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Topic: What to Tell My Students? |
nero
Replies: 51
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Forum: Peak Oil Discussion Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2008 12:30 am Subject: Re: What to Tell My Students? |
| I'm with retiredguy, when I was in grade 5, nuclear war was an ever present worry and we survived. I think peak oil should be brought up in social studies and history. It is very important to te ... |
Topic: Manufactured conflict to give McCain points |
nero
Replies: 26
Views: 1014
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Forum: Current Events Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2008 3:15 pm Subject: Re: Manufactured conflict to give McCain points |
| Plantagenet, I think [url=http://www.economist.com/world/europe/displaystory.cfm?story_id=11920992]the economist has it about right. This war was planned by Russia but Georgia very stupidly gave them ... |
Topic: Manufactured conflict to give McCain points |
nero
Replies: 26
Views: 1014
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Forum: Current Events Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2008 8:53 am Subject: Re: Manufactured conflict to give McCain points |
| I'm no conspiracy nut but I do think there is a possibility that Georgia received a wink and a nod from some people connected with the Republican party. McCain and his advisors had, motive and oppor ... |
Topic: Some more news from osinform dot ru |
nero
Replies: 14
Views: 695
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Forum: Current Events Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2008 1:26 am Subject: Re: Some more news from osinform dot ru |
What about the burning apt building in the second picture. I see it is a different angle, but the background is different - Where is the dirt road on the right top in the second picture?
The picture ... |
Topic: Manufactured conflict to give McCain points |
nero
Replies: 26
Views: 1014
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Forum: Current Events Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2008 1:16 am Subject: Re: Manufactured conflict to give McCain points |
Hey Plantagenet,
The Russians have been in S. Ossettia for over a decade, so they "invaded" over a decade ago not last week.
It has been reported that the Georgian president did start the curr ... |
Topic: Some more news from osinform dot ru |
nero
Replies: 14
Views: 695
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Forum: Current Events Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2008 12:08 pm Subject: Re: Some more news from osinform dot ru |
| i don't think the man in black is the same as the guy holding the body (his nose is different). The picture with the dead man in it is taken from reverse directions. You can see the blood from his w ... |
Topic: Russia Georgia Ossetia Alkhazia Ukraine War |
nero
Replies: 1518
Views: 53015
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Forum: Current Events Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2008 1:11 am Subject: Re: Russia Georgia Ossetia Alkhazia Ukraine War |
| I don't know if this has been discussed in this thread yet but do you guys not think this might be a bit of pay back for how the west has been treating Serbia. The Serbia/Kosovo/Nato situation is a d ... |
Topic: Is the world actually Cooling not warming? |
nero
Replies: 101
Views: 3667
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Forum: Current Events Posted: Sat Aug 09, 2008 1:03 am Subject: Re: Is the world actually Cooling not warming? |
| look at the curve. There is first a rise in temperature followed in the next couple of hundred years by a rise in CO2....does temperature rise immediately after that? Absolutely not, in fact it mostly ... |
Topic: Is the world actually Cooling not warming? |
nero
Replies: 101
Views: 3667
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Forum: Current Events Posted: Fri Aug 08, 2008 11:54 am Subject: Re: Is the world actually Cooling not warming? |
| that explaination is somewhat bizarre. So the temperature rise causes CO2 to rise...yes we see that in the isotope record...and then of course that rising CO2 causes temperature to rise also. Makes th ... |
Topic: Is the world actually Cooling not warming? |
nero
Replies: 101
Views: 3667
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Forum: Current Events Posted: Thu Aug 07, 2008 8:44 pm Subject: Re: Is the world actually Cooling not warming? |
| this is where we split from theory and reality. If the models argue that rising CO2 must cause higher temperatures but the paleo record tells us the opposite it seems to me that the reasonable argueme ... |
Topic: Is the world actually Cooling not warming? |
nero
Replies: 101
Views: 3667
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Forum: Current Events Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 4:17 pm Subject: Re: Is the world actually Cooling not warming? |
As my late, great friend Reid Bryson would say: Science isn't done by consensus.
However IPCC reports are all about politics. I am all for skeptical scientists going forth with their theories and ... |
Topic: How's your 'truck stop town' doing? |
nero
Replies: 5
Views: 807
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Forum: Peak Oil Discussion Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 3:11 pm Subject: Re: How's your 'truck stop town' doing? |
| I got talking to the owner of a diner along highway 15 in Ontario that was thinking of closing down and setting himself up in the selfstorage business instead. His comment was: "Last year there was ... |
Topic: Is the world actually Cooling not warming? |
nero
Replies: 101
Views: 3667
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Forum: Current Events Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 12:39 am Subject: Re: Is the world actually Cooling not warming? |
| Well you can't tell very much from a decade's worth of data. The natural variability is large enough to swamp out the AGW effect over a decade. (realclimate.com looked at this a while ago) The probl ... |
Topic: Hello from Toronto / Relocating to New Brunswick |
nero
Replies: 4
Views: 367
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Forum: Welcome Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2008 1:32 pm Subject: Re: Hello from Toronto / Relocating to New Brunswick |
Welcome,
Are you a native New Brunswicker? What are the land prices like in that neck of the woods? What made you decide to head out east? |
Topic: RIP: Man-Made Global Warming Fears 1988-2008 |
nero
Replies: 61
Views: 4117
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Forum: Environment Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2008 12:51 am Subject: Re: RIP: Man-Made Global Warming Fears 1988-2008 |
rockdoc:
Anthropogenic global warming is the best theory available to explain the data. Do we understand it completely no, but then we don't understand plate tectonics completely either but I as ... |
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