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So again, I ask, when are you going to figure out a hypothetical set of observations that you would accept as “observational evidence”?

The Earf Bond albedo is even more complex, due to the angular dispersion of reflected sunlight. Earf does not reflect, isotropically. A small fleet of orbiters, simultaneously monitoring the albedo, is necessary to accuratly measure the reflection of sunlight from clouds and the surface.

Well, Luke, I agree that the position you’re voicing is indeed simple. You’ll pardon me for saying that to all intents and purposes it appears as doctrinaire and closed-minded as the most fundamentalist religious zealot. And here’s the danger: by mocking those you describe as childish, those who see value in texts you judge as poorly written, those whose views you distort as magical thinking, you risk sliding down the slippery slope (as history shows) that would throw such human beings into the same “recycling bin” to which you would consign their texts and views in order to “start over” with new and improved people. Dogmatism, whether inspired by blind faith in religion or other human endeavors, tends to destroy, not create, imho. Not a future I’d want, nor consistent with the Trek vision, as PJays, Vulcan Soul, and others have remarked. Thanks.

Feldman 2015 also uses CarbonTracker – a model that I would probably approve of, since it blends lots of observations …

You seem to be getting awfully frustrated, Cherry Picker Again, the key is that major portion of the downwelling IR is covered by the AERI instrument and, most importantly, the vibrational interactions are covered for the greenhouse gases. The primary contributor in the far infrared is the rotational interaction with water. So the AERI instrument, its use by Feldman et al, and the conclusions Feldman et al are valid: for CO2 and methane, their downwelling emission has increased as humans have increased their concentrations – that is the greenhouse effect and the warming of earth’s climate have increased – we have a direct link between the greenhouse gases and AGW

I like the episode a lot. I though more about the Metrons then the Telosian. Both do like to make test their subjects. Can’t wait to see the Klingons comes into play.

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I stopped to do pushups to get a rush of blood into my fingers. As I stood up panting, I saw waves of heat shimmering off the tundra, and my jaw muscles chewed a granola bar like they had forgotten how. The thermometer on the bike reported it was around 37 degrees. Eventually the grass gave way to brittle, ivory emptiness. The road surface was coarse but still largely perfect. It is straight and flat and drifts into the horizon with a glassy mirage, an irony of a hot desert. There was fog and overcast clouds, and the road merged with the sky in an ­eerie, hypnotic way. Markers along the roadside—presumably to mark the road for snow when the drifts are many feet high—made it feel like a runway to the unknown.

Anyone who wondered if pop stars had lost their ability to excite, to surprise, to unnerve with their music videos had to feel the "We Found Love" clip like a bolt of lightning to the chest. Melina Matsoukas’ dizzying visual for Rihanna’s career-recalibrating smash Calvin Harris collab was a tale of a toxic relationship starring RiRi and a pouty, peroxide-blond gentleman who looks a lot like oh-take-a-guess, edited like a light-speed four-minute relationship montage that recreates the shock all music videos must’ve delivered to fans of classic Hollywood back in ’81. Like Trainspotting, what makes "We Found Love" really frightening is how palpably electric the highs are, enough to make it plausible that its star would do what it took to feed her addiction initially. But that doesn’t mean you don’t still breathe a sigh of relief when she decides to choose life at the end instead. – A.U.

The line didn’t say “aliens are gods,” it said “beings we may meet that seem like gods might indeed just be sufficiently advanced aliens.”

I thought that Connolly looked like “Enterprise Geologist” played by Ed Madden in The Cage – I wondered if this was on purpose. It would have been a nice bit of continuity if so.