Riiiight, because your faith is magically better then his faith ???

Grow the fuck up and learn some respect for a different perspective / belief.

What are you going to do to help the Ukrainians keep the Russians out?

What are you going to do to help the Philippines and Japan prevent China from seizing their islands?

A single nation covering the world won't be free.

I see you bought a nice bunch of cherries from Anthony Watts.
Sadly the only thing it proves is your (and Judith Curry's) lack of education on the subject of statistics. Note I am actually being generous here by assuming that Curry doesn't understand her mistakes.

That is an interesting notion you have there. Feel free to ignore my advice. Let us know how it turns out.

Weather forcasts are NOT based on trends found in any data set, they are based on the laws of physics and chemistry, they use the same "finite element analysis" techniques found in numerical wind tunnels and other engineering models that are used to build everything from bridges to aircraft. Archival data is used to test the "skill" of the model by making "hindcasts" and comparing them to the instrumental record.

Climate is basically the long term statistics of weather - meaning a hundered year trend in temprature is a climate statistic, not a weather trend. Climate models and weather models are more or less the same thing using different spacial and temporal parameters, climate statistics such as temprature trends are a completely seperate line of evidence to climate modelling.

Again, this should all be covered by the company that wins the bid. If they don't like it, they shouldn't bid on the contract.

>because most of the requirements are out of date,

Contractor's fault. If the requirements are impossible, tell the customer and don't bid.

>were written by somone who had no idea what they were asking for

Same as above.

>or are missing critical pieces of functionality or details.

Same as above.

>Then you find out you need to integrate with a 35 year old Wang mainframe that runs some weird esoteric algorithm that no one alive understands.

If that's in the contract you signed, you need to do it. If it isn't in the contract, don't do it, or re-bid for that portion.

This would all be much simpler if both parties simply adhered to the terms of the contract. If the terms are unrealistic or impossible, don't bid.

My city (Melbourne, Oz) is on the upper edge of the southern ocean's "roaring forties", there are a few windmills dotted around the state but for some reason we are still fully reliant on brown coal for electricity, a mine that feeds the coal plants recently caught fire and burnt for a month resulting in the town of Morwell being partially evacuated due to the toxic cloud from the fire. Looking at it from a purely logical POV, it's fucking insane!

The US is a paradox. From the very beginning of talks in the late 80's US foreign policy has sought to derail any coordinated global effort to curb GHG emissions, often being the sole roadblock to progress, yet at the same time they have (on a per capita basis) built more wind power capacity than anyone else?

No it is not a "major problem", can we drop please that bullshit meme, smaller (fast spinning) windmills and windmills built on migration paths do kill birds and this was a minor problem in the early days that closed down a few mills. Modern windmills sited with a bit of forethought are no more likely to kill birds than a stationary skyscraper.

Minor problem* - The number of birds killed by flying into windmills and other large buildings pales into insignificance when you consider the impact of domestic cats on birds.

If you ever find yourself up on charges before a court, I have a piece of advice for you: get a lawyer, a real lawyer. One that understands the law.

During the 80's I worked at a large nylon factory (1200 employees), they had two large HV transformers side by side under a chicken wire cage to keep humans and animals out. Somehow a possum (about the size of a racoon) found itself on the inside of the cage and was electrocuted, the shock threw it from one transformer to the other shorting out both. Damage bill was $50K plus a couple of days lost production.

Theyre going to Kentucky because the shipper sent it there. Louisville is a major shipping hub.

Im pretty sure Newegg does not determine the route your package takes.

You had a good factual point, then you ruined it with the political crap - by that I mean when has Gore ever called anyone "evil" for using electricity?

>and require zero power to use

Not quite. How does the noise get generated? Air gets pushed through the whistle as the car pushes through the air. And in doing so it increases the air resistance of the car, requiring the engine to put out slightly more power to maintain a constant speed. So those whistles are fairly directly engine-powered, and probably horribly inefficient - vortices which form around the around the whistles will increase drag, and well as disrupt the laminar flow of air over the car body, increasing the required power output of the engine by far more than the small amount of sonic energy generated. An electric sound machine under the hood could probably do the same jop far more efficiently

And the restaurant will gently (or not so gently) remind you that it is a private establishment with every right to tell you to take your patronage elsewhere, that you are abusive and they dont want you there.