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In hot houses the plants are watered and fertilised. In the wild plants respond to more CO2 by reducing the number of stomata in their leaves so they can get the amount of CO2 they need while losing less water.

Populations expand until the run into their natural limits. In fact plant populations expand until the competition for the resources they require means that they can barely find enough resources to keep growing. Add more CO2 to the atmosphere and a shortage of some other resource will limit their population.

What you fondly imagine to be "thinking" is merely retrieving climate change denial propaganda.

A single measurement can be enough, if it measures the right thing. A lot of our knowledge of pre-industrial temperatures comes from measuring isotope ratios in geological samples. The antarctic ice ice cores samples aren't usually seen as geological samples, but they probably should be.

Except that we now know how to stop the interglacial to ice age transition - if we've got enough fossil carbon left to dig up and burn.

There's no obligation. Any good idea attracts people who think they can exploit it, and most of them are wrong, and that does tend to produce a crash when the incompetent hangers-on go bankrupt.

You've got to be able to express your ideas clearly enough for the AI to take away a self-consistent set of targets. The kind of AI that can make sense of idiot ambitions doesn't seem to exist yet, and if the silly questions that get aired here are a representative sample of the crap they might need to deal with, they probably never will.

One of my friends grand-daughters works for Microsoft in Australia on exploiting artificial intelligence, and it good enough at it that Microsoft are moving her work at their headquarters at Redmond WA.

Artificial intelligence is a resource that human intelligence can exploit. It's not obvious that it could exploit itself.

I certainly could, if the need arose. So why did you waste bandwidth boasting about them?

The oscillation may increase to some limit or it could be critically-damped or so heavily damped as to be insignificant.

There is little sign of oscillation and the chain of events above has only one slow effect, which is the change of sea temperature itself; all the other effects are comparatively rapid. When you have a negative feedback loop with one very dominant pole, it is stable as long as none of the other parameters is so non-linear as to make the feedback positive at some point.

It isn't always the incompetent hangers-on who go bankrupt, some of them undeservedly survive while the competent are undermined and crash.

Who cares. There are always quite a lot of people who don't make it, and while the stories behind each individual failure can be quite diverse, it doesn't change the big picture.

Not boasting, but recommending gear to people here who might do actual hands-on electronics. I asked about VNAs and cable manufacturers here recently. It's better to be helpful than nasty.

$1000 and some imagination could start a nice little business.

I might teach a class at a local college. Every student would get some parts and some solder and a DVM.

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You also need customers.

And a collection of horrible examples how to do electronic design ineptly.

Your lack pf enthusiasm for hiring people who have got Ph.D.s tells the story.

That's part of having "some imagination."

I have a single circuit in mind. Someting that will give the kids some instincts. Well, some of the kids.

Giving away DVMs would be useful to all of the kids.

I'm just an engineer. I do what works.

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Imaginary customers aren't a reliable source of real income.The kind of business plan that invests money in attracting the interest of real customers gets expensive fast. One of colleagues made money out of designing stuff for members of his golf club. My hockey club members weren't into that.

A DVM is useless without something to measure. That single circuit needs a power supply to produce voltages for the kids to measure. If they learn anything, they'll want different components to solder into at least slightly different circuits.

You do what you think will work. The stuff that you don't seem to be equipped to think up might work better. Exposure to people who might think up better circuits isn't something that you seem to be all that enthusiastic about. Perhaps you think that they don't exist.

I myself wrote on 20th February 2026: "Is it a myth that "Road Warrior" has subtitles in American English, where "Road Warrior" is the 1st version of "Mad Max 2: Road Warrior" in cinemas in the United States of America (where it had not been presented as a sequel to "Mad Max", which supposedly had not yet been released in the U.S.A.)?"

Sky Crime HD (a TV station) is showing the episode that is called "John Shaw & Geoffrey Evans" from the series that is called "Britain's Most Evil Killers". This episode shows English subtitles for English sentences in an Irish accent by former Detective Tom Connolly.

I myself wrote a few minutes ago: |--------------------------------------------------------------------------| |"Sky Crime HD (a TV station) is showing the episode that is called "John | |Shaw & Geoffrey Evans" from the series that is called "Britain's Most | |Evil Killers". This episode shows English subtitles for English sentences | |in an Irish accent by former Detective Tom Connolly." | |--------------------------------------------------------------------------|

This same episode also shows English subtitles for English clauses in an Irish accent by John Duffy. This episode is about Victim Mary Duffy. (S.