“Earth Day is this Saturday, and in celebration Apple is launching the latest Apple Watch Challenge,” Christian de Looper reports for Digital Trends. “As a part of the event, Apple Watch owners are challenged to get their butts outside and completely 30 minutes of exercise — after which they’ll unlock a slew of new iMessage stickers and special achievements.”
Apple’s challenge to Apple Watch users:
Get outside and celebrate Earth Day on April 22 and earn this award. Go for a walk, run, cycle, wheelchair, or swim workout of 30 minutes or more in the Workout app or any third-party app that writes these workouts to Health. You will also earn special stickers for Messages.
“Apple has long made an effort to be among the more climate-conscious tech companies,” de Looper reports. “And in terms of helping its own customers to pursue a healthy lifestyle, hopefully Apple’s latest Apple Watch challenge will be enough to get you outside for at least 30 minutes.
That’s great, that product doesn’t contain aluminum so no mind rot, and all consumer and most other aerosol products made or sold in your country now use propellants that do not deplete the ozone layer.
Just like the stock market, one can tell any story they want with data, by changing the increment of measure.
Personally, I don’t think Trump is religious about global warming. His position is based upon the business perspective that meeting the Paris Agreement will cost businesses in developed countries a lot of money. Since Trump is biz-friendly, he’s opposed. Given he has lots of property along the oceans, you’d think he’d support global warming initiatives, just for selfish reasons.
I’m indifferent, because the Paris Agreement won’t solve the problem of global warming, it’ll only delay the inevitable. Ultimately, we need an engineered solution. The sooner a global crisis, the sooner we’ll get global support for a real solution, and not just a bandaid.
What of course is most bothering is the tremendous progress we’ve made and are making in renewable energy collection and storage. Then the dumbasses vote in the stupid game players who demand to make further money off carbon fuels, with NO interest in personal responsibility or the consequences.
This is the humanity of the USA pulling a FACEPLANT.
I’d rather see my country LEADing instead of FAILing.
~ ~ ~ ~
Side issues:
– The economic COST of the Greenhouse Gas Effects are astronomically higher than solving it. But as per usual with we dim ‘sapiens’, short-term thinking wins over long-term thinking. Oops.
– Statistics can actually make reliable predictions from adequate data, if stringent statistical procedures are used. But, it’s more common for the data to be inadequate and the procedures used to be questionable.
– Then there’s propaganda, which has no relationship to facts. It’s made entirely of the bullshit currently called ‘alternate facts’. When dealing with propaganda, consider who/what benefits from the bullshit and who/what suffers as a result of it. That’s what tells the real story.
– Meanwhile, always keep an eye out for scapegoats. When a culture turns to using scapegoats as the source of current problems, you KNOW there’s totalitarianism afoot. Scapegoats are only smoke blown in our eyes.
“Derek, you’re not like a scientist, you’re more like a game show host.”
This chart is naive and misleading to anyone with basic numeracy. And stupid to anyone with a basic understanding of science. The assertion you are trying to make is based on fallacious reasoning.
Misleading data. The X-axis is labelled as “million years before the present” but the numbers are not presented on a scale: they are numbers on a line without showing relative distances between them. Eg, if 1 “million years before the present” is represented by 1/4″, then the left-most point on the X-axis should be 8 feet to the left. This point represents the earth’s age: 4.6 billion years, shown on the chart as “4600” “million years before the present”. (The chartist does get a brownie point for knowing the age of the earth.)
We know there has been a 50% increase in the planet’s atmospheric CO2 level in the past 100 years or so. Let’s call it 150 years, which brings us back to the Industrial Revolution. If 1 million years is indicated by 1/4″ on the chart, then 150 years would be represented by 0.0000375 of 1 inch (which is 9 ten-thousandths of a millimeter). I am not sure if the human eye can see something this small. The point is that the chart data are misleading to the extent they fail to represent the time scale accurately. It makes interpretation of the chart difficult and misleading to many people.
Fallacious reasoning. Your argument reduces to: the earth’s CO2 levels have been fluctuating for 4.6 billion years, so the recent increase is nothing to worry about. But the first point — earth’s CO2 levels have fluctuate over eons — is unrelated to the second and main assertion — the recent 50% increase in CO2 over a microscopic time frame (relative to geologic time) is attributed to humans burning huge amounts of fossil fuels. Your assertion (that recent man-made climate change does not exist) does not necessarily follow from your data (that earth’s CO2 levels have fluctuated for eons). It is flawed logic.
By the way, climate scientists do not deny CO2 fluctuations since the earth was formed 4.6 billions years ago; they pretty much know why it happened, including huge geologic & volcanic processes, and the growth and death of carbon life forms. But climate scientists believe these fluctuations in the earth’s CO2 levels over _geologic_ time has nothing to say about the independent sharp increase in the earth’s CO2 since the Industrial Revolution about 150 years ago. (Do you really think most scientists never thought of this?)
So sorry. But this chart data simply does not support your assertion that recent anthropogenic climate change is fake.
Climate Science is real. So is the shameful manipulation and transformation of science into a political weapon as well as a political special interest group. When you ask, “So what can we do?” and the response is “Sign this blank check and go back to sleep,” you know you’re not dealing with scientists.
…EXCEPT when dumbasses vote stupid people into office who attempt to propagandize to the suckers that real science is ‘fake news’. THEN it’s time for real science to point out, using whatever methods get the most attention, that real science is REAL.
If you discount the effect of MARKETING on our current USA culture, you’re deliberately sticking your head into your self evidence.
Pretty LIES
Beat
Boring FACTS
Every time
If
You’re Stupid.
I know Apple has their heart in the right place, but all that exercise increases CO2 emissions from our bodies. Please don’t breathe hard on Earth Day. It’s the least you can do.
Ozy, Glad you were in high school. Sorry you didn’t take any science classes.
CO2 is a greenhouse gas that traps heat. That is not BS, but a simple observation made repeatedly (without any exceptions) since the 1880s. CO2 levels are rising. Again, that is not BS, but an observation made repeatedly all over the world for decades. Those two indisputable facts indicate that—IF there were no other forces at play—the global average temperature must rise.
A couple of isolated proposals about cooling from 20 years ago repeated as a Newsweek cover story do not materially affect the overwhelming consensus on that, then or now..
Of course the earth-ocean-atmosphere system is very complex and there are other forces at play, so the relationship is unlikely to be completely 1 to 1, or to apply at every location on earth. Nevertheless, the observation by virtually everyone that the global temperature is, in fact, rising is most simply explained by assuming that the CO2 is contributing to it.
It may not be the sole cause, or (conceivably) the dominant cause, but there is no way consistent with physical science that it cannot be a contributing cause. It is the one cause that humanity can control, so if we want to slow the rate of warming, reducing CO2 emissions is the only way to do it.
Done and dusted. 9km and a ton of sweat!
To celebrate Earth Day, I emptied eight aerosol cans of Brut Extra Dry Deodorant at the sky into the general direction of Algore.
That’s great, that product doesn’t contain aluminum so no mind rot, and all consumer and most other aerosol products made or sold in your country now use propellants that do not deplete the ozone layer.
It’s a good way to practice your aim.
Happy Earth Day botvinnik.
damn…I guess I’ll go kick a tree instead.
As hard as you can, in bare feet too, preferably a Manchineel (Hippomane mancinella) it’s all natural.
Marine “The Hammer” Martel will be victorious over the Islam invaders, proving the old adage:
“Le Pen is mightier than The Horde.”
I’ve done mine and the day is not over yet. Just getting ready to go back on the bike.
Happy Earth Day everyone.
Thus spake The Vacillator.
The Vacillating Weasel:
(Genus: mustela vacillatus currius.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hockey_stick_graph
Just like the stock market, one can tell any story they want with data, by changing the increment of measure.
Personally, I don’t think Trump is religious about global warming. His position is based upon the business perspective that meeting the Paris Agreement will cost businesses in developed countries a lot of money. Since Trump is biz-friendly, he’s opposed. Given he has lots of property along the oceans, you’d think he’d support global warming initiatives, just for selfish reasons.
I’m indifferent, because the Paris Agreement won’t solve the problem of global warming, it’ll only delay the inevitable. Ultimately, we need an engineered solution. The sooner a global crisis, the sooner we’ll get global support for a real solution, and not just a bandaid.
What of course is most bothering is the tremendous progress we’ve made and are making in renewable energy collection and storage. Then the dumbasses vote in the stupid game players who demand to make further money off carbon fuels, with NO interest in personal responsibility or the consequences.
This is the humanity of the USA pulling a FACEPLANT.
I’d rather see my country LEADing instead of FAILing.
~ ~ ~ ~
Side issues:
– The economic COST of the Greenhouse Gas Effects are astronomically higher than solving it. But as per usual with we dim ‘sapiens’, short-term thinking wins over long-term thinking. Oops.
– Statistics can actually make reliable predictions from adequate data, if stringent statistical procedures are used. But, it’s more common for the data to be inadequate and the procedures used to be questionable.
– Then there’s propaganda, which has no relationship to facts. It’s made entirely of the bullshit currently called ‘alternate facts’. When dealing with propaganda, consider who/what benefits from the bullshit and who/what suffers as a result of it. That’s what tells the real story.
– Meanwhile, always keep an eye out for scapegoats. When a culture turns to using scapegoats as the source of current problems, you KNOW there’s totalitarianism afoot. Scapegoats are only smoke blown in our eyes.
“Derek, you’re not like a scientist, you’re more like a game show host.”
– Sigourney Weaver, “Ghostbusters.”
Fake news!
This chart is naive and misleading to anyone with basic numeracy. And stupid to anyone with a basic understanding of science. The assertion you are trying to make is based on fallacious reasoning.
Misleading data. The X-axis is labelled as “million years before the present” but the numbers are not presented on a scale: they are numbers on a line without showing relative distances between them. Eg, if 1 “million years before the present” is represented by 1/4″, then the left-most point on the X-axis should be 8 feet to the left. This point represents the earth’s age: 4.6 billion years, shown on the chart as “4600” “million years before the present”. (The chartist does get a brownie point for knowing the age of the earth.)
We know there has been a 50% increase in the planet’s atmospheric CO2 level in the past 100 years or so. Let’s call it 150 years, which brings us back to the Industrial Revolution. If 1 million years is indicated by 1/4″ on the chart, then 150 years would be represented by 0.0000375 of 1 inch (which is 9 ten-thousandths of a millimeter). I am not sure if the human eye can see something this small. The point is that the chart data are misleading to the extent they fail to represent the time scale accurately. It makes interpretation of the chart difficult and misleading to many people.
Fallacious reasoning. Your argument reduces to: the earth’s CO2 levels have been fluctuating for 4.6 billion years, so the recent increase is nothing to worry about. But the first point — earth’s CO2 levels have fluctuate over eons — is unrelated to the second and main assertion — the recent 50% increase in CO2 over a microscopic time frame (relative to geologic time) is attributed to humans burning huge amounts of fossil fuels. Your assertion (that recent man-made climate change does not exist) does not necessarily follow from your data (that earth’s CO2 levels have fluctuated for eons). It is flawed logic.
By the way, climate scientists do not deny CO2 fluctuations since the earth was formed 4.6 billions years ago; they pretty much know why it happened, including huge geologic & volcanic processes, and the growth and death of carbon life forms. But climate scientists believe these fluctuations in the earth’s CO2 levels over _geologic_ time has nothing to say about the independent sharp increase in the earth’s CO2 since the Industrial Revolution about 150 years ago. (Do you really think most scientists never thought of this?)
So sorry. But this chart data simply does not support your assertion that recent anthropogenic climate change is fake.
Climate Science is real. So is the shameful manipulation and transformation of science into a political weapon as well as a political special interest group. When you ask, “So what can we do?” and the response is “Sign this blank check and go back to sleep,” you know you’re not dealing with scientists.
Real science doesn’t have time to “march”, real science is too busy doing their job.
Real science doesn’t have to beg for validation, real science is self evident.
…EXCEPT when dumbasses vote stupid people into office who attempt to propagandize to the suckers that real science is ‘fake news’. THEN it’s time for real science to point out, using whatever methods get the most attention, that real science is REAL.
If you discount the effect of MARKETING on our current USA culture, you’re deliberately sticking your head into your self evidence.
Pretty LIES
Beat
Boring FACTS
Every time
If
You’re Stupid.
I know Apple has their heart in the right place, but all that exercise increases CO2 emissions from our bodies. Please don’t breathe hard on Earth Day. It’s the least you can do.
HAHAHAHAHA! 😆 I love it. Thank you for some humor around here, where extremes and 1-dimensional thinking are the ‘norm’.
The first earth day worried about the coming ice age, then global warming. Check it out. I was in high school.
Total BS.
Ozy, Glad you were in high school. Sorry you didn’t take any science classes.
CO2 is a greenhouse gas that traps heat. That is not BS, but a simple observation made repeatedly (without any exceptions) since the 1880s. CO2 levels are rising. Again, that is not BS, but an observation made repeatedly all over the world for decades. Those two indisputable facts indicate that—IF there were no other forces at play—the global average temperature must rise.
A couple of isolated proposals about cooling from 20 years ago repeated as a Newsweek cover story do not materially affect the overwhelming consensus on that, then or now..
Of course the earth-ocean-atmosphere system is very complex and there are other forces at play, so the relationship is unlikely to be completely 1 to 1, or to apply at every location on earth. Nevertheless, the observation by virtually everyone that the global temperature is, in fact, rising is most simply explained by assuming that the CO2 is contributing to it.
It may not be the sole cause, or (conceivably) the dominant cause, but there is no way consistent with physical science that it cannot be a contributing cause. It is the one cause that humanity can control, so if we want to slow the rate of warming, reducing CO2 emissions is the only way to do it.
That is not BS.
Happy Birthday, Vladimir Lenin