Global Definition and 430 Threads

Shenzhou 6 was launched earlier today. What do you think the implications are for the worldwide space industry, and also where do you think the Chinese may be headed with this? How long until they get to the Moon, Mars, or surpass NASA? Also, if given the chance, would you take a ride on a...

As we know about global warming , how many of you have heard of global dimming? As you may well guess, it's all to do with the pollution effects of sunlight over the whole world, particularly in places like south east asia where there is a hell of a lot of coal burning and eccesive factories...

He's not done making change! Good for him! http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/18/AR2005091800441.html In his closing remarks Saturday the first annual Clinton Global Initiative, the former president promised progress reports on the more than 190 initiatives...

Hey there.. My pops read a book by Michael Crichton or someone like that that basically says global warming is not occurring. Every science magazine I read continually talks about global warming and shows how physicsists, climatologists, etc, are all working on ways to help remove CO2 from...

"Key Argument for Global Warming Critics Evaporates" http://www.livescience.com/environment/050811_global_warming.html

"Oregon summers reflect global warming" http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-08/uoo-uoo080805.php

Hey kat, I still don't have an axe to grind, but I saw a report that I found really chilling just now and it applies directly to you comment about an attack on Iran: Check the link. http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=20050802&articleId=791 I thought I...

The vote of the majority may say more about the convincing power of the ideas than provide an good understanding of the reality. But what do we think?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/04/26/AR2005042601623.html Why is it thought that aggression will lead to less terror? Particularly pre-emptive aggression? This is from a few months ago, and I don't know if it has been discussed already. I searched for relevant...

Global warming and "glaciers melting" In another thread I promised to go over all the alarming climate features like glaciers melting, sea levels rising etc, I think that was actually off topic over there so I start a fresh one. About the glaciers and ice sheets; yes, most glaciers are...

Wow! Bush says humans contribute to global warming! http://news.ft.com/cms/s/cb0c3b94-ee84-11d9-98e5-00000e2511c8.html Has hell frozen over?

Monique: Thank you for posting links to the two reviews on climate change, in the sticky thread. I am heartened to see that in fact, the PF are not comprised of global warming skeptics, as was my first impression. Both reviews lie with consensus opinion. It's been my experience that all "anti"...

A person who, more than any other living human, transcends political boundaries and will help to save our world from ourselves. Who that might be?

Does capitalism seek to create an individualistic society? Evidence shows it does exactly the opposite. Even if some inequality may be necessary the distribution of wealth and earnings is unfair, dysfunctional, or immoral in capitalism. In the US, the shares of earnings and wealth of the...

According to http://www.grida.no/climate/ipcc_tar/wg1/figspm-2.htm the carbon dioxide level has been rather constant thougout the last millennium before it started to skyrocket in the late 19th century. This information is based on the contents of ice cores of Polar ice sheets and glaciers...

http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/31031/story.htm

It seems GWB has given green signal to US Air Force to develop space weapons. Is it really true and is it going to trigger an arms race. What are the other countries doing? I don't think UN would be of much help! :smile:

The kyoto Clock http://www.junkscience.com/

There is controversy about how certain the scientific community is of its conclusions about global warming: whether humans are influencing the climate and whether global temperatures will continue to rise rapidly in this century. There are two reviews that can be used as a reference for...

I have a question about nukes. If all the nukes in the entire world were detonated at once and dispersed for maximum kill, we're talking China, Russia, Pakistan, USA, etc... evertthing Could we kill all the human civilazition, or if not, what percentage could we kill? I'm having a...

This number came up regarding the Permian mass extinction http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/horizon/2002/da yearthdied.shtml I never realized that the threshold was so low. http://www.solcomhouse.com/metnoaa.htm This also ignores any potential tipping points which could come much sooner.

hey guys...Can someone help me out here...i'm trying to understand what the difference between a global maximum and a local maximum is? arn't they the same??

I know this may sound extremely silly... but, all ice at the north pole is floating... creating mass that would make the ocean higher than it would be... would that ice not be there, when ice melts it takes up less volume than when it is frozen? How would the north and south poles melting raise...

hi. I've got another problem. i have the function : f(x,y) = x^2 + y^2 +(xy)^-1 iam supposed to use the "extremalvalue theorem" to show that this function have a global minimum on the area x>= 0.1 ,y>= 0.1 and i also need to argue if the same thing is satisfied for x>0 and y>0. for...

I doubt it, can anybody back up their opinions with credible sources and/or reason's why they think global warming is, or isn't human caused? I am interested in your opinions, that's why I am posting this topic. Edit: 78 members and 558 guests and 213 spiders (whatever the hell those are)...

Which of the following countries is not one of the major exporters of food? 1. Japan 2. USA 3. Australia 4. Argentina 5. Canada I read somewhere that the U.S. was the second largest exporter and Canada followed as the third largest one. I also think that Argentina is a top exporter...

Hi, Hers's my simple idea about global warming. The suns energy is absorbed by the earth. The Earth re-emits this energy as heat. Human technology emits greenhouse gasses and produces more heat. Green house gasses are increasing in the atmosphere. The more CO2 and other...

I'm supposed to find the absolute max and min for f(x,y)=sin(x) +cos(y) on the rectangle defined by 0<=x<=2*pi 0<=y<=2*pi. Can someone point me in the right direction. I got the critical points but i don't know what to do after that.

I came across information, such as data published by The Pew Global Attitudes Project, however there didn't seem to be much statistics available (yet) on what is important to people around the world at this time. I thought it might be interesting to see what is important in different countries...

Crackpot or exiciting paradigm shift coming up? http://arxiv.org/ftp/physics/papers/0502/0502135.pdf This guy has probably read my https://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=2974 but there is much more. Discussion?

At the latitudes of the UK and Northern Europe we would expect a climate similar to that of Alaska or central Canada. Thanks entirely to the gulf stream, which bathes our shores with water carrying the heat equivalent of one million power stations, we currently have a much warmer climate. The...

Clauset and Young, in their new paper http://www.arxiv.org/PS_cache/physics/pdf/0502/0502014.pdf , apply standard modern statistics to a database of terrorist strikes ordered by the number of people killed or injured. They find that extreme cases, such as 9/11, are not outliers, but find their...

"Unexplaining" global warming Realclimate is an initiative of concerned climatologists who may seem to fear that the global warming message is waning. I tested the objectivity of the place by applying the next comment: Obviously, the comment was not honored. Anyway, to anybody...

Article in the Daily Express by David Bellamy OBE Feb 3 2005. I first heard about global warming in the eighties and right from the start i didn't believe in it. I teach botany. i have researched and taught plant anatomy, ecological physiology and the history of vegetation at universities...

This makes for some interesting reading. http://www.foia.cia.gov/2020/2020.pdf The rise in economic power of China and India is pretty much a given. One prediction is really striking. They predict the world's economy to grow by 80 percent over 2000 levels. At that rate, the worst that...

Suppose I am a defense attorney--I am NOT--arguing for an underdeveloped old-growth tropical rain forest and a coral reef from tumultuous destruction by development. If I could only save ONE, it would be the coral reef. (My instructor said something along the lines of: "The destruction of our...

I read somewhere that one of the dangerous consequences of global warming is another ice age, kinda like what we saw in the movie "The day after tomorrow" . My friend was arguing with somebody about whether global warming will cause a drop in temperature or instead rising temperatures. When I...

The global warming bane for flooded civilization, geology and ecosystems at low altitudes can be a bonus for glaciologists "while they last" in higher latitudes. Would you like to predict what treasures the thawing climate will reveal in the world's remaining glaciers?

The Global Positioning System is nowadays considered as the prime example for the everyday importance of Relativity. It is claimed that without the relativistic corrections (which amount to 38 microseconds/day) the error in the determination of the position would accumulate quickly to values...

Is this fair? Full Story I know this forum is full of arguments over whether or not global warming is even taking place, but even if it can be proven that it is, and that it is largely caused by greenhouse gases, is it fair to sue a nation for that? What is the U.S. doing that 90% of...

After writing this essay I decided to stop fighting the global warmings. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Recommendations For Global Warming Skeptics, an armchair analysis by Andre Apparently, one of the instincts for survival of a social species like Homo sapiens is social...

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2004-11/uow-std112904.php

http://noosphere.princeton.edu/story.html http://www.boundaryinstitute.org/articles/EGG_Salad.pdf also see: http://www.boundaryinstitute.org/randomness.htm http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2320/is_3_65/ai_83262438

Children of Millennium has posted a rather impressive-looking global map of national IQs. Here is the map: http://www.childrenofmillennium.org/eugenics/pages/articles/IQmap.gif It is linked from this article on national IQs: http://www.childrenofmillennium.org/science.htm

Since there seems to be a lot of controversy about this, I thought I'd do a little poll to collect the oppinions of you guys. Is global warming a real threat caused by us, a purely natural occurence or a cross between misleading figures and political spin? Views & opinions appreciated.

I have been trying to find a summary of global ethnicity and percent of... the origin of the bug in my hat is the current American political statements of 'minority' 'majority' and the misnomer seems obvious that northern European are a minority yet hold the power echelons and thereby decree...

Just a question I am a little stuck on. I missed last week's chem lecture: What effect would each of these changes have on global warming? a) volcanic eruptions b) CFCs in the troposphere c) CFCs in the stratosphere Here's what I think so far.. a) Volcanic eruption release large...

is global warming a natural phenomenon? I think it is . But we can enhanced it such as we produce tonnes of carbon dioxide every day, causing the greehouse effect strengthen and finally lead to global warming .

As I see a new brave offensive against those devious satanic gasses and obviously, weather of mass destruction is about to destroy the world. So, perhaps it's time to review the science behind greenhouse warming. How about using the scientific method this time. It seems to be getting...

We already had some brief discussion (2 posts) of this paper in the "Intuitive...Program" thread that is serving as a catch-basket for Loop-and-allied Quantum Gravity links. It probably could use its own thread, to allow space for more discussion, if desired. After I posted this mention of the...