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DrJones*
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Message 706 of 944 (873734)
03-18-2020 10:02 PM
Reply to: Message 705 by marc9000
03-18-2020 8:58 PM


Re: An Inconvenient Truth
This discussion is about domestic issues in the U.S
I realize it's been dragged off course but I have to say something when I see some sister fucking hillbilly arguing for the prolonging of slavery, character flaw of mine i know.

It's not enough to bash in heads, you've got to bash in minds
soon I discovered that this rock thing was true
Jerry Lee Lewis was the devil
Jesus was an architect previous to his career as a prophet
All of a sudden i found myself in love with the world
And so there was only one thing I could do
Was ding a ding dang my dang along ling long - Jesus Built my Hotrod Ministry
Live every week like it's Shark Week! - Tracey Jordan
Just a monkey in a long line of kings. - Matthew Good
If "elitist" just means "not the dumbest motherfucker in the room", I'll be an elitist! - Get Your War On
*not an actual doctor

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vimesey
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Message 707 of 944 (873738)
03-19-2020 1:53 AM
Reply to: Message 705 by marc9000
03-18-2020 8:58 PM


Re: An Inconvenient Truth
From marc9000:
The U.S. declared war on Japan, not Germany.
From Wikipedia:
On December 11, 1941, the United States Congress declared war upon Germany (Pub.L. 77—331, Sess. 1, ch. 564, 55 Stat. 796), hours after Germany declared war on the United States after the attack on Pearl Harbor by the Empire of Japan. The vote was 88—0 in the Senate and 393—0 in the House.
Text of the declaration:
Seventy-Seventh Congress of the United States of America;
At the First Session Begun and held at the City of Washington, on Friday, the third day of January, 1941.
JOINT RESOLUTION Declaring That a State of War Exists Between The Government of Germany and the Government and the People of the United States and Making Provisions To Prosecute The Same
Whereas the Government of Germany has formally declared war against the Government and the people of the United States of America: Therefore be it Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the state of war between the United States and the Government of Germany which has thus been thrust upon the United States is hereby formally declared; and the President is hereby authorized and directed to employ the entire naval and military forces of the United States and the resources of the Government to carry on war against the Government of Germany; and, to bring the conflict to a successful termination, all of the resources of the country are hereby pledged by the Congress of the United States.
(Signed) Sam Rayburn, Speaker of the House of Representatives
(Signed) H. A. Wallace, Vice President of the United States and President of the Senate
Approved December 11, 1941 3:05 PM E.S.T.
(Signed) Franklin D. Roosevelt

Could there be any greater conceit, than for someone to believe that the universe has to be simple enough for them to be able to understand it ?

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glowby
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Message 708 of 944 (873739)
03-19-2020 4:20 AM
Reply to: Message 698 by marc9000
03-18-2020 7:20 PM


Re: An Inconvenient Truth -- still true
marc9000 writes:
Do you propose that we amend the Constitution to declare that the can by-pass the political process and dictate rules and regulations however it sees fit?
No. Do you propose that the scientific community should be ignored or distrusted when governments consider legislation?
marc9000 writes:
The calculations for the eventual death and suffering can be taken into consideration before anyone dies ...
Thanks! What a sweetheart!
marc9000 writes:
...alongside the calculations of possibilities of corruption, of what companies will be destroyed by new political action, what companies (and politicians) will stand to benefit greatly from new political action, etc.
If we knew how to calculate possibilities of corruption, political science would be a true science and we'd live in a completely different world now. Sorry. There's no such science.
Facts are facts, whether they're from science labs or accounting departments. It's the job of our legislators to legislate intelligently, taking all available info into consideration and resisting corruption. If legislation (or lack of it) causes harm to the population, something need to change (or be done).
If laws, rules, and regulations benefit the well-being and happiness of the overall population, who cares which political or industrial players might win or lose?
marc9000 writes:
As only one example, government mandated airbags sometimes kill children and small adults. It's considered, by the government, to be a worthwhile trade-off.
Good call by the government. A good trade off. Thousands of lives have been saved.
marc9000 writes:
They can make estimates, (unprovable of course) of how many lives airbags save,...
The stats are very solidly provable. Obviously and painfully true. They prevent much more harm than they cause. Like vaccines.
marc9000 writes:
... and they can point fingers at parents every time a child is killed. If we don't like it, if we don't agree with them, that's just tough for us.
Yes. People pointed fingers. The parents hadn't even fastened their kids' safety belts, or put the seat facing the right way.
Yes. It's tough for uninformed ignorant people to understand.
marc9000 writes:
There is a huge difference between free market accountability versus government accountability.
And cheers to that! Human suffering only counts as an intangible asset - negative goodwill - on balance sheets in a free market. It has to count for a lot more in government.
marc9000 writes:
glowby writes:
What freedoms do you have to sacrifice, for people to be forbidden to poison one another?
The system we have works just fine. If you don't agree, what would your solution be?
Dude! You're the one complaining about the system! They want to do what's right in the long term for the people, the economy and the planet; and you're whining about liberties and "factions".
marc9000 writes:
glowby writes:
No one needs to be convinced that murder is bad. You wouldn't hesitate to condemn terrorists for poisoning a municipal water supply. But if a corporation does it, maybe it's OK because ... liberties?
No. But a possibly corrupt faction can't make knee-jerk decisions concerning political action.
True. Since the beginning of time. Your point? The scientific community is probably the least prone to corruption of all. They have to prove their ideas to each other and the world. In writing. With supporting data and reasoned conclusions. If they turn out to be just a little wrong, they're called out for it. Their work is revised or rejected. If they fake data or lie about methods, they risk losing their careers. Immediately. Can you think of another "faction" like that?
marc9000 writes:
What should have been done to fix it? (global warming) I've been asking that question over and over in this thread, and I'm not getting any answers.
It's because "fixing" it is impossible. The best we can hope is to slow the process we set in motion, and mitigate the cost in dollars and human suffering. Some day Earth's climates might approximate what they would have been, had we not fouled things up so bad. But by then we'll have extincted many more species, and coastal populations will have been forced inland. The dead will be buried.
You're asking the wrong question. It's, "What should be done to stop making things worse and minimize the damage?"
marc9000 writes:
I've pointed out the necessary products that are only available through fossil fuel use, that would cause enormous problems if they were banned by government.
And we've pointed out that these products are not endangered. Many can easily be made without fossil fuels today. If fossil fuels are indeed necessary, they'll be available. No one is proposing an outright ban.
marc9000 writes:
Climate alarmists always imply that there has been lavish, unnecessary use of fossil fuels that have caused the problems.
No. They don't. They say it's mainly the use of fossil fuels for electricity, heating, transportation, and industry.
marc9000 writes:
Which ones should have been banned long ago? Auto racing? Pleasure boating? Major sporting events? The antique auto industry? Michael Bloomberg's 72 gallon per hour helicopter? ...
Again: No one is proposing an outright ban.
marc9000 writes:
Too many farting cows? WHAT?
You do understand that cows aren't fossil fuels, right?
marc9000 writes:
What have poisons got to do with the climate?
You said CO2 pollution is just a "claim by a faction" because it's invisible and undetectable. I said a lot of poisons are too. Undetectable in the water supply. So when a lab reports poisons, is it just a "claim by a faction"?
It's an alarm going off. Not that different than our smoke, monoxide, and radon detectors. And not that different than all the facts that prove we accidentally screwed up the whole Earth by spewing massive amounts of garbage exhaust into the atmosphere.
marc9000 writes:
Here's a vid that makes the case for why free markets, not government, is best suited to "do something about" challenges to society.
Quaint. You might as well tell us how free markets are best at ending wars, drug abuse, or prostitution.
Obviously, free markets helped create global warming, as did governments. Neither one functions well without the other, for good or bad. Together they can accomplish a lot. Lax government regulations played a large in creating this crisis. Setting free markets free is the stupidest possible thing we could do.

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AZPaul3
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Message 709 of 944 (873748)
03-19-2020 9:34 AM
Reply to: Message 705 by marc9000
03-18-2020 8:58 PM


Re: An Inconvenient Truth
Of DrJones*, marc9000 quips:
But thanks for your input, others here must be proud to be associated with your intelligence.
Yes, as a matter of fact, I am. And I share his disgust of the cruel bigoted hyper-stupidity you spew across this forum.

Eschew obfuscation. Habituate elucidation.

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Message 710 of 944 (873784)
03-19-2020 1:06 PM
Reply to: Message 700 by marc9000
03-18-2020 8:28 PM


Re: An Inconvenient Truth -- still true
And also equally informed by human history, past examples of corruption, and the tendencies that factions can have for starting with a conclusion, then working backwards, upside down, however they have to work to arrive at the desired conclusion.
But that's pretty much the description of you guys. You guys start with the conclusion - that free markets are the solution to all problems - and the evaluate everything in terms of this conclusion. Global climate change is such an immense danger that it requires government intervention to address it, therefore it cannot possibly be true since the sanctity of free markets cannot be contradicted. It also doesn't help that you are apparently extremely uncomfortable with making any adjustments to your lifestyle. Basically, your entire argument is an appeal to consequences.
And this is what leads you to the sciencey-sounding propaganda sites that promote exaggerated, ridiculous consequences of taking necessary action while dismissing real science as part of some conspiracy of corrupt elites who hate American values and want to turn the US into another Venezuela.

But [Frederick] Douglass was not gone; he was merely dead. -- David W. Blight

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Chiroptera
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Message 711 of 944 (873785)
03-19-2020 1:10 PM
Reply to: Message 701 by marc9000
03-18-2020 8:38 PM


Re: An Inconvenient Truth
Putting aside that you continue to show a profound lack of knowledge of US history, I have to say you seem pretty blas about the entire concept of people owning other people as property and working them like livestock.

But [Frederick] Douglass was not gone; he was merely dead. -- David W. Blight

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Message 712 of 944 (882062)
09-10-2020 12:44 AM


Maybe this will make the Right stop and think
Climate Change may Wreck Economy (Ars Technica)
A report from the Commodities Future Trading Commission indicates the climate change is already affecting markets.
Regulators "must recognize that climate change poses serious emerging risks to the US financial system, and they should move urgently and decisively to measure, understand, and address these risks."
The report, called "Managing Climate Risk in the US Financial System," was written by a group of 35 advisors from major banks such as Morgan Stanley and JPMorgan Chase, environmental groups such as The Nature Conservancy and Ceres, energy firms such as BP and ConocoPhillips, several investment firms, and experts from several universities.
They conclude that the markets are failing to take climate change into account, even though the effects are already causing problems.
They argue that it will take international action to control the problem and urge that the US rejoin the Paris Agreement.
With the Trump administration taking the opposite tack, will the voices of sanity speak up? Or will the Republicans continue their slavish devotion to Trump?

  
AZPaul3
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Message 713 of 944 (882237)
09-15-2020 11:08 PM


All 20 Targets Missed
Ten years ago the nations of the world gathered together and set 20 goals concerned with protecting biodiversity and lessening global climate change.
All 20 targets will be missed with only 6 of them deemed "partially achieved".
Humanity is failing at protecting our ecosystems from the ravages of anthropomorphic climate change and destruction of native habitats by human encroachment.
quote:
Humanity's impact on the natural world over the last five decades has been nothing short of cataclysmic: since 1970 close to 70 percent of wild animals, birds and fish have vanished, according to a WWF assessment this month.
We Set 20 Targets to Save Our Planet a Decade Ago, and We've Missed Them All : ScienceAlert
quote:
Humanity stands at a crossroads with regard to the legacy it leaves to future generations. Biodiversity is declining at an unprecedented rate, and the pressures driving this decline are intensifying. None of the Aichi Biodiversity Targets will be fully met, in turn threatening the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals and undermining efforts to address climate change.
Global Biodiversity Outlook 5
In failing to even start to protect global biosystems from the rapid devastation of life on this planet from human activity we have failed to even start to protect ourselves. We have done nothing to forestall the quick and inevitable extinction of H.sapiens.

Factio Republicana delenda est.
I am antifa.

  
AZPaul3
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Message 714 of 944 (884076)
01-21-2021 9:22 PM


Happy News
If you are looking forward to watching the world burn you will definitely like this.
https://news.uci.edu/...ion-of-the-earths-tropical-rain-belt
quote:
Difference by the year 2100 expected to impact global biodiversity, food security
Future climate change will cause a regionally uneven shifting of the tropical rain belt — a narrow band of heavy precipitation near the equator — according to researchers at the University of California, Irvine and other institutions. This development may threaten food security for billions of people.
By the turn of this century we could be starving hundreds of millions, billions of people. Just think of the anguish, the disease and the wars.
Yeah! Burn baby, burn!
Well, we did asked for it.
Literally ... we asked for it.
"Global warming? Ha, ha, ha. I have my cold beer. Screw you. Bring it on."
--Conversation with some guy named Irving.

Eschew obfuscation. Habituate elucidation.

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jar
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Message 715 of 944 (884086)
01-22-2021 7:55 AM
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01-21-2021 9:22 PM


Re: Happy News
It's comforting pushing 80. It really and truly is NMP now.

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AZPaul3
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Message 716 of 944 (884091)
01-22-2021 12:01 PM
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01-22-2021 7:55 AM


Re: Happy News
And if you have (to your) kids you get the pleasure of telling them what shit they're in for when they turn 80.
Edited by AZPaul3, : The jar fix.

Eschew obfuscation. Habituate elucidation.

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jar
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Message 717 of 944 (884096)
01-22-2021 1:23 PM
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01-22-2021 12:01 PM


Re: Happy News
If. If!

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Message 718 of 944 (884571)
02-25-2021 3:03 AM


Not Fast Enough
There is a nice warm ocean current that runs up the Atlantic from the Caribbean up to western Europe. The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC). The melting ice sheets in Greenland are dumping a much greater flow of fresh melt into the north Atlantic ... right in front of this nice warm ocean current that
quote:
could have profound, large-scale impacts on the planet in terms of weather patterns, upending agricultural practices, biodiversity, and economic stability across the vast areas of the world that the AMOC influences.
... and that includes keeping people, animals and plumbing in London ... and Paris and Berlin ... from freezing to death.
Not if, but when that current stops as is now evidenced by lower flow multiple years running, you boys in Europe will have the winters and the all year 'round weather of your favorite cozy hotspots in Siberia. Last time that flow stopped you had an ice age. But that's OK since the ice age bit doesn't gather a lot of steam overnight. May take a few more centuries.
The great wine and cheese regions of France, Italy, Germany, the Swiss. Enjoy them now for they'll not be here next century, nor ever again. The product's beauty and taste is in the weather of the region. That will all change soon. And it will just get worse from there.
Of course we all knew for decades this was an eventuality but the optimists touted a breathing space where mitigation strategies could be implemented keeping the system from a tipping point that would lead directly to the current's shut down.
Heh, heh. We're going to miss it. The point's going to arrive in the decades to come and it's just gonna tip all over itself flooding the sea with ever increasing rivers of ice cold water till the current slows to a halt.
And why, you might ask, is this happening now. Well, it seems we've been missing quite a few smaller target points on our environmental fix-it list and now, surprise, the problem has gotten worse and the flow from ice to current is increasing faster than expected. The tipping point is coming faster than expected and now there is no time left for mitigation since it is here, it is happening, right here in front of our faces ...and ... we can't stop it. Too late. Bye-bye Champaign.
We're not burning and changing the world fast enough yet. Gotta speed this up
Welcome to real hit 'em in the head climate change.
The Asiagos. The Cabernets. Imagine the loss, or at least the denigration of quality from their cultural norms.
Well, I won't be here. I got mine. A nice creamy brie noir.
A Major Ocean Current Could Be on The Verge of a Devastating 'tipping Point' : ScienceAlert
Edited by AZPaul3, : No reason given.
Edited by AZPaul3, : No reason given.

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Message 719 of 944 (884575)
02-25-2021 7:03 AM
Reply to: Message 718 by AZPaul3
02-25-2021 3:03 AM


What is most frightening is that this is news to some people.
The effects and potential causes of the Gulf Stream shutting down has been known, discussed, publicized, researched, documented and widely and broadly available for many decades.
The fact that one inevitable result of global warming will be a return of ice ages to much of the developed world has been forecast for many decades and is a conclusion based on evidence.
This is NOT fantasy or speculation or fear mongering but just another example of how the bill will get paid.

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Message 720 of 944 (884587)
02-25-2021 4:12 PM
Reply to: Message 700 by marc9000
03-18-2020 8:28 PM


Re: An Inconvenient Truth -- still true
marc9000 writes:
But it needs money to operate, and it's going to study those things that those who fund it WANT it to study, and if there's no money in studying other things, they won't get study. Those who fund it want a return on their investment, and often get it with an increase in the size and scope of government.
So is there a global cabal of scientists faking spectra that show carbon dioxide absorbing infrared radiation? Are they also faking the measured 30% increase in carbon dioxide that has occurred over the last 100 years?
Perhaps they went back in time to 1896 and convinced Svante Arrhenius to fake his calculations of the relationship between global temp increases and carbon dioxide levels:
Page not found | San Diego State University AAPG Student Chapter
And also equally informed by human history, past examples of corruption, and the tendencies that factions can have for starting with a conclusion, then working backwards, upside down, however they have to work to arrive at the desired conclusion.
They started with the fact that the greenhouse effect is real, and carbon dioxide is a real greenhouse gas. If you want to claim that the scientists are wrong then you need to show why the greenhouse effect doesn't exist.
And they are for the most part. Climate change alarmism is saturated throughout one political party, and practically non-existent in the other. Enough people suspect that climate change is little more than a power grab, and U.S. politics reflect it.
In the rest of the world all political parties accept the reality of global climate change. The US is rare in world politics. We just happen to have one political party who shuns science.
If the scientific community feels that politicians aren't making the right political decisions, even though they're told that the decisions they want could be devastating to economics, a subject they know nothing about, shouldn't they be honest that they don't know everything?
They do know that adding more carbon dioxide to the atmosphere will trap more heat. Why do you ignore their expertise in this area?

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