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Over the past few years, new information has arisen pointing to the difficulty of calcifying organisms to retain a foothold in their respective ecological niches, however. This information has focussed on the ability to build and maintain their chalky shells in acidifying ocean waters. Now, it...

Welcome to reality Walt. Nothing in the world--except chronology and perhaps your cut and paste artistry-- continues monotonically.

Alaska =/= Global...:roll:

The title of this thread is the title of a paper by John Ziman, appearing in Social Epistemology. The focus of the paper is the difficulty most scientists have in integrating their rigorously obtained expertise into issues of public concern. I found the article very intriguing, as a former...

Another day with no work due to rain. Last summer I made real good coin landscaping in Calgary. This year, with all the rain in Alberta, my hours are waaaay down from last year. Craptastic. Was 60+ hours a week last year, and this year it's probably about 40 a week average now. Blah! :angry3:

Zzarchov already said that, no need to repeat yourself unless you're having comprehension problems again. We all got it the first time. Or were you speaking into a mirror just then...

Scotty doesn't need a syllogism, he only needs proof by assertion. That's why it's funny :D

If Walter wants to respond, he can cut and paste someone's thoughts from somewhere else on the web to explain. He doesn't need a junior lackey like yourself to warn him of the brick wall.

Tripe. Not true at all. A warming troposphere and a cooling stratosphere is a very clear signature of greenhouse gases. It's called radiative cooling. Oh, except for basic radiative physics, though that would depend on what you call 'significant.' The planet would be -18°C without greenhouse...

The National Post should fire their editors. It should read as: Glacier melt is proof of a climate crisis, while--on the same planet, under different regional conditions--glacier growth is chalked up as a response to changing weather patterns. Is that too hard for people to understand?

They should know better than that. Climate sensitivity is the rate of temperature change given a perturbation, or forcing of some quantity. The sensitivity doesn't change because it's carbon dioxide. One watt of extra solar forcing is the same as one watt of extra carbon dioxide forcing. I'd...

http://www.edmontonsun.com/News/Alberta/2008/07/13/6143566-sun.html Is any soldier's contribution to Canada worth less than an elected official's contribution? Doesn't seem fair to me either.

It's not an either or question or answer. The current frame works (or rather doesn't work) by selecting a base level, and then making cuts to emissions relative to that base level. If we were to project into the future, the cuts are supposed to account for the excess, at least the excess that...

Wow. That's the most coherent string of consonants and vowels from you yet. I genuinely believe you to be distorted when trying to string together those things with meaning and separated by spaces. You know, words?

I didn't say it mattered, I only answered a question. But since you ask, global emissions aren't a sovereign matter. It matters very little where they actually come from. I expect that some day, per capita or how intensive a country pollutes will matter. It's only one lawsuit away. The...

Yup, it's a big pile that's for sure :smile:

The only thing it really says is how intensive your society is polluting. You could look at two countries with similar GDP and population but have one country with more emissions per capita based on the type of climate, or on the efficiencies/inefficiencies of their society.

Energy efficiency, the low hanging fruit of our polluting ways. Business often likes efficiency. It helps the bottom line. That is unless you make money by hiking rates. That's your utility industry in a nutshell, minus a few standouts They are just one of the players trying to sell you the idea...

All the formulas you need! with W being the predictor for days until doomsday, as brought upon by George W. Bush, given as a time series: Where n is the moving average of chem trail events and George W's speeches on terrifying consequences. Which finally gives us the random walk of...

You're telling me! :D