Global warming is real

[Borgia]

@Call_me_Ishmael

for people trying to have a scientific discussion, velocity is a derived unit in the SI system that has dimensions of meters/second.

Hmmm, research engineers discuss velocity in relation to a rate of change outside of solely L/t units. We use it as a shorthand for the first derivative.

[Yakshi]

@Calvin_Reagan

Time to do my quarterly fact check for the far-right here:

NASA Scientific Consensus. Click for link.

Here’s a list of scientific community which agree with the premises that (a) the earth is warming, (b) Humanity is contributing to it, and © we need to take action to curb the problem.

AAAS
ACS (American Chemical Society)
AGU
AMA
American Meteorological Society
American Physical Society
The Geological Society of America
U.S National Academy of Science
U.S Global Change Research Program
Intergovernment Panel on Climate Change
And much more.

The Scientific Surveys

Based on 7 different surveys, they found out that between 91% and 100% of climate scientists believe that global warming is real, mankind is contributing to it, and we need to take action.

Factcheck.org on Republican congressmen trying to debunk scientists and failing

Blockquote
Alabama Rep. Mo Brooks falsely claimed river sediment deposits and rocks falling from cliffs cause sea level rise, later writing that this was “the #1 cause.” Melting ice at the poles and ocean thermal expansion are the dominant causes.
Brooks also said global warming leads to more ice on Antarctica. That’s false. The continent has been losing ice since the beginning of the 21st century.
Texas Rep. Lamar Smith falsely said there’s “no correlation” between sea level rise and carbon emissions. Sea level rise is strongly linked to global warming, which is primarily caused by increased carbon emissions from humans.
Florida Rep. Bill Posey falsely claimed it was “30 degrees warmer when the dinosaurs roamed.” It was never that hot when dinosaurs lived. More importantly, it has never been close to that hot when humans lived.
Posey also claimed the last ice age “was caused by a cataclysmic collision of an asteroid.” That’s false. Ice ages are caused by changes in the Earth’s orbit and related factors.

I could go on. I wish the right-wing would stop with their denialism and simply argue, “No carbon tax. We have a better way to fight climate change through the market place.” Instead, we have a President and the party that wants to bring the Coal Industry back from the dead and put more poison into our atmosphere

Thanks for that post. I’m pretty sure that the denialists just don’t care. They’re too busy asking questions they don’t want the answer to.

[Call_me_Ishmael]

@Borgia_dude_dude

@Call_me_Ishmael

for people trying to have a scientific discussion, velocity is a derived unit in the SI system that has dimensions of meters/second.

Hmmm, research engineers discuss velocity in relation to a rate of change outside of solely L/t units. We use it as a shorthand for the first derivative.

Like I said… it’s an understandable metaphor.

But those who say the units are distance over time are correct …

I use the terms “rate of change”, first derivative, slope, d(whatever)dt, or whatever dot when the dependent variable is something other than distance.

If you are looking for “shorthand” , note that “rate of change” has fewer syllables than “velocity”. And if it is temperature you are referring to, “T dot” has only 2 syllables. And “slope” has only one syllable. So you really have no justification to be so sloppy in your speech as to use the term “velocity” when the units are not distance over time.

[Yakshi]

We are not speaking out loud. We are typing. Velocity takes fewer keystrokes.

Brother, you guys are loony with the tangents today.

[Call_me_Ishmael]

@Yakshi

We are not speaking out loud. We are typing. Velocity takes fewer keystrokes.

Brother, you guys are loony with the tangents today.

Slope takes fewer.

[Call_me_Ishmael]

Yeah… not really into consensus “science”.

[Borgia]

Dude, step outside your perspective. I work with engineers from every country in the world (ok, not every country but it sure seems like it). People use different terms. They speak different languages. They translate things as they see fit. You syllable theory fails when you consider all these things.

[Call_me_Ishmael]

@Borgia_dude_dude

Dude, step outside your perspective. I work with engineers from every country in the world (ok, not every country but it sure seems like it). People use different terms. They speak different languages. They translate things as they see fit. You syllable theory fails when you consider all these things.

Your sloppiness will bite you someday.

[Yakshi]

Science doesn’t care.

[zeitgeist]

@moonshine

global warming is a fact

yes, it is indeed, but you lefties have no useful ideas what to do against
you hysteria cause only just more hot air, accelerating the global warming on that way

[Samm]

@Borgia_dude_dude

@Samm

I challenge you to find one post where I have denied global warming

Let me amend, man induced global warming. If I have been wrong, please enlighten me about your position.

Man has contributed to global warming. There is no evidence that man induced it. The Industrial Age occurred after the planet was coming out of the Little Ice Age and the rate of warming up until the mid 70s was essentially the same as the rate of warming prior to the LIA.

[Samm]

@zantax

Lol, so is water, and oxygen, in sufficient quantities.

Beat me to it.

[Samm]

@ImRightYoureWrong

@Samm

There is no lie there. You don’t get to tell me what I can or cannot post here. That’s not a complaint; that’s a fact.

I can tell you. You can just ignore it what I tell you. Quit complaining.

If I ignore you, I will have complied with your demand that I shut up. That ain’t gunna happen.

[Samm]

@WildRose

It would also mean the elimination of the tens of thousands of other products produced from petroleum including most of our modern technology.

Including components of solar panel enclosures and storage battery cases.

[Samm]

@dantes

Post your analysis that solar can’t replace the energy needed to construct it.

I said “most” not all. Do you know how the minerals required to build solar panels are mined and refined?

[Samm]

@mobulis

@WildRose

You are breathing it every time you draw a breath.

Which doesn’t change the fact that its poisonous.

Then why aren’t we all dead?

You clearly don’t know the difference between “toxic” and “poisonous.” Even Oxygen is toxic to humans. Try living without it.

By the way your exhaled breath is about 4% CO2 … 100 times greater than in the atmosphere. Don’t hold your breath, it might kill you.

[Samm]

@dantes

I’ll reiterate since you probably didn’t see this the first time.

There’s nothing about velocity that requires the rate of change to be referencing distance. Any continuous variable is fine. Increase is definitely a direction. Vectors can exist in a one dimensional scale which is what we are talking about.

You are wrong. Velocity is change in position over time. Temperature, no matter that we quantify it on a scale and assign “up” and “down” to changes on that scale, does not have a position to change.

Are we done with this yet?

[Samm]

@dantes

Yep. If that line happens to be a temperature scale then the term is perfectly adequate.

No it’s not. The numerical value of temperature on a thermometer is NOT a posisition, it is a nomenclature to qntify the magnitude of heat.

[Samm]

@Borgia_dude_dude

Have no idea why they are hung up on this. Velocity is a rate of change.

Not quite … the rate of change of position. People have a position; cars have a position; planes have a position; sound waves have a position, photons have a position. Temperature does not have a position.

If anybody is hung up it’s you guys. Just use “rate of temperature change (or increase, if you prefer)” and move on.

[Physics_Hunter]

History.

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