John van Neumann worked out that they wouldn't help back around 1956
It's a different kind of problem. We can predict the distribution, even if we can't predict when the extreme events will actually happen.
It has raised average surface temperature of the planet by about one degree Celcius. That isn't negligible.
There are plenty of them, but you can't understand any of them, and comfort yourself with the idea that they don't mean what more expert observers tell you that they mean. You don't want to know.
Many signatories to the Paris accords have armies; the IPCC is a UN committee, not a sovereign state with military assets. The question is absurd, not hilarious.
Any of the signatories might declare war over a treaty violation.
False; it's onset-of-chaos that determines events like hurricanes; the math was first worked out for astronomical work by George Airy, and it applies to a wide variety of cause-and-effect situations. Sometimes called 'catastrophe theory'.
Why do want rational dialog to cease? So you can mutter nonsense to yourself undisturbed? Chaotic systems have statistical properties (temperature is one of them) that ARE predictable, though details underlying those properties (Brownian motion) are not.
But just minutes ago, you were concerned with $7 per gallon gasoline? Clearly you do NOT think 'things are great'. You're just covering up some deep foreboding.
It doesn't bother me a bit. But it will sure hurt a lot of people with long commutes, or worker-guys who need pickup trucks for their businesses.
Inflation was engineered... badly engineered. What were all those idiots thinking?
It's a beautiful day on a beautiful world.
Humans can expect great things in the future. Civilization has just begun.
It's a long time treaty, and there will be changes in the next century. Those questions are likely to have interesting answers in future decades, and time will tell answers beyond your imagination. These are not absurd questions: congratulations, your thinking has improved.
How would you like it if your food was 300 PPM nutrients?
Earth was running out of CO2; plants were faced with starvation. Luckily, humans came along and liberated some of that sequestered carbon. Let's keep at it.
In the great glory days of evolution, CO2 was 5000 PPM or so.
Dying of cold is not a very abstract concept. Neither is malnutrition.
I think he is getting worse. It's probably an age issue.
On Friday, 10 June 2022 at 10:33:40 UTC-7, John Larkin wrote: ...
...
That is being naive - the strains of the dominant food crops that revolutionized yields were not around in that era. Semi-dwarf wheat for example was only created about 60 years ago.
High-yielding wheat and rice have already been showing declines that have been attributed to environmental changes.
I just read that one of my favorite hot chile sauce brands is not available now because of severe drought in Mexico.
Although extra carbon dioxide and higher temperatures may help in many plants, how it will affect our ability to grow food is not known. How will our crop plants fare in competition against weeds, lack of water etc.
kw
The big change is that all the AGW hysteria will be laughed at as old-timey paranoia.
For now, though, remember: the market works. Those signatures mean that the courts of 192 countries will be able to judge against various defendants, and that's gonna be important to investors in infrastructure. Sailing ship technology will boom.
It's amazing these people think electric cars are cheaper to run. They're not. They just don't require payment of huge fuel duty on the petrol, so actually they're more expensive to run. So where does the government get this money from when we all have electric cars....
That tanker's carrying propane gas, not gasoline.
What?
Eh? You've made my point, they use pressure rather than low temperature.
And I'd love to see one of those crash.
They need to stop reproducing so fast.
Must be a limit on the air to let it burn. Otherwise it doesn't matter how big it is, it would all burn out in a few days, just all at once.
Actually, can't they put it out by blocking all entrances of air?
Chaos is only chaos with limited computing power.
Oh dear. So you can predict some bits and not others. Yet.
And just why is the gasoline so expensive? Because of greenies like you. And of course the morons who fight a "war" with Russia.
Wrong. No computer can compute the future states of a chaotic system. Ignoring details like knowing current states and math precision, quantum mechanics will scramble things.
One cosmic ray could change next winter too.
Have something to add? Share your thoughts — no account required.
Ask the community — no account required