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Meanwhile, billions of people in China, India, and Africa could care less and are happily building cars and coal plants all over the place. Not only is the theory highly suspect, the proposed exorbitantly expensive actions have virtually no effect on the alleged problem. The only countries that hav...

I liked the ideas Ron Paul stood for. The man - not so much. And I voted for him in '88. Well his ideas anyway. The scandal of him not knowing what was being published in his newsletter was a bit much for me this time. So that left me with Fred. Who only recently started campaigning. Well you got t...

Scripting rotations in the LSL (linden scripting language) used in Second Life scripted objects uses quats, it is very hard to visualize how a quat will look, vs euler. It's easy enough to convert quaternions into euler angles when you need to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conversion_between_quater...

Another example of media bias and hypocrisy. A couple of quotes.... Obama’s Treasury secretary owed $26G’s in taxes, but it’s O.K. I don’t think this is that big a deal, but I can’t help but feel that if he were a Republican nominee it would be treated as a bigger one . . . . A plumber owed $1,000 ...

George Will's point is that it is unreasonable to expect a country which has been invaded to show restraint. An analogy would be telling a woman who is being forcibly penetrated to quit hitting the attacker. The correct response is that the "Attacker should pull out!" The whole statement smacks of ...

If you look at history, the left has a habit of piling up bodies by the millions. And the right doesn't? How about Genghis Khan? Between the Chinese, Russian, Vietnamese, Cambodian, Cuban and German National Socialist parties, in the 20th century, are responsible for over 100 million deaths, far mo...

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Or this: we know that water vapor is the most potent greenhouse gas by a factor of 20 to 1. Why don't we regulate water vapor emissions?

Everybody knows dihydrogen monoxide is a deadly toxin and pollutant.

GCMs are getting more able to model the medium-scale everns that shape climate like PDO etc. They now combine ocean circulation, atmoshere, & ice modelling. They are starting to have sioshere CO2 exchange modls but these are not very good - the ice sheet modelling is still partly deficient. The mod...

Sheesh. Don't ya think there are a bunch of other variables in play? Hijacks not only coincide with the gun ban, they coincide with the increased frequency of Screaming infants on airplanes. Should we blame them too? Perhaps we should. So far no International financiers, bankers, high level diploma...

Climate scientist Noel Keenlyside, leading a team from Germany's Leibniz Institute of Marine Science and the Max Planck Institute of Meteorology, for the first time entered verifiable data on ocean circulation cycles into one of the U. N.'s climate supercomputers, and the machine spit out a project...

Sorry you think climatology = left-wing. It is not equivalent outside US. If you want to study weight of evidnce then you put a few 100 "GC" papers against 10K "GW" papers. But quantity is not the point. If you read carefully the GC papers they ar either speculative, not GC (as the recent Nature pa...

None of which invalidates the model's prediction of overall long-term (50 years time constant) rise due to CO2. best wishes, Tom Problem is if you went to the link I posted, you'd see were actually in a cooling AND CO2 rise is significantly below IPCC predictions as well. You also did not respond t...

Intlibber - No-one is saying that antarctic ice is reducing. Area is increasing, but less than arctic ice is decreasing (trend is about 50% amplitude of arctic ice trend). GCMs need to know ice extent & depth to model ice sheets, something they now do. So I can't see why you think they ignore ice d...

And more - sea-ice levels - look at the graphs either that I posted or that were in Talldaves article (that I reposted). The trend is clear and high recent variability does not break it. You are good enough engineer not to misuse single data points I know. Ice extent is only part of the picture, pa...

Note: There had never been a successful hijacking in the US until the FAA banned passengers from flying armed. Airplanes are much softer targets than banks. Fascinating data point. Could you cite a reference I could share with skeptics? Carried firearms were banned on planes in the US in 1958. Scre...