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I used a computer too, wrist mounted is OK. I have been told that you can bring your own shorty IF it is brand new with the tags still on it. The concern is contamination of the tank with ocean pathogens. This would likely only benefit people with very hard to fit frames. The first time I...

But as good as we get is not necessarily good enough. Just today, the UN pressed for criminal penalties for GW violations. Do you want to go to jail for contradicting a computer model? The UN admitted that it was meeting resistance to draconian actions because of the pesky "uncertainties in the...

You are joking right? Using exact working copies of the same spacecraft on the ground to do realtime simulations of mulitple engineering scenarios isn't quite the same thing as using purely mathematical models of the climate to predict future scenarios to a single degree accuracy 100 years...

To reiterate: I don't discuss the data because there IS no data for the future. Models are just that, models. Models! Don't you get it? They are SIMULATIONS. These are FAKE worlds. They are not FACT, they do not provide DATA, they have no CERTAINTY. To assume otherwise is religion, not...

The way I see it, it was simple math Suing for millions over a stupid pair of pants (and appealing after you lose) = moron and, therefore, it follows Moron = no job Q. E. D.

An issue has been made about facts and data in this thread. However, GW is a prediction of future calamity and there are no facts or data from the future, unless somebody has a flux capacitor handy. Thus, it all boils down to this; do you trust the climate model makers? And if so, why? These...

Did you even read this article? China has not offered any plan to reduce emissions and only said it will do so "eventually". Wow. The bottom line is they are not going to do it. Let's talk about the data--- read the UN summary report for policy makers, from the Nobel Prize winners...

Read the book "A Perfect Storm". It has an excellent chapter about drowning, both from a medical point of view and from the view of survivors of near drowning. Besides, it's a great book with a lot of info about fishing, wave dynamics, weather and how boats sink. the movie didn't do it justice...

In the news today: China has told an international meeting that it has no intentions of capping carbon emissions at all, saying that it needs unfettered carbon output to fight poverty. The news story also said that China is about to overtake the US as leading annual producer of so-called...

I can't speak for death certificates outside of Pennsylvania, but our certificates list a cause of death AND secondary diagnoses that are contributory as well as how long each diagnosis was present. For example, the certificate may say: cause of death: pulmonary embolism (< 24 hours) as a result...

Warthaug So this thread isn't completely hijacked as a biomedical thread, let me just respond to your allegation that breast cancer isn't that well-funded, so that others here will see how much of a medical research expert you are: the NIH funding alone, not counting the massive clinical...

Tassie You can't seriously believe that contrarian viewpoints are somehow welcomed by the funding establishments? And I guess if you deny funding to a group you disagree with, it is called reasonable (as Gore says, why fund flat-earthers?), while denying funding to a group you agree with...

It's not a matter of getting rich, it's a matter of survival. If you buck the paradigm, you get no grants and if you get no grants, it's Walmart greeter time. If you lack tenure, the loss of a grant can mean you are out on your kiester. If you can fund your lab by saying the earth is flat, you...

No, I am all for alternate energy. Not just for pollution reasons, but to free us from political dependence of foreign oil which is increasingly controlled by crackpots. The only source right now that could quickly replace hydrocarbons is nuclear, but the environmentalists hate that and not...

How about the pandemic of bird flu that the consensus of experts said would have consumed a third of civilization by now? Their models of a single virus epidemic couldn't accurately forecast a year or two into the future, but we can allegedly predict the global atmospheric/oceanographic behavior...

Let's try this again, slowly: In the real world, we respond (or should respond) to a perceived risk with a response measured against that risk. I already gave an example in a previous post: we KNOW that asteroids and comets have struck the earth in the past and will again. If a single asteroid...

Guess again. I believe China has passed us, or soon will, within a year or so.

Unfortunately, to use your accident analogy, the basic environmental activist's approach to the accident scene would be to go around to the other spectators, take money out of their wallets and give it to the victim in the guise of personal charity. If you want to drive smaller cars, take...

No, it is a little unsettling for people not to question an issue as potentially important as this. I am a surgeon, not a sheep. Remember, DandyDon, that GW is not about NOW, it is about what will happen to the world ten, twenty, fifty and one hundred years from now. Please explain how...

It depends upon the cost and risk of the treatment, versus the cost and risk of the illness. If the disease was not well known, or even unknown, then how could these doctors tell me my prognosis? A patient must have some idea of the relative risk/benefit ratio of treatment versus no treatment...