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06-02-2012, 08:01 PM | #1 |
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Spliffs usually have a rollrd heavy paper mouthpiece.
Blunts are usually cigars (or cigarettes) hollowed out and filled.
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06-03-2012, 01:21 PM | #2 |
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A spliff around here is when you use the diagonal rolling technique. As opposed to a straight up joint. Supposedly leaves no roach.
A blunt uses a emptied cigar paper, or, alternatively, a wrap. A wrap is just an empty (sometimes flavored) cigar paper that was never a cigar. YMMV
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06-03-2012, 11:00 PM | #4 |
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Just goes to show you can't get a definitive answer from dopers.
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06-26-2012, 02:54 PM | #6 |
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I tried every way I know to get this flow chart down to a postable/readable size...but, I can't get it smaller than 300kb and still be legible.
The Stephen King Universe (less The Dark Tower) (May have to fiddle with that link, it doesn't want to play nice)
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06-30-2012, 01:33 PM | #8 |
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It happens frequently, and, it's easy to do, but...
I'm confused.
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spode had this on fb the other day
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07-03-2012, 01:41 AM | #11 |
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yeah, you're reading that right. plants prettymuch stop being able to photosynthesize at around Fahrenheit 100. and that's a graph from a study titled "When can we expect extremely high surface temperatures?" predicting the rise of extreme temperatures worldwide. see the bit where the midwest gets hot enough to kill crops more and more often, hotter and hotter, starting like... pretty damn soon? after the recent heatwaves across the US, supposedly less than half of US corn is judged to be in "good" condition by the USDA and 22% is considered "bad", when just months ago, with record planting, the USDA predicted a record crop this year. The price of corn has risen 30% since June, after the same record temperatures hammered farms in South America. At least, assuming this well-written and highly-recommended article is right. sounds pretty damn dire.
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I think that article is three fifths true, makes two significant lapses, and is written poorly and more alarmist than necessary.
True: the planet is warming. True: plants suffer a lot in heat and eventually stop photosynthesising (and soon die). True: we need these plants. Important lapse 1: the graph of photosynthesis and temperature, a key piece of the article, fails my epistemological tests. All their other graphs are derived from the article you link to, are well labeled and show the sort of scattered data one expects. The photosynthesis/temperature graph is not well labeled (units for photosynthesis?), is never attributed to a source (and I followed the links to other Kos articles) and IMHO has data points that fit the required curve too damn neatly to be real. The kicker for me, though, is that it does not say which species of plant this is for - different species would have different levels of tolerance. For example, equatorial regions are covered in forests. There might be truth in this, but that graph is IMHO not up to it. Important lapse 2: Now consider the other graph you have shown. It is not a forecast of average annual temperature, nor even the highest temperature expected each year. It is the T100. It is well explained here: http://texasclimate.org/ClimateChang...8/Default.aspx Quote:
Poorly written and alarmist? IMHO, yes. It jumps around from photosynthesis to human heatstroke, and throws various examples around in jumbled order, and I believe has misused one respectable graph and used one that is suspect. That said, cereal crops are crucial to human civilisation, they are harmed by heatwaves, heatwaves are expected to become more common, this is bad. It's not quite as dire as that article makes it look.
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07-03-2012, 08:23 AM | #13 |
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Plants love CO2. Warming is about one degree. I'm sure we'll be fine.
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I refer you, sir, to my post in your "Insult me" thread.
The research behind Ibby's article indicates that peak temperatures are expected to increase by more than average temperatures, and it is the peaks that mess things up for us.
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07-03-2012, 09:23 AM | #15 |
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Mine is not a righty position. Inherent in my statement is that warming is happening and likely to continue. (After the current pause.)
I just don't have the alarm that others have. For one thing, I notice there are both winners and losers in climate change and everyone is ignoring the winners for some dumb reason. Some places will become dust bowls, other places will become the new fertile territory. And this has already happened over and over again, even in recorded history. I notice that climate scientists are not botanists. Problems with plants are now easily solved through genetic engineering (or the old slower style of genetic engineering where plants and animals are bred for traits). We need corn that can take an extra few degrees of summer heat -- and they say the price for that kind just went up 30%? Then we will have that corn, period. Any problem worth an additional third will suddenly have a lot of energy thrown at it, that's how markets tend to solve these things. |
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