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by svara 7y ago
The blog post you cited seemed pretty dodgy to me, so I went ahead and looked closely at the work they base many of their conclusions on, a PhD thesis from 2004 by Kouwenberg [0]. Specifically the data in Fig. 5.4 (p. 57) is what they base
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It is of course totally possible and consistent with mainstream climate science for CO2 levels to trail temperature under some conditions, for example when the temperature is driven by Milankovich cycles. [0] I was attacking the implied inv
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You are saying a lot of different, seemingly subtle things, while heavily hedging everything, which makes it super hard to have a meaningful discussion. I am honestly not entirely sure what you are trying to say with things like > Agreed
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I won't comment on your other points, which need citations to be discussed properly, but ... > I also know for a fact that other countries are much worse offenders when it comes to Carbon emissions and pollution in general, compared
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At that point you're questioning pretty basic physics. What part of the influence of CO2 concentration on the infrared transmittance of the atmosphere are you questioning [0]? Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. [0] h
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> FWIW, I also happen to harbor this suspicion. How might one actually know whether there is an element of truth to it? It's probably good to have some baseline level of cynicism, since individual people do often act in egotistical
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You're probably confused by the fact that (1) they are plotting ice core based CO2 concentrations as years before 1950 and (2) the time resolution of the ancient ice core data is quite low, while all the anthropogenic action happened i
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What you write is nationalist bull on many levels. 1. German banks were exposed, yes, but they were not much more exposed than banks in other EU countries. Look at the table in [0]; total absolute exposure of German banks is second afte
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How do you know that? As an internationally famous author, he has certainly influenced people in some way. It's just incredibly hard to measure how exactly. Arguably, he precisely described the role for artists in society with that q
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So, you dismiss this work based on your speculation on what the authors could in principle have done wrong? There would actually be substance to your comment if you could point us to the models the authors didn't consider.
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Svante Arrhenius got it basically right in 1896 [1]. There is no scientific controversy and there never has been. Unfortunately, arguing about this might just reinforce the mistaken view that there are different valid "sides" to t
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Great point, but for this to work you still need the car to know when it doesn't know enough to continue. This is not trivial at all with neural networks. There's going to be a trade-off between giving control back to the driver t
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The point of any medical intervention is to make the patient better. By that standard, a lobotomy is ineffective. Lobotomies "worked" by making patients deeply disabled, in a way that made them more manageable.
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Odd to see Moniz' 1949 lobotomy prize omitted here. See https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1949/moniz/articl...
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The NOAA Global Greenhouse Gas Reference Network [1, 2] is a great resource for this. Their data on methane goes back to 1984, so I compared methane and CO2 concentrations in the 1984-2019 time frame. In this time frame, the atmospheric CO2
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To summarize your comment, you're calculating that methane contributes around 12% to atmospheric heat trapping (when only considering methane and CO2), and conclude that it is therefore irrelevant. I don't think your own calculati
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What exactly are you trying to say with this? The tone of your comment sounds as if you're trying to disagree with your parent comment or somehow put it in perspective, when in fact you're just stating a related fact that is tot
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I finally found the time to read the SEP article and all in all I feel the Wikipedia article is a good summary. Quoting SEP: """ Thus, what unifies Nietzsche's seemingly disparate critical remarks — about altruism, happi
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Thanks for your comment, it's really interesting and helpful to hear from someone who's actually seen this play out in real life. I suspect it's not you, but me who's sounding naive here. I do believe, though, that there
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> Give it a few years post Brexit and economic hardship and you'll have them lining up in droves. Scapegoating is a tried and true pastime. I could see that in theory, but what kind of economic hardship are we talking about? In the
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Nah man - Getting angry or even violent in response to infidelity, sure. But a life-or-death duel is something else. It's a ritualized way of obtaining satisfaction relative to some mortal insult to your honor. That custom existed in E
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> The UK is a prime candidate for this. If such an aggressor were to aim to go for retribution based on perceived sleights (for instance: the economy tanking because of 'them') then you just might have to defend yourself from t
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While you're certainly right that there is no guarantee in the strictest sense, do you really believe that? I'm German-French. I honestly believe I've never met anyone in my life in my age group (that I've talked to enou
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I know it's almost become a trope here already, but I'm really becoming increasingly worried about the cultural impact of the kind of entertainment that optimizes for rapid action / reward cycles. Facebook is definitely in th
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Note this refers to the activities of Volkswagen Motorsport GmbH [1], which races VW brand cars (and sometimes Skoda apparently?). It does not apply to Volkswagen group as a whole, which would have included Audi, Porsche, Lamborghini and ma
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As long as there's still fossil fuel powered transportation, it would make more sense to use that excess power to charge batteries, since that converts electricity into motion more efficiently than taking the detour through synthetic b
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> Even the younger generations still willingly embrace 20th century life (probably more than they realize). This sounds interesting, but I'm not sure I really understand what you mean. Could you elaborate on what embracing 21st cent
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> European history throughout the 20th century shows the horrifying, depraved danger in capitulating to a ruling intelligentsia. If you're referring to communism and national socialism here, those were rabidly anti-intellectual (the
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What if there was a browser extension that randomly selected, say, about 1% of requests to be routed through tor? Everybody using it would help make Tor safer, while being just minimally annoyed by the latency and the CAPTCHAs. Plus it migh

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