Recent content by Pikachu

I don’t eat weird things. I have drunken urine, though. Does that count? If anybody wonders why I drank urine, the answer is simple. I always wondered how piss really tastes. Now I know.

The real reason for public tax lists is of course that it is good entertainment. When there is a conflict between fun and privacy, fun always wins :) Public tax lists are fun, so we have to keep them public. But you don’t find Chuck Norris, he finds you :p...

That wouldn’t work. This would reduce the living costs, and your income would be reduced accordingly. Would you do this for the rest of your life, or only for a limited time period? Don’t you think you would get tired of travelling after some years? Yes, that’s what I am asking. That and...

Imagine that for some insane reason your income was totally disconnected from what you do. Your income would be calculated based on your current expected income if you had made good career choices. It would also be adjusted for living costs, so moving to a developing country would not help. Your...

In these times with increased threats of terrorism, it only makes sense to let more people carry guns, especially at known terrorist targets like airplanes. It is no coincidence that airplanes are favourite terrorist targets. It is obviously because they know that none of the law abiding people...

Wow, here you admit that your secret motive is to disprove global warming alarmists :p If you try to prove that climate change could happen faster than never, you cannot use assumptions that are in favour of faster climate change. Then you must use assumptions that are in favour of slower...

Your assumption that nothing is absorbed defeats that purpose. With this assumption human emissions would obviously eventually add up to any finite number as long as the human emissions stay above zero. You are basically assuming that human emissions eventually will match the natural levels, but...

You posted some numbers, but they don’t appear to add up to anything near the range you specified, so you have not explained it well enough. Scientific proof requires repeatability. Other posters should be able to repeat your calculations and get the same answer as you. If that cannot be done...

You didn’t actually prove it. To prove something you have to show how you arrived at your conclusion. Please show us how you estimated the time to be between 1000 and 10000 years.

Interesting calculations. I checked your numbers, but ended up at a quite different answer. According to your numbers you should get something around 300 years: Current CO2 mass in atmosphere: 5e18 kg * 0.04% = 2e15 kg Human emissions per year: 1e3 kg/y * 6e9 people = 6e12 kg/y Years to...

So what? Schneider was probably quite right on his climate research in 1971. He wrote that if human aerosol pollution would increase 6 to 8-fold we could trigger a new ice age. You must not forget the big “if” there. That also implies that if human aerosol pollution should not dramatically...

You need to start appreciating boredom. Boring is a good trait. It comes with stuff like predictable, dependable, loyal, serious, careful, nice, familiar, safe, relaxing and responsible. It is good to have boring friends. Boring friends are the best friends to have around when you really need...

How do you find anything resembling a consensus statement in this? “Some scientists suspected…” is not a consensus statement. The word “some” rather suggests that this was a minority view. Also, scientists are usually open about the uncertainties in their work...

What? Isn't the Oslo Fjord there anymore? What happened?

You sit on your balls? Auch!