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Several real climate scientists contacted by Gizmodo felt Smith was not as up to snuff on his research as he claimed to be, however. These comments reflect the. Torrentz will always love you. Farewell. 20032016 Torrentz. Seriously, Smith is done with the whole Republican Im not a scientist line. In his telling, Smith has practically done the research himself, with his mighty brain striking like thunder at dubious scientific methodology. In numerous instances, the report fails to examine some of the most current data, Smith wrote. For example, the impact of El Nino on the climate is completely downplayed and misconstrued to conflict with historical reports. Moreover, this alarmist reporting attempts to falsely link extreme weather events to climate change, when the data has never suggested this. Making temperature predictions far into the future has proven to be nothing more than speculation, and goes against the principles of scientific integrity. The report published by the Times requires final sign off by 1. White House, so Smith might not have much say in its final conclusions. I/51J3YRE2Y9L.jpg' alt='Watch THX 1138 Online Hulu' title='Watch THX 1138 Online Hulu' />But he did seem to confirm a general Republican objective of cooking the books, writing, We should treat this document for what it is, an unfinished draft that requires serious revision. To report it in any other way is just fake news. Several real climate scientists contacted by Gizmodo felt Smith was not as up to snuff on his research as he claimed to be, however. These comments reflect the utterances of someone who either doesnt have the faintest understanding of the science, or has total contempt for scientific truth, Michael Mann, climatologist, geophysicist and director of Penn States Earth System Science Center, told Gizmodo. To conflate El Nino which is a climate fluctuation that occurs on timescales of a few years with climate change which describes trends over decades is the last refuge of the climate change confusionist, he added. And given that model forecasts made decades ago successfully predicted the human caused warming that has occurred since, the only thing that is nothing more than speculation and in defiance of the principles of scientific integrity is Lamar Smiths fossil fueled attack on the scientific discipline. Michael Oppenheimer, a Princeton University geosciences professor and regular Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change contributor, told Gizmodo that Smith seems to be reading from the contrarian script rather than listening to climate scientists. For example Increases in the intensity and frequency of extreme heat including deadly heat waves such as the ones that killed about 4. Europeans in 2. 00. Russia in 2. 01. 0 have been convincingly linked to climate change, Oppenheimer added. Our ability to attribute the characteristics of some types of extreme events to climate change has been confirmed by the National Academy of Sciences. Does Smith know better than the best US scientistsRichard Alley, another Penn State geosciences professor and expert on the Earths cryosphere, noted Smith was correct the report was a draft finished some time ago, so it could not include the absolutely most recent data. But Alley suggested reading a 2. National Academy of Sciences report that he wrote showed some extreme weather events can be attributed to climate change, in the sense that we have made them more likely, and more of them or more extreme ones are occurring. This does not say that every extreme can or should be blamed on climate change, but some events are linked, with high confidence, Alley added. Kevin Trenberth, a senior climate scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research and lead author of three IPCC scientific assessments, called Smiths remarks woeful ignorance, openly advertised and certainly fake, or should I say, completely wrong. The impact of El Nino is well known and is indeed taken into account, Trenberth wrote. It does not undermine the fact that 2. Yes, both were influenced by the big El Nino, but 2. He added there is abundant evidence the recent increase in extreme weather, like Hurricane Sandy and widespread flooding in the southern US, was the result of human inducted climate change. The statistics for heavy rains increasing are very robust, although the effect has been greatest in the Northeast, Trenberth added. Meanwhile stronger droughts think California, and now year round wild fire seasons, cause tremendous hardship and disruption and monetary losses. The huge flood along the Front Range in the Denver Boulder area in 2. The scientific evidence is overwhelming, and scientific integrity has everything to do with scientists crying out a warning, Trenberth concluded. The four scientists who spoke with Gizmodo are just a tiny fragment of the greater climate science community, which nearly universally agrees humans are responsible for climate change, which virtually all of them also agree could have disastrous impacts on the human species. Smith is just one dude who won a few elections in Texas and has no formal scientific qualifications whatsoever, but who does take an awful lot of money from the oil and gas industry. It doesnt really take a scientist to figure this one out, but you should probably listen to what they have to say anyway. Pixar Wikipedia. This article is about the animation company owned by Disney. For information on the. Pixar Image Computer. 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At NYIT, the researchers pioneered many of the CG foundation techniquesin particular the invention of the alpha channel by Catmull and Smith. Years later, the CGL produced a few frames of an experimental film called The Works. After moving to Lucasfilm, the team worked on creating the precursor to Render. Man, called REYES for renders everything you ever saw and developed a number of critical technologies for CGincluding particle effects and various animation tools. In 1. 98. 2, the team began working on special effects film sequences with Industrial Light Magic. After years of research, and key milestones such as the Genesis Effect in Star Trek II The Wrath of Khan and the Stained Glass Knight in Young Sherlock Holmes,1. February 1. 98. 6 by Catmull and Smith. Among the 3. 8 remaining employees, there were also Malcolm Blanchard, David Di. Francesco, Ralph Guggenheim and Bill Reeves, who had been part of the team since the days of NYIT. Tom Duff, also an NYIT member, would later join Pixar after its formation. With Lucas 1. Star Wars licenses following the release of Return of the Jedi, they knew he would most likely sell the whole Graphics Group. Worried that the employees would be lost to them if that happened, which would prevent the creation of the first computer animated movie, they concluded that the best way to keep the team together was to turn the group into an independent company. But Moores Law also said that the first film was still some years away, and they needed to focus on a proper product while waiting for the computers to become powerful enough. Eventually, they decided they should be a hardware company in the meantime, with their Pixar Image Computer as the core product, a system primarily sold to government agencies and the scientific and medical community. In 1. 98. 3, Nolan Bushnell founded a new computer guided animation studio called Kadabrascope as a subsidiary of his Chuck E. 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Edwin Catmull as President and Alvy Ray Smith as Executive Vice President. While looking for investors, Steve Jobs was interested, but Lucas found his offer too low. Yet he accepted it in the end after it turned out to be impossible to find other investors. Jobs, who had recently been fired from Apple Computer,2 paid 5 million to George Lucas for technology rights and put them and 5 million cash as capital into the company, and joined the board of directors as chairman. Walt Disney Studios used a Pixar Image Computer and custom software written by Pixar as part of their Computer Animation Production System CAPS project, to migrate the laborious ink and paint part of the 2. D animation process to a more automated method. In a bid to drive sales of the system, Pixar employee John Lasseterwho had long been working on not for profit short demonstration animations, such as Luxo Jr. SIGGRAPH, the computer graphics industrys largest convention, to great fanfare. 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