Indeed although Guinness is also notable for the way its nitrogen bubbles appear to move downwards inside the glass viewed from the side. Someone actually did the experiment...
Actually the free moving bit in the middle goes upwards and entrains the bulk liquid. Nitrogen being less soluble gives nice tiny bubbles that produce that characteristic smooth head.
The only thing that Gore can accurately blame on Climate Change is his $200 million fortune.
Gore is now claiming that hot, dry weather, caused by you-know-what, is causing the fires in Australia.
"Bushfires can occur naturally, and do, but the science shows clearly that when the temperature goes up, and when the vegetation and soils dry out, then wildfires become more pervasive and more dangerous," he told ABC television late Wednesday.
The logic suggests that, as the planet becomes (somehow) hotter and dryer, the deserts will catch on fire.
Weather, climate, and economies are all overly complex. That's why nobody can predict the behavior of them.
Yes, that's what my link to Investor's Business Daily debunks beautifully.
You'll enjoy this--the drying trend is bunk: Long-term drying trend in New South Wales? You have to reverse the rainfall graph to find it!
The first climate models had the earth either melting lead or freezing air, they weren't sure which. Don't worry, they fiddled the knobs until that won't happen. (Whew, that was close!)
Cheers, James Arthur
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The morons don't understand that plants burn because plants grow, and plants need water to grow. No water, no growth, no plants, no fires.
Which is why you don't get fires on desert sand dunes.
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The problem with weather is not that it's complex, merely overly sensitive to initial conditions, which makes it chaotic, just like the solar system.
Weather is short term predictable for periods up to about a week. The compa rable period for the solar system is a few million years.
Climate is complex, but not entirely unpredictable - on most continents the re are areas where the climate has been predictable enough from year to yea r to make agriculture practical. Australia doesn't seem to have been one of them, which is why the Australian aborigines never took it up seriously.
Anthropogenic climate change is shifting weather patterns, so areas where a griculture was practical in the past may not remain so in the future.
Economics is complex, but not entirely unpredictable. George Soros and Warr en Buffett have made enough money to make it clear that some can manage use ful predictions.
Nassin Nicolas Taleb has written a couple of books about how this can work. You need a slightly more sophisticated appreciation of probability and pre diction than John Larkin can muster to follow the arguments.
s soon as they start, is a hugely bigger effect than the AGW climate-change nonsense. None of the whiners were here 200 years ago, to make the compari son. Same thing is probably happening in Australia.
The NSW Rural Fire Service has been doing fuel-reduction burns all winter - which has been unusually dry and warm. The experts have been predicting a bad fire season for some time now.
The climate change experts point out that anthropogenic global warming is c hanging Australia's climate in a way that makes bushfires more likely. Blam ing any specific bushfire on anthropogenic global warming is irrational, bu t the fact that there are more or them and they are getting harder to figh t can perfectly reasonably blamed on anthropogenic global warming.
John-out-of-touch-with-reality-Larkin strikes again
doesn't seem to credit any significant part of it to climate changes.
as soon as they start, is a hugely bigger effect than the AGW climate-chan ge nonsense. None of the whiners were here 200 years ago, to make the compa rison. Same thing is probably happening in Australia.
- which has been unusually dry and warm. The experts have been predicting a bad fire season for some time now.
changing Australia's climate in a way that makes bushfires more likely. Bl aming any specific bushfire on anthropogenic global warming is irrational, but the fact that there are more or them and they are getting harder to fi ght can perfectly reasonably blamed on anthropogenic global warming.
Southern California gets nearly all of its scant rainfall in the winter. According, most of the fires are in the summer.
From the rain graphs, it would seem natural that years of plenty cause growth in NSW, and times of nought would fire it.
Here, we've had no decent hurricanes (or even thunderstorms) all summer, and just had the first hard frosts two weeks sooner then for the last severe winter I can remember.
Cheers,
James Arthur
Hard to tell whether you are bragging or complaining. Move to the location of your choice if you miss all that. Lots of variety and choices world wide.
Cheers
all that's required is for organic material to accumulate under anaerobic conditions. Getting from peat to brown coal to black coal takes time, pressure and heat to cook out the lighter hydrocarbons (as methane, natural gas and oil).
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,, as soon as they start, is a hugely bigger effect than the AGW climate-cha nge nonsense. None of the whiners were here 200 years ago, to make the comp arison. Same thing is probably happening in Australia.
ter - which has been unusually dry and warm. The experts have been predicti ng a bad fire season for some time now.
is changing Australia's climate in a way that makes bushfires more likely. Blaming any specific bushfire on anthropogenic global warming is irrationa l, but the fact that there are more or them and they are getting harder to fight can perfectly reasonably blamed on anthropogenic global warming.
.Neither bragging nor complaining, just reporting. The innuendo (a moving target, admittedly) was that the earth is warming unduely, and extreme weather is more common as a result, including THIS YEAR. Overall, we've seen neither.
Cheers, James Arthur
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Sadly, the earth is warming, and extreme weather events are becoming more f requent - there's no doubt about it - but the observations are noisy. You h ave to average over enough years to be able to see the trend.
The claim is just as valid this year as it has been for the past thirty-odd years, but the noise means that you can often claim that THIS YEAR is the year that the trend is breaking.
Since this comes down to a claim that this year is the year when the laws o f physics have been repealed, it's not all that plausible, but James Arthur doesn't know much about physics, and he does know that digging up fossil c arbon and making money by selling it as fuel is the very essence of western civilisation.
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