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So many threads arguing about the stuff that's solid, far less content on the stuff that matters, adaptation and mitigation. Here's a good paper appearing in Environmental Health Perspectives: Urban Form and Extreme Heat Events: Are Sprawling Cities more Vulnerable to Climate Change than...

Breaking news, At least two fighter jets have escorted a Cathay Pacific Airways flight into Vancouver International Airport due to a potential security threat. CF18 Hornet fighter jets acting under the North American Aerospace Defence Command flew alongside the plane from Hong Kong...

Environmentalist wackos may have blown up oil rig to head off more oil drilling. What a loon. Black helicopters, and environmentalist frog men...:roll::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:

This is split from the Hawking alien warning thread. For starters, it's not what you said. You can differentiate stone age and the industrial age with techniques employed by geologists, but you couldn't delineate the arrival of computers. For second, a geologic time scale is used to...

There is an outbreak in Vancouver of a deadly yet preventable disease, measles. Of the 14 cases in the last month, 10 are from one household who were not vaccinated and caught the disease from out of country visitors. Of the rest, none of them had the recommended two doses to provide the best...

He's dropping the noun now that it is unfavourable to his political life. He faces a tough opponent who is much more on the party line, and being a maverick seems to make one a target these days.

In the Obamacare thread, there's a lot of talk about what is and is not a devleoped nation. GDP, GDP per capita, bankrolling rich nations... in other discussions, arguments for status of developed, developing nations look at things like the degree of industrialization or the newish Human...

I was reading over at Bad Astronomy, one of my favourite blogs, and read a recent thread about the largeness of some things, and how people perceive them. His thread specifically was talking about one billion. His example was computers, and a gigabyte is 1000X a megabyte. But knowing that...

Chavez et al. are being opportunists. A few posters here as well. Petty, opportunism. So, what's your alternative? How would you land more airplanes? Where do they taxi, and "park"? How about shipping? Very few deep water ports. Out with it. What idea do you have that works better?

So, a prorogued Parliament means more instability. If you follow his logic...confidence votes, favoured by Harper, create instability. He's making the case for the opposition parties: Harper creates instability. More here.

From Pharyngula: Maybe they fear the kinds of backlash that the Danish cartoonists and others have received from scrutinizing Islam?

I read a great article in the Grey Lady today, the last in a five part series of articles on genetically modified cropping systems. The article centers around two people that at a glance should be rivals, an organic farming instructor and a molecular geneticist who has been modifying rice...

Richard Alley's presentation at the Fall American Geophysical Union meeting. Alley presents a history of the Earth climate (geologic timescales) and finds that a carbon dioxide thermostat works best. Video presentation: A23A

I read this just now and thought of your questions Ron. Hope you find this sort of thing useful. :smile: Are the CRU data “suspect”? An objective assessment. — eric @ 15 December 2009 Kevin Wood, Joint Institute for the Study of the...

Here's why. 1) EPA has announced it's intention to regulate carbon emissions, with it's final ruling. 2) Bipartisan support in the Senate is there, the House bill passed already. 3) Business leaders are calling for it. Even for those against a price on carbon, regulation by the EPA is much...

Mexico shuts down Canadian mine - thestar.com Yikes. There is a bill (C-300) the Corporate Accountability of Mining, Oil and Gas Corporations in Developing Countries Act working it's way through Parliament right now which is relevant to these kinds of incidents. I wouldn't want this one in...

Surprised China didn't beat me to the punch. The findings of Commissioner Paul Kennedy regarding the death of Robert Dziekanski: While they were in the lawful execution of their duties as police officers, the four officers failed to adopt a measured, coordinated and appropriate response to...

Turns out it wasn't only the CRU that was being targeted. The University of Victoria was also being targeted. Not only was the email server attacked, but burglars broke into the campus, stole computers, and rummaged through papers in offices. Whistleblowers? I think not. Attempted breaches...

Today's bit of irony is: Climategate. Adding the 'gate' suffix to some keyword implies a scandal. Which part of Watergate was scandalous? The inner workings of the DNC, or the surveillance and documentation of the DNC inner workings? :smile:

It's very simple why women don't like her as much as men. Women saw through Sarah Palin and we saw through her quickly. Men are literal and are more likely to say what they mean and mean what they say. Women are more nuanced and better able to persuade and manipulate others with their words. So...