naked capitalism

Viator says:

“There’s some blogospheric carping about his statement in the JPL press release below regarding Greenland’s ice sheets:“… their cumulative loss could raise sea level by 15 centimeters (5.9 inches) by 2050.”

Well sure, it could be, but as this recent surprise study from GISS’s neighbors at Columbia illustrates, even though we’ve had the GRACE (Gravity Recovery And Climate Experiment) satellite looking at Antarctica, and concluding there’s been ice mass loss there, we have this new study that shows ice being added from underneath due to meltwater refreeze, concluding the models to be wrong.

It goes to demonstrate that we really don’t understand ice sheet mechanics well enough yet to make accurate forecasts, though some people think we can.

Add to that, GRACE has it’s own set of problems. And at least one model conlcusion has been revised post facto because the melt data is overestimated:

The melting of the ice sheets of Greenland and West Antarctica is about twice as slow as previously thought. The study, conducted by TU Delft, SRON and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The scientists published their findings in the September issue of Nature Geoscience.

We have concluded that the Greenland and West Antarctica ice caps are melting at approximately half the speed originally predicted.’ The average rise in sea levels as a result of the melting ice caps is also lower.

In fact, errors from GRACE may be quite large. So take this new release from JPL and the squawking about the forecasted sea level rise with a grain of salt.”

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/03/10/why-im-not-worried-about-greenlands-icecap/#more-35671

“The smaller trend of the recent half of the record is statistically different from the larger trend of the first half. Will this reduction continue into the future? Who knows? I’m just talking about the past, and pointing out that we sure haven’t seen any sign of the threatened acceleration in the satellite record. Quite the opposite, in fact.

We now return you to your regularly scheduled warnings of global inundation from accelerating sea level rise”

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/01/08/putting-the-brakes-on-acceleration/

Dirk77 says:

Re Twitter/WIkileaks: “Obama told reporters he had inquired about the treatment of prisoners at Kolyma and that the KGB assured him it was ‘appropriate.’”

lambert strether says:

Obama’s behavior is not “craven.” He’s doing what he believes in. We get conservative outcomes from Obama because that’s what he is: A conservative.

kevinearick says:

Intimacy: Conditioning the Proton

The universe is not going to sacrifice a solar system to accommodate a human virus driven by consumption. Those asteroids feed the sun, which is a variable black hole.

So, the feds “created” $250 billion in February, which they are willing to admit. Between all corporate units in the nexus – private, public, nonprofit, and church, they are going to add $10 trillion NPV in phantom computer money this year to pretend that the American enterprise system remains viable, on the assumption of continued viral consumption demographics.

The adaptive capability of children determines confidence in the future, the NPV multiplier of present income that values wealth and connects the human circuit to the environmental circuit. With no effective examples of change, the reptiles simply short circuit into replication.

A 5-yr-old can see the difference between what they say and what they do, but they can’t, because they can only act impulsively within the groupthink track, with no connection to higher brain functions. They read books that are compilations of books, which are compilations of groupthink, the black hole.

The economic profit-makers are not going backwards; they never do. To tow the legacy system forward, they must mate, become quantumly entangled, with the external proton cleats. The formerly neutral middle class capacitor / substrate is removed and the electron pulls the proton through the looking glass from different tracks, until the proton can act as an electron temporarily, and vice versa. As the example is followed, the energy of catalysis is reached and a new neutral capacitor crystal forms.

Generally, the American population is largely a bunch w****s, but which population isn’t. There is no point in arguing over the spilt milk; that behavior is a function of History. For the proton, love is simply a behavior that gets it from point A to point B, and point B becomes the next point A, in a circle. It has no idea why the circle grows (monogamy) or contracts (substitution).

The problem is that the proton seeks “attention” only from those in the inner core, which uses it to attract additional electrons and then throws it away, creating the efficient exploitation feedback loop, which was replicated from previous generations that knew no better themselves. No one is responsible; it just is, quantum physics.

The capacitor crystal set is neutral in conjunction with electron behavior and the dc tracks cannot know who the enterprise architects are, so, the instant voltage appears in the neutral line, there is trouble. Do not short across the delay mechanism and expect the economy to function. Attempting to fix symptoms in time is a waste; they are sunk costs. A change of heart is required, which requires a spiritual awakening.

It’s about breeding rights; it’s always about breeding rights, which balance group consumption with individual investment, resulting from contrived and real anxiety. Do you want nature doing the job or do want the religious fanatics doing the job? Do you want the $1 million/unit cost of masons, or do you want the $100k/unit cost of independent workers brought back into the system?

The job will cost $2 trillion and the dissolution of Family Law. Prove me wrong. The enterprise architects could care less who survives and who does not; there is no shortage of black holes. 2 + 2 = 4 is a probability distribution.