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Replying to: larsb (Oct 30, 2008 3:00 pm) 
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Replying to: Mr_Shiftright (Nov 07, 2006 5:30 pm)
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Replying to: sidious6688 (Oct 31, 2008 12:56 am)
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Replying to: houdini1 (Oct 30, 2008 7:29 pm) I was YAWNing Gary's posting something that declared something we already knew......that we don't know what's causing the warming....... Duh. YAWN.........
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Replying to: larsb (Oct 31, 2008 5:55 am)
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Replying to: gagrice (Oct 31, 2008 6:37 am) And the CONCLUSION is what I was yawning, not the data or the method. "One thing does seem very clear, however; science is only beginning to get a handle on the big picture of global warming. " That's the big DUH. |
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Replying to: gagrice (Oct 30, 2008 4:01 pm) I think larsb wants us back to 1790. Anyone up for a little plague? |
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Replying to: houdini1 (Oct 31, 2008 5:54 am) |
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Replying to: gagrice (Oct 30, 2008 6:48 am) Just because you do not see a value in research doesn't make it worthless. Do you think other countries will stop doing research. Within a decade or two of us stopping research the U.S. would become nothing more than a banana republic. “China's Spending on Research and Development Growing Faster than U.S. ... While the United States still has a bigger share of the global R&D market, second-ranked China is gaining ground.” http://www.inc.com/news/articles/200610/china.html Companies throw money away on useless research and products all the time. Sometimes their research is second to none as in the case of Bell Labs. Do you think AT&T would have gotten were they did if they had stopped basic research? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_Labs “As a tax payer I find the following pork unacceptable. ...Representative Mike Thompson (D-Calif.) for $211,509 in olive fruit fly research in Paris, France. “ You are kidding right? $211K, a General in the Military sneezing would spend more money than that. Have you heard the expression penny wise and pound foolish? Try this link: http://sarahpalintruthsquad.wordpress.com/2008/10/24/memo-to-sarah-palin-fruit-f- ly-research-has-led-to-advances-in-understanding-autism-video/ Basic research is important. Research into climate is also important. How much money we can spend is certainly open to debate, but if we stop doing research we will be in trouble. The rest of the world will not stand still.
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Replying to: kernick (Oct 30, 2008 5:25 am) Molten Earth core vs Solar contribution of energy "The simple answer is that the temperature of the earth's core has nothing to do with the presence of the sun. " http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=29757 Neutrino flux measurements from the Earth's core (see kamLAND) show the source of about two-thirds of the heat in the inner core is the radioactive decay of 40K, uranium and thorium. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convection http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/askasci/env99/env087.htm "As you guessed, the earth's interior would have cooled off by now if there weren't some source of energy. That source happens to be radioactive decay of elements such as uranium. This process continually heats the earth, and does not defy the second law of thermodynamics."
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