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Justin, love the show, miss KiKi and am looking forward to her return to TWIS. Alright, the difference between a forward slash and a backslash is easy….and as a C# (c-sharp) .NET developer, this is one of my pet peeves that drives me batty. Imagine a pipe on end, like a cola can on a table. If you push the top in the same direction you read (left to right), you get a forward slash. The slash is leaning forwards. If you push the top in the opposite direction that we read, it’s the backslash. This tidbit will stay with you forever.
Your geeky minion in Omaha,
-Corby-
Global temperatures from Precambrian time to now, look it up
And find out why climate change is called climate change
And why anthropogenic climate change is called anthropogenic climate change
Have fun 😉
Sorry, but your guest host failed so hard in your global warming discussion. The assertion that “orders of magnitude more people die of the cold than the heat” is not true. In the US alone about seven hundred people die every year of hypothermia. In that same year, close to 900 people will die of hyperthermia. The human body can survive a much wider temperature swing down than it can up, because we are warm blooded animals. The rest of his comments tended toward “Hey, we’re not sure whats causing it” to “Hey, we can’t stop it” and then back toward “Hey, we’re not sure whats causing it” again. The statement that we will be having “this debate for the next 50 years” is frightening, since all the evidence – all of it – points not only toward global warming, not only toward man induced global warming, but to accelerating man induced global warming, and the longer we drag our heels, the exponentially worse this will get before the planet can reclaim all this carbon.
Good point, David!
It’s important to remember that uncomfortable weather is the least deleterious effect of anthropogenic greenhouse warming.
Severe drought, profound flooding, increased storm energy/frequency, and damage to sensitive agricultural ecosystems (bees, etc.) are more worrisome consequences of a quickly warming planet…