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TOOLE, Utah – Red Bull KTM Factory rider Ken Roczen earned 3rd overall in the 250 Motocross class at the eleventh round of the Lucas Oil Pro Motocross Championship Series held at a new location, Miller Motorsports Park. His teammate, Marvin Musquin, made the best of an off day and was able to finish inside the top ten with 7th overall.
Both Marvin Musquin and Ken Roczen suffered from poor starts at the beginning of moto one. Roczen was marked in 14th position at the end of the first lap while Musquin was 8th. Roczen quickly set to work to pick off riders and had moved into 7th position by the fourth lap of the race. He continued to plug away and improve his pace and found himself inside the top five around the halfway point. With five laps to go, Roczen made his way around Zach Osborne to take over 4th position but ran out of time to catch the podium riders.
"I really made a lot of mistakes at the beginning of the race and lost a lot of time," stated Roczen. "I felt really good near the end of the moto and thought my bike was running well for the track conditions. Unfortunately, I just took too long to get started."
His teammate was able to finish one position behind him in the first moto, taking home 5th place. "I did not feel good the whole moto," reported Musquin. "The track was tough, but they always are. I just struggled a little and have some things I need to work on. My thumb got a little sore so I will need to work on that before the next moto."
In the second moto, both KTM teammates came around the first corner in approximately 5th position. Roczen made a move past Musquin and a few other riders early on to move into 3rd place by the end of the second lap. Meanwhile, Musquin raced for 4th position for the first half of the race. Unfortunately, Musquin suffered a big crash at the halfway point of the race and lost a lot of time and positions as he recovered. He eventually returned to the track in 10th position. He spent the remainder of the race making up time and was able to climb back to 8th place by the moto end. His 5-8 results earned him 7th overall for the day.
Out front, Roczen was able to move into the lead position by the end of the fourth lap. He went on to lead for the next eight laps before losing the position to Eli Tomac. It was around this time that the wind began to kick up and cause a huge dust storm to blow across the track and the pits. Many spectators assumed the race might get red flagged. It caused many riders, including Roczen, to slow down and stop jumping some of the jumps. The race was not red flagged, and unfortunately, the caution Roczen took allowed Blake Baggett to close in. On the final lap, Baggett was able to pass Roczen to take over 2nd place and Roczen went on to finish the moto immediately behind him in 3rd position.
"It was definitely scary to race the last few laps with the wind," stated Roczen. "Visibility was really poor and it did not feel safe to race at the normal pace so I had to back off. I am bummed it cost me a position, but happy to finish safely and on the podium." Roczen's 4-3 moto results earned him 3rd overall for the day.
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As you continue on the path to your best life, it's only natural that you want to be (now, more than ever) surrounded by like-minded people. After all, the crowd you spend the most time with is very likely to have a significant influence on your state of mind.
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As the East Coast slowly begins to dry out after Hurricane Sandy, some academics are warning that floods may become the norm unless the federal government makes major changes.
The National Research Council has published a report calling on the Army Corps of Engineers to change the way it manages 14,000 miles of levees, 700 dams and many more water structures. It calls on Congress and the White House to act too.
"We have built over the past 100 years or more a very large water resources infrastructure," said David Dzombak, an engineering professor at Carnegie Mellon who chaired the National Research Council committee that wrote the report. "We have not provided the funds to maintain it adequately."
He told The Federal Drive with Tom Temin and Emily Kopp Wednesday that this is not a problem that appeared overnight.
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"That's not just within the past year, the past four years or the past decade, but it's a multi-decade trend here where we have been not providing enough funds to maintain the large infrastructure that we have accumulated over time."
The committee looked broadly at the water infrastructure the Army Corps of Engineering is responsible for, including flood mitigation and inland navigation infrastructure as well as ports, harbors and hydropower generation.
The surge of water and wind Sandy created was a severe test of the infrastructure along the East Coast.
"In this case, there was some Corps infrastructure involved, but a lot of it was state, local and even private infrastructure," Dzombak said. "I think a lesson to take away here is that there's a limited amount that hard infrastructure can do to protect the coastlines against that kind of loading."
The committee's report focused on the need for more "nonstructural" approaches to flood mitigation. "That means zoning and the development decisions that we make for limitations on that to reduce flood risk," he said. "A lot of the infrastructure that was damaged over the past couple of days has been in very high risk areas. We don't experience storms like Sandy on a yearly or even decadal frequency, but the entire East Coast and the Gulf Coast is subject to hurricane loadings like that and we've developed an awful lot that's in harm's way."
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Hi Pedro,
Greece is saved now, so what else is there to talk about?
What's next Economist? Horoscopes?
The weather in Portugal has been particularly good for March in fact.
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Hi Pedro,
Greece is saved now, so what else is there to talk about?
What's next Economist? Horoscopes?
The weather in Portugal has been particularly good for March in fact.
It's beyond scary that any organization would publish weather related analysis on this timescale. Moreover, it's a big disappointment that this publication isn't calling them out for that type of psuedo-science douchebaggery....
What exactly is your problem with this graph? It probably simply shows the time period they have good data for. Nowhere does it say what caused this increase in disasters. From what do you conclude that this is "psuedo[sic]-science douchebaggery"?
Let me guess - this relates to climate change, and that has you in a fit so you don't take in any new facts unless they fit in with how you *know* things really are. Is that it?
this also reflects population expansion in certain geographic areas. a flood in a city of 10,000 may go unreported 30 yrs ago, however flooding at the same hypothetical city today with a population of 150,000 would be reported. i would also concede that global warming does have a large effect on disaster frequency and strength. tough to discount and chart all of this accurately.
Anyone who looks closer must conclude that this alleged increase in disaster frequency has stopped in 2007. Clear downward trend these past years.
By 2015 we'll be down to zero weather-related disasters.
Interesting selection, but this only shows a 28 year range. How does this trend fit into a larger range, say one hundred years?
Oh yeah, they didn't have weather monitoring back in those days. Plus is it the number of weather events that has gone up, or the monitoring of those events?
One hundred years ago, we probably never would have heard about monsoons in Bangladesh and tsunamis in Thailand.
Any excuse to raise insurance premiums.
There is an interesting phenomenon called "apophenia" that explains many of these observations.
It seems that this tendency to find patterns in noisy data is amplified by a reward when the pattern is found. For example, an OECD study which stated that the efforts to find trends in weather data were inconclusive would not receive nearly the same attention for the study as this one did. None of us would even know of its existence!
Didn't any of you get the memo? EVERY weather occurance on the face of the Earth from this day forward is the result of Global Warming. Floods, droughts, hurricanes, lack of hurricanes, severe winter, mild winter...etc.
You forgot eathquakes and volcanoes. Global Warming scientiss say there will be more of them now because we're polluting the air.
You might want to give a reference for that, Gwen. Climate scientists said no such thing.
Crawling with climate change deniers again, here, poking cheap fun of serious matters. They probably expect to be dead when the crisis hits home, the cynics.
Yes they DO say that. Ever heard of Google? The latest story is by Bill MGguire of The Guardian dated Feb 28 this year. Do some research before posting next time.
And Sense Seeker: Global Warming Skeptics don't deny the climate is changing. Climate changes all the time, throught history. We just don't ahdere to the Warmist's theory that man-made greenhouse gas emissions are measurably altering global climate for the worse. We're opposed to the economically cripply, life-altering government interference based on incomplete scientific studies.
I never heard it explained like that Doctor. I'm used to everyone calling skeptics crazy idiots. Guess you won me over.
Well, that's why I suggested to add a reference. You are right (except it was the 26th), and here is the story: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/feb/26/why-climate-change-sha...
Pretty plausible story, too, though I'd like to see it confirmed by other scientists.
But then I still don't understand why you ridicule news like this. Is it too much for you to take in? Or does this somehow show that scientists say n'importe quoi? What is it with you right-wing free market thinkers that you keep arguing against a solid scientific fact? Too threatening for what you consider the natural world order?
"We just don't ahdere to the Warmist's theory that man-made greenhouse gas emissions are measurably altering global climate for the worse. We're opposed to the economically cripply, life-altering government interference based on incomplete scientific studies."
That rant nicely sums it up. You have no evidence to the contrary, but you simply refuse to accept a firmly proven scientific fact because of what you think it will mean in terms of the economy and governance.
That's called denial, Doc.
It's called sarcasm.
I'd like to believe you are right, but given the doc's track record I fear you are wrong.
Whether intended or not, Doc gives an accurate (if not eloquent) assessment of what this whole debate is about.
To Doctorwhorules:
Bill McGuire is a professor at a very prestigious university. He is writing about the subject in which he carries out research. It seems to me just possible that he knows more about the subject than you do. But perhaps I should ask what you do as a day job and what your qualifications are to talk about technical subjects.
You should all read SuperFreakonomics
NOAA carried out a much more extensive analysis of weather data than the one presented here. In the "Twentieth Century Reanalysis Project" thirty renowned climate scientists examined over 100 years of data, filtering it for variation in reporting technology, They carried out a sophisticated statistical analysis to determine the incidence of extreme weather events over that period, eliminating judgments as to what was a "disaster". The program was highlighted by NOAA as a major breakthrough in their ability to analyze the history of weather trends.
Their conclusion was that there were no statistical changes in the frequency of weather extrema over that period.
When interviewed by the Wall Street Journal about the significance of these results, one of the program leaders at NOAA, Gil Compo, responded
"In the climate models, the extremes get more extreme as we move into a doubled CO2 world in 100 years,so we were surprised that none of the three major indices of climate variability that we used show a trend of increased circulation going back to 1871."
The federal government responded to this breakthrough in weather analysis by immediately canceling the program "for budgetary reasons".
If a tree falls…
As population increases and man kind populates a larger part of the planet, the impact of natural disasters on man kind will increase. In the chart above, the population in 1980 was about 4.5 billion people. Today it is almost 7 billion people. Almost 60% more people on the planet and someone is surprised that more people died from weather last year.
I will put on my tin foil hat and predict that in 30 years from today more people will be hurt by weather. Not because the weather is worse but because more people will be effected by the weather.
Trying to fix weather makes about as much sense as dancing for the rain gods.
The unit is the number of weather disasters not the loss due to these disasters. If you argument is right, then more frequent disasters extra more damages. Fixing weather or slowing down the trend is more meaningful.
"Between 100 million and 200 million people a year were affected, and economic losses amounted to between $50 billion and $100 billion annually" That is measured in number of people and money as far as i can see.
What trend, haipaijyj? The NOAA study of weather extremes (not "disasters") found no evidence of a trend. They concluded that it was their computer programs that needed fixing. The prediction of increases in weather extremes appears to be erroneous.
As to the observations reported by The Economist, have you ever heard the phrase, "its the climate, not the weather" used to explain occasional cold spells? The same argument applies equally well here. We need to look at long term trends, not anecdotal events.
Some obvious questions need to be asked here:
1. Has the way "disasters" were counted been the same across these 30 years? What is a the definition of a disaster?
2. Even if these were the case, has the accuracy of counting disasters been the same?
3. Obviously when counting lost life and damages the size of the population in the affected areas and the wealth of the area needs to be taken into account. I am sure that correcting for such factors is not beyond the means of the Economist.
One easy way to separate these effects from possible climate effects would be to separately graph the earthquakes (number and damages). As no sane person believes that humans have any impact on them, if they show a gruwing trend it has to relate to population effects. It would have no green propaganda value though.
Global climate of the Earth is a complex system that even confounds supercomputers. There is action, reaction, and feedback loops and attenuation effects that resemble the complexity of a living organism.
For simplification purposes there are Four Major Acute Factors that we can follow that influence the Weather in the upcoming year --and only one of them is Global Warming due to 'Green House Gasses'.
The Second is the Presence of El Nino or La Nina: temperature influenced currents in the Pacific Ocean. Temperature influences pressure gradients influences trade winds influences weather. It occurs on a 5 year cycle and we are currently in one of the strongest La Nina cycles in modern times. It has resulted in strange October and April blizzards in Washington, DC. Biblical Droughts in Australia and Texas. Record Tornadoes in Oklahoma and the American South. And high Cyclone frequency in SE Asia. And a paucity of Hurricanes in the Gulf.
The Third is the paucity or abundance of actively erupting Volcanoes. One large eruption can spill 10x the amount of carbon in to the atmosphere in one week as human industries do in a year. Eyjafjallajökull erupted last year in Iceland, disrupting weather for Europe. Grímsvötn erupted this year and we will see similar climate changes in 2012. Mt. Pinatubo and Mt St. Helens eruptions caused such changes in weather that it visibly changed tree growth rings around the world. In 1815 the eruption of Mt Tambora resulted in a 'Year without Summer', global cooling, snow in July, and widespread famine that disrupted crops for two years. Mankind and animal-kind was months away from starvation and extinction.
The Forth is solar flare activity. Yes, the sun influences climate on earth. And it has a 11 year cycle that is as predictable as the 4 seasons. Less than 0.01% of humans know this.
How do you hide something? Answer: Put it in plain sight.
That flaming ball in the sky--the Sun--we have severe ignorance of its patterns despite its obvious major role in our lives.
Weather affects us all. I believe that GLOBAL WARMING IS A MAJOR FACTOR. But it is ONE of MANY factors, otherwise we would have predictions in the bag--which we don't. One major Solar Flare Storm, Mega Volcanic Eruption, or Ultra El-Nino can dwarf the effects of man.
Our current weather effects today are evidence of a Second Year of one of the most powerful La Nina Event in recent time. IT has resulted in the North American Snowmageddon, the Drought in Texas, the Heat Wave in the South, the Floods in the Midwest, the powerful Tornados in Oklahoma, and the surge in Hurricanes, and the Queensland Drought. Global warming protesters were mysteriously absent in the Snow Blizzards in December.
We live in a delicate balanced world. And disruptions can occur from all corners. The problem with Global Warming Believers, is that they have BLINDERS to any other causality. Atmospheric CO2 levels may play a role, but one volcano can up end all those data trends in one blow! See the effect of Eyjafjallajökull lst year and deny its effects. You probably still have residual pumice and ash deposits in your lungs.
Know the most recent Mega Disasters of the past decade--Indonesian Earth Quake and Tsunami, Haitian Earth Quake and Fukishima Earthquake and Tsunami--were all due not to global warming but Earth Seismic Events. And these are the big killers of humankind. reaching 250,000 in Indonesia and 200,000 in Haiti.
Global Warming is taking on the characteristics not of a science debate, but a Religious War. Both sides have cadres of highly motivated and rabid activists. And a central priesthood who read the signs for others and a brotherhood of friars who document everything on internet blogs. And colors, symbolization, logos, and slogans that signal their belief system. More soccer club than environmental activists.
(And I expect attacks from rabid Green House Gas Activists despite being a 'believer'. I welcome Cool Level Headed Debate. Not religious wars. This is not the New Green Inquisition.) ;)
And reality is far more complex. It is like saying the Stock Market is ONLY dependent on interest rates...and nothing else! And based on the Fed Rate, I can predict where the market will be in one year.
CO2 concentration alone will not predict global climate and catastrophes. Unfortunately the world is a lot more complex. Greens risk oversimplification of a complex phenomenon. MANY things affect global climate.
The Weather is Complex. Everybody complains about it but nobody ever DOES anything about it. But in truth, we do not have the tools. But we do have the power to kill disbelievers and opponents in intolerant debates and violent bloodbaths.
Calm down. Breath. Peace.
Good comment. Just to add two points:
1. It would seem that humanity needs something to worry about. Global worming issues came fast on the heels of the disappearance of the treat of Nuclear War.
2. The media need things to write about, the activists need something to shoutabout, and the conservatives need something to object to.
Maybe something horrible is happening to our climate, maybe not - I am no expert. But the above is true for sure.
Thanks again, "Connect The Dots", for a good comment.
Connecting the Dots, you present a curious mix of facts, falsehoods and false inferences, and I have seen it several times before. Your argument that 'AGW is only one factor so we shouldn't worry' is complete bogus.
You write: "The problem with Global Warming Believers, is that they have BLINDERS to any other causality." That is patently false. See for example this paper: http://iopscience.iop.org/1748-9326/6/4/044022/ . It shows the temperature trend when you adjust for the effects of volcanos, sun and El Nino/Southern Oscillation. The remaining trend is an almost linear upward one and is due to AGW. All the IPCC models also take your factors into account. How stupid do you think climate scientists are?!
With your reassuring last words you seem to infer that climate will change up and down and we don't have anything to worry about. But of the four factors you mention (AGW, volcanos, sun and El Nino/Southern Oscillation) there is one with a clear trend: AGW. Never mind the others, they go up and down and we can't do anything about them. It's greenhouse gases we have to worry about.
In sum, you offer ignorance and false reassurance, and that is not hard to see once you connect the dots in your story.
The term "global worming" may have some inadvertent significance. I just can't think of it, however.
The problem with these discussions is the confusion between "Global warming" and "anthropogenic global warming", For example, the paper referred to by Sense Seeker discusses GW, not AGW. There is an implied inference in the paper, and used explicitly elsewhere, that if you identify a warming trend and eliminate known natural causes, then the only possible explanation is that the cause is man made. That further assumes, as asserted by Sense Seeker, that these climate scientists are so smart that they have fairly assessed all possible alternatives. This is a convoluted argument, based on several assumptions.
We have information, however, that disputes the argument. These same climate scientists have also attempted to model global warming with the effects of CO2, just as with other possible contributions. And, just as with the others, the CO2 model fails to quantitatively explain the warming trend. So, why should we believe that the other attempts are any better than their efforts on CO2?
These same climate scientists have used their climate models to make another prediction that can be tested. Their models have made the well-known prediction that weather extremes will increase as CO2 levels increase. Anecdotal evidence of the validation is provided here and elsewhere. Every tornado, snow storm or hurricane is cited as evidence of increasing weather extremes. But climate scientists at NOAA were dissatisfied with anecdotes, They wanted to demonstrate a statistically trend of increasing weather extremes, just as the models predict. Unfortunately for them, the project resulted in a trend that showed NO significant increases in weather extremes. The results were so surprising that the federal government canceled the project. Or perhaps the reason was the poorly phrased comment by the project leader to the Wall Street Journal.
Note the deadly silence over this cancellation.
I think that the "we are very smart, take our word for it" argument is not supported by the data.
So there definitely is a trend towards higher global average temperatures, and it is not caused by the sun, ENSO or volcanos. We also know increasing CO2 and methane levels enhance the greenhouse effect by 1.1C per doubling, and nearly all studies have found that this effect is amplified by increased water vapor in the warmer air. Climate scientists, supported by all major academies of science in the world, have concluded this points to human activity as the cause of global warming. You are free to think otherwise (along with WSJ), but the science doestn't give you much support.
It's a pity the article you refer to doesn't clearly conclude anything that supports the WSJ statement. There is a large difference in not finding a statistically significant trend and there not being a trend.
You ASSERT that it is not caused by other effects, Sense Seeker. Are the computer models used to make these calculations more valid than the computer models that are incapable of predicting global warming, or incorrectly predict increased weather anomalies?
The contradictions between theory and fact were stated by a leading NOAA scientist, Sense Seeker. They were reported by the WSJ. I have not heard a denial, just a cancellation of the project.
Read the report. Look at the data. There is no trend. Combo said there was no trend. He said it contradicted the model.
Then his project was shut down.
Sense seeker obviously is not a practicing scientist otherwise he would not have made the contradictory claim that the lack of a statistical trend does not prove there is no trend. That is a clear example of a misunderstanding of the impossibility of proving a negative. One can ONLY prove there is on statistically significant trend, Sense Seeker.
However, he does adopt the strategy often used by a scientist who is so obsessed with the proof of his theory that he throws out data that contradicts the theory. This, unfortunately, is a more common occurrence within the scientific community than scientists care to admit.
Sense Seeker has designated this result by NOAA as an "outlier". It does not fit the anticipated results, and should therefore be discarded. A rationalization for ignoring the results will be forthcoming. Check out the global warming web sites, SS. I'm certain that they will have come up with something for you.
"Sense Seeker has designated this result by NOAA as an "outlier". It does not fit the anticipated results, and should therefore be discarded."
You, in contrast, seem to do the opposite. Virtually all the evidence points to manmade climate change being a reality, but you give a single study as proof that it just ain't so.
And I am sorry for your scientist, but though it could be the AGW conspiracy that did his project in, it might also have been that it wasn't such a great project. Just guessing. But that apart, can you point me to the exact point in the paper where AGW is proven wrong?
I posted the link above. I thought you read it when you said "the article you read clearly does not conclude anything.."
I NEVER stated that any study proves there is no AGW. You seem to have difficulty in following an argument, SS. My issue is with the assertion that the lack of an alternative explanation is a proof that AGW must be an explanation. I find that argument to be weak and not compelling (I suspect that even the proponents feel the same way). The models used to tie CO2 to warming are not very good - even the AGW scientific community admits this. I gave my reasons for my viewpoint. My opinion is that AGW is an open question. Maybe it is a better explanation than others, but the arguments are not conclusive.
I posted a link to a paper that asserts there is no evidence of an increase in weather extremes over a 100+ year period. The study was carried out by NOAA. Check out the names involved - you may recognize some of them.
I suggest a hypothetical thought experiment for you to carry out on your own. A massive study is carried out by NOAA while Bush is president. It concludes that there is clear evidence of an increase in weather extremes over the last 100 years. Immediately after the results are announced, the federal government announces that this project has been cancelled for budgetary reasons.
Your explanation for the action by the Bush administration is____________________________________________.
But Rob, it is simply not true that scientists think CO2 is the culprit by default. There is positive proof that CO2 explains most of the warming.
The greenhouse properties of CO2 have been known for well over a century, and satellite and ground observations of IR radiation confirm it. The pattern of warming is also as expected from an enhanced greenhouse effects: nights warm more than days, and the upper atmosphere cools. Plenty of evidence that it's (mainly) CO2, aplified by increased water vapor.
See http://www.skepticalscience.com/empirical-evidence-for-co2-enhanced-gree....
No he doesn't Senseless. Connect the Dots' post makes perfect sense. You just refuse to accept the facts that are presented. Since Wikipedia is your source for "facts", you can go to the Wikipedia article of Climate Change, you'll see the "facts" that Connect the Dots mentions in his excellent response. But you won't and even if you do, you won't accept it.
As an example of how Senseless dissuades. Look at this link implicating the sun in warming/cooling cycles:
Mind you I am quoting nature. Senseless comes back with SkepticalScience, a pro warmer blog despite the "scientific name" skeptical science is extremely biased.
By contrast I quote nature but senseless will dismiss this, ignore it, or attack with a bunch of prowarmer blogs. Watch.
He will under no circumstances INTERNALIZE the real science. Like Peter Gleick, he is blinded to any argument that steers him away from his alarmist ideology.
I am addressing a specific argument made by some advocates of AGW - that there is no alternative explanation. I did not address the arguments made to try to prove that CO2 IS the culprit. Quantitative assessments show that CO2 contributes a small fraction of observed warming, The largest fraction is hypothesized to be caused by water. To date the quantitative models suffer from the same problems that alternative explanations have.
Of course there is change. This planet has been hospitable a very long time via change and more than likely will continue to do so for a very very long time. We may need to adapt, buy more toques and sunscreen, or move to better places to live, or make do with things as they change, these events will give us something to do.
The entire discussion on climate change almost always leaves the following:
1) The sun's luminosity is slowly steadily increasing for a variety of reasons... one thing we can be guaranteed in life is that tomorrow will always be a brighter day.
2) Escaping gases variances and variables from our planet and incoming material. The earth is not a sealed system as is typically inferred.
I'm still holding my breath for CTD to ever respond to a critique unless it is I've surmised through another account supporting his premises.
It appears the Earth does not hold its breath.
will be better if they put in the graph how many people are affected and how much losses are caused by these disasters. Numbers of disaster don't really tell much.
guys in the casualty insurance, are you listening?
If we compare this chart against other planets or moons in our solar system, I'd say were doing pretty good.
Now THAT's a positive, can-do attitude!!
Are you kidding me. Deducing anything about weather with only 30 year data?
That is like predicting the winner of a soccer match when only 5 minute of play has happened.
I will agree that media hype of every tornado, dought, and mosquito infestation has increased in recent years. When Katrina struck, it was largely a surprise, it wasn't even on the radar of CNN. Now, if a tumbleweed rolls through some little town in the midwest, it is reported as a windstorm.
This is just an orchestrated approach by the mass media, the UN, and green movements to pander climate change.
Fred Phelps knows why...
The time frame of this graph is not long enough to say something meaningful about climate trends. It does however highlight the fact that world population is growing.
Yeah it does, especially if you take into account that the graph says nothing about the population affected.
However (even though I think there probably is an upward trend due to climactic changes) his point about the timescale being too short. Could it not be the case that prior to 1992, say, was an unusually quiet period?
That being said if you look at the increasingly pronounced peaks in cyclone/hurricane activity, it would suggest that we are indeed experiencing stronger El Nino oscillations.
All this topic highlights is population growth. The word "disaster" is a reflection on humans affected by weather. More humans means more disasters given the same exact weather patterns. Droughts only matter when more mouths remain dry and tornados only matter when they hit someone's house.
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The 100+ year NOAA study found no trends.
Point taken. Still "distasters" of that kind usually hit large swathes of land. Just because we have twice the people does not mean we colonized twice the amount territory we had in the 80s. We are just more tightly packed. So 2010s disaster still would be counted as a disaster in the 80s. With less casualties, though.
It is interesting that all the cities that are most likely to affected are in the east. I'm guessing this is because these cities are more populated or is it the landscape?
Both, but mostly because they're almost all on big river deltas and in cyclone/typhoon prone areas
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Last week there were XBMC developers that wrote a public message on Phoronix about AMD's problems with video playback acceleration using their Catalyst Linux driver. The developers called AMD out on their shortcomings and now today there's a response out of AMD...
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Nice to see a response from AMD.
While it's great to expect some progress, it stands to reason that
Radeon HD users up to HD 4000 won't benefit from any updates (L5.1), in particular bug fixes?
Michael, you copy-pasted the quote twice:
"Everytime we try to get into official contact, we are told that AMD was working on it and everything was nearly done. We are hearing this for approximately half a year now from AMD, but were never given a timeline...Everytime we try to get into official contact, we are told that AMD was working on it and everything was nearly done. We are hearing this for approximately half a year now from AMD, but were never given a timeline."
AMD has been open source for 5 years now, they started in 2007.
And the open source device driver still sucks?
for the zillion time plz fragging educate yourself before let crap run out of your mouth LOL.
* first remember that in 2007 we had basically nothing in the graphics side aka Xfree86, some very outdated/rudimentary DRI plataform and basically no memory management in kernel for the GPU and mesa 6 was GLX 1.4 at his prime.
* devs don't have 5 years working on radeon drivers, they have 5 years rewriting/re engineering the entire linux graphic stack (kernel/ttm/drm/dri/wayland/gallium/mesa/Xorg/cairo/etc) and when they can, they go to the drivers cuz most of the time at least until recently many driver functions are missing cuz the stack still need work for that specific function to work in the driver.
if still you don't get it is like pass from windoze 95(close to the old linux stack) graphic stack to windoze 7 graphics directly.
so another way to see it is linux community has taken 5 years to get close to what microsoft have done in at least 12 years
That remains to be seen. The fact that it is already implemented for a while could also mean that just the PCS key is needed for the previous (HD 400 supported) drivers.
What bugs me though, is that support for MPEG-2 VLD, MPEG-4 Part 2 and H.264 Level 5.1 has already been implemented for some time but, what appears to be, no effort has been made to finish and/or enable it. Such a waste, it would have made quite some people happy.
You're mostly right.
First, cairo has nothing to do with it
and 5 years to go to windows 7 comparable graphics.. Nope, sorry. The oss driver state is still quite horrible but it works and usually works better then the AMD drivers in terms of stability. However, in performance, power management and amount of noise produced it's still _far_ from being usable. But they are getting very close to good working drivers. I'd say probably about 2 more years before it's really in a good working shape.
If you want to compare it against windows then i'd say we are at the point where windows vista RC was released with the massive graphic driver issues
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More than 300 people attended the discussion in the Newtown High School auditorium, a few minutes drive from the Sandy Hook school.
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Quick question: For some reason, ST2 has decided to give me a colored box as a text cursor instead of the normal single line. I find it very distracting. This is what I mean:
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Sorry for what appears to be an unrelated point, but (I suspect) you have no idea how hard these graphs are to interpret for colour blind readers.
I squint and peer, adjust my angle and then guess. Mostly I give up in frustration.
How about some discrete lines overlaying the colour? Horizontal, vertical, left diagonal, right diagonal lines, or spots all work and would bring thousands of us into the conversation. Same goes for the newspaper, which is no easier to read and I often despair at for this reason.
I've tried every technique I have to separate second and fourth from top ranges on the GDP forecast/estimate graphs without success. It's like reading Chinese. Which I don't!
Back in the old days it was all shading and lines. Less pretty but we could all read.
I'm Chinese and it is easy to read...
I'm Chinese and it is easy to read...
@Paul, an interesting point. What kind of colour blindness do you have.
Personally, I love the style of The Economist charts partly because of the use of low-contrast shades which I can imagine leaving you see "50 sheds of grey". Can you point out similar charts with the kind of enhancements you'd like to see? I can imagine the style either being adopted or at least a toggle-function which would overlay patterning.
Thanks, Artemio. Yes, if only "50 shades of grey", it looks like only one or two. I've a whole spectrum (a concept I could debate exists) of colour challenges.
I had a look for lined graphs but couldn't find any which looked contemporary. Gapminder graphs work much better; simple, high-contrast colours which look like they were chosen by a Health & Safety officer (who choose colours we can all read).
Green or red, not both. Brown confuses with green and red, so is best avoided, and pink is too complicated to get into. Only dark purple and only light blue, yellow is good, orange only if it contrasts with the others. Black is a perfectly good colour, as is white.
Anyone with a disposition to use an array of autumn colours (as above) should be told to step back from the keyboard.
Paul, the graphs are essentially from all the data available on the eurostat website which might be easier if you're colourblind as you can visualise the same thing with bar charts or change colour-coding on the maps if you instal a plugin
Hope this helps
Paul, the graphs are essentially from all the data available on the eurostat website which might be easier if you're colourblind as you can visualise the same thing with bar charts or change colour-coding on the maps if you instal a plugin
Hope this helps
Excellent tip, Captain Obvious. Many thanks.
The simplest answer is not to force your problem onto the universe, but to adjust the input from universe into something that works for you. Colors have specific digital values and all you need is a program that takes those digital values and converts them into something that suits your vision. You might have to experiment around a bit, but a program can be created for that too.
Talk to a software developer or drop in to your local university and post an add on the computer science wall. This is not a difficult problem and just about any senior student should be able to handle it. The more competent ones might even create a plug-in for your browser, or at worse you'd have to download the graphics and post-process them. Problem solved.


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Rivals ready to begin battle at Target Field
Royals making push for playoff spot; Twins out to play spoiler
Having completed a span of 27 games in 27 days, the Twins hope Monday's off-day will be of assistance before taking on the Royals for a three-game set.
Kansas City, meanwhile, is still grinding through a tough stretch as it strives to push toward a spot in the postseason. The Royals are more than halfway through a run of 44 games in 44 days, but their next off-day is still a while away, on Sept. 12.
That march toward the season's home stretch continues Tuesday, when right-hander James Shields takes the mound to face Kevin Correia and the Twins at Target Field.
"Both clubs are in the exact same position," Royals manager Ned Yost said. "The trainers and the conditioning staff do a great job of making sure everyone is hydrated. You just go play the game. It's not easy, it's hard. It's smokin' hot out there, we haven't had a break in a long, long time, but then again these guys are kind of geared to that. They're geared to playing like that."
The Twins' demanding stretch, which began on July 30, has resulted in inconsistent play, as they finished Sunday with a loss to go 12-15 during that time.
"We've played some better baseball, but still our record has been inconsistent," manager Ron Gardenhire said. "It seems like we'd run off [stretches] where [we played] four or five really good ballgames. [We] might lose one or two of them. Then all of a sudden we'd go flat, it looks like.
"And I don't know if that's because we're in such a grind. Right now, when you're playing this many games in a row and it's August, guys are a little worn out. But every team is in the same boat. Every team is going through the same thing and battling."
At 57-72, the Twins occupy fourth place in the American League Central, which means they'll look to play spoilers to the Royals, who still have hopes of stealing an AL Wild Card spot. Kansas City trails the A's by 6 1/2 games for the second Wild Card, with the Yankees, Orioles and Indians also ahead of the Royals.
Correia will take the mound for Minnesota. He held the Tigers scoreless for 6 2/3 innings in his last start before things fell apart. He ended up yielding four runs (two earned) on nine hits and two walks in a loss.
Things won't get any easier against Shields, who has won four of his last six starts. He took a no-decision on Thursday when the White Sox won in extras. Shields gave up three runs over seven frames on nine hits and no walks. Since losing to the Twins on Aug. 6, he has a 2.14 ERA in three starts.
Twins: Mauer getting plenty of rest back home
Catcher Joe Mauer has been instructed to take it easy for a few days. Mauer, who went on the seven-day disabled list on Tuesday with concussion-like symptoms, is at his home in Minnesota, and the Twins expect to see him when they return to Target Field during the upcoming week.
"He's had his moments where he hasn't felt great, and other times where he's felt fine," assistant general manager Rob Antony said. "Basically, we just told him to rest, and we'll talk about it and see how he's doing on Tuesday."
The Twins do not expect Mauer to return to their lineup during the brief homestand. After the Royals series, the club will be back on the road for meetings with the Rangers and Astros.
Through 113 games, Mauer has 11 home runs and 47 RBIs, with a slash line of .324/.404/.476.
Royals: Hochevar's wife gives birth
Luke Hochevar and his wife, Ashley, welcomed a healthy baby girl named Lucy Jane on Sunday afternoon. Hochevar was placed on paternity leave Sunday morning in anticipation of the Hochevars' second daughter, and he will take all three allotted days of paternity leave before rejoining the Royals on Wednesday in Minnesota.
In the meantime, left-hander Will Smith was recalled from Triple-A Omaha to add another arm to Kansas City's bullpen.
• Alex Gordon's numbers may not show it, but Yost said he thinks his All-Star left fielder is improving on defense. On Saturday, Gordon took the AL lead with his 11th outfield assist.
Gordon's numbers are down a little bit since he led the league with 20 assists in 2011 and followed that up with 17 last season. But Yost said that's because opponents simply have more respect for his arm, and the manager has no doubt that Gordon can earn a third straight AL Gold Glove Award.
"Absolutely, I think he will win it," Yost said. "I think he'll win a bunch of them."
Worth noting
• The Royals are 12-4 against the Twins this season, and 5-2 at Target Field, having won the season series against Minnesota for the first time since 2003. Those 12 wins are already the most by a Kansas City club against the Twins, edging 11-win seasons in 1975 and 2003.
• Shields has won 24 games in August, his most in any month. Dating back to August 2010, Shields is 14-5 in August, leading all Major League pitchers in wins.
Jeff Kirshman is an associate reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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SHAR Electric Violin - $199
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A Silent Violin?
Aren't violins made to be heard? Why would you want a silent violin? We explore the advantages.
Plug 'n Play Violin
We worked with a professional multi-genre violinist on what pros want. This is the result!
Strong and Mellow Acoustic Sound, Professional Grade
The Plug 'n Play electric violin just keeps getting better and better! We worked with a professional multi-genre violinist on what pros want: New geared pegs work much more reliably and smoothly than friction pegs under hot stage lights, eliminating the need for fine adjusters and making tuning a breeze. We also lowered the string action to allow for fast and soft fingering. We did this by improving the quality of the ebony fingerboard, bridge, and strings, performing the entire setup and tonal output adjustment at SHAR. Finally, we upgraded the electronics, for far more output. The new Plug 'n Play Concert violin sounds clean, mellow and complex, like an acoustic violin, but now that drummer has met his match on stage! Of course, you can also tone it down... way down, by plugging the included earbuds directly into your Plug 'n Play violin, so as not to bother your neighbors when practicing. In fact, transitioning from your acoustic to your Plug 'n Play couldn't be easier – because of its clever design, you can even use your favorite shoulder rest.
Outfit includes Toshira case (TC100), Brazilwood bow (KVB), mini rosin, cable with 1/4" jack, earbudss and 9-volt battery. Choose from Ebony Black, Sangria Red, True Blue, or Titanium White. 4/4 size.
Yamaha Silent Electric Cello(Yamaha model SVC110)
Yamaha designers worked together with some of the worlds greatest cellists to create the Silent Electric Cello series, and the talent and inspiration of these artists is reflected in their beautiful warm tone and comfortable playability. This cello plays and sounds so similar to a fine acoustic cello, that players will find it expressive and comfortable to use, but they will also appreciate being able to practice whenever and wherever they want, thanks to the silent function.
Practice with CDs, connect to an amplifier, or simply play in private without disturbing others through the provided headphones. The Aux In, Line Out and Headphone jacks allow for great versatility. Connect a CD or other musical source, and play along with your favorite recordings! Use the Line Out to connect to a PA system and perform live, or use the headphones for private playing.
Newly designed pickups produce an incredibly natural sound closely resembling that of an acoustic cello. The beautifully finished body is designed to preserve and enhance the warm tonal harmonics, combined with a solid crisp sound that works well using an amplifier and speaker.
The rich full tone is enhanced with a spacious reverb, offering three settings for Large Hall, Medium Hall or Room, to best suit your performance environment.
Features ebony fingerboard and pegs, maple neck and spruce body. Aubert Maple bridge, Wittner Ultra tailpiece, four fine tuners. Includes headphones, cable and soft case. Look for the optional AC adapter (Item # PA3B) under the Yamaha pull-down under accessories.
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NS Design NXT 4-String Electric Violin - 4/4 Size - Sunburst
Instrument: Violin
Level: Advanced
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The NXT violin opens up a new horizon for the serious musician seeking to play a world-class electric violin on a limited budget. These new instruments, crafted in the Czech Republic by the makers of NS Design's renowned CR series, exemplify flawless workmanship at an incredible value.
Light weight and balance are critical factors for any electric violin, and the NXT is one of the lightest and best-balanced performance electrics available. Weighing less than 1.5 pounds, the NXT uses special carving techniques to reduce the weight of the maple body, while preserving extraordinary rigidity and striking good looks. Ultralight tail-mounted tuners allow precise adjustment, easy string changes, and keep the balance point of the instrument close to the shoulder for maximum comfort.
The advanced piezo technology eliminates the need for heavy on-board batteries and circuitry. The self-powered Polar electromechanical transducer has higher output than most active systems. The result is unsurpassed dynamic range, clarity, and sheer power. The dual mode Polar pickup responds to both lateral string vibration for bowing and vertical vibration for pizzicato playing. The resulting sound retains the essential timbre of a fine acoustic violin, but is easily modified - via on-board controls or post-processing - to suit almost any sonic palette.
The NXT is also the first NS violin to incorporate NS Design's innovative JackPot potentiometer in its volume and tone controls. Conventional passive volume and tone controls work by siphoning a portion of the output signal to ground, and continue to hold back a portion of the pickup's signal even when turned up all the way. The JackPot incorporates a rotary switch that can disengage the ground and send 100% of the instrument's signal to the amplifier. The result is a fuller, richer tone, with more power, detail, and overall intensity.
As adaptable as it is powerful, the NXT adjusts easily to any violinist's style. It comes equipped with the NS Custom Shoulder Rest, which can be formed by the player to fit the body perfectly.
"The new SHAR Electric Violin plays like a fiddle, feels like a fiddle, and sounds like a fiddle. You can finally afford to "rock" your string program with an entry-level electric violin. With both a quarter inch and mini (headphone) jack students can use this both as a performance and a practice instrument. This is the perfect instrument to introduce your students to the world of electric strings." - Bob Phillips
Start Playing Electric Violin Where Every Violin Student Starts: SHAR
Have you thought about going electric, but just didn't know how to get started? Do you need an instrument that is affordable yet will perform without problems? With so many confusing websites, have you been afraid of getting burned by those bargain basement electrics that may look inexpensive, but you know that they just won't perform as you need them to? You know that you can trust SHAR for quality affordable acoustic instruments, now SHAR offers you the perfect way to start with Electrics!
We designed and built the SHAR Electric Violin around four core principles that hundreds of violinists told us any good electric violin must meet: It must sound like an acoustic violin, only loud. It has to have professional features, such as a 1/4" output jack. It has to have a silent practice feature. And it has to feel like playing an acoustic violin. Built especially for SHAR, professionally setup in SHAR's own shop, and individually inspected, adjusted and test-played, the SHAR Electric may be just what you have been looking for. Ebony pegs and fingerboard, carbon fiber tailpiece with four fine tuners, proper and professional setup, and fitted with Overture Premium strings, the SHAR Electric Violin will feel familiar right out of the box. Now's your chance to easily stand up next to that trumpet player in church!
The outfit includes a Toshira case, Schmidt bow, rosin, cable, battery, and earphones... add an amp, plug in, and you are all set! Available in four vivid colors: Jet Black, Titanium White, Electric Blue, and Fire Red.
SHAR Electric Violin Outfit
REVIEWED ON: April 11, 2015Very happy with my new Shar electric violin
reviewed by: WALTER CAMPBELL
I just received my Shar electric violin model SEVT. I could not be happier. The ebony fingerboard and pegs looked great. The finish was flawless. Nice thin bridge cut just right. The weight was much lighter than my other electric. Overall, I'm glad that I found out about Shar music and will be back again.
SHAR Electric Violin Outfit
REVIEWED ON: October 06, 2014Wonderful Value. Loads of Fun
reviewed by: Anonymous
I purchased this electric violin after considering an electric purchase for over 1 year. As an acoustic violin player the biggest hold up on a purchase was price. I had been looking at models in the $800-$1,300 range and just couldn't get myself to spend the money for fear that I wouldn't really like an electric violin. This Shar model offered me the ability to try an electric violin without spending a great deal of money. I've only had the violin for 1 week but will do my best to give a helpful review. The first impression fresh out of the box was that of being happy with its visual appearance. I purchased a white model and am very happy with the visual aesthetics. The second impression was equally satisfying when I discovered how easy it is to play. I had very little adjustment to it. The weight and string height make for enjoyable playing. The case is entirely adequate considering the amount of money I paid for the entire outfit. The bow is okay. The ear buds are worthless as they don't even fit in my ears but I wasn't buying this for the ear buds, the bow or even the case. I was buying the instrument. I do not have another electric to compare this to but I do enjoy it and certainly enjoy the sound it produces. I look forward to using this electronic model for playing out at certain venues and here at home when I want to change up the sound a bit. This is a wonderful value and a great way to get your feet wet with an electric instrument. Even my 11 year old wants to play it where as he wasn't too interested in my acoustic violin.
Plug 'n Play 4-string Electric Violin Outfit
REVIEWED ON: July 10, 2014Good but not great
reviewed by: AARON BAKER
I needed an amplified violin for some of our group's performances. Didn't want to modify my violin by adding a pickup. This electric violin seemed priced right for an occasional use. It's bridge is shaped differently from my violin so bow angles are different. Something you need to consider. Also the strings that come on the violin are very poor. The G & D strings buzz very badly which is carried thru the amplifier. I'll have to change the strings before I would use it in a performance. Not sure at this time if I will keep it or return it. Remember you will not get the same sound from this violin as you do from your acoustic violin. In conclusion, you get what you pay for. This violin is half the price of better known electric violins.
SHAR Electric Violin Outfit
REVIEWED ON: May 13, 2014This fiddle is fun!
reviewed by: FRANK DELONG
Seldom have I been so delighted by an online purchase. You will not believe how much fun it is to play this electric violin. This one comes with everything you need except the amplifier (and an inexpensive one is available for a little more money). I plugged mine into my keyboard amp and played around with effects and shapes until the wee small hours.
SHAR Electric Violin Outfit
REVIEWED ON: March 14, 2014Quality for the money and a great starter electric
reviewed by: TOM SMITH
I just bought this violin and have had it for only about 10 days. I am going to play a St. Pat's dinner party (you know what they are like!) and that is the main reason I got it. The quality for the money is unsurpassed. Play around with the bass and treble knobs and hear yourself from a distance and you will be impressed. Finally I can go out and play at parties and taverns and not worry about my very expensive acoustic. If you want an electric, but this one!
SHAR Electric Violin Outfit
REVIEWED ON: February 10, 2014$200 electric violin
reviewed by: Anonymous
I have had my electric violin for a few weeks now. I am very happy with it so far. I purchased this electric violin because I will be traveling a lot and I did not want to bring my expensive acoustic violin with me to practice. This way if the violin gets lost or damaged I won't be as upset because I only spent $200 dollars on it. This is an excellent deal if you are just starting out, or if like me you need a backup violin for traveling or taking it to places where you wouldn't want to take a more expensive instrument. The violin sounds decent, everythings on it works. It is quieter than an acoustic violin but not completely silent. Hopefully I will be able to practice now in the middle of the night without disturbing anyone. It came with a pretty nice case. The bow and the little headphones it came with are low quality but that's not a big deal, you can always upgrade the bow and buy a better pair of headphones later. Overall I am satisfied with this violin.
Plug 'n Play 4-string Electric Violin Outfit
REVIEWED ON: December 11, 2013Good instrument
reviewed by: Anonymous
Great way to get into electric violin.Price was good bought on sale so even better.Really good sound for price,nice to play,bridge is shaped just right string action good. For anyone who wants to try electric this is a good way to begin.I use it with a multi effect pedal so it's even more fun. The only problem is it is a bit heavy but I'm older and have arthritis so it probably won't bother a young player.Great way to have fun would recommend!
NS Design CR Series 4 String Electric Cello - 4/4 size
REVIEWED ON: November 06, 2008Amazing
reviewed by: brian
It looks cool and sounds great. I like being able to go up the fingerboard without restriction.
Wood 5-String Fretless Viper Magenta Burl Top
REVIEWED ON: May 01, 2008Best Designed Electric Violin Out There!
reviewed by: Paul Violin
Between it's revolutionary patented chest-support )which makes the whole violin float painlessly on your shoulder, hands free(, the Barbera transducer pickup )which gives it an amazing tone(, and it's obvious visual factor, Wood Violins' Viper is a must-have for the modern violinist, and is sure to turn heads everywhere.
Wood 5-String Fretless Viper Magenta Burl Top
REVIEWED ON: November 28, 2007Hott!
reviewed by: Jullie Choi
That is the hottest violin I have ever laid my eyes on.