southern_cross

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by southern_cross 7y ago
Heat dumping is done outside the room, of course, but that's a separate airflow, one that's generally disconnected from the room. The cool AC flow itself is usually a closed cycle of some sort. You would be kind of defeating the w
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by southern_cross 7y ago
It would depend on the situation. For a single room system, generally no; for a multi-room system, generally yes if the other rooms are empty or at least relatively less crowded than the one you're in. That is, I wouldn't expect t
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by southern_cross 7y ago
Conveniently not mentioned is this article is the fact that normal CO2 concentrations in human lungs are about 40,000ppm - or about 100x higher than current background levels, and many times higher than the elevated levels mentioned in this
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by southern_cross 7y ago
No, I'm using them to discredit some of the thinking in the article. You did read the article, didn't you? It's pretty simple-minded stuff. But I do have to ask: If that 100F temperature had occurred recently instead of over
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by southern_cross 7y ago
A couple of questions which need to be asked and answered: When Anchorage hit its previous record of 85F back in 1969, was that a "tipping point" and a sign of impending climate doom? Better yet, when Fort Yukon (which is almost 4
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by southern_cross 7y ago
It's been pointed out that if these protests hadn't been used as an excuse for skipping school - that if they had generally been held on non-school days - then the turnouts would probably have been much smaller.
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by southern_cross 7y ago
I did a quick background check of the ones that I could but I don't remember the details; none appeared to have proper training in climate matters, though, that I recall. But just listed in the article itself you've got "sust
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by southern_cross 7y ago
Merkel’s decision to prematurely shut down Germany's generally safe and successful nuclear power program was quite frankly just stupid.
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by southern_cross 7y ago
Did you consider remote, on-shore resources? Perhaps work-at-home folks, or those working remotely from other US cities? I ask because I've run into people who would otherwise normally insist that their domestic resources be local and
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by southern_cross 7y ago
I'm getting quite annoyed now with the number of people who have little to no training in matters of climate getting called "climate scientists" by the press, or representing themselves as such.
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by southern_cross 7y ago
Cellophane is basically a form of paper but it looks and feels like plastic. It's been around forever and is completely biodegradable. I expect that this packaging is maybe just new form of that.
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by southern_cross 7y ago
My experience dealing with such folks 10 or 15 years ago was that even if the person presented to you as the "provider" was actually the person doing the work (and not just a frontman for others), you were lucky to be able to hold
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by southern_cross 7y ago
If they survive this experience, there will probably still be good money to be made helping clean up the mess which will no doubt occur here.
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by southern_cross 7y ago
> We only have two operating systems now Windows and Linux. That all depends on what platform(s) you're using. For example, IBM still gives you zOS, AIX, the System i OS, and so on. And there are other operating systems for other pl
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by southern_cross 7y ago
Having spent my entire career with one foot on the "legacy" side of things (mainframe-like systems) and the other on the Wintel side, I can tell you that I've had to deal with any number of problems on the Wintel side that ge
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by southern_cross 7y ago
> Was there never a firmware bug that would take down an entire mainframe? Yes, there was quite an ugly one not that long ago in fact. A local mega-corporation which still has some mainframes had its main (and redundant) systems just rol
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by southern_cross 7y ago
Pretty much all of the related documentation is publicly available, AFAIK, and freely accessible on the internet from what I can tell. This availabilty is actually a legal requirement from times past, IIRC.
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by southern_cross 7y ago
Open a terminal session on pretty much any platform. If it defaults to being 80 columns wide, guess where that width comes from.
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by southern_cross 7y ago
Why the change?
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by southern_cross 7y ago
If you've read a few of the relevant papers and reports like I have, then you would know that they routinely state that they assume that most of the errors and uncertainties and such cancel out. But mathematically you can't get
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by southern_cross 7y ago
At the time I went back later to look at the data again, almost none of the various links on the relevant web pages still worked. Some working links claimed to link to both raw and adjusted data but then didn't actually have the raw da
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by southern_cross 7y ago
Check my comment history from another thread a little while back to see details about problems I've found with Berkeley Earth. But the short version is that the charts and graphics provided by those folks for my local area, and created
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by southern_cross 7y ago
I probably wouldn't call it fraud (others might, though) as much as I would call it scientific incompetence in general (it appears that many "scientists" these days, across a number of different fields, are actually quite bad
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by southern_cross 7y ago
Funny you should mention this. This was one of the other things that really drew my attention towards the whole climate situation many years back. I was in a techie forum somewhere when the subject of climate came up, and one of the folks t
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by southern_cross 7y ago
It appears that Berkeley didn't actually do what they claimed to do, though, if you go back and review what they did. In fact, at this point in time I'm pretty much convinced that they were just providing a "false front"
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by southern_cross 7y ago
> I've been told that renewable are now grid competitive in cost and the power system is switching over to them naturally. These are more lies and half-truths, for the most part. Wind and solar as always quoted on a "nameplate&
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by southern_cross 7y ago
> I guess what I am saying is I don't believe you, and most of New Orleans going into the ocean as well. And why not? You could, you know, lift a finger and go check out for yourself the relevant local news reports about the current
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by southern_cross 7y ago
On a millennium scale level an increase in global temperatures has been occurring for about 15,000 years (give or take), since the start of the last interglacial. On a century scale level temperatures have been increasing for about 150 year
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by southern_cross 7y ago
That's exactly what they've been doing! Or, perhaps more correctly, they've let their "algorithms" run amok without doing any quality control on the final results, thereby turning modest warming into "scary&quo
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by southern_cross 7y ago
What lack of data would convince you that apocalyptic ACC concerns were largely overblown, or at least unjustified? Because that's what you're dealing with here - a remarkable lack of quality, unadulterated data. Most people don

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