It looks like a classic market capitulation. If no-one buys the low now, then Mt.Gox is finished as a Bitcoin exchange.

Unless BitCoin is backed by a tangible asset, then it must fail eventually.

I remember the days when all real programmers needed was a magnetized pin and a steady hand *puffs pipe*

If they have links to the petroleum industry perhaps you'd like to share exactly how much they have made and exactly where this money is supposed to have come from. Otherwise it looks like you're blowing hard.

On the other hand when Stanford University get $500 million from Exxon Mobil, it all turns into pixie dust.

Of course, its Alabama's fault.

"CO2 levels cause global warming by basic physics, just as a greenhouse is warmer inside than outside"

Complete and total crap.

1. CO2 levels are a response to past warming 800 to 1000 years ago, as all of the ice core records testify
2. Greenhouses do not warm via the "atmospheric greenhouse effect" of suppressing radiation but by suppressing convection, an effect demonstrated a hundred years ago.

If you want to invoke basic physics, then you first have to learn basic physics

You win this thread. Slashdot is not a scientific forum for anything.

The keyboard moved but nothing came out

Can I ask you what thoughts you have about the Beta?

Its time to give sadists a fair crack of the whip!

Because destroying Slashdot to protest the beta makes so much sense.

Nazis' not Nazi's

FFS

"simple scientific observation of the amplified greenhouse effect is enough"

Of course, that amplified greenhouse effect appears to be missing everywhere that we can actually measure.

"Fortunately, we don't have to deal in "suggestions". People have actually *gone* to the glacier and taken measurements. It is thinning dramatically since 1997"

Its amazing watching people with no scientific ability trying to sound scientific. The glacier is thinning because its surging.

Another way of looking at it is that the glacier is growing in length rapidly, but then that sounds somehow less scary doesn't it?

"Well.... I never saw a "Denier" who could post credible data THAT I CAN ACCEPT BECAUSE THEY ARE MORALLY CORRUPT"

FTFY

The answer: sea levels have risen (on average) by a millimeter per year since the end of the Little Ice Age. Of course, during the Little Ice Age, sea levels FELL. Sometimes sea level rise appears to accelerate and sometimes decelerate to almost nothing.