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dab
| | #1 posted November 9, 2009 at 9:00pm (EST) |
Check if you have a fever. |
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dab
| | #2 posted November 9, 2009 at 3:31pm (EST) |
I think no one really knows because no one has yet read the bill, including all the people who voted for it. Assuming it passed the Senate and is signed by the President and becomes a law, I think it'll be years before all the ramifications are figured out. No doubt several court cases will be required as well. Nothing that complex is understood quickly or easily. |
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dab
| | #3 posted November 6, 2009 at 9:04am (EST) |
The best thing is that the latest story is that the LHC was taken down by a bird dropping a baguette on it. Obviously a bird from the future. |
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dab
| | #4 posted November 4, 2009 at 10:54pm (EST) |
Sounds like it'd be more fun to try to convince your audience that you believe the opposite of what you do on whatever issue you choose.
Government response to global warming
Drug legalization (that could get you a "warm" reception at school)
Gay marriage (might run into religion)
How Democrats and Republicans are virtually indistinguishable (is my bias showing?)
Prison overcrowding
Infrastructure neglect deterioration
Plight of the family farmer
How the US ignores the Caribbean nations |
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dab
| | #5 posted November 2, 2009 at 7:52am (EST) |
In college we had an alternative to thermodynamics and I took it. And I'm embarrassed that I don't really remember enough from high school chemistry to even remember what enthalpy means. Something like the reciprocal of entropy? Or was that Gibbs Free Energy? |
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dab
| | #6 posted October 31, 2009 at 7:51pm (EST) |
Iseult wrote:
> General trends are that the Earth is warming up
Depends on what time-scale you consider. Over the past 40 years, the Earth appears to be warming up. Over the past ten years, cooling off. If you look at the entire 4.5 billion year history of the planet, it's definitely cooling off. | dab
| | #7 posted October 30, 2009 at 9:04am (EST) |
There are two problems with changing the name to "global climate change". One is that it suggests that the Earth isn't warming any more so you're suddenly looking for a new name so the movement doesn't look too stupid. The other is that most people know the climate is always changing so saying "climate change" is equivalent to saying everything is normal again. |
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dab
| | #8 posted October 15, 2009 at 11:03pm (EST) |
Biggles' answer would be what I'd think of as the "normal" approach, two equations in two unknowns. However, I don't recall learning that sort of thing until at least algebra (8th grade) or probably algebra 2 (10th grade). LindaH's approach is probably what they were expecting the kids to do. |
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