FACT: The temperature has only increased 0.6

No that means... the temp stations are giving off incorrect information, which shows bad data, which has been used by NASA, IPCC, and so forth... to make bad estimates.

It's really sad about those weather stations. Some automated ones... right next to an AC machine... hell one was at the end of a short runway!!! It's scary the placement of the boxes. So much for good science, these are just insanely placed. And the scarier thing.... the good placed ones were 'removed from the network' and 'closed'. Only 11% of the current stations give 'uncontaminated' data. ONLY 11% ARE CORRECT USUALLY!!!

Fair enough.  Just wanted to test you. 

>>Apart from Franklin (Im a bit amazed at his case) the nature & physics scientists were inescapably stimulated by or developed their thinking in a uni environment. Organized scientific research in an academic environment will always prevail above loose cannons.<<

Not what Philip Kuhn taught.

Phyiscal notation, like music, describes concepts in a way that the written word can't easily do. So yeah if you never learn calculus you're never going anywhere in physics.

But Einstein ignored the mainstream view of physics for thought experiments about riding electrons.  And he didn't agree with Bohr or Heisenberg and thought there would be a proof to rebut their null-A existentialism; the idea that a particle has either velocity, or position, but not both, and the observer alters their state, was not taught at university until the loose cannons made it respectable.  As Kuhn says, the analomy explained becomes the new paradigm.

Hacking isn't a skill, it's a crime.  Using your COMPUTER learned skills to comit acts of sabatoge or theft online?  Well yah, hacking is a crime.

I like sunspots, they're fun to watch.

They're like cheesey poofs.  Very nifty to look at and even more fun to play with.  Sunspots are linked to geomagnetic bursts which does effect such things as solar flares.  They been teaching this since back in the 1950's?  And of course these solar effects do effect in wide ranging motion past our planet.

So what?  Global warming is sunspot related and therefor human impact is negligable in the arguement that we're really not screwing up the planet?

Which roller coaster ride did you fall off again?

/me uses the loan he secured to buy insurance on Chris_Balsz's carbon offset portfolio

/me uses mafia to steal half of Chris_Balsz money, then goes forth giving money to elections via a 'group union'.

/me watches as his people get elected in all sorts of positions

/me has a 'Stimulus bill' passed in 100 nations, each aimed at providing me as much money as they can

/me buys all businesses around the world, and then jacks prices up, offering that sales taxes on higher priced items equals higher taxes

/me claims victory in saving the governments, builds a death star, then when they all realize I schmucked them, threaten to blow the planet up if they do not bow to me.

> Zarf BeebleBrix wrote:

> > Key wrote:

> Hacking isn't a skill, it's a crime.  Using your COMPUTER learned skills to comit acts of sabatoge or theft online?  Well yah, hacking is a crime.

The act is a crime.  But the knowledge itself isn't criminal.  The same knowledge to initiate hacks is also needed to prevent such occurrences.

And yes, Key, it does require skill.  Just because it's criminal, it doesn't mean any idiot can pick up a computer and steal nuclear launch codes. 

....Launch codes?  You don't need launch codes.  The old silo fortresses still have the key and push button.  Those launch codes are for Hollywood.

You could try that, using a reagan impression

"Silo Four, Major Cobb here."

"You and I have a rendevous with destiny. Upon ourselves lies the history of the world--whether mankind will cower forever in the darkness of tyranny--or stand tall in the light of liberty. But of course there is no choice at all. We can no more opt to destroy ourselves as a nation than we could each choose, to stop breathing. America will not falter. America will not fail. Each of us, aware of the great challenge ahead, cannot be restrained from our best efforts, and through our common resolve, the shackles will be burst, the barriers broken, until our great American achievement is once again, the wonder of the world."

"Missles launched, sir"

Touche

I just hope they show you guys how to CORRECTLY place a weather station, such as not near an AC vent, not on tarmac, not in a parking lot, not in a deep ravine or similar like the placement of 83% of the American weather stations that are in the only network in the United States Global Warming "Scientists" will use.