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My key point is that all carbon that can be mined by humans will be mined by humans and ultimately converted to CO2 one way or another. No carbon policies, carbon taxes, or carbon trading are going to change anything on that, they may only affect where will that happen. China, India and Africa are a...

Himalayan glaciers gone by 2035 are simply not true and so are other several points highlighted by Muller himself in the talk I posted.

I'm looking at the details pretty carefully. And it's not climate what makes me scared.

Y axis is temperature anomaly in °C (or K), X axis is time, each column (4 pixels wide) is one month. Each two black vertical lines separate one year ... but I played with the time axis a bit. If the global warming is so clear and undeniable, then it should be quite obvious that I put 1980 right nex...

I have done my own math with temperatures a while ago and one of my results is this little prank picture . It comes from processing satellite temperature record, on vertical axis it displays temperature anomalies, and every single column is monthly average for certain month but I played a bit with t...

Global warming is not about science anymore (if it ever was). Most people on both sides are not scientists and when looking at scientific results they always see what they want to see. The same is it with BEST - alarmists see the glass half full, skeptics see the glass half empty. To me, it did not ...

According to today's meeting minutes they're considering proton-lead physics. I guess it means one beam protons and other beam lead nuclei but I really wonder if it will work and what will it do. There will be large disproportion in collision energies, I guess a lot of collision mass will be escapin...

Wikipedia: Misinterpretation of the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar is the basis for a New Age belief that a cataclysm will take place on December 21, 2012. December 21, 2012 is simply the day that the calendar will go to the next b'ak'tun.

Just in case anyone has difficulties accessing today's meeting minutes, here is a working link

Hi RocketMan ! I know the method you describe has been discussed. I even thought that maybe they had done that ? What they did was that they took a portable caesium clock, measured the Gran Sasso clock with it, then took it to CERN and measured the CERN clock with it. The absolute difference betwee...

JNW wrote:ATLAS and CMS are both over 5fb-1 now.

Delivered luminosity, not recorded yet. But they'll make it in a week unless they have a big problem.

It will take the same number of injections so the time may only be affected if they need longer delays between injections for some reason.

Xymox wrote:http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/02/what-is-time/

That sounds like philosophy rather than science to me.

On that 'starts with a bang' blog that 'Harbles' first linked to there were this comments that something might be wrong with the gps-system ( link ). And it made me wonder, don't they calibrate their gps system (and code) by comparing it to 'actual' shorter distances measured with 'real' mesurement...

And yet more criticism of technique. This time the effect of g being different at the two locations. http://www.nature.com/news/2011/111005/full/news.2011.575.html That's pretty wild guess. They have caesium clocks on both posts continually being kept synchronized using GPS at sub-nanosecond precis...

You need a mechanism which suddenly kills the efficiency about 90ns before the end of the pulse I don't think I need to come up with working mechanism. I just think that the pulse is a bit shorter and I don't know why. They think the pulse is a bit too early and they also don't know why. You also d...