[quote who="ZombiesRus5" reply="629" id="3403343"]Why has the earth not warmed in the last 15 years if human carbon output is the main driver of global warming?[/quote] The answer to that question is very easy to find if you have actually read any of the summaries on global warming. It's also come up a few times in this thread. The total heat added to our global system has not decreased or paused at all. If you want to cherry pick certain indicators (air temperature
[quote who="Frogboy" reply="527" id="3402626"]I've been doing these debates for 23 years now. They go something like this: Bob: Global warming is going to kill us all! We need to do something! We're destroying the planet! Brad: Ok. What do you think we should do? Bob: We need to switch to renewables right now! Brad: That's not really practical though. Bob: Yes it is! It's affordable now! Brad: Have you switched to renewables? Bob: What?
[quote who="Dr Guy" reply="495" id="3402510"]It does not contain many works that do not agree with their conclusion. It is a political position paper. If you want to see the real science, you have to go to the source documents (not the gray literature). And that is split on what is happening. In other words, the jury is still out. And the proof is still lacking.[/quote] Please - do show us these numerous works that don't agree with their conclusion. Please show us the
[quote who="Dr Guy" reply="361" id="3399707"]Um, ever heard of the Oregon Petition? Over 31,000 is not "small percentage".[/quote] Yes it is. It's 0.3% of all science graduates. That list has 39 who are climate scientists. Scientific American debunked that petition long ago. All of these silly little objections have been destroyed years ago but they keep coming back like little zombie memes. The OISM also supports the "science" of young earth creationism and intelligent design. Yo
[quote who="psychoak" reply="353" id="3399675"] Karl, basically you're going over previously shredded points that have zero basis in fact, or are just purposefully misleading statements. The 97% support for AGW among scientists is a lie, pure and simple. A group took peer reviewed papers, discounted everything but the ones that picked a side, and among that fraction of a percent of the papers, they had 97% support for AGW. It's more along
[quote who="ZombiesRus5" reply="324" id="3399414"] Quoting Ekko_Tek, reply 320This is a really good 3 part overview that touches on just how complex the factors involved in global warming are: http://scienceblogs.com/startswithabang/2013/08/28/how-would-you-figure-out-whether-global-warming-is-real-part-1/ It's interesting what scientists learn over time. Like the article states Mercury does NOT have an atmosphere. He should probably
[quote who="Daiwa" reply="322" id="3399409"]We've seen record regrowth of the Arctic ice sheet this summer[/quote] Really? You're going to reference the Arctic ice "record regrowth"? 2013 was not as bad as 2012 (2012 was the lowest point ever so it's not hard to beat) but 2013 lows are still the 6th lowest extents in recorded history. It's overall still very much a downward trend over decades - unless you are somehow arguing that this 2013 rebound is magically the
This is a really good 3 part overview that touches on just how complex the factors involved in global warming are: http://scienceblogs.com/startswithabang/2013/08/28/how-would-you-figure-out-whether-global-warming-is-real-part-1/ Links to parts 2 and 3 at the bottom of part 1. Most of the heat increase over the decades has gone into
I'll use the recent Company of Heroes 2 as an example here. According to Sega, the publisher, they sold about 380,000 copies in the opening week. That was back at the end of June. Nowadays, there are about 5,000 that are regularly on Steam playing it. I'll assume for simplicity that they are all playing MP as most finish the SP campaign in the first week. So that's about 1.3% playing MP. Not very high. However, that 1.3% has much more effect on a game's marketing presence than
[quote who="flagyl" reply="16" id="3396737"] Quoting Ekko_Tek, reply 15 Dota 2 is the perma #1 played game on Steam, typically with 3-500,000 players. These numbers don't even track Chinese players of the game (where it is wildly popular but doesn't use the Steam client) so it will easily be close to 1 million players at any given time. This is more than all the other games on the Steam stats lists combined. LoL has even more players I believe. Mods help extend the life of
Dota 2 is the perma #1 played game on Steam, typically with 3-500,000 players. These numbers don't even track Chinese players of the game (where it is wildly popular but doesn't use the Steam client) so it will easily be close to 1 million players at any given time. This is more than all the other games on the Steam stats lists combined. LoL has even more players I believe. Mods help extend the life of SP games (like Skyrim) and some MP games (various Source ones) but like it or not,
[quote who="RedDwarf999" reply="24" id="3390741"]So what's the attraction to want to play in skilled multi-player matches?[/quote] The attraction boils down to enjoying the more intense match of skills vs. a human rather than a predictable AI. It's more alive, more exciting, more stimulating, etc. It isn't just about "rushing" - it's also about defending against a rush and countering. It also helps you improve your gameplay in ways you can't imagine if only playing
[quote who="56ktarget" reply="11" id="3378751"]When is it acceptable to fleet up as eco? I am always having trouble with this. I usually am the top eco every game and feed way better than the other guy, but when we get into a situation where it seems a frontliner is failing, I dont know whether to fleet up myself to help or just prioritize feeding for him...[/quote] It all depends on who that frontliner is (skillwise), who they are up against, and how badly they are "failing". With ex
[quote who="56ktarget" reply="2" id="3378506"] I am afraid that falls into the "not helpful" category...[/quote] I didn't have the time for a longer post but at least wanted to correct the one obvious error in your original post. The best "advanced tactics" I can think of at the moment are more to do with micro. There isn't a lot of it in Sins but what is there can give you an edge. I'd recommend hotkeying your capital ships and Titan (ctrl + 1,2,3,etc) and then use
[quote who="Daiwa" reply="141" id="3376461"] Quoting Ekko_Tek, reply 140I'm not a climate scientist. But I know enough about how science works to know that a consensus like this can be trusted. If I go to the doctor and he tells me I have brain cancer and I get a second opinion and a second battery of tests done and it still shows brain cancer, I'm going to listen to the doctors. I'm not going to listen to some crank telling me doctors are liars and the tests are a scam. But
@Victor5, You seem confused so let me try to clear this up for you. No one is advocating an appeal to "popularity". Personally I would prefer it if AGW were not happening. What people are listening to is massive and widespread expert opinion after assessing what is known on the subject and what data actually shows is happening. I'm not a climate scientist. But I know enough about how science works to know that a consensus like this can be trusted. If I go to the d
Yes, let's ignore the data from hundreds of CO2 monitoring stations in over 60 countries around the world telling us the same thing in favour of ad hominems and conspiracy theories! Yay! Why bother with all that pesky sciencey stuff? They're all just lying to us! Whee! No doubt the tens of thousands of scientists representing hundreds of scientific bodies worldwide are all on the payroll of the World Federation of Treehuggers and have pulled off the biggest hoax ever! Thank you psycho
[quote who="Daiwa" reply="114" id="3375931"]CO2 based AGW is an hypothesis as yet unsupported by evidence.[/quote] Wat? So, these guys: http://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/ar4/wg1/en/spmsspm-understanding-and.html are just totally wrong and pulling their evidence out of their nether regions, despite being the most qualified people in the world to evaluate the subject. And you hav
[quote who="jackswift85" reply="109" id="3375905"]Also, I see this floated around a lot that "1 volcano eruption emits more CO2 than all of the CO2 man has ever produced". That is just absolutely false. It gets repeated often enough, though.[/quote] [quote who="Krazikarl" reply="112" id="3375918"]I think that the first step in the problem is to convince people of the scientific theory, then move on to political consequences. So, in conversations like this, I stick to th
[quote who="ZombiesRus5" reply="102" id="3375857"]Even if you take AGW as a fact it's not an eminent emergency by any stretch of the imagination.[/quote] Do you mean eminent or imminent? Very important or happening quickly? Assuming the latter, any adaptation or mitigation efforts also happen slowly over decades so this isn't a reason to just twiddle thumbs currently. As you probably know, there is no reversing AGW anyway - even if greenhouse emissions were magically cut to ze
[quote]What happened to Global Warming? When I put my first above ground pool in around the late 90's we were able to open it in April and start swimming in May. Now my pool is just opened and still not warm enough to swim in I'd like some global warming back...[/quote] Take a trip to California or Nevada next week and you'll have all the warm pools you could dream of (including one made of your own sweat). <a h
Should I take it as a bad sign for online play that a thread about MP and DLC mostly turned into a discussion about the finer details of graphics textures? The 1.5 balance changes will be independent of the DLC I assume? I was sad to see after all this time still no balance changes to phase missiles or Orkulus...
