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Re:Balloon detects first signs of a ‘sound tunnel’ in the sky by zackmorris on Thursday April 28, 2022 @11:55AM (#31194112)
The link in the article about measuring global warming by the speed of sound through the SOFAR channel is genius IMHO:

https://www.science.org/content/article/ocean-s-hidden-heat-...

The embedded video shows how much energy in zettajoules the ocean has absorbed at the 20 second mark:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPH1TFgv6m8

This is stuff that just can't be unseen, regardless of how hard deniers keep denying.

Re:Balloon detects first signs of a ‘sound tunnel’ in the sky by ErikVandeWater on Thursday April 28, 2022 @05:23PM (#31198396)
It's funny how this thread is making fun of people for not taking climate change seriously when the thing that "can't be unseen" is a chart with no title and no error bars that cuts off ~9 years before the video was published.
Re:Balloon detects first signs of a ‘sound tunnel’ in the sky by jiveturkey on Thursday April 28, 2022 @03:23PM (#31197041)
> regardless of how hard deniers keep denying.

sorry, but lol. We've had very good evidence for some time. This is "just" something additional. The deniers aren't operating on evidence.

Re:Balloon detects first signs of a ‘sound tunnel’ in the sky by jkubicek on Thursday April 28, 2022 @04:33PM (#31197862)
You can't reason people out of a position they didn't reason themselves into in the first place
Re:Balloon detects first signs of a ‘sound tunnel’ in the sky by dontcare007 on Thursday April 28, 2022 @02:57PM (#31196707)
Wow, knowingly releasing data that could negatively affect National Security.... -

"We didn't tell the Navy that if you published the signal, which we did, then you could figure out where the receivers were,"

Re:Balloon detects first signs of a ‘sound tunnel’ in the sky by dontcare007 on Thursday April 28, 2022 @05:34PM (#31198491)
Negative points and no discussion of why? The quote was in the first of the linked articles.
Re:Balloon detects first signs of a ‘sound tunnel’ in the sky by zmgsabst on Thursday April 28, 2022 @05:19PM (#31198353)
That chart claims there’s 0 ZJ in 1970… which seems unlikely, since the planet wasn’t at absolute zero then.

I think you’d come across as more credible if the chart showed the contextualized change — rather than clearly being edited for dramatic effect.

Re:Balloon detects first signs of a ‘sound tunnel’ in the sky by throwaway5752 on Thursday April 28, 2022 @09:10PM (#31200202)
It's assumed the viewer will be able to understand that it is the starting frame of reference, not absolute zero.
Re:Balloon detects first signs of a ‘sound tunnel’ in the sky by zmgsabst on Thursday April 28, 2022 @11:08PM (#31200931)
Duh — but a reference/baseline you don’t share and showing only de-contextualized change scaled to “look scary” is classic lying with statistics.

How much change does 200 ZJ represent?

We’re purposefully not told that information because that chart is propaganda meant to make an emotional argument and not informational argument — and I think it speaks to the person I was replying to that they’re using emotive arguments rather than fact based arguments.

Particularly when lobbing ad hominems at others.

Re:Balloon detects first signs of a ‘sound tunnel’ in the sky by Cthulhu_ on Friday April 29, 2022 @04:13AM (#31202665)
There's this saying about assumptions, I forgot what it was... Anyway, it's better to be clear than make assumptions about the audience, and you know that bad charts are a big contributor to the spread of misinformation and confusion.