JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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- Assistant Language Teacher - TOKYO - late-March start
- Interac, Tokyo
- Salary: ¥230,000 ~ ¥255,000 / Month
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- Assistant Language Teacher - Kanagawa Prefecture - late-March start
- Interac, Kanagawa
- Salary: ¥230,000 ~ ¥255,000 / Month
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- Part Time Assistant Language Teacher - Kanagawa Prefecture - late-March start
- Interac, Kanagawa
- Salary: ¥9,000 / Day per 4 class shift
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yokomoc
They have a cheek. If you want noise pollution take a walk down Kokusai Dori in Naha on a summer's night.
Posted in: Okinawa noise pollution trial begins with 22,000 plaintiffs
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yokomoc
Woodford was clearly unfamiliar with some traditional Japanese business practices, like the mandatory 20% yakuza cut through a series of complex offshore accounts. Lessons learned eh.
Posted in: Olympus shares continue slide amid fall-out from British CEO's ouster
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yokomoc
@smith, the mark of a good team is being able to leave top players out and play as well without them. The team have been excellent with or without Honda in the side. Zaccheroni just has them very well organised, they play a formation that doesn't lose many goals and they have great movement going forward that allows them to create chances. Honda gives the team a different option going forward with his more physical game and long shooting.
@calm down, who was saying that? Every team misses chances, it's when they stop creating them you should worry.
Posted in: Japan routs Tajikistan 8-0 in World Cup qualifier
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yokomoc
As poor as Tajikistan were, Japan continue to be very impressive. The current lot must be the best Japan team of all time. Roll on the world Cup.
Posted in: Japan routs Tajikistan 8-0 in World Cup qualifier
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yokomoc
@gogogo, the scheme is revenue neutral and any income generated is refunded to taxpayers. An almost identical system in been in place in BC, Canada since '08 - the purpose is to put a properly price in the long-term effects of carbon emissions.
As one of the largest per capita emitters, Australia is a big testing ground for this system. If it's successful there then it should be successful anywhere.
Posted in: Australian parliament approves carbon tax
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yokomoc
Tax cuts! Tax cuts! More tax cuts!
Posted in: Obama to GOP: Act on jobs or get run out of town
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yokomoc
NeverSubmit, you need to learn the difference between the troposphere and stratosphere. A cooling of the stratosphere (where most of the ozone is) while the troposphere warms is one of the indicators of greenhouse warming and has been predicted for years.
Posted in: Scientists worried as Arctic has record ozone loss
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yokomoc
@NeverSubmit
Lol
Posted in: The American 'allergy' to global warming: Why?
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yokomoc
*Correction: The Great Global Warming Blunder
Posted in: The American 'allergy' to global warming: Why?
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yokomoc
The greenhouse effect of CO2 is a physical fact. That burning fossil fuels has increased the CO2 concentration in the atmosphere is a fact observed by carbon isotope analysis. Even well-known 'skeptics' like Lord Monckton or Roy Spencer (who wrote "The Great Climate Swindle") who claim it's a conspiracy, a religion, etc. and disparage the IPCC at any opportunity accept this. Their contention is just that it won't be as bad as is projected, and that other factors like increased cloud cover will negate some or most of the warming.
Posted in: The American 'allergy' to global warming: Why?
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yokomoc
What do you base this on?
Posted in: The American 'allergy' to global warming: Why?
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yokomoc
@Sam, if it's sea ice that's melting the water level should remain almost unchanged (although there is a very small increase as fresh water is less dense than salt water). It's when ice over land melts that you should see sea levels increasing significantly.
The Global Cooling/New Ice Age stuff from the 70s was mostly sensationalising by the magazines. There were some scientists theorizing that then but the majority were predicting warming even then when it was an emerging science.
Posted in: Canadian Arctic nearly loses entire ice shelf
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yokomoc
If you look at it objectively you're a skeptic. If you blanket ignore any research supporting global warming and latch onto any unsubstantiated claim against it (see your Mount Pinatubo post) you're a denier.
Posted in: The American 'allergy' to global warming: Why?
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yokomoc
Several decades? It was formed in 1988 so I guess 23 years is 'several decades' right? They gave a number of scenarios given the scientific uncertainties then and the temperature change is well within that range.
http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/tabledata/GLB.Ts.txt
The models are constantly being improved as new research is done, but this isn't the IPCC's responsibility. The IPCC doesn't do any research. Their are no such things as 'IPCC models'.
Sorry, but I don't do belief
The two terms have been used independently for years in the scientific literature to describe two different things.
Posted in: The American 'allergy' to global warming: Why?
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yokomoc
The trains are made to look pro-jedi, but when they stop you can here them go "Siiitthhhh".
Posted in: Darth Vader takes over Tokyo trains
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yokomoc
And speaking of the Petition Project, of those 31,000 only roughly 200 were involved in climate science. If I lived in the US I could have signed that petition on the basis of being a qualified scientist. All you need is a bachelors degree. The petition methodology was also non-scientific and open to abuse.
http://www.skepticalscience.com/OISM-Petition-Project-intermediate.htm
Posted in: The American 'allergy' to global warming: Why?
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yokomoc
Talk about projection. You have not given one piece of accurate science backing up what you're saying. I've given plenty.
Posted in: The American 'allergy' to global warming: Why?
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yokomoc
Giaever earned his Nobel prize in semiconductor physics and quantum tunnelling. He is as much an authority on climate science as you or I.
As Pawatan says six commitees have investigated their methods and found no wrongdoing. An independent inquiry went back to the primary data sources and were able to replicate CRU's results. I'm surprised you're keen to discredit their data since it's the HADCRUT dataset that gives rise the the much parroted "no warming since 1998" claim that I recall you were very keen on in your former guise of 'arrestpaul' (am I allowed to say that?) You must believe NASA have also tampered with their GISS data in order to come to good agreement with HADCRUT? It's all part of the hoax right?
Lol! Where do yo pull these gems from? CO2 from human activity is 100 times that from volcanoes. I think you need to step out from your (very small) bubble.
Posted in: The American 'allergy' to global warming: Why?
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yokomoc
Why would Milankovitch cycles say anything about human-induced warming? They're two different effects. The important factor that links them is an energy imbalance which causes changes in climate amongst other things to rebalance.
In M. cycles, it takes a certain 'perfect storm' of earth's precession, axial tilt and orbital eccentricity to induce an ice age. Basically the conditions have to be right to allow enough ice to gather at the poles (primarily the land-free north pole), and to remain there, so that the albedo effect (reflection of sunlight back into space by the ice) becomes dominant, reducing the temperatures further. But these occur over a period of many thousands of years.
In human-induced climate change the imbalance is mainly caused by extra CO2 added to the climate system - carbon which has not been been in the system for millions of years.
BTW it's entirely possible than we are putting an end to the ice ages by releasing this carbon. The ice ages are a pretty new phenomenon that only appear to have come about once CO2 levels dropped sufficiently through weathering.
Posted in: The American 'allergy' to global warming: Why?
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yokomoc
Japan placed 12th.
http://www.sacbee.com/2011/09/27/3942379/canada-is-the-country-with-the.html
Posted in: Canada has best reputation in world: study