Szilvia Mosonyi is a Lecturer in Responsible Leadership at Queen Mary University of London, School of Business and Management. Her research revolves around organization theory, professions, and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR).
Szilvia is completing her PhD at Cass Business School, City, University of London, where she is a member of the Centre for Professional Service Firms and ETHOS, the Centre for Responsible Enterprise at Cass Business School. She holds an MRes from Cass Business School, an MA in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) from Nottingham University Business School (ICCSR), an MA in Sociology from the Eotvos Lorand University of Science in Hungary.
Prior to starting her doctoral studies, Szilvia spent 7 years as a CSR consultant at Deloitte in London, where she led and delivered advisory and assurance engagements to leading multinational companies across a variety of industries. This experience informs her teaching of CSR, ethics, and responsible leadership.
Szilvia is committed to impactful research and she actively participates in research projects directed towards practitioners. Such projects included a research report on culture change in the banking sector launched in the UK Parliament, and a study of the effectiveness of responsible investment for the United Nations Principles of Responsible Investment (PRI). In September 2016, Szilvia launched her research report on working in the field of CSR as part of a successful event that welcomed over 70 practitioners at Cass Business School.
In her research, Szilvia investigates macro and micro level practices in the field of corporate social responsibility (CSR). Through this setting, she aims to answer questions around the processes of contemporary professionalization and relational aspects of identity work in tensional occupations. Principal in her investigation is professional service firms and client-consultant relationships. Szilvia's research approach is qualitative.
Professions / professionalization and corporate social responsibility: At macro level, Szilvia explores how CSR practitioners (in-house managers and consultants) construct a mandate for their field. She is interested in occupational change and wishes to understand the wider net of stakeholders, in which fledgling occupations are embedded and who play a critical role in their emergence. She looks to uncover ways in which traditional models of professionalization have changed in recent years.
Management consulting: The third aspect of Szilvia's research is focused on the academic engagement and framing of the field of management consulting.
Gond, J.-.P., Mena, S. and Mosonyi, S. (2017) Meta-Reviewing the Business and Society Field through Sociological Paradigms: Towards Pluralistic Re-Presentations of Corporate Social Responsibility. Proceedings of the International Association for Business and Society.
Mosonyi, S. 2016. United We Stand, Divided We Fall: Building Successful Relationships in Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability. Cass Business School Research Report. Presented at Cass Business School (London, September 2016) and at the Humboldt University during the 7th International Conference on Corporate Sustainability and Responsibility (Berlin, September 2016).
Spicer, A., Lindley, D., Gond, J-P., Mosonyi, S., Jaser, Z., Marti, E. & Petersen, H. Cultural Change in the FCA, PRA & Bank of England: Practising What They Preach? New City Agenda and Cass Business School Research Report. Presented in the House of Commons (London, October 2016).
Spicer, A., Gond, J-P., Patel, K., Lindley, D., Fleming, P., Mosonyi, S., Benoit, C. & Parker, S. A Report on the Culture of British Retail Banking. New City Agenda and Cass Business School Research Report. Presented in the House of Commons (London, November 2014).
Mosonyi, S., Gond, J.-P. & Empson, L. Relational responses to paradoxical tensions in CSR consultants' identity work. 34th European Group for Organization Studies Colloquium (July 2018, Tallinn, Estonia) / Stockholm School of Economics / SAID Business School Conference on Professional Service Firms. (July 2017, Stockholm, Sweden).


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Via The Toyark, here's the only psychic damage I've sustained this year from visible proof of werewolf stuff I missed by not being at Monsterpalooza again.
Pop Culture Shock announced a range of new figures, including An American Werewolf in London's unlucky backpackers Jack Goodman & David Kessler. From PCS's newsletter, which I'm still not subscribed to:
12″ Jack & David Figures from An American Werewolf in London!
We are still working on getting the likeness right for the David Naughton figure so please dont judge too harshly just yet!
It's a testament to the sculptor's skill that I went from "who cares about figures of two floppy-haired dorks in puffy coats who don't listen to advice re: moors, and staying off them" to "these look extremely cool" in under 60 seconds.
No news yet on release dates, but if you sign up for their newsletter (which, by this point in the post, I can confirm that I have done) you'll get details as they become available.
If you're more interested in the version of David Kessler that eats motherfuckers, PCS has you covered there too: the massive 1:4 scale "Kessler Wolf" statue I told you about last summer is now available for preorder.
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Do You Have What It Takes to Lie Down for 70 Days?
Get ready for some hard-core rest — NASA needs you!
NASA is calling for test subjects in an experiment that could pave the way to sending humans to Mars or beyond. It's called the bed-rest study, and it is as extreme as it sounds.
If chosen, participants will have to lay on a bed for 70 days, with their feet elevated slightly higher than their heads. This simulates the long-term effects of microgravity on the human body. The researchers will be able to see how bone density, muscle atrophy, and other bodily factors change as people stay off their feet for months at a time, just like they would on an interplanetary mission. But don't worry, you can go about your normal daily routine, just as long as it is confined to the bed — there's a special shower, and you can use consumer electronics (Netflix must have enough decent content for 70 days of constant streaming, right?) Some subjects will even get to use in-bed exercise equipment.
Participants get $18,000 for their time.
So what does it take to endure such hard-core rest? Actually, a lot. Subjects need to be in very good physical condition and undergo psychological evaluation. The application states that participants must pass a modified Air Force Class III medical standard. The senior scientist on the study told Forbes, "We want people who have the physical and psychological characteristics of an astronaut," albeit a bedridden one.
The insights to be gained here can be crucial for the future of spaceflight. Currently, researchers suggest that a 10-month trip to Mars would cause an astronaut to lose 40 percent of his or her muscle mass. "On a long voyage," Space.com reports, "a healthy 30- to 50-year-old astronaut could end up with the strength of an 80-year-old." Something that would be a hindrance when it comes to actually landing on the planet.


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The Rotary Club of Dartmouth was approached by the Dartmouth YMCA seeking sponsors for capital improvements they wished to do to their facilities.
The Club's Board received a letter from the director of the YMCA outlining their need for new Diving/Starter Blocks for their pool.
The Club considered this a very worthwhile project as it touched a large number of people in Dartmouth that use the YMCA facilities and because the YMCA provides a variety of programs matched to the needs of the community as well as their social commitment to assist less fortunate people/families have access to the facilities even if they cannot afford the membership fees or program costs.
The Club donated $4000 which was sufficient to purchase the 4 new diving blocks.
In return, the Club wished to have some form of recognition in the pool area for the contribution. The YMCA was more than willing to install Rotary signage in the pool area quite visible from the viewing area.
The project was completed in February 2010.


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Is Your Computer Safe From Ransomware?
How are you all? I hope you are well. Now whether we are in good mood or not depends on whether our computer is good or not. If there is anything wrong on the computer then there is no mention of the good mood.So we always try so that our computer is always well. But after a lot of caution, the virus continues to attack malware. We understand computer viruses that do not allow the computer to do the normal tasks properly. The cause of the user is various problems. But today I will talk about new types of malware.
Those who are aware of Facebook or various tech forums may understand what I'm going to talk about. Yes, I'll talk about Ransomware.
If Ransomware attacks your computer, then it will encrypt your computer's files, meaning that you can access those files. If you want to access then you will need to have its decryption key. And for this key, you have to pay for this malware builder.
In the past few days, around 75,000 computers in 99 countries around the world attack a ransomware called Wana Cry 2.0. As a result, all their files are encrypted. Among these, there was also some important computers. Such as computers in a hospital. And they contain many important files. Which is very useful for a hospital. Wanna Cry 2.0 If you attack your computer, then you will see a window similar to the one below.
If you see these windows, then understand that all your personal files end. You need to get 300 USD to get back the files. And who is so easy to pay so much money in our country. And you have to pay this money in Bitcoin. So you do not know who you are giving money to. Those who do not know about Bitcoin, they will get a little searching on Google. You will be given a specific time in which you have to pay the money.
If your countdown becomes empty, then you will not get the files back as they say. But if you have a very important file on your computer, then you can see the way in front of you. If you have normal data then the whole computer's hard disk format will be installed in the new windows, and after attacking this virus, you have to shut down the internet and do not forget to attach to any pen drive or hard disk computer. This is the introduction phase.


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Discussion in 'Walther' started by Globalstar66, May 23, 2011.
Just a heads-up. I just received confirmation from Walther that they decided to continue producing the Walther LG300 Dominator, in the LAMINATE version only. No more Alutec Dominators though.
As Pete Dutton won the World Champs, Walther have decided to continue its production.
Walther LG300 Dominator was HFT Team Champion and Pete Dutton is World Champion with the Walther Dominator. We have decided to continue the production of the Walther LG300 Dominator.
We have decided to continue producing the Walter LG300 Dominator.
I have advised to manufacture 10 pieces for you.
Martina will confirm to you its delivery time.
Does anyone have an email address for Walther 'sales'?
You buy a Walther and then you ask Pete very nicely to sort it for you and depending what needs sorting depends how much it costs. But he's famous now and any Walther going to Sussex attracts the "Lost Cause" Tax allegedly.


Within the last few years, over 30 papers have been added to our compilation of scientific papers that find the climate's sensitivity to CO2 concentration changes is low to negligible.
A few of the papers published in 2018 that were added to the list are provided below.
solar cycles are expected to regulate earth climate.
What causes solar cycles? Planet orbits it is assumed.
What causes our climate ? Ocean streams.
Now, suppose that planet orbits influence earth's ocean streams. Solar cycles and earth climate being both the result of the same forces.
There is a major problem facing us if we wish to ascribe global warming to solar effects. The plot of total solar irradiation against time shows a very pronounced eleven year cycle/oscillation. The amplitude of this oscillation completely dwarfs any longer term changes that there might be – at least to the mark 1 eyeball. Given this, if the sun were largely responsible for climate change, we would expect this oscillation to be strongly reflected in any plot of temperature versus time. Yet, for all practical purposes, it is virtually undetectable therein.
This is not all that surprising. Standard radiation physics would indicate that the changes in TSI would have to be a substantial multiple of what they actually are in order to have any noticeable effect on the earth's temperature. Moreover, if we apply an eleven year smoothing to the TSI data we find that the sun's energy output has been decreasing from soon after 1976 when it was first measured. This is in contrast to temperatures which appear to have risen.
Prior to 1976, we have to rely on proxies or models – which is hardly satisfactory. If we use Lockwood's geomagnetic proxy for TSI for the period 1910-1999 and apply an eleven year smoothing both to this and global temperatures, we do, indeed, find that the covariance is of the order of 67%. At first sight, this looks encouraging. However a more detailed analysis shows that the cooling in the middle of this period starts some thirteen years before TSI starts to decline. Moreover, when is does decline, it does so at a faster rate than the cooling when compared to what we would expect from the warming periods.
I would suggest that we have to look elsewhere.
Perhaps you should check back after you post a comment and engage in a conversation rather than commenting and then leaving it at that. There are, by the way, several other examples of when you have posted a comment…and then left without engaging the responses.
Your own response to this suggested that cloud cover was an alternative explanation. As it happens, I had already written on 26 November at 8.42 p.m.: "Temperature pre ~1970 is very dependent on cloud cover and possibly, to a lesser extent, humidity." Actually, if you look at cloud cover in detail, you will find that whereas it gives a reasonable explanation for some of the short term fluctuations in temperature it does not show much of a correlation in so far as the longer term trends are concerned. In fact, according to my analysis, the covariance is only about 7%.
Seasons are also important. In summer, increased cloud cover leads to reduced temperatures whereas, in winter, it leads to increased ones. The overall effect is small, with summer normally, but not always, prevailing over winter insofar as annual temperatures are concerned.
It is also worth noting that annual cloud cover varies by much more in neighbouring locations than annual temperatures do.
These are the reasons why I do not regard cloud cover as a plausible explanation for the longer term changes.
Another "explanation" offered was that of Lorenz. This is not really an explanation at all, since it makes no predictions. It is simply an example of the well known effect that in chaotic systems there will be a number of metastable states and transitions between one and another can occur quite quickly and last for long periods of time. Weather may well be a quasi chaotic system but longer term temperature changes do not look like transitions between metastable states.
Actually, if you look at cloud cover in detail, you will find that whereas it gives a reasonable explanation for some of the short term fluctuations in temperature it does not show much of a correlation in so far as the longer term trends are concerned. In fact, according to my analysis, the covariance is only about 7%.
And why would this undermine the contention that more/less solar heat is absorbed by the oceans on decadal scales? We're not talking about annual, or monthly variations here. We're talking about decades-long trends.
You're welcome to your opinions, but I disagree that cloud cover changes are not even plausible. Do you regard CO2 as more plausible an explanation for the heating and cooling of the oceans than decadal-scale low cloud cover changes? I assume so, as you call it "established physics". So you are invited to provide the real-world mechanism whereby changes in atmospheric CO2 heat up the oceans. What real-world experiment tells us how much change (physically measured) is caused in water body heat by varying the CO2 concentration above it in volumes of ppmv? Let's see what you have. Cite your sources, not your own calculated results.
Projected catastrophes due to humans and their evil CO2 are utter nonsense.
Now go away and find out why, instead of regurgitating the same BS. The same old BS that you groak-up has been effectively countered before.
150 years to get about 1°C of 'warming' — that is the current rate of solar mediated warming. Unless people take an unrealistic and ridiculously short time span to judge the solar warming rate it is neither alarming nor unusual.
If you didn't get it then to put it easily for you, there is NO major problem facing anyone in ascribing global warming to solar effects. History dear boy, history!
Solar activity has been declining since the early 2000s, as the Modern Grand Maximum drew to a close.
Sorry SebastianH but I fail to see how you have anything logical or rational to (ever) offer, lost as you are in the cAGW paradigm.
Here's a recent piece that elaborates on that and related themes.
In particular, it highlights the fact that there is an alternative and that is good science, of which we have a fair amount and none if it has anything to do with CO2. It also shows what we are up against, which is a global cadre of billionaires who want to pilfer your resources and run your life.
Ending on a political note, he makes clear what is the real threat to the future of mankind. It's not CO2, but human greed and lust for power.
David – Planet orbits may have some influence but the heat emissions from old SOL varies as evidenced by sunspots or lack thereof.
b. CO2 raises the emission height for heat to escape to the top of atmosphere thereby increasing the heat below TOA.
I struggle with the back radiation concept as CO2 IR is virtually no different from H20 except for some small minor bands. plus any reflected LWIR would struggle to warm anything below and just delay the escape to TOA.
The raising the emission level is dependant upon using a uniform level of water vapour across the globe which we know is incorrect. Oculars site shows the calculations for outgoing radiation differences between high and low water content.
As for the increases in CO2 due to man I struggle to reconcile the CERES satellite data that shows such a massive increase in CO2 in the NH in Autumn over the forests resulting in the increase in CO2 peak in the Keeling curve in May. there are no CO2 hot spots over any population centre anywhere.
Then after this massive Natual increase in CO2 abates the CO2 level drops again from the Keeling curve. So man's emmisions of CO2 cannot overcome the CO2 sinks in operation and CO2 levels drop.
Yes I understand the carbon isotope ratio is changing but why is this attributed to petroleum products only?
Add this to the fact that CO2 has been in the thousands of ppm in the past and we have seen no evidence of this hypothesised effect.
This last point brings me to a question I hope you can answer. somewhere on either here, WUWT or maybe Delingpole, someone provided the calculation for the actual CO2 level given the decreased incoming W/m2 and worked out that the equivalent level of CO2 would be around 500 odd ppm versus the current 400 ppm and in no way accounts for thousands of ppm we had in the past.
unfortunately I never grabbed the equation and would love it if anyone could point me in the right direction. Thanks.
…I'm going to go out on a limb here and explain why I think that's a nothing burger. If anyone KNOWS that I am wrong and why, please explain. I will not even read comments by trolls, not even for a laugh. So, here's how I see it.
That might be true if all the IR had to pass through CO2 to be emitted to space. But that can't be the case. To much IR, and not enough CO2.
Imagine a window that's completely transparent. Now, add opaque spots sparsely but uniformly over the surface of the window. When light shines on the window the photons that don't fall on the spots pass through. Those that fall on the spots are absorbed, but as soon as one does, the spot becomes transparent to other photons and they now pass through. There are a lot more photons than spots. The colder the window is, the longer before the spot becomes opaque again, and so the more time light has to pass through the window. The brighter the light, the less effect the spots can have.
CO2 can only stop the light it absorbs, and only after emitting can it then stop another photon by absorbing it. There are far more IR photons than CO2 can absorb, so most should pass unaffected. Furthermore, the colder the CO2, not only the slower it will emit, but the slower it will absorb, and so the longer it will remain transparent and the more IR will pass through from below. The slower emission is cancelled by the longer transparency, so the effect cancels itself out at low photon flux, but is completely irrelevant for high flux rates, ultimately stopping only a fixed but very tiny fraction of the IR. At high fluxes CO2 will be almost always in a transparent state.
To be sure, one should try to do some accounting of photons, molecules, and times involved. I haven't done that, but if someone wants to show me I'm wrong (or correct), that would be the best way to do it.
Anyway, it looks to me like the height of the atmosphere isn't a problem, and that it's just something else to distract us with.
I don't disagree and have used a similar analogy using fly screen wire where one in every 2500 openings is a CO2 molecule.
I will not even read comments by trolls, not even for a laugh. So, here's how I see it.
I am guessing you mean me by this remark. Well Yonason, and this is part of the problem. You guys shut yourself out of every serious discussion. Imagining stuff at one time that contradicts what you guys claimed in another instance.
CO2 can only stop the light it absorbs, and only after emitting can it then stop another photon by absorbing it. There are far more IR photons than CO2 can absorb, so most should pass unaffected.
Well, the common climate skeptic lore is that the existing amount of CO2 already absorbs all IR in the respective wavelength so more CO2 would not have any effect. Isn't that kind of contradicting what you are trying to tell people here?
This is a sort of composite response to the various objections raised to my points above. First, though, an observation. According to both the Berkeley Earth and the Cowtan & Way series, more than half of all the warming that we have seen globally since 1850 has occurred since 1979: 59.6% for BEST and 62.6% for C&W. This makes it unlikely that any factor or factors which have made a substantial contribution to the warming prior to around 1979 would not also make a substantial contribution afterwards. To a considerable extent, therefore we can restrict much of our analysis to this relatively short period.
This is particularly relevant in the case of the alleged role of the sun. It is a bit silly to claim that this period is ridiculously short and unrealistic. As I argue above, the satellite measurements of TSI as made by the NOAA do not correlate well with any of the temperature series. This makes comments like "150 years to produce 1°C of warming" somewhat irrelevant. Ex cathedra statements about my knowledge of radiation physics and that "history" shows me to be wrong are also rather stupid and insulting. Nobody really knows what happened to the sun's output prior to 1976 and, prior to 1900, all that we have is models supplemented by sunspot counts.
Turning to long term data and the effect of clouds. My analysis is largely based on the period 1978 – 2016 and makes use of the cloud cover data from CRU and compares it with CRUTem4. This is of course only land data in each case, but it seems to me that this is more likely to give a quick response than data that includes the oceans with their enormous thermal capacity and hence potentially very long term time lags. My figure of 7% for the covariance was based upon global data, whereas the supposed rebuttal appears to be based on data from the tropics. Just to give a flavour on a more local scale, here are the covariances between cloud cover and temperatures for five different 5X5 degree grid locations all at the same latitude as London, i.e. 50-55° and cover Northern Europe and Northern Asia. For the longitude -5 to 0°, the covariance is only 1.20%; for the longitude range 25-30 it is 9.57%; for the range 55-60 it is 1.39%; for 85-90 it is 0.01% and for 115-120 it is 7.64%. All the above figures are based on standard linear regression techniques. The reasons for this poor fit are twofold. First, the effect of clouds depends upon the seasons, (as I stated above). This means that annual temperatures are less affected than seasonal ones. Second the correlation coefficients for cloud trends are very much less than for temperature trends. For the cells described above, the maximum correlation coefficient for the temperature trend is 0.656 and the lowest is 0.356, whereas for cloud cover trends the figures are =-o.324 and -0.180.
Actually whereas the seasonal variation is much less in the tropics than in more Northerly latitudes, so is the amount of warming observed. This produces two countervailing effects.
I would have thought that the reason why local consistency in temperatures compared with local inconsistencies in cloud cover rather argue against the cloud cover theory were rather self-evident. If there is a good correlation between temperatures in neighbouring areas but a poor correlation between cloud cover, it is very unlikely that there would be a good correlation between cloud cover and temperatures.
As for "established physics", so far as I am aware none of the of the physics involved in GHG theory is exactly new or proven to be wrong. Of course, like all theories GHG theory is an abstraction from reality which is much more complicated. However, in an idealised windless, waterless world I calculate that a change in CO2 concentration from 300 ppm to 600 ppm would raise global temperatures by 1.07°C. This is somewhat over-precise not least because of the approximations necessary to make the maths of the theory tractable. Nevertheless it is very close to what other physicists have concluded.
If I have any readers left at this point, I would like to remind them that on 2nd December 2018 at 4.15 am wrote: "If CO2 were almost entirely responsible for the warming, we would expect to see a reasonable positive correlation between the rate of warming and the rate of increase in the log of the CO2 concentration. What we see, however, is the exact opposite." This should put to rest any idea that I am arguing for CO2 having a strong effect too.
Finally, I don't want to get into a citation battle with anyone. Appeals to authority have no role in science. I prefer my own calculations because I know their provenance.
I don't want to browbeat anyone with my supposed "authority" either. However, I do have a long list of peer reviewed papers in theoretical physics which have been published in the world's most prestigious scientific journals. Climate science has been my retirement hobby for most of the past ten years.
I'll assume you're of the belief that the Berkeley Earth data set is not afflicted with artificial warming via infilling and cool-the-past-and-warm-the-present "adjustments"…which is why you've claimed in the past that the instrumental record does not align with paleo proxy data, which shows that the post-1970s warming peak is of the same magnitude as the 1930s-1940s peak warmth. Without spending too much time on your lack of skepticism in this regard, here's a global-scale instrumental data set (450 temperature stations) unaffected by urbanization and artificial heat/adjustments that clearly shows an oscillation in global surface temperature…that closely aligns with the proxy data.
But, as I've explained before, when it comes to global warming, we need to focus on ocean heat — where 90-some percent of the overall heat changes in the Earth system occur. The surface temperature data found in instrumental records accounts for just 1% of the heat changes (according to the IPCC), so when it comes to explaining the reasons for "global warming", it's in the oceans where we need to look.
Graphs of ocean heat content do not support the contention that the last few decades are unusual when it comes to heat changes.
As for "established physics", so far as I am aware none of the of the physics involved in GHG theory is exactly new or proven to be wrong.
How does one "prove" that a hypothetical conceptualization, rooted in assumption and modeling, is wrong? Wouldn't we first need to establish (i.e., prove) that something is physically real (i.e., empirical, observed) before setting about to prove that it isn't?
It's your belief that the CO2 greenhouse effect heats up the oceans, hence your allegiance to the standard 1.1 K no-feedback climate sensitivity model for doubled 300 ppm CO2. So, since you believe this is "established physics", let me ask you about the real-world physical measurements. By how much (measurements) does a body of water heat up when the air above it has its CO2 concentration increased by 0.00001 (10 ppm)? Do you have an answer to this question? Is it 0.000001 K? 0.00001 K? 0.1 K? What do you have? I ask because we need these results to derive actual measurements of climate sensitivity. All you are relying upon is modeled assumptions, not "established physics". Do you disagree? If so, let's see those measurements.
RE – The Berkeley Earth data laundering.
Muller claims that he was a skeptic, and that working on this project converted him to being a warmist. That's like claiming the Clintons used to be Consrvatives, but only after Trump was elected did they become Democrats.
If I can't trust these guys to tell the truth on their resumes, how can I trust them to tell the truth about temperatures?
I'd also very much like my reply to this to appear … do I need to repost it because you found it inconvenient that the comment strategies of climate skeptics get some exposure?
Looks like you'll need to re-post if the comment you're thinking of hasn't appeared. Some comments have certain words that automatically send them to the junk bin(s) which means they don't show up as needing to be moderated – they just vanish from your view and then are discarded with the rest of the trash when quickly clearing each bin out. It happens to everyone.
On the other hand, if the comment contained ad homs, bigotry, or utilized words deemed unacceptable (as your comments too often do), it could have been deleted for those reasons.
Contrary to your apparent beliefs, your comments are not deleted because they contain such brilliant rebuttals that we find them inconvenient or because they expose our "strategies". You flatter yourself.
CO2 is perhaps a little over 0.04% of our atmosphere and methane is a little under 0.002% of our atmosphere. Who needs anything beyond an elementary math education and common sense to realize such tiny amounts can't possibly have a significant warming effect in an open ecosphere. I don't believe man can possibly produce more CO2 than synthetic bacteria and plants can easily reduce in time. When you consider the enormous amount of CO2 cyanobacteria alone consumed in the earth's early atmosphere, you begin to realize how easy it will be for photosynthetic life to consume all the CO2 industry can create. Methane has a lifespan of a decade once released and most of it is produced naturally.
Indeed Al D, you are correct. Also I note that termites are rather good at producing these life enhancing gases.
Some education in other fields would have helped you to realize that tiny amounts can have great effects easily.
I don't believe man can possibly produce more CO2 than synthetic bacteria and plants can easily reduce in time.
Define "in time". If it is 100 years after mankind stopped emitting CO2, then you are technically right.
Unless termite CO2 output has increased massively in recent times, they are not responsible for the CO2 concentration increase.
You SebastianH, as usual, are pontificating your authoritative ignorance.
Nobody has any evidence as to whether termite populations have increased or decreased since 1950, or even 1850.
Also it's not just elementary math (basic arithmetic) that shows CO2 is not this planet's climate driver, so do observations– CO2 levels are still climbing while 'global temperature' falls.
Exactly, so why are you vaguely suggesting that they play are role?
It's mainly climate skeptics imagination that shows this.
so do observations– CO2 levels are still climbing while 'global temperature' falls.
More of your twisted ignorance from you SebastianH?
Which I take to mean you believe termite are not responsible for the recent (last 100 years) CO2 concentration increase.
Same twisted ignorance from the cAGW advocate again.
SebastianH statements carry no logic, no sense just wild parroting of a popular but failed supposition that CO2 causes climate change.
Finally found it again just for you SebastianH!
And here's some termites the UN-IPCC have not factored into there calculations as they've only just been found.
Researchers reporting in Current Biology on November 19 have found that a vast array of regularly spaced, still-inhabited termite mounds in northeastern Brazil–covering an area the size of Great Britain–are up to about 4,000 years old.
So SebastianH, do you still believe that the rest of the natural world has no more surprises up it's sleeve, or is it all still just human's fault and that CO2 controls the weather/climate system.
A cooling globe says you're wrong again SebastianH!
You automatically assume and convince yourself that the skeptics are wrong and you're right. Not how an enlightening discussion works.
Great to have this info for more proof that the global warming caused by CO2 emissions is the biggest hoax ever used by governments and leftists to fleece the citizens of their money.
Large quantities of sea‐ice melt and river runoff in the Arctic Ocean form thin layers of fresh water at the surface that are isolated from deeper water. However, standard methods of sampling surface waters from ships draw water from 2‐7 m below the surface, which can cause errors in air‐sea CO2 fluxes calculated from measured seawater CO2 concentrations. We have quantified that potential error for waters of the coastal Arctic Ocean by measuring CO2 concentrations in samples collected near the surface using different methods from both large ships and small boats. We found that large errors could result from shipboard sampling at some stations. In particular, measuring the CO2 concentration from automated instruments that draw water from below the ship's hull systematically overestimated atmospheric CO2 absorption by the ocean.
So, CO2 and seawater values not quite as straightforward as originally thought.
It looks like the math is wrong here in the original document. The resultant temp and the original temp are reversed in the equation making the sign of the result wrong. The correct sign is used in the final result.


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Early last week, the economy seemed to improve slightly after President George W. Bush signed into law a $300 billion bill aimed at rescuing the housing market. The bill also included a rescue plan for bleeding mortgage finance firms Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. But by Friday, the Dow had dropped 51.7 points and the Department of Labor reported that employers cut 51,000 jobs in July.
Also adding to the bad news, the auto industry's annualized selling rate for July decreased to 12.6 million vehicles, the lowest since 1992. Sales of cars and light trucks at Chrysler, Ford, and GM fell by 29%, 26% and 15%, respectively. Chrysler says it plans to cut 1,000 white-collar posts by the end of September. After posting a $15.5 billion quarterly loss, GM shares closed 84 cents lower to $10.23.
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Slipknot Unveil 'The Devil in I' Concert Doc Video Plus News on Black Country Communion + More
Chad Childers Published: August 2, 2017
In addition to the big stories we covered today, Wire-to-Wire provides you with some of the other key rock and metal news items from August 2, 2017:
- Slipknot have unleashed another preview clip ahead of their Day of the Gusano concert documentary. This one finds the band playing the song "The Devil in I." The film is set to screen in theaters on Sept. 6. Watch the clip above.
- Black Country Communion have found the groove! Watch the new performance video from the studio as they rock out the song "Collide" right here. The song appears on the band's BCCIV album, due Sept. 22.
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Q: For a structured causal model, if two RVs are conditionally independent on X, are they also independent when only one of them is conditioned on X? Does
$(A \perp B)|X$ implies $(A|X)\perp B$ ?
I managed to derive it, but it feels wrong.
Here is my derivation. Is it flawed?

If $(A \perp B)|X$ then $(A|X) \perp (B|X)$ and therefore $p[A|(X, (B|X) ) ]=p[A|X]$
in addition: $p[A|(X, (B|X) ) ] = p[A|(X, B) ]$, because both $X$ and $B$ are given.
We can conclude that $p[A|(X, B) ] = p[A|X]$ and therefore $(A|X)\perp B$

EDIT:
Here is a relevant use case:
1) Let's say we have a causal graph B->X->A, with the structured eq. model (SEM)
$B = Nb$, s.t. $Nb$ ~ $p(Nb)$
$X = f1(B, Nx)$, s.t. $Nx$ ~ $p(Nx)$
$A = f2(X, Na)$, s.t. $Na$ ~ $p(Na)$
Na, Nb, Nx may (or may not) be independent, yet we definitely know that the conditional independence $(A \perp B)|X$ holds, does it implies that $(A|X)\perp B$ ?
Note: Under the SCM, (A|X) is a random variable that depends on Na.
2) What happens if the graph (and SEM) is reversed A->X->B. Would it also imply $(A|X)\perp B$ ?

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Метагидроксид кобальта — неорганическое соединение, гидроксооксид металла кобальта с формулой CoO(OH), тёмно-коричневый аморфный осадок или чёрные кристаллы, не растворимые в воде.

Получение

 В природе встречается минерал гетерогенит — CoO(OH) с различными примесями.

 Окисление гидроксида кобальта(II):

 Окисление растворимой соли двухвалентного кобальта в щелочной среде:

 Осаждение щелочами из раствора солей трёхвалентвого кобальта:

Физические свойства

Метагидроксид кобальта образует чёрные кристаллы тригональной сингонии, пространственная группа R m, параметры ячейки a = 0,2851 нм, c = 1,3150 нм, Z = 3.
При высокой температуре и давлении переходит в другую модификацию ромбической сингонии, пространственная группа P bnm, параметры ячейки a = 0,4353 нм, b = 0,9402 нм, c = 0,2840 нм, Z = 4.

Не растворяется в воде, р ПР = 42,60.

Химические свойства

 Разлагается при нагревании:

 С концентрированными кислотами проявляет себя как окислитель:

Примечания

Литература

кобальта
кобальта
Соединения кобальта


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On first meeting Brittnee and Cameron I was over the moon at the prospect of photographing their wedding.
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The seats got set up for the ceremony. It was an on/off decision as dark clouds were looming but thankfully the sun shone for the ceremony. Once everyone was in place Brittnee walked down the aisle with her Dad. What a beautiful ceremony by Rachel. We then got a large group shot of the guests and some other family pictures. I then took 15 minutes with the couple around the castle ruins.
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We then drove to the village of Fettercairn where Brittnee and Cameron got on a horse drawn carriage to complete the rest of their journey. They even had an old fashioned scramble for all the kids who wanted to see the bride.
We then arrived at Homefield farm where the reception was. This is a private barn that is owned by a farmer but boy did it look amazing. It was straight into the buffet then speeches. The couples cakes were incredible. Displayed in old vintage suit cases which just suited the venue perfectly. Brittnee and Cameron and their family really had put an amazing amount of effort into all the little touches in the barn.
After the meal the couple and their guests headed outside for a hand fasting ceremony. This was so that all their evening guests could be apart of a ceremony, a lovely touch.
It was then back inside for some more speeches and dancing This was also when Cameron performed his song to Brittnee on the fiddle. Brittnee was in tears and so was I nearly as the music was so beautiful.
Brittnee then threw her bouquet to one lucky lady and Cameron grabbed Brittnee's garter off with his teeth! An American tradition that I would like to see more of as it was great for pictures!!


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Former Sen. Arlen Specter loses it on radio show
Rudy Takala: Posted on Sunday, April 1, 2012 11:57 PM
From http://dailycaller.com/2012/04/01/arlen-specter-loses-it-on-conservative-talk-radio-show:
Former Sen. Arlen Specter experienced a meltdown of Pennsylvanian proportions on a talk radio show Friday while promoting his new book, "Life Among the Cannibals."
The Republican-turned-Democrat hasn't been particularly welcomed by conservative radio hosts during his promotional book tour. Rusty Humphries, whose show airs on Atlanta's 640AM-WGST, even mocked Specter a bit during his appearance on his show. But on Jason Lewis' nationally syndicated show Friday, Specter threw an Obamacare-sized tantrum after he had to sit through two commercial breaks.
"Jason, I have one final comment," Specter said.
"I gave you 10 minutes. You've been over every subject except for my book. I've listened to two rounds of your commercials. I think it's insulting. I've been in a lot of interviews in the course of the past 30 years and you are absolutely insulting!"
Specter's on-air tirade didn't stop there. "This is no way to run an interview!" he sputtered.
"Listen, I'm talking about somebody who's civilized!" Specter said.
"I told you the last time around I wasn't looking to sit around and listen to your commercials, and I didn't want to hang up on you. But I want to tell you this is no way for anybody to run an interview. I'm as experienced as you are, if not more so. And that's all I have to tell you, so goodbye!"
And with that, Specter hung up.
Lewis reacted to Specter's tirade by suggesting Specter's behavior helped explain why he was defeated in the 2010 Pennsylvania Democratic Senate primary to then- Democratic Rep. Joe Sestak. (Sestak ultimately lost to Republican Pat Toomey in the general election.)
"Good lord, senator — no wonder you got beat," Lewis said.
"This is the most intolerant guest I've ever had on the program. How on earth do you — Does he only do NPR interviews? Is that the deal? I've never heard anything like it. Well, good luck with the book. I think you're going to need it."
Lewis is right about the former senator needing "luck" with his new book. As of Sunday afternoon, Specter's tome was ranked 3,066th on Amazon.com's book sales chart, and 1,369th on Barnesandnoble.com.
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World Leaders, Celebrities And Sports Stars Condemn 'Cruel' Sri Lanka Attacks
Viki Gerova
A series of explosions that ripped through the capital of Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday have been condemned globally.
More than 200 people have died and hundreds more have been injured after six simultaneous blasts rocked three churches and three hotels.
Hours later two more explosions were reported by police as the government declared an island-wide curfew between the hours of 6pm and 6am.
The explosions, several of which occurred while crowds gathered in churches for Easter Sunday mass have been condemned by leaders around the world.
An injured tourist crosses the road in front of the National Hospital at Colombo, Sri Lanka. Image: Getty
World leaders have also condemned the attack, including Jacinda Ardern whose country also suffered at the hands of a terror attack earlier this year.
"New Zealand condemns all acts of terrorism, and our resolve has only been strengthened by the attack on our soil on the 15th of March," Ardern said in a statement distributed to local media.
"New Zealand rejects all forms of extremism and stands for freedom of religion and the right to worship safely. Collectively we must find the will and the answers to end such violence.''
Pope Francis the leader of the Catholic Church described the attacks as "such cruel violence" during his traditional Easter Sunday message in front of tens of thousands at St Peter's Square.
"I learned with sadness and pain of the news of the grave attacks, that precisely today, Easter, brought mourning and pain to churches and other places where people were gathered in Sri Lanka," the Pope said.
"I wish to express my affectionate closeness to the Christian community, hit while it was gathered in prayer, and to all the victims of such cruel violence."
A photo uploaded by St. Sebastian's Church in Negombo after the blast. Photo: Facebook
Prime Minister Scott Morrison also condemned the attacks and said his first priority was to follow through on the safety of all Australians in Sri Lanka currently.
"There are many Australians who do travel in this area and the information that is coming out of Sri Lanka is very confused at this point, as you'd expect it to be after such an horrific incident," he said.
Opposition Leader Bill Shorten also said he was devastated by news of the attacks.
U.S. President Donald Trump also offered the heartfelt condolences of the nation and offered the country's support to Sri Lanka.
He issued a revised tweet after earlier tweeting that the number of casualties stood in the millions.
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Cricketers and other sports stars have also paid their respects to the victims.
Celebrities waking up to the news around the world have also issued statements and expressed sympathies to victims.
Any Australians concerned about loved ones in Sri Lanka should call 1300 555 135.
Affected Australians should contact the 24-hour Consular Emergency Centre in Canberra on +61 2 6261 3305 from overseas
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Seven people have so far been arrested over the spate of explosions in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday, authorities have confirmed.
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One of the suicide bombers behind the devastating Easter Sunday attacks in Sri Lanka is believed to have studied at university in Australia, authorities say.
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Sri Lankan police are trying to track down 140 people believed linked to ISIS, which claimed responsibility for the Easter Sunday suicide bombings of churches and hotels that killed 253 people, President Maithripala said.