Posts by dogphlap

Elon Musk and ex-Google man mull flinging 700 internet satellites into orbit

Re: Not a lard arse

"SpaceX in spite of the latest setback" what setback was that ?

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Antarctic ice at all time high: We have more to learn, says boffin

This article gives graphs for average monthly sea ice variation from 1979 (the first year that satellite data became available) to 2014 and another for Antarctic mass variation for 2002 to 2009. Curtsey of NSIDC and NASA. No need to read the article itself if you think it's all lies but the graphs tell a (true) story.

http://grist.org/climate-energy/the-truth-about-arctic-sea-ice-melt-and-its-inevitable-denial/

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Canonical: Last change to Ubuntu Edge phone price – we promise

I'm tempted to get one but at $695.00 + $30 freight I need some basic information.

(1) If (as seems possible) the funding goal is not met do Canonical intend to return my $725 dollars ?

(2) Will this phone work on my local mobile phone networks (Eastern Australia) ?

(3) Will I be able to change the operating system to say FireFoxPhone or CyanogenMod or (if they are developed) latter versions of the Edge OS ?

(4) Will there be a place to download (synaptic ?) application software for this phone. It seems unlikely since the number of phones to be produced is quiet small with no real intention of future phones to follow this one.

(5) Will it be possible to change the gain of the microphone amp (I cannot on my current smart phone which is why I only use my old candy bar phone, I speak softly).

I've used Ubuntu software for free for years and if I don't buy a phone I will contribute $50 to this campaign (least I can do).

Study: Climate was hotter in Roman, medieval times than now

The trend line is to the year 1900 !

The trend line goes to 1900 (the title of the article misstates by using the word "now").

Although the industrial revolution was well under way by then it was mostly limited to northern Europe and Nth America at that time, the world population was much smaller, coal fired power stations and auto-mobiles were very few. I find it very believable that the trend line showing 0.3 degree cooling between 138BC and 1900AD (CE) over a 2000 year period should represent reality. This is a small cooling over time and shows what would have continued to have happened if it where not for the enormous quantity of CO2 that has entered the atmosphere since the industrial revolution really took off (pick your own date, 1840 - 1930). Temperature records post 1900 are good (and getting better). The warming trend since (for the last century) has been 0.6 degrees. So the climate has changed from a cooling of 0.3 degrees centigrade over a 2000 year period to a warming of 0.6 degrees centigrade over a hundred year period. How climate change deniers can claim this paper supports the view that the climate is not warming (and if it is it is, it is not due to humans) I cannot fathom.

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