/sci/ - Science & Math

>>8759330
>Would anybody else be more comfortable accepting the views of climate scientists if they were more open about the flaws in their research?
I think the absence of actual skeptics (as opposed to contrarians calling themselves skeptics) has hurt climatology. arguably, the last real skeptic we had was Judith Curry, and even she kinda went whackadoodle denier towards the end of her career.

>>8759401
>politicians and media distort and sensationalize conclusions made by scientists
>therefore you can't trust those darned librul (((scientists)))
I bet you think scientists actually claimed that farts cure cancer...

Double majored in bio and geo
now in grad school doing paleofuckintology
feels goodman

they won't die.

an object falling over a long distance will eventually reach "terminal velocity"; that is, the deceleration due to air resistance (drag) will counterbalance the acceleration due to gravity, and the object won't get any faster.
because gravitational acceleration is a constant 9.8 m/s^2 (decently close to the earth's surface), drag force is a function of speed and of the object's surface area profile, and drag acceleration is the drag force divided by the mass of the object, that terminal velocity is going to depend on the object's mass and shape. because surface area varies as the square of length (roughly speaking) and mass varies as the cube of length, larger objects will tend to have higher terminal velocities.

terminal velocity for a human is something like 53 m/s, easily enough to splatter you into goop. for an ant, it's more like 2 m/s. that's something they can easily withstand.

>>7959980
>A warming earth provides economic advantages.
I never knew that unseasonable drought, massive disruptions to climate, increases in severe weather, reduced marine productivity, and general mayhem were worth a slight lengthening of the growing season in temperate regions.
>Then we do a large scale sequestration program for a few decades and it's solved.
Carbon sequestration is definitely a meme.

>>7455485
fukken saved. here, have a pic in exchange.