I want to know how many of you are going to use 'shit-tons' as part of your conversations now :D
On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 2:07 PM, Gruss Gott <[email protected]> wrote: > > > RoMunn wrote: > > > > What do you think would happen if the sun provided the earth with 2% more > or > > less total radiation than it does today? The planet would be a furnace or > a > > ball of ice, and there is absolutely nothing we could do about it. > > > > The thing I find surprising is that someone would be so bold as to try > to predict something like this. > > The correct answer is Scotts: we don't know, we need to know more, if > we're going to spend money on something it should be that, but it > needs to be well throught through. > > Statistically, the question is are we in "common cause" temperature > variation or "special cause" variation. The unfortunate part of this > type of analysis is that you typically don't know you're in > special-cause until things break. > > The financial crisis is a great example of this. Leverage and swaps > were rising exponentially but the Bush administration amongst most > others poo-pooed the idea that anything was wrong until the shit hit > the fan. > > In this case we simply cannot afford to wait. > > Thus we need to begin extensive research immediately on the order of, > say, $100 billion. > > If what Ian says is true, we have some pretty good evidence we're in > special-cause which means the entire globe better start spending > shit-tons of money. > > But let's confirm that. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:294013 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
