http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2015/1201/Why-some-Americans-remain-skeptical-about-climate-change
>Two new analyses examine 'how a culture of misinformation' can be spread within the American public, according to their author.
>A network of conservative donors and interest groups in the US form an intricate ecosystem effective at converting dollars to public doubts about global warming.
>That is the broad conclusion from an exhaustive analysis of 20 years' worth of IRS documents, as well as speeches, blog posts, books, and position papers from politicians, conservative think tanks, and trade groups.
>The analysis spans two research papers, the latest of which was published Monday in Nature Climate Change. It follows a study published Nov. 23 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that in effect set the table for the latest study.
the study: http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2015/11/18/1509433112.abstract
>Taken together, the analyses by Yale University sociologist Justin Farrell, does the best job yet of connecting the dots along the paths from donation to representation of contrarian viewpoints by politicians and in the media, from whom people take many of their cues on policy, says Robert Brulle, a sociologist at Drexel University in Philadelphia.
>Monday's study fills what Dr. Brulle calls a key gap in the sequence of steps that leads from donations to the appearance of climate-contrarian language in the media, where most people get their climate information. It suggests that the message donors are paying for increasingly has worked its way into the media, where the public gets most of its information on climate change.
>This follows work Dr. Farrell published Nov. 23 that identifies the links within the network, highlights several themes contrarians have included in their material, and explores the impact funding has on the emphasis those themes receive.
>Over the past decade, other peer-reviewed studies, as well as books, have been written about efforts by key players in the fossil-fuel industry and among conservative groups to sow doubt among politicians and the public about the need to curtail the greenhouse-gas emissions that are driving global warming.
>It's not a question of winning over a majority of Americans, notes Anthony Leiserowitz, director of the Yale Project on Climate Change Communications and a collaborator on a project with researchers at George Mason University in Virginia that tracks public opinion on climate-change issues.
>Contrarians “just need to be strong enough to say no” to major policy decisions aimed at curbing global warming, he says.
>The broader issue remains, however – “how a culture of misinformation can be spread so effectively within the American public,” writes Farrell in an e-mail.
>In trying to help answer that question, the new work “adds a level of detail and integration that we did not previously have,” adds Naomi Oreskes, professor of the history of science at Harvard University and co-author of the book, “Merchants of Doubt,” in an e-mail.
>Farrell opted to treat climate contrarians as a social movement and searched for the links between all of the key players to gauge their relative influence with politicians and the media.
>Initial outlines of the network have appeared in previous studies. Two years ago, for example, Dr. Brulle's research identified 140 foundations that between 2003 and 2010 collectively contributed nearly $560 million to 91 conservative organizations focused either exclusively or in part on casting doubt on climate change and the need for action to counter it.
>Farrell identified another 73 groups, expanding the sample to 164. To represent the donor community, he focused on ExxonMobile and the Koch Family Foundations. Previous studies had identified these two organizations as among the most influential.
>In addition, he used computer-based text analysis to hunt for common themes among nearly 41,000 documents or speeches the network produced during the 20-year period.
>The first part of the analysis, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, focused on the donors and the organizations they fund.
>Not all contrarian groups in the sample received money from ExxonMobil or the Koch Family Foundations, the study noted. Those that did, however, were more likely than the received-nots among contrarian groups to write and publish documents aimed at polarizing public views on climate change.
>Prior to this analysis, “we didn't know that there was a difference between these two groups,” Brulle says. “We knew there were variations among groups, but we hadn't tied that to their funding.”
>Perhaps more important, the money was a signal of the recipients' places nearest the center of the contrarian network. That's where the money goes because “they are better organized and better connected, which leads to more influence,” Farrell notes.
>In addition, Farrell's data hint at the influence corporate and foundation money may have on the themes that recipients emphasize. By 2013, for example, funded groups were placing a higher focus on criticizing scientists' analysis of global temperature than groups that had not received funding. That marked a reversal from what had been the norm during the past 20 years, and the change took place over the past eight years, data show.
>The shift loosely tracks the rise of the so-called hiatus or pause in global warming as an issue. The notion of a pause didn't come from the scientific literature, where researchers are interested in trends over century time scales, notes Drexel's Brulle.
>Instead, “it was a climate disinformation meme” he says, one that the media amplified. It sent scientists scrambling to explain it, even though the decade in question not only was the warmest on record, it hosted several of the warmest years on record – later to be topped by 2014 and now expected to be topped by 2015.
http://www.cartoonbrew.com/flash/adobe-kills-flash-name-rebrands-animator-friendly-animate-cc-124189.html
>With the Flash name now a liability in the tech world, Adobe announced today that it will kill the Flash name, in deference to the emergence of HTML5 as an online video standard, and reintroduce the software as Adobe Animate CC in January.
>Adobe says that the rebrand is “much more than just a name change” and unveiled a new video today in which Michael Chaize, principal Creative Cloud evangelist, explains some of the new features in Animate CC:
>At first glance, Animate CC seems to be more animator-friendly with Illustrator-level vector art brushes and less focus on website banners and buttons. The Capture CC app also looks promising as a way of quickly translating line art to vector, though it lags behind animation software like Toon Boom Harmony, which has those capabilities built into the program.
>Adobe, for once, is even pushing the fact that its software can be used by broadcast animators, citing in today’s announcement that Flash is “widely used in the cartoon industry by powerhouse studios like Nickelodeon and Titmouse Inc.” While the claim is not untrue, it should be noted that most Nick shows today are currently made in Toon Boom. [...]
Another nail in the coffin. ;_;
>>>/f/2966652
>>4320
I was gonna make a comment about going back to ShockWave, but Adobe owns that as well.
>>4320
Finally.
>>4320
Do you think they will rename /f/?
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2437549/google-brings-chrome-47-to-the-desktop-ditching-the-notification-centre
>The biggest change this time has been the removal of the Desktop Notification Centre after three years. Google has said that this was down to lack of use. At the end of the day, it is a feature that is best served in an operating system, not a browser. As such, it remains part of Chrome OS but any calls to its API from the browser version will now throw up an error.
>Also included are 41 security fixes provided by the community as part of the company's bounty rewards programme and others caught using Address Sanitiser and Memory Sanitiser. The bug bounty has been a rich one, paying out $105,000 to developers spotting shonky code, including $11,337 for a single bug.
They changed many things.
>>5195
>The biggest change this time has been the removal of the Desktop Notification Centre after three years. Google has said that this was down to lack of use.
that's kind of shit
mostly since Showdown used it to let me know when it was my turn to play
there's dick all reason for it to go away, even if it wasn't really used that much
>>5195
yeah BUT YET
they still havent fixed their ungodly amount or disk usage & i/o reads and writes to disk which reaches into the 10's of millions in a 6-7 hour session.
FIX YOUR FUCKING BULLSHIT BROWSER CHROME FOR FUCKS SAKE IT"S BEEN YEARS ALREADY.
JUST FIX IT.
>>5332
>mostly since Showdown used it to let me know when it was my turn to play
Literally the only thing I used it for
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-34980504
https://archive.is/Jd7R7
>David Cameron has told MPs that bombing IS in Syria will "keep the British people safe" - but Jeremy Corbyn said his case for war "doesn't stack up".
>Mr Cameron faced calls to apologise for saying opponents of military action were "terrorist sympathisers", with Mr Corbyn saying it "demeaned" his office.
>The 10 hour Commons debate will end with a vote on whether the UK joins others such as France, the US and Russia in bombing targets in Syria.
>According to BBC research, of the 640 MPs expected to vote, 362 MPs are in favour of the motion while 175 are against. Of the remainder, 19 are "leaning to" supporting the government, three are "leaning against" while 80 are undecided.
Is it worth the UK joining in? Will it actually make any difference? Also is Cameron right in saying anyone opposing is a terrorist sympathiser?
>>4600
I think that the decision of the UK to fight Daesh is more nuanced than for America. Many of the most recent Islamic terrorist attacks have taken place in Europe. It's true that Daesh is becoming stronger but the majority of the terrorists (if not all of them) have been home-grown. That's why I don't think that destroying Daesh will stop terrorist attacks in Europe.
The problem is deeper than "bomb these guys and call it a day." The Western world is seen as islamaphobic by these guys and we need to do our best to change that image, not only for our own safety, but so that groups like Daesh don't emerge again. Proving a firm hand is useful in the short term, but we need to do a lot more to rebuild the infrastructure of the middle east after we spent trillions to tear it down.
Not to mention that worsening living conditions in the middle east brought on global climate change pushes desperate people to violence and extremism. The plan for attack is complex and many-fold, but our first step should probably involve destroying Daesh, especially for Europe.
This all being said, Cameron's rhetoric is pathetic and cowardly. It's easy to call someone a "terrorist sympathizer." They should not immediately scramble to take on Daesh, but rather think of a way to do so while simultaneously offering aid to displaced Syrians and offering to take in even more refugees.
>>4600
What will airstrikes do exactly?
I get they'll kill some people, who clears out the towns of le isilboogeymen? who takes over if they magically vanish? Is there anyone able to govern and protect these areas? 'moderate' rebels?
>>4610
>The Western world is seen as heathen
ftfy,
Regrettably the arab nationalist movements were destroyed and replaced with sunni or shia islamism.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/bill-nye-climate-change-paris-terrorism_565ccdebe4b079b2818b810b
>>4555
>le mainstream meme sideboob gazette
Leave it to them to pay smart people to say stupid shit
>>4570
Bill key has a bachelors in engineering.
Not a scientist
Not that smart
>>4580
That's always been my biggest complaint with him. You're a fucking engineer. Your job is the hobby of actual science, why the hell are you an authority on anything?
sup /news/ance
what are some good/your personal favorite news sources?
i use RT occasionally,
https://www.rt.com/
would like to find something less bias.
I remember talking points memo being pretty good, but that probably means the it has a significant liberal bias.
>>4485
thanks I'll check it out
>>4484
everything has bias, use an aggregator like google news or yahoo news.
you only get a sense of what is really happening by seeing all the stories everywher and not the just the stories the sites want to cover and pick out for you.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-12-02/china-blamed-for-cyber-attack-on-bureau-of-meteorology/6993278
>China is being blamed for a major cyber attack on the computers at the Bureau of Meteorology, which has compromised sensitive systems across the Federal Government. Multiple official sources have confirmed the recent attack and the ABC has been told it will cost millions of dollars to plug the security breach, as other agencies have also been affected.
>The bureau owns one of Australia's largest supercomputers and provides critical information to a host of agencies. Its systems straddle the nation, including one link into the Department of Defence at Russell Offices in Canberra. But the ABC has been told this is a "massive" breach and one official said there was little doubt where it came from. "It's China," he said. The motivation for the attack on the bureau could be commercial, strategic or both. The bureau is a critical national resource and another state would place a high value on its intellectual property and scientific research. In the event of a conflict, compromising Australia's ability to accurately forecast weather would affect the operation of military and commercial aircraft.
>Beyond that, the bureau provides a gateway to other agencies. In March the Bureau's chief executive Robert Vertessy told Radio National that his agency had evolved "from what was once just a straight weather service to what I would call now a more broad-based environmental intelligence agency". It provides weather and climate forecasting, tsunami warnings, tide predictions, water resources and even space weather. There is no clear picture yet how much the breach will cost to fix or how long it will take but the critical nature of the bureau's services means its systems cannot be switched off for repair.
>In the words of one source: "It could take years and cost hundreds of millions of dollars to fix."
YOOO WHAT THE FUCK CHINA
I hope this is the final straw, and these attacks start having actual consequences.
If they blew up $100m worth of chattel there would be consequences.
>>4359
Bro, thats not cool, I thought we bonded over coal. Brochi, man, c'mon, ahh okay I forgive ya. Here mate, have a beer, and some more land..
oh, you want more land? sure.. more? uhm okay.....
Guys..
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-34971925
>US marine guilty of Filipina transgender killing
>>4330
"transgender woman". Anyway it takes a blind and deaf man to not realize you are talking to a trap, if he got that far he should have just left or fucked the inverted penis instead of murdering a degenerate and ruining his life.
>>4330
>murdering someone in another country
>6-12 years in prison
I'm not some sjw, but murder is murder, fucker should get more then that
>>4438
>murder is murder
Except when it's manslaughter, which is what this was.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-34978249
https://archive.is/F3URN
>Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan say they will give away 99% of their shares in the company to good causes as they announce the birth of their daughter Max.
>He said they are donating their fortune to the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative because they want to make the world a better place for Max to grow up in.
>Mr Zuckerberg said the donation currently amounts to $45bn (£30bn).
Is he the new Bill Gates? What would you do with $45bn if you had it?
>>4295
>What would you do with $45bn if you had it?
Keep it for myself and buy useless junk.
I would keep saving my pennies until I could bankroll the 4th reich.
>Giving your money away to morons
Great way to boost sales of Transformers DVDs and $300 sneakers.
>Their daughter
>Max
Pick a real name for your mongoloid kid, you jackass.
>>4298
You could buy some small African country with kind of money. You would need to buy an awful lot of junk to actually even begin to whittle down $45bn.
Nigerians are always ready to mete out jungle justice to the men of the underworld who want to live like kings in the jungle. According to reports, these armed robbers were caught over the weekend at Olowotedo Mowe along Lagos Ibadan express way Ogun state, Nigeria. They were mercilessly beaten by the angry mob before being handed over to the police after being stripped naked and beaten to pulp.
http://www.newseveryhour.com/2015/11/weve-never-seen-armed-robbers-beaten.html
Why do people complain about police brutality in the west again?
>>4255
By all means, use the Spoiler Function newfriend.
It's funny how Nigerians are actually trying to improve their country, but American dindus only care about Jordans and BLM protests
The French haven't much changed their attitude RE: immigration since the Paris attacks. This is in contrast to other European countries, such as Poland or the UK, where you saw noticeable changes in policy or public opinion.
In September, immigration of political refugees stood at net +6 favourability in France, now it is at -3. 40% of Frenchmen still say they should be allowed, versus just 20% in the UK.
It is still unclear whether the fingerprints found on the Stade de France assailant match those of a refugee logged in Greece in October.
https://yougov.co.uk/news/2015/11/29/no-hardening-attitudes-refugees-france-post-paris/
>environmental migrants
Ahahaha what the fuck are they?
>>4666
Environmental migrants, economic migrants, political refugees and so on are all the same. Most are the two former looking for welfare from European and western civilizations.
Some disguise the terms as
>looking for a better life
>>4803
>Ooga booga, refugees takin our white gold
>dey got no rights to be here, dey betta go back to dey homeland
>>4827
>>>/pol/
The overwhelming majority of people moving to Europe are non-western males from the age of 17-35(fighting age men).
They go to countries like Greece first, get registered, then throw out their papers and try to get to Germany or Sweden where they get massive benifits.
In Hungary they refuse food and water because it has the red cross on it.
They don't have a "right" to be here because they are not origin to those countries, much less the EU.
Drudge made this the main headline. http://drudgereport.com/now3.htm
It was probably some retard who assumed it was rape when it's just the bear mauling him.
>>4165
That's worse than /mlp/er-level dumb, if true.
>>4159
>FOX has given the movie an award-qualifying release on Christmas Day.
>Christmas Day.
ho ho ho, everyone. bear rape.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/peoples-racist-facebook-comments-ending-234400980.html
good counter trick to be honest
don't use kikebook???
Even twitter is fine, at least you don't need to verify ID or shit like that
that's pretty hilarious.
>The campaign, "Virtual racism, real consequences," is using the location tag from Facebook posts to find where the offenders live. The group is then buying billboard space in their neighborhoods, but blurring out the names and photos of the commenters.
What is the fucking point of this if you're not gonna show the name and picture?
Also, why is there a "non profit" group defending blacks in fucking Brazil?
>The comment roughly translates to "I got home stinking of black people." "Preto" is an offensive way to say "black" in Portuguese, compared to "negro," which is neutral.
kek
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-34969424
"we object that the beautiful pig is used as an insult. You are not a pig you are an ugly human"
I'm going to have to ask that fatty to go and get me some new side as mine just went into orbit.
>>3970
>tfw will have no trouble fitting in the space shuttles that take our sides to mars and beyond
>tfw landwhales will literally be denied based on the laws of physics
>not that they would survive on the limited dietary options and strenuous activities required of colonizing martians
>thank mr gravity
>>3970
>Officer! Help! That man was mean to me!
>>4009
Speaking of space, unless men can defy their biology it'll only be women going to Mars. Men need almost double the calories that women need, and still complained like a landwhale forced to eat a salad
>men won't go to space because too fat
http://www.themarysue.com/women-use-less-calories-than-men-lets-send-ladies-to-mars/
Sp00ky ghosty ship rolls up on Japanspukt/10
http://www.cnn.com/2015/11/30/asia/japan-ghost-ship-north-korea/index.html
I'm officially spooked
KUYASHI
>All of the bodies were badly decomposed and "partially skeletonized" -- two were found without heads -- and one boat contained six skulls, the coast guard said. The first boat was found in October, then a series of boats in late November."