Re: John Snow show, I was hoping for a "prequel?" slice of time, expanded? More cave with hot spring?
The panic reaction to any automated driving aid is not new. When basic speed holding cruise control came out people complained it would lead to people falling asleep at the wheel, driving off the road at speed and dying. That does happen.
Heck, tire pressure sensors CAN mean you neglect to bother to check, manually, relying on the car's computer, and you get away with that most of the time. A low tire pressure crash is unlikely to get a lot of media attention, since the causal factors get lost in the mess.
I've spent a Lot of time reading & thinking about, pilot/driver safety, and the common factor in crashes is a cascade of events based on one poor choice.
I'm Awarrrre that I have a limited computational/observational capacity. So I use the ( old or new ) cruise control to relieve me of the need to constantly monitor speed, and devote my limited intellect more to collision avoidance and situational awareness.
Plus the idea that I should get fewer speeding tickets by mistake, if I let my speed creep up without thinking.
Every distraction or additional task lowers the available mental capacity to react. This is really obvious when you are learning to drive, and have to think about the muscle action to accomplish every task. As you self automate steering and other functions, you get theoretically safer, as more attention can be devoted to collision avoidance and navigation, and, and,...
Bottom line is you are correct... Still, no excuse. Cover the brake and stay off your damn phone.
I am appalled. This camera, using AI, strips the subject of basic human dignity. Imagine the gall of the developers. They have programmed an AI to ASSUME SOMEONE's GENDER!
Everything Microsoft for years has been broken by the earliest versions where programmers took advantage of bad writing/errors in Windows to accomplish what the OS wouldn't do. So Microsoft couldn't fix the original problems without infuriating the biggest paying customers. Some of that lousy code persists to this day. ( one of the programs exploiting the errors is Office/Excel, btw )
Browsers have the same problem. Old code has to be supported.
Browsers have to deal with web site design software written by multiple idiots, and a few geniuses. ( Most browsers, by far, today, are altered copies of Mozilla ) The one I'm using right now is Silk. Which offloads the need for memory and power to the servers, breaking each page into chunks it assembles for display. It has serious problems with lots of pages.
Oddly, I can type- post my own apostrophes. It's not a problem. But I have to edit/cull them to cut & paste a sentence.
My Opinion is a lot of it is Google. By layering censor and spy code, the "evil pays" company has forced web page design software to compromise brevity and clarity to get through the Chinese government & EU mandated spyware. But I could be wrong.
Well, they finally dropped support for activex. Even ms has hopped on board with an html5 only browser (edge is built on the same code base as chrome - chromium).
If, I repeat, If, we've exceeded the saturation point of CO2 to increase greenhouse effect, ( not certain, heresy to test ) then burning all the cities and people would just cause cooling from smoke particulate, just as volcanoes do.
But it's solid that temperatures rise and CO2 is released from the seas, In That Order, with verified, Cause And Effect. Truth is Blasphemy.
Basically the entire Global Warming Cult is a violation of the First Amendment, tithing us for someone else's religion.
Argue religion vs. cult? I await a better definition than "Agree/believe one is legit and the other isn't" since every new religion is therefore a cult, including the followers of Christ and Mohammed.
Mohammed's creed is that His is the Last Word of god and everything since is an evil cult.
Which resonates with, for example, Facebook buying or destroying all competition for it's income and your attention.
That Global Warming is a religion, or cult, is basic, revealed deeper truth of the reality than everyone else. Prophets, heretics, demonic ( demonized ) enemies.
We will never reach saturation with co2, even with a 100% co2 atmosphere. But we are already effectively at 100% saturation. The curve never ends.
Combined with water vapor, which overlaps co2 in the absorption spectrum, there is simply no more energy available for absorption in any meaningful sense.
By saturation, I mean 100% of the infrared radiation from the Earth is reflected back in the frequencies ( a very narrow hand ) affected by CO2.
I'M NOT Certain that it's true we reached that limit, ( 1970s? I need to read that paper ) beyond which more CO2 makes no difference.
But I do know from the Vostok ice core results and pretty solid research, that when the seas warmed, naturally, they dump CO2 into the air. In that order.
~ By saturation, I mean 100% of the infrared radiation from the Earth is reflected back in the frequencies ( a very narrow hand ) affected by CO2.
Yes. We are effectively there. It will never be 100%. The curve gets really close, on out to infinity, but never hits 100. Think calculus and limits.
And do not forget that co2 and water vapor overlap. We are likely at max absorption in their frequency regardless of co2 concentration. Hence the complete disconnect between global temperatures and co2 concentrations in the historical record.
Hence the complete disconnect between global temperatures and co2 concentrations in the historical record.
I get your point on !00%.
The Historical record is to be fair, a bit coarse, The Vostok Ice core data is over long periods of time and from centuries ago. You don't get the daily or yearly numbers accurately. But the long term is fairly clear, and the coarse time scale is actually pretty clear on Cause & Effect.
Earth on average warms, Seas Warm, THEN CO2 rises. Very Clear, millennia after millennia.
Completely Understood Physics, just slowly open cold & warm bottles of soda pop and see which has more gas pressure, then see which goes flat faster. ( you can go by memory, if you like, and just drink it cold. )