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The answer of course is to just visit them at night, problem solved!
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Heat is manifested as random movement of atoms...vacuum is the absence of such atoms, so it has no heat. Objects in space can be heated by the Sun, though (the random movement of the atoms of the object can increase due to radiation heat transfer). So, you could freeze in the shadows, and boil in the light of the sun (and, your boiling point is lower in a vacuum, since boiling point is a factor of pressure, volume and temperature, and your pressure is essentially zero in space.
Did you know that there is no such thing as cold? There is only absence of heat. The absence of all heat is absolute zero...a temperature below which there is no colder temperature, because no more heat can be lost.
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I believe this to be true given my training. But, I welcome correction from others.
(If you are setting me up for a political point, I am prepared to be very impressed.)
Seeing you feel the need to have been set up - with all your semesters in a science environment and after all the science texts you must have read and believed in, why do you not believe that man has an enormous influence in Climate Change and the disasters it spawns.?
Luke warmism is the belief that the earth has been warming, but not dangerously so. In fact, global warming has been the single best thing to happen to humanity in the past 18,000 years.
I believe science demonstrates the following:
1) The earth has been warming since the end of the last ice age. We are in the middle of the Holocene Interglacial Period, which means that since the last ice age, the earth has been warming greatly on its own behalf...well before man started contributing.
2) The USGS states that sea levels have risen 410 feet since the last glacial maximum...again, the sea levels began rising well before homo sapiens started contributing in any meaningful way.
3) I'm sure man is contributing more now than man did in the past (when the warming began).
4) The global temperature cycle is cycles superimposed on cycles. The overall trend is warmer (which is what has allowed man to become the dominant species), but there are times when some downward temperature factors superimpose over one another, and you get short term drops in the overall warming cycle. We had a "Little Ice Age" a while back...google it. There may be periods where the Earth does not warm as much, but that doesn't mean the world isn't still warming. However, we seem to be near the mid point of the Holocene Interglacial Period, so in the next few thousand years, temperatures may begin to drop significantly.
There is a scientific consensus on all of the above.
I don't believe that there is a scientific consensus on the following:
a) Mankind's contribution to natural warming is likely to put us over the top, and prevent the next Ice Age. (This is a hypothesis, but it has not been proven by any means. This hypothesis predicts a stark departure from history, so the standard to accept it must be higher. History indicates the Earth will cool in the next few thousand years.)
b) Mankind's contribution to natural warming must be stopped in ways that redistribute wealth among nations in ways that match anti-colonial political movement. (This is a political view, not a scientific view.)
c) The US must enact measures in the next 5 years, or the world will end as we know it. (This alarmism is not justified, and is not a consensus among scientists.)
d) The US cannot wait to act until it is in a better financial position (less debt) to act. (Not a consensus.)
e) The world cannot wait to see what the effect is of running out of fossil fuels. (Not a consensus.)
even though the vast majority of science claims man has a strong influence in CC. Yet, you claim to be a science guy of a sort. How is it you're so sure space can't be heated?
But lets say you don't care one way or the other on CC.
Would it be so terrible to make our planet (our home - because there is no other for us) a more livable place?
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My goodness - Even Hank doesn't say stupid things like that.
Oh, my bad, he does and it's all the time. You're catching up it appears.
It's time to consider Stupid as part of your DNA.
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There is no consensus yet on the most fearful things. The most fearful things are used as levers to promote political change, but there is no consensus on the solutions to our problems. That consensus may grow, so we should keep an open mind.
I do believe man has a strong influence, but I think things like over fishing and pollution are far more immediate problems, and solutions to those problems should be vigorously pursued.
I think we should make our planet a more livable place. I just don't think the benefits of the solutions proposed by climate alarmists will be worth the public costs...but I do know that those solutions will line the pockets of donors and lobbyists.
Warming has been the single best thing to happen to humanity in the past 18,000 years. There is no consensus that that will change, but there are strongly political hypotheses on that. In reality, the next ice age (if we don't succeed in keeping the world warm enough), will be far more dangerous to humanity than getting a bit warmer. Getting warmer may not be great (we can talk about that), but we are about to get colder if the temperature records are accurate, and that would be far worse than what the climate alarmists are predicting for global warming.
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Regarding space not being heated: There is clear consensus on that. Space can't be heated because space is just empty volume. Think about the Thermos bottles people use to keep coffee warm. Thermos bottles work because there is a vacuum between most of the inside and the outside. Heat cannot cross by conduction from the coffee to the outside because there is a vacuum inbetween...there is nothing to conduct the heat...the heat has to gradually escape via conduction through the parts of the lid where there is no vaccum, from atom to atom, molecule to molecule.
(Note: Radiation is a different issue...that is how the Sun warms the Earth...actually, the Earth warms itself by catching and absorbing the Sun's radiation. If the Earth isn't there to absorb, then the radiation continues through space and nothing is warmed.)
like you. but lets just say, the vast majority of scientists are on board with man influencing climate.
Right, livable when you see all that man does to pollute, overrun the planet no alarms - just, we could do better.
And the hypothetical you endorse - our actions as humans are actually staving off the next ice-age - great science there.
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Everyone who has ever taken a science class in public school (at least back in the day) knows the theory of why space isn't hot.
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And just a note, if you're going with that hypothetical on the Ice-Age - you must be in belief, man influences climate enough to alter the earth's climate patterns now and in the future.
They do support the items I listed as being consensus items, which is why I am a luke-warmist.
The consensus disappears when you move from observations to political solutions. You guys just pretend that the consensus extends to your political views. It does not.
Natural warming has been responsible for most (on the order of 99%) of the earth's warming in the past 18,000 years. If man contributes (and I believe he does), he has contributed very late in the process.
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There is no 98% consensus for climate change policies, only for the most basic concepts of global warming that I noted above. You guys are trying to say that science has endorsed your policies when it has not done so. You've been duped by your own side. They've mislead you, and you repeat their lies.
refute anything he says other than to say CC scientists believe man is impacting temperature. Great come back.
And yes, I believe man can and should change much to lessen the CC problems.
For yourself - Some day if you dare or should go to the country or the middle of the ocean - say a cruise to the Caribbean - note the color of the sky at dawn or sunset and see the dense layers of smog that sit in the air for as far as the eye can see. You'll know it's there because of the odd rust/brown color in the reds and oranges the sun creates in our atmosphere. Note, that's what covers the earth and it's not because of a volcanic eruption somewhere. And if you don't believe man can influence global climate after that, well, figure it out.
The Caribbean? Go to Taipei or any city in China if you want to see SMOG. Going for a short walk there is worse than smoking a pack of cigarettes. I've had pretty significant reactions there...I usually try to just stay in my hotel when I'm in those places. There is nothing like that in in the US. Nothing. We are way ahead when it comes to taking care of the environment. Tokyo used to be that way, but it is great now--very clean. Seoul is half-way there. China and Taiwan are the big offenders.
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I can't believe this was an actual serious question.
Everyone knows a Sun is the center of a planetary system and a Stars do not have planets orbiting them.
Though technically the same - they are identified definitely
How many golden retrievers and dogs are in the park today?
"Though technically the same - they are identified definitely"
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