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    • ON: Wed Apr 16th 15:37 PM
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      The Gathering Clouds: Reconceptualizing Data
      Great observation Historian1. We suffer from the conceit that somehow we are smarter or less prone to human foibles than our predecessors. All that changes is the hardware. The "wetware" is the same.

      Case in point: every new technological advance in imaging or media is almost immediately used to produce porn.
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    • ON: Tue Apr 15th 17:39 PM
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      Global Warming Up to a Hydrogen Economy
      Count me as a skeptic, having survived the Great Famine of 1985 and the Ice Age of the last quarter of the 20th century. When I was a lad growing up in the 60s those were the dire predictions. The big fear was that the oceans would drop as more ice accumulated.

      There are bigger players afoot than CO2, etc - like the Sun. Global temps have been flat since 2000 and got much colder this past year. The last year has wiped out 100 years of global warming. How come it got so cold this year and why have temps stayed flat so far this century? Did the CO2 levels drop? Maybe global warming and the Ice Age from 1975-2000 canceled each other out.

      The same computer models that predict global warming failed to predict the first years of the 21st century and last year's huge cooling. Why would anyone take advice from a weatherman? They can't even tell us what it will do tomorrow.

      As you can see from the graph at the following site, there was a considerable cooling period in the 60s that led everyone to worry about cooling, because basically people tend to think that whatever is happening now is going to continue, just like they do now.

      www.metoffice.gov.uk/r...
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