As a professional statistician and CRA, this article contains nothing about their models. There is no information that can be used to determine if they are 'scientific' or absolute junk. All we have to go on is their own statement that the models are biased, the data is incomplete, and that the conclusions are…

Read the article, and you'll see that the use of 'statistics' is this particular study is the equivalent of a juicy fart. They themselves admit, "the models we use are subject to bias", and "data records are too short to quantify absolute probabilities empirically" and "we cannot say that the 2011 Texas drought and…

Repair what damage, specifically? What evidence is there that there is any need - immediate or long term - to relocate "millions of people"? What farmland has become unusable? What proof is there that reducing CO2 emissions - even to zero - would either prevent or substantively alter such events as you are…

Please define "too late". I hear this kind of apocalyptic language in the climate debate, and I am not yet satisfied in regards to what it means. Planet earth has survived periods of time where it had far higher temperatures, and far greater amounts of atmospheric carbon dioxide. Too late for what? I'm all for…

I know for a lot of people, the environmental 'cause' is more a matter of faith than anything else, and that what science is hung on it does not need to be particularly ethical or compelling to be used as support. But this kind of research is just sloppy. For science to be "science", the research must be random,…

Nothing new here. Being underweight (in the true sense) has always been far more dangerous and threatening to the human system than being overweight. It means you are generally malnourished, have lowered immune function, lower muscle mass, disrupted hormone regulation, inhibited nutrient absorbtion, and a host of…

Sigh. "Significant energy" to make potable water? The normal, common, everyday, UNSTOPPABLE natural process makes billions of gallons of potable water every day. Evaporation & condensation = potable water. I'm all for smart use of resources, but to imply that the manufacturing process is somehow a "waste" of…

Exactly. Get over it, furturist. The entire so-called "controversy" was over Embryonic stem cells, which are absolutely useless. All of the valid, important, and USEFUL research being done with stem cells are with ADULT stem cells... Not embryonic. But a bunch of morons in the debate screamed and whined and…

Should say, "Fugly glasses look like they are made out of coat hangers and old office supplies." Seriously these things are about the ugliest pieces of crap I've ever seen anyone propose that you put on your face - and I lived through the 1970s and 1980s when eyewear looked like the optometrist was trying to make you…

I think this "article" (snort) is the very definition of an ad-absurdum argument. It ignores all the positives of modern meat processing, and exaggerates every negative to such a ridiculous degree that it belongs on the same level of propoganda-based pontification as Global Warming and any political ad you've ever…

Seconded. Turn that map 100% blue and that will be enough climate change. As long as the Mythbusters move to another city then I can't think of anything anyone would miss.

Here is the internal view of the only possible space this structure has for bedrooms...

'Several bedrooms'... Where? There is barely enough room in the back past the kitchen area for one very small bedroom and one bathroom. And the shed/closet thing is butted on the OUTSIDE of the structure and is way too small to be a bedroom/bathroom. It's either some sort of storage shed, or its holding the power…

This isn't a house. This is just a long ROOM with a lot of windows. There doesn't seem to be a bedroom or a bathroom. That shed/closet thing in the back must be where the converter, inverter, and all the batteries are stored. Where does he sleep, urinate, deficate, and store all his clothes and stuff?

Seems more like it is some of you guys that have the wadded up panties. All I did was list how this was illogical and pointless. I don't hold Obama's gaffes against him any more than I held Bush's against him. Gaffes happen. That's why seeing a whole article on Gizmodo about a comparatively unfunny, simple typo…

Every time Obama screws up about a million hipster doofuses explode like fungi out of the ground and try to show how it isn't REALLY an Obama screw up, but simply that people "didn't understand him properly". Whatever. He screwed up. It wasn't sloppy. It wasn't shorthand. It was a mistake. Just swallow your…

Same reason all the Trog-Lib-Dytes are all butthurt over every Obama gaffe. Of course if a "neocon" (pht) brings up something, you "dont' see how this is relevant". However, when a neolib brings up a conservative mistake then other neolibs will go to great lengths to say how "important" it is. Double standards and…

Then you should be scared by Obama, or any other human being that comes down the pike. Obama is a gaffe machine. Biden is like the living, breathing ebodiment of the God Of All Gaffes. And yet they're running the country. If this really something that you think is an issue important enough to decide how you vote,…

1. I very much doubt that Mitt Romney personally programmed and released this app. The screw-up is the fault of some careless editor and/or programmer who had a brainfart.

No - a 42 ounce drink is not the norm when you go to any restaurant in the United States. Typically a fast food restaurant will sell what we call a 'combo' which includes a sandwish, french fries, and a drink. When you order a combo, the cashier will usually ask "What size would you like?" At that point you request…