Goodnight, Joshua; your constant tone is soporific.
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Comment on Week in review by kim
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Comment on Week in review by Joshua
kim –
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Comment on JC’s book shelf by Ted Carmichael
Hi, Judy. I’m glad you mentioned the Gleick book on Feynman because I’ve not read that one, and I’m a big fan of Feynman. Gleick’s “The Information” is excellent, by the way. If you haven’t read it yet, I highly recommend it. It is an extremely well-written account of the history of information theory, from the earliest telegraph lines to the modern era … which sounds somewhat dry, perhaps, but I found it to be thoroughly interesting and very well researched. Gleick really does know how to write and, in this book at least, has done an excellent job of distilling a very complicated subject into accessible, even everyday, language.
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Comment on Week in review by jim2
From the article:
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It shouldn’t be so easy to peer into a stranger’s bedroom, much less hundreds of strangers’ bedrooms. But a website has collected the streaming footage from over 73,000 IP cameras whose owners haven’t changed their default passwords. Is this about highlighting an important security problem, or profiting off creepy voyeurism—or both?
Insecam claims to feature feeds from IP cameras all over the world, including 11,000 in the U.S. alone. A quick browse will pull up parking lots and stores but also living rooms and bedrooms. “This site has been designed in order to show the importance of the security settings,” the site’s about page says. But it’s also clearly running and profiting off ads.
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http://gizmodo.com/a-creepy-website-is-streaming-from-73-000-private-secur-1655653510
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Comment on Week in review by Peter Lang
Brian,
This pumped hydro storage concept is 9 GW and 400 GWh. It joins two large existing dams with about 1000 m head, so no new dams required. There is one technical hitch – I’ll let readers work it out.
http://bravenewclimate.com/2010/04/05/pumped-hydro-system-cost/
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Comment on Week in review by Joshua
ZZZZZzzzz.
Huh?
Sorry, what was that, kim?
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Comment on Week in review by Peter Lang
250 MW is 0.2% of world pumped hydro installed generating capacity (Figure 1). http://www.climatechange.gov.au/sites/climatechange/files/files/reducing-carbon/APPENDIX4-ROAM-report-on-pumped-storage.pdf
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Comment on Week in review by Peter Lang
I have no idea what the % of world pumped hydro energy storage capacity (in GWh) would be but I guess it would be best measured in ppm. :)
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Comment on Week in review by Steven Mosher
“But when the proposed policy solution emphasized the free market, such as with innovative green technology, 55 percent of Republicans agreed with the scientific statement.For Democrats, the same experiment recorded no difference in their belief, regardless of the proposed solution to climate change”
wow they got away with that?
they should have asked
“But when the proposed policy solution emphasized fracking , massive nuclear and hydro programs”
maybe they did vary the policy options more than your text suggests.
Ill check
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Comment on Week in review by kim
The capture of three physicists by the shadow of the waxwing slain.
H/t to the Lepidlooker.
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Comment on Week in review by Ragnaar
33% of Republicans increased their trust of scientists when the solutions were agreeable to them. If I hear the scientists say it’s going to get a lot warmer and 10 seconds later I hear the answer is a tax on carbon I have a problem and a painful answer. In the other case I have a problem and an answer. Maybe an aversion to painful answers has me looking back at the problem. Facing a more rosy scenario is easier to go along with. Facing a worse one is time to focus, to start asking questions.
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Comment on Week in review by Matthew R Marler
Dan Voosen: <i>Year by year, the evidence for human-caused global warming has grown more robust. Greenhouse gases load the air and sea. Temperatures rise. Downpours strengthen. Ice melts. Yet the American public seems, from cursory glances at headlines and polls, more divided than ever on the basic existence of climate change, in spite of scientists’ many, many warnings. Their message, the attendees fretted, simply wasn’t getting through. </i>
You got problems right there.
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Comment on Week in review by aaron
“Doesn’t look like it, but then the warmest Northern Pacific EVAH, is only a few tenths of a degree warmer than the 1950s.”
What? This happened before? About 60yrs ago? Before emissions were supposed to matter?
Inconceivable.
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Comment on JC’s book shelf by Mark Silbert
I think a jury trial on this would be very enlightening. Rud, with his legal background, could prosecute. Who would have the cohones to defend?
Really, there is so much weight put on temperature records from the late 1800s through 1950’s that have been contorted and distorted by who knows how many people of unknown competence and agendas, that it seems almost ludicrous that temperature trends of less than a degree on a worldwide basis can be reliably distinguished. Rud nails it in his essay. Apparently he doesn’t buy the R Gates dismissiveness.
I have dealt with my share of historical data analyses in almost 40 yrs. as an engineer/scientist in both defense and O&G. Getting useful/reliable results that are beyond reasonable challenge is problematic.
I don’t mean to put you in an uncomfortable spot vis a vis some of the other denizens, but it seems to me that this is a very basic point that needs clarification. Not as juicy as sunspots, cloud dynamics or stadium waves but a heck of a lot easier to understand.
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Comment on Week in review by jim2
First of all, someone needs to clue Kahan in that the behavior observed in the double-slit experiment is no longer a mystery. He should read up on decoherence.
From the paper:
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Funding for research described in this paper was supplied by the Annenberg Public Policy Center in connection with the Annenberg/Cultural Cognition Project “Cognitive Adaptation Research Initiative,” and by the Skoll Global Threats Fund, in connection with the “Southeast Florida Evidence-based Science Communication Imitative.”
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His paper then in the summary splats out this gem of BS:
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Moreover, in the science of science communication as in quantum physics, assessment perturbs this dualism. The antagonistic cultural meanings that pervade the social interactions in which we engage
individuals on contested science issues forces them to be only one of their reasoning selves. We can through these interactions measure what they know, or measure who they are, but we cannot do both at
once.
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Yep, Kahan is a true genius alright.
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Comment on Week in review by jim2
Yep, companies have been doing the very thing highlighted in the cartoon. The Federal government is at fault as it has supplied companies with money at interest rates very close to zero. Wonder what Krugman thinks about that?
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Comment on Week in review by Danny Thomas
Aaron,
I wasn’t sure if this was addressed towards me.
So you’re thinking that Mathew is/was thinking that due to an increase in sinks and reduced emissions that the CO2 will stop increasing in our atmosphere? How? Vegetative growth? Reforestation? And reduction of industrial emission? Can you clarify?
And, are you saying Republicans will be comfortable with policies oriented those directions?
I need lots of clarification of your post if you don’t mind.
Thanks,
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Comment on Week in review by aaron
Hmm. Which direction do the steps go?
I started out at 4 about 20yrs ago. Where do I go next?
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Comment on Week in review by aaron
Hmmm. How’s this narrative. Global warming is used to get liberals to go along with long needed civil engineering projects.
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Comment on Week in review by Jim D
At least calmer pragmatic thinking prevailed over the Tea Party buffoons there. It shows it can be done.
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