Comment Re:Strangely mixed signals here (Score 1) 268
Too bad that area gain is in the winter time. Not much incident heat when you are a polar region pointed away from the Sun.
Too bad that area gain is in the winter time. Not much incident heat when you are a polar region pointed away from the Sun.
Er, did you read the Forbes link before you shared it? It was about sea ice. The ice loss in evidence is land ice. You are trying to imply that there is a contradiction when there is none?
Moreover, the link is to an opinion piece, not a news source. No wonder it was rejected.
But if you want to talk about the Forbes piece, it claims there is *no* polar sea ice retreat (and the headline is worse, it claims there is no polar ice retreat at all, sea or otherwise). It fails to distinguish between Arctic sea ice (which is retreating) and Antarctic (which is advancing). The latter seems to be occurring due to, among other factors, the inrush of fresh water from melting Antarctic glaciers -- which lowers salinity and raises the freezing point. Really sloppy work by the writer. (Actually I doubt that he was being sloppy. I'm sure he's smart enough to know about this stuff. I suspect he was being disingenuous.)
Sadly, the retreat in the Arctic is primarily in the summer, so it lowers the albedo of the region when that region is in continuous sunlight.
Sadly, the advance in the Antarctic is primarily in the winter, so it raises the albedo of the region when that region is in continuous darkness. Big help, huh?
"The volume of sea ice – that is, how thick the Arctic ice is..."
Er, no, "how thick the ice is" is called "thickness". Volume is thickness times area (or more precisely, thickness integrated over area).
That said, two data points (last year's area and this year's area) do not a trend make. I can't believe how many people don't get that (or enjoy telling lies so much that they don't care that it contradicts reason).
What tipped you off?
Right : more economic freedom
Well...Maybe, if you happen to be a corporation.
Mod parent up. I wish we could count on our respective parties to uphold some core values. I don't vote for Democrats because I expect some return in the form of liberalization of government or society. Disappointment after disappointment has taught me not to do that. I vote for Democrats because I don't want more Scalias and Thomases deciding what the Constitution really means, and because I don't want the Bushes and Palins and Ryans and Romneys of the world pushing their crazy world views on us all.
1. I've never called for censorship. I do like people to act civilly, but in any kind of public forum that can't be enforced, it's just a wish.
2. I'm not so much pro-gun control as I am opposed to letting one organization have such a powerful pull on what laws get made that we can't even expect our lawmakers to engage in a legitimate discourse on the topic.
3. I have no idea what you are talking about.
4. Seriously, I have no idea what you are talking about.
Maybe you need to talk to some real liberals instead of listening to stereotypes of them on TV.
Suppose the death star gets about halfway done, and the requirement to convert to metric kicks in. All those parts machined to imperial units will have to be scrapped and the whole thing rebuilt.
Sigh. Venus gets no love. Ironic, isn't it?
There are Windows Phone users?
2. What can we do? Is it possible to safely eliminate just this one bacteria via a vaccine or antibiotic?
You do not want to encourage antibiotic resistance in this genus!
How about strong encryption for the data network, so that it can't be hacked by a simple R2 unit?
It's not true. But then, I am not a woman.
Or maybe Shifty Grades of Fey.
Once I read all the poll options, the last thing I had read was "Print is Dead".
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