US climate bill feels the heat - environment - 08 October 2009 - New Scientist
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US climate bill feels the heat - environment - 08 October 2009 - New Scientist
People have some tough decisions to make.
October 2009, 0.28°C above long term global average for UAH TLT satellite measurement, which measures the temperature of the lower troposphere, all the way up to a pressure of 300 mb (about 30,000 feet), not the surface only.
Still above average, and still within the envelope of what them nerds in white lab coats call natural variability.
Check out where the 0.28°C lands on this figure:
Yup, no global cooling yet.
Still above average, and still within the envelope of what them nerds in white lab coats call natural variability.
Check out where the 0.28°C lands on this figure:
Yup, no global cooling yet.
UAH is the outlier by the way, which is pretty well known.
You can see it visually with this graph. UAH is markedly different from the other three data products, and RSS actually uses the same satellite data that UAH does.
And, UAH still is showing warming.
You can see it visually with this graph. UAH is markedly different from the other three data products, and RSS actually uses the same satellite data that UAH does.
And, UAH still is showing warming.
I made a simple spreadsheet, with a chart. Walter's hypothesis, the globe is cooling, and has been since 1998 or something similar to other science illiterate internet memes. Decadal averages of GISS surface temperature anomalies show that this present decade is by far the warmest decade in the record.
Google Doc Spreadsheet:
http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Aip71Zmfh81ydE5tcmVVM0Vjcng0TmlSWHIwNzFFNXc&hl=en#
*The 2000-9 decade is not finished, so the average reported is of the January-September anomalies. The most probable outcome is in fact that 2009 is warmer than the average computed, as the El Nino is building in the Pacific, and is projected to last well through the 2009-10 winter.
Google Doc Spreadsheet:
http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Aip71Zmfh81ydE5tcmVVM0Vjcng0TmlSWHIwNzFFNXc&hl=en#
*The 2000-9 decade is not finished, so the average reported is of the January-September anomalies. The most probable outcome is in fact that 2009 is warmer than the average computed, as the El Nino is building in the Pacific, and is projected to last well through the 2009-10 winter.
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There's been a few journals and magazines that noticed that, also. But it was a pretty cool October in the States, though. lol Warm around here since the beginning of September except for one short patch of frosty weather in mid Oct.
"The ultimate lesson of Darwinism is that nature tinkers and improvises, with great losses and catastrophes accompanying every limited success - is the fact that 90 percent of the human genome is 'junk DNA' with no clear function not the ultimate proof of it? Consequently, the first lesson to be drawn is the one repeatedly made by Stephen Jay Gould: the utter contingency of our existence. There is no Evolution: catastrophes, broken equilibriums, are part of natural history; at numerous points in the past, life could have turned into an entirely different direction. The main source of our energy (oil) is the result of a past catastrophe of unimaginable dimensions. One should thus learn to accept the utter groundlessness of our existence: there is no firm foundation, a place of retreat, on which one can safely count. "Nature doesn't exist": "nature" qua the domain of balanced reproduction, of organic deployment into which humanity intervenes with its hubris, brutally throwing off the rails its circular motion, is man's fantasy; nature is already in itself "second nature," its balance is always secondary, an attempt to negotiate a "habit" that would restore some order after catastrophic interruptions."
Slavoj Zizek - Censorship Today: Violence, or Ecology, a New Opium for the Masses I
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We don't understand how a few parts of the brain work either, so those parts must be junk. I don't know how parts of fax machines work, so they must be junk. I don't know how a soundcard in my computer works, so it must be junk. :roll:
(I didn't read any farther because it seems to be just ludicrous rambling.)
Balogna. If you have a screw that you want to tighten, but you have no screwdriver, you look around and see a dinner knife and a roll of paper towels. What would you use?
Natural selection adapts and mutates genes to enable better survival of the organism. That is selective. Perhaps you evolve chaotically but not everything does.
Hey! You got one right. Genetic mutation and natural selection are both a part of evolution. Both are processes. Natural selection is the process by which organisms adapt in order to better survive. Genetic mutation does that also but it keeps organisms from becoming homogenous, as well.
Genetic mutation is an event not a process and natural selection is about replicating not surviving.