from the fact that there are skeptics in the field in question, and they are quickly drowned out, silenced, and discredited. And there are far more skeptics within the scientific community than those on here are claiming, a simple Google search would show this. But it seems like everyone on here is so busy researching the "proof" they don't even want to be bothered with the other side of the story.

Yeah, nobody really cares about the Unix philosophy. I do love Ken Thompson and everything he contributed, but I don't necessarily agree with him to the point that I can't and wont think for myself. Different ideas, different styles, and different methods lead to new and wonderful things. People should never stick to one given set of rules or innovation would suffer. I became a fan of Linux because of the ability to mix and match. Saying we should just make XFCE work and then all just use that is like saying let's just use Windows. No thanks. The beauty of the OpenSource community, is that even if a project dies off, if there's enough interest (which there always is when it comes to DEs), something else will be born. Kind of like how forest fires burn everything to a crisp, but beautiful new life rises from the ashes. Which is exactly what happened when Ubuntu took a blowtorch to the user interface with Unity, and the result was Cinnamon becoming a full fledged and beautiful DE.

get a solid state disk

SS or it didn't happen. And they usually are? What are you basing this off of? It's like if you have guy A and he can benchpress 200lbs, then you go out and find a chic that can bench press 210lbs and call her chic B. Then you run your experiment and come to the conclusion chics are physically stronger than dudes. Well sorry to burst your extremely large bubble (one that you've apparently been living in for your whole life, so make that an extra large apology as well), but men are inherently stronger than women. It's called testosterone. Now as far as mathematics are concerned, the facts point to men having an ADVANTAGE vs women. Just like in weightlifting. But instead of testosterone giving men the advantage in this area, its the way male brains are wired. You see, women have brains that contain many more connections between the right and left hemisphere. Where men brains have many more connection between the front and the back. This gives women a greater advantage at intuitive and emotional thinking, as well as a more advantageous memory. You can look all this up if you want, Google has a search engine. I know this is all jumbled, but I'm basically getting at, yes men have an ADVANTAGE in mathematics. Not inherently better, an advantage.

Could this be the year of Linux Desktop?