There has been no reduction in the global warming trend of 0.15-0.20°C/decade that began in the late 1970s.

silence7

FWIW, the mentioned geoengineering conference is highly controversial because it is apparently being used to raise funds for a particular commercial entity to actually carry out geoengineering. Ken Caldeira, quoted in the above article, has pulled out because of this.

See this article for more details.

silence7

The most likely explanation is that they deposed the Viacom employees, and they said that they did it.

silence7

Visit the administration interface on your linksys router.

By default, this is at http://192.168.1.1 If you have not configured an administrator password, the default is either a blank username and a password of admin or a username of admin and a password of admin, depending on how old your router is.

Once you've logged in, click "MAC Address Clone"

Then click the button marked "Clone My PC's MAC"

Click "Save Settings"

Then click "Status"

Next click "Release IP Address"

Finally click "Renew IP Address"

silence7

Realistically, doesn't this meant that somebody is going to figure out how to get corn to produce heroin, and then start dusting corn fields with the necessary gene?

silence7

Who sponsors him is no secret: Rupert Murdoch and the Saudi princes who own a 9% stake in News Corp

silence7

There is one other big difference -- the poll you're citing is an international one, while Gallup only polled United States residents. Attitudes outside the US are very different from those inside the US.

silence7

What the report link does is to send the link to a list of 'reported' links for the moderator of the subreddit in question. Whether anything happens depends entirely on whether the moderators of that subreddit know where to look, and whether they decide to do anything.

silence7

Your videographer seriously needs to pay more attention to lighting. I find the blown highlights on the side of Chomsky's face to be quite distracting. Something as simple as a scrim could have greatly improved matters.

silence7

Those rare pathological cases really happen. As somebody who maintains software for a large company (not Google) what happens is that you have customers whose configuration assumes that their regular expression engine gets a short non-pathalogical input. They use that configuration for years, and then suddenly they see an unusually problematic input into the regular expression -- usually because somebody at another site made a totally innocent configuration change.

It doesn't happen often, but once it does happen for a customer, it starts happening often for that customer.

Using a regular expression engine which is well-behaved is actually a pretty important thing to do.

silence7

There are two numbers that you see scientists talk about. The first is what happens over the next century -- and that's generally in the realm of 6 or 10 feet. The second is what happens when all the melting is done. 50 feet isn't out of the question for something like that, but currently available evidence is that we won't get there for centuries.

silence7

Unfortunately, when you go find the poll it doesn't look very good; basically over the past few years, fewer Americans think warming has actually happened (it demonstrably has) and fewer Americans think that scientists think that it is real (they overwhelmingly do).

This kind of poll tells you a lot about the propaganda environment that Americans live in, and not much about what is physically going on.

silence7

Given that the fossil fuels industry is funding a rather substantial propaganda campaign to convince Americans that they shouldn't limit CO2 emissions, this isn't terribly surprising.

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