@charliem,

Energy is absolutely a better measure and marker of climate change than temperature. I started there since the video did. In reality though, everything in climate change is solely about the energy balance at the Top Of Atmosphere. More TOA energy in and temps go up in the long term, less and temps go down. It's the very foundation of climate change.

The climate models that your links look to for projections of things like methane thresholds are based on modelled temperature predictions. The IPCC notes the following on the state of the art in climate models:
For instance, maintaining the global mean top of the atmosphere (TOA) energy balance in a simulation of pre-industrial climate is essential to prevent the climate system from drifting to an unrealistic state. The Models used in this report almost universally contain adjustments to parameters in their treatment of clouds to fulfil this important constraint of the climate system (Watanabe et al., 2010; Donner et al., 2011; Gent et al., 2011; Golaz et al., 2011; Martin et al., 2011; Hazeleger et al., 2012; Mauritsen et al., 2012; Hourdin et al., 2013).
http://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/assessment-report/ar5/wg1/WG1AR5_Chapter09_FINAL.pdf
It's in Box 9.1

So, climate models currently FAIL to predict TOA energy accurately and hand tuning is required for modelling temperatures into the known past in order to avoid unrealistic states because the TOA energy is wrong. Maybe we aught not panic just yet on extrapolations from that base. I'm not calling climate models garbage, rather they are a learning tool for climate processes and one lesson is that we have a long ways to go in understanding the central component of TOA energy balance. If you go to google scholar and lookup the references from the IPCC assertions you'll find that the modellers acknowledge that most models still either leak or create energy from nothing. As in, even conservation of energy is imperfect in them still.

Your cursory glance approach is a problem, the devil is in the details.

Looking at energy further from NASA's numbers also tells us that the net contribution to TOA energy trapping from the CO2 we've added in the last 100 years is about 3W/m-2 globally. The global TOA energy imbalance is about 0.5W/M-2. In other words, if we could magically remove all the CO2 we've added to the atmosphere, we'd suddenly have a global energy imbalance at TOA of -2.5W/M-2. That brings two things to mind.
1.The enormous energy imbalance you want to call a catastrophe is 0.5W/M-2, but merely rolling back to 1900 CO2 concentrations today would yield a negative energy imbalance 5 times as large.
2.Of the 3W/M-2 that our actions have pushed on the planet, natural factors(warming and other unknowns) have already balance out 2.5W/M-2 of the imbalance, today.

You also might wanna check how much energy is in the oceans on the whole. If you take the increase in energy as a percentage of OCH instead of straight joules you'll find the trend is << than 1% annually.

I thought Man of Steel was okay. Fun, popcorn flick. I also don't get the people being upset over Superman killing Zod... He killed Zod in the second Donner movie too, and then laughed about it, at least he was tormented this time.

Funny video, but jeez, so many butt-hurt fanboys over this movie. I thought Man of Steel was awesome. Had a few problems, but overall a great super hero movie.

"So, if you loved the Christopher Reeve era superhero movie..."
I'm gonna stop you right there, this ISN'T the Richard Donner movie and it's not intending to be. Get over the past.

http://www.musicfrom.nl/songteksten/Wende_Snijders/au_suivant.html

Tout nu dans ma serviette qui me servait de pagne
J'avais le rouge au front et le savon à la main
Au suivant au suivant
J'avais juste vingt ans et nous étions cent vingt
A être le suivant de celui qu'on suivait
Au suivant au suivant
J'avais juste vingt ans et je me déniaisais
Au bordel ambulant d'une armée en campagne
Au suivant au suivant

Moi j'aurais bien aimé un peu plus de tendresse
Ou alors un sourire ou bien avoir le temps
Mais au suivant au suivant
Ce ne fut pas Waterloo mais ce ne fut pas Arcole
Ce fut l'heure où l'on regrette d'avoir manqué l'école
Au suivant au suivant
Mais je jure que d'entendre cet adjudant de mes fesses
C'est des coups à vous faire des armées d'impuissants
Au suivant au suivant

Je jure sur la tête de ma première vérole
Que cette voix depuis je l'entends tout le temps
Au suivant au suivant
Cette voix qui sentait l'ail et le mauvais alcool
C'est la voix des nations et c'est la voix du sang
Au suivant au suivant
Et depuis chaque femme à l'heure de succomber
Entre mes bras trop maigres semble me murmurer
Au suivant au suivant

Tous les suivants du monde devraient se donner la main
Voilà ce que la nuit je crie dans mon délire
Au suivant au suivant
Et quand je ne délire pas j'en arrive à me dire
Qu'il est plus humiliant d'être suivi que suivant
Au suivant au suivant
Un jour je me ferai cul-de-jatte ou bonne sœur ou pendu
Enfin un de ces machins où je ne serai jamais plus
Le suivant le suivant...

>> ^Opus_Moderandi:

Ukelele it is.
From YouTube user lilymaide (aka Sarah Donner): "This is Lady Peanut. She likes to sit by me when I get out the ukulele."


I'm really impressed with Sarah Donner's music. This is one of a few really cool, fun videos I saw on her site which I looked up based on the The Motherf**king Pterodactyl video done by her and The Oatmeal (and sifted here...http://videosift.com/search?q=pterodactyl)

Ukelele it is.
From YouTube user lilymaide (aka Sarah Donner): "This is Lady Peanut. She likes to sit by me when I get out the ukulele."

The Blitzkreig! Donner, Dasher, Prancer and BLIZTEN! The Ballroom Blitzen.

The Donner cut was interesting but not an improvement. The new CGI was low-grade, and the Jor-El scene was akin to the Star Wars Episode IV Special Edition Jabba the Hutt.

Per the Jor-El-less Richard Lester version, you simply assumed the green crystal fixed everything.

A couple of nerd notes from me, please!

1. Superman and Lois copulated at the end of Superman II, but maybe that was only in the Richard Donner cut.

2. If memory serves didn't Superman return (in Superman Returns) in a crystal vessel? Is so he probably left in it, so the lack of the yellow sun wouldn't harm him in outer space.

3. When I was in film school the directing majors in my class had a phone in conversation with Robert Wise. Wise directed the first Star Trek (Star Trek the Motion Picture). Yes, it's slow. But, according to him, his point was that at that time in 1979 there wasn't a lot of big budget films that showed ships in space, so the long shots of the Enterprise were awe-inducing for the time.

4. Upon first viewing of Superman Returns, yes, I thought it was boring. I'm more of a Marvel fan anyways, but years later I picked it up on Blu-Ray and watched it again knowing ahead of time that the plot was slow. I don't believe there are huge plot holes. Also the story gets better once you drop your expectations for a "kick ass" comic book action-fest. The storytelling is well paced and interesting. It's not Dark Knight, but it's still good filmmaking. It's not brainless crap like Ghost Rider or the regrettable Daredevil.

5. WHAT THE FUCK IS KEVIN SMITH WEARING?! Long shorts down to his ankles and a fucking trenchcoat? He's wearing Juggalo attire. He looks ridiculous.

6. Red Dead Redemption is awesome. I don't care if that has nothing to do with this.

My two cents.

(English translation follows)

http://lyrics.wikia.com/Les_Cowboys_Fringants:Le_Gars_De_La_Compagnie

Depuis le début du siècle
Des gars courageux ont coupé le bois du Québec
Partaient à l'automne, passaient l'hiver dans des camps
Revn'aient voir leurs femmes quand arrivait le printemps.......
Les Américains flairant la bonne affaire
Sont v'nus faire la piasse dans l'bout de Trois-Rivières
Ça va nous faire d'la job pour les Canadiens-Francais
B'tissez vos usines pis nous on vous donne la forêt!

Pendant des années y'ont coupé comme des défoncés
La demande est trop grande pour s'qu'la forêt peut donner
Mais cé pas ben grave
Y'ont des chums au gouvernement
Fa'qu'y sont r'montés au nord
Continuer la coupe à blanc...

Les Amérindiens ceux qui chassent de père en fils
Ont voulu leur parler
Y s'sont fait dire rentrez chez vous
C'est pas avec vous autres qu'on va faire des b'n'fices
Pour nous un caribou c'est ben plus beau sur un trente sous

Et le gars d'la compagnie rit dans sa barbe
C'est qui le con qui a dit que l'argent poussait pas dins arbres ?

=====

Since the turn of last century
Brave lads have been logging the forests of Quebec
Leaving in the fall, spending winter in the camps
Returning to their wives when the spring would come again
The Americans could smell a lot of cash
Came to make a buck at the town of Trois-Rivières
It'd mean jobs for us, the French-Canadians
Build your factories and we'll give you the whole forest

Year after year they cut down trees like men possessed
Asking too much more than the forest could provide
But it was no big deal
They had friends in government
So they headed further north
And kept up their clearcutting

The aboriginals, who were hunters, man and boy
Tried to have a say
But were told to take a hike
It's not from your kind that we're going to make our profits
For us, your caribou looks better minted on a coin

And the company man is laughing to himself
Who's the fool who said that money doesn't grow on trees?

http://lyrics.wikia.com/lyrics/Les_Cowboys_Fringants:Toune_D%27Automne

***English translation follows

Comment ça va ma p'tite soeur?
Viens que j'te serre dans mes bras
Pis, as-tu r'trouvé l'bonheur
Dans ton trip au Canada?
Dans l'bout' c't'année y s'est pas passé grand'chose...
C't'un peu morose...

J'espère au moins qu'c't'ait l'fun là-bas
Chu fier que tu m'aies pas ramené
Un beau-frère de l'Alberta
Ça m'aurait un peu ébranlé
Jure-moi donc que c'fois là tu restes à' maison... pour de bon

Anyway chu content que tu r'viennes
T'arrives en même temps qu'l'automne
Tsé qu'ça m'a fait ben d'la peine
De t'voir partir ma mignonne...

Icitte y'a papa qui se r'met de sa p'tite opération
T'aurais dû l'voir, y feakait, Fallait l'traiter aux p'tits oignons
Et môman s'est inquièté toute l'année
À cause de toé...

De mon bord j'ai décidé
D'arrêter de végéter
J'rentre à l'université
On verra c'que ça va donner
Mais tu m'connais chu pas motivé plus qui faut
C'est pas nouveau...

Anyway chu content que tu r'viennes
T'arrives en même temps qu'l'automne
Tsé qu'ça m'a fait ben d'la peine
De t'voir partir ma mignonne...

J'ai vu Simon le mois passé
Ç'avait pas trop l'air de filer
Y m'a dit qu't'avais pas appelé
Depuis sa fête en février
Si tu l'aimes pus faudrait peut-être pas l'niaiser
C't'un bon buddy

Et puis toé ma p'tite soeur
Es-tu toujours aussi perdue?
C'est ti encore la grande noirceur?
Ou ben si t'as r'pris le dessus?
Tsé qu'la vie est parsemée de p'tites misères
Faut pas t'en faire...

Anyway chu content que tu r'viennes
T'arrives en même temps qu'l'automne
Tsé qu'ça m'a fait ben d'la peine
De t'voir partir ma mignonne...

Anyway chu content que tu r'viennes
T'arrives en même temps qu'l'automne

=====

How's it going little sister?
Come so that I can hug you
So, did you rediscover happiness
On your trip to Canada?
Back here nothing much happened this year...
It was a bit morose...

I hope at least it was fun down there
I'm proud that didn't bring me
A brother-in-law from Alberta
That would have bothered me a bit
Swear that this time you're staying home...for good

Anyway I'm glad you came back
You came with the autumn
You know it really made me grieve
To see you go my cutie...

Here there's papa recovering from his little operation
You should have seen him freaking out, had to treat him like royalty
And mama worried all year
Because of you

For my part I decided
To stop being a bum
I'm going back to university
We'll see what happens
But you know me I'm not motivated more than I need to be
That's not new...

Anyway I'm glad you came back
You came with the autumn
You know it really made me grieve
To see you go my cutie...

I saw Simon last month
Didn't seem to feel too good
He told me that you hadn't called him
Since his birthday in February
If you don't like him anymore maybe you shouldn't string him along
He's a good buddy

And you my little sister
Are you still as lost as before?
Is it still doom and gloom?
Or have you gotten control of it?
You know that life is littered with little miseries
No need to worry...

Anyway I'm glad you came back
You came with the autumn
You know it really made me grieve
To see you go my cutie...

Anyway I'm glad you came back
You came with the autumn

This was filmed by a British guy. Richard Donner has said he's horrified at the way they portrayed middle america as a dirt-strewn one-horse podunk. Even when I was eight I used to think "is this supposed to represent America? It looks like Africa.."

somehow you make more sense rapping. you should do it more often

>> ^choggie:
Woke inna flash, to find the pants gone;
Asleep at the ballpark, an' no trousers on....
Broke into a run, and started th' twitch....
Gee Jesus Golly, San Sonofabitch-
,,,"that hoydens' th' Prancer, anner sisters' s vixen',
I'll dasher and Donner, on Cupid and Blitzen...."

Woke inna flash, to find the pants gone;
Asleep at the ballpark, an' no trousers on....
Broke into a run, and started th' twitch....
Gee Jesus Golly, San Sonofabitch-

,,,"that hoydens' th' Prancer, anner sisters' s vixen',
I'll dasher and Donner, on Cupid and Blitzen...."

Awesome! Big upvote for an ending better than Donner's and Lester's versions.