The explains what is called the enhanced greenhouse effect. The explanation that is popularly given of the greenhouse effect is too simple, and is open to objection by climate sceptics. This explains the more elaborate mechanism that really has to be used by atmospheric modelling.
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Date: July 28, 2017Author: Paul Cockshott In my last post I repeated Marx’s phrase the the hand mill gave you the feudal lord the steam mill the industrial capitalist. One reader objected that this overstated the role of technology and that steam power was already known to the Romans. I concede that Marx over simplified.
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Date: September 1, 2016Author: Paul Cockshott Were fossil fuels necessary? Did capitalism itself generate its own technical advances? Why was energy so vital to the development of capitalism? Fundamentally it is because by substituting inanimate energy for human muscle, the amount of human time and effort required to make things was reduced. A powered machine
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Date: July 25, 2018Author: Paul Cockshott I have been producing a series of videos explaining materialism. Most of these have been accepted without controversy, but predictably enough, the last one, which was on quantum phenomena and materialism raised a number of critical comments. The gist of my argument had been that the dominant Copenhagen interpretation
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Today we are joined by Zen Wei, a great comrade, organizer, and past guest on the show. We cover a lot of ground on this episode but touch on nutrition, learning, and idealism amongst other things. – Don’t forget to support us on Patreon:www.patreon.com/MarxistThinkTank?…OCX7pNZcQT6j2_BM4 To submit a news tip or to get in contact with
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