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Copyright reminder
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Pyrrho » Tue Oct 30, 2018 8:09 am » in
Holocaust, Genocide, and Mass Violence
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From the forum rules:
Copyright infringement. Users may post very brief excerpts of content from other websites, with a link to the online source....
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I could swear I've heard this somewhere before.
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Fri Nov 02, 2018 1:10 pm
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Pinker and the environment.
by Lance Kennedy » Tue Apr 16, 2019 10:54 pm
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I am reading Prof. Stephen Pinkers new book, Enlightenment Now . For those who do not know, Pinker is a Canadian who is professor of psychology at...
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EM.
Not at all.
For example, the solution to the ozone hole problem required that new materials to serve as aerosol propellants, and new materials...
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Wed Apr 17, 2019 7:54 pm
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Are we sure global warming is bad?
by MikeN » Wed Mar 20, 2019 3:18 am
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We've had two degrees already.
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That is true, Mike.
It has always struck me as weird that some of the worlds biggest and most powerful environmental organisations reject two of the...
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Tue Apr 16, 2019 3:13 pm
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EU fails to agree on emissions target for 2050
by MikeN » Mon Mar 25, 2019 4:48 pm
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Germany joins Poland and others in not doing a target for 2050. This is a break from the usual pattern of declaring a target then many years later...
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Thanks. Why is having the batteries worth it for Boeing?
Its back up power for instance: to restart your jets on flame out and so forth. I assume...
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Wed Apr 03, 2019 1:44 am
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What can technology do in the Midwest?
by Lausten » Wed Mar 20, 2019 1:53 pm
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Global Warming leads to larger fluctuations in weather events. If you accept that, but still think we can tech our way out of this problem, exactly...
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Intensive farming, like any other kind, is about taking the opportunity to make money by growing crops. Obviously, no one will turn to intensive...
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Last post by landrew
Mon Apr 01, 2019 2:32 am
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20 YEARS==>Before HOT HOUSE Earth Kills Us All
by bobbo_the_Pragmatist » Mon Feb 18, 2019 2:56 am
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.......................and thats the optimistic estimate:
What we do in the next 10-20 years will determine whether our planet remains hospitable...
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And i won't even be troll-baited.
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Last post by landrew
Sat Mar 30, 2019 2:15 am
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New Energy Economy, impossible
by MikeN » Thu Mar 28, 2019 5:02 am
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At least in the short to medium term.
This daunting challenge elicits a common response: “If we can put a man on the moon, surely we can .” But...
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Small advances continue to be made, but we're still nowhere close to achieving the energy density of diesel fuel in an electric battery. The numbers...
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Fri Mar 29, 2019 4:15 pm
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Nature article with new recommendations for global warming
by MikeN » Tue Mar 26, 2019 5:46 pm
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More detailed assessment of science in the near term 25 years.
Rethink policy goals and avoid 1.5C hard target
Adaptation
Plan for Rapid Response
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It's probably natural skepticism that accounts for the fact that most people will not be told what to think. I don't think we're skeptical enough, in...
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Last post by landrew
Wed Mar 27, 2019 6:28 pm
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Global warmers rewriting history
by MikeN » Sat Mar 23, 2019 3:17 pm
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Greenpeace got Google to erase Patrick Moore as a founder of Greenpeace.
This started about 12 years ago, when a British program featured Patrick...
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This belongs in the conspiracy theory forum
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Last post by Lausten
Sat Mar 23, 2019 10:26 pm
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12 years to save the planet
by MikeN » Thu Mar 14, 2019 11:28 pm
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This is the latest mantra from the global warming alarmists.
Beto O'Rourke, aka Robert Francis O'Rourke, said the scientists are unanimous that there...
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Time to go all Matt: landrew you complete idiot. YOU are the one claiming I am alarmist. The burden of proof is on you to support your claim....
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Wed Mar 20, 2019 6:51 am
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Making it better
by Lance Kennedy » Fri Mar 01, 2019 11:28 pm
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I have told the pessimists on this forum topic a number of times that action to mitigate global warming has already begun. Now there is a New...
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I am sure we will, too. I am not sure that evolution is not up to the job. Frankly, I would suspect that the Y chromosome has been in it's current...
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Fri Mar 15, 2019 5:06 pm
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Deep Adaptation
by Lausten » Thu Feb 28, 2019 6:07 pm
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Saw this on VICE . To get the paper, search for the full name. It's a lengthy PDF. I've only skimmed it. It's the opposite philosophy of some other...
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The War on Science is an excellent book, but he's not really saying anything new to anyone who is scientifically literate. It's the job of scientists...
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Last post by Lausten
Tue Mar 12, 2019 4:07 pm
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How to Fight Denialism
by landrew » Sat Mar 02, 2019 9:13 pm
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How do you defeat clever and specious intellectual arguments against climate change environmentalism?
Launch a holy jihad info-war?
Or dine with...
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A bit simplistic, landrew. Especially when the author says getting rid of hydrogenated fats and corn syrup will make a massive difference. Good diet...
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Last post by Lance Kennedy
Tue Mar 12, 2019 12:18 am
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I see dumb people?
by Gord » Thu Nov 08, 2018 9:57 pm
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Harvard study finds that during heat waves, people can’t think straight
...Harvard researchers say that they studied students in dorms with and...
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:lol:
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Mon Mar 11, 2019 11:12 am
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AGW to Kill 1.5M per year by 2100
by bobbo_the_Pragmatist » Wed Mar 06, 2019 10:32 pm
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Even after accounting for adaptation , an additional 1.5 million people die per year from climate change by 2100 if past emissions trends continue....
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Sorry, Mike. I misunderstood. Consider me chastised.
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Last post by Lance Kennedy
Fri Mar 08, 2019 3:20 am
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Uninhabitable Earth = We won't all Die, Just Many
by bobbo_the_Pragmatist » Wed Feb 20, 2019 9:06 pm
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100's of Millions to Die by 2100
Interesting Factoid: More than half of all of the fossil fuel emissions that we've ever put into the atmosphere...
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Not theories, but fantasies. You and Bobbo are living in a world of your own, far removed from reality.
How many degrees removed? F or C????...
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Last post by landrew
Tue Mar 05, 2019 6:04 pm
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What about the "Green New Deal"?
by Abdul Alhazred » Sat Feb 23, 2019 3:17 pm
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My analysis of the Green New Deal:
Not as yet a fully developed policy proposal, they were just running it up the flagpole.
Alexandria...
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because people getting sick is not the import of AGW and solutions re keeping people healthy mostly would add to the REAL problem....
The deep...
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Last post by bobbo_the_Pragmatist
Wed Feb 27, 2019 12:14 am
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5 Great Extinctions of Most Life, We are #6
by bobbo_the_Pragmatist » Fri Feb 22, 2019 6:22 pm
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A very short summary of the 5 great extinction events. One by co2. We are in the Sixth Great Extinction called the Anthropocene. Good to keep in mind.
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Permian-Triassic is my fav.
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Sat Feb 23, 2019 10:04 pm
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AGW>>Most "News" = is Distorted. "Sad."
by bobbo_the_Pragmatist » Mon Feb 18, 2019 11:36 pm
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I'm watching Bret Stephens give a talk on What true conservatism is all about (Conserving: LIBERAL VALUES.==> get it? Very subtle) which is why he is...
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It is my reaction to the links posted .........as opposed to what the links are supposedly about.
Can you suggest a better one?
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Tue Feb 19, 2019 6:01 am
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Hitting Disaster 80 years early. Warnings are too Rosey.
by bobbo_the_Pragmatist » Thu Feb 07, 2019 1:35 pm
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Wasn't supposed to happen until 2100: but its here now (sic---for headline purposes don't ya know?)
Met Office: global warming could exceed...
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Bobbo
You have made both claims. We are all gonna die, and it will destroy civilization. Not just once but many times. Duh !...
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Mon Feb 18, 2019 2:31 am
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We're All Gonna Die - Insects & Glaciers FIRST
by bobbo_the_Pragmatist » Wed Feb 13, 2019 7:34 am
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Dahr Jamail CLIMATE REPORTER and writer of books....quite the hysteric on Democracy Now tonight. He says: if co2 pollution STOPPED RIGHT NOW...there...
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I gave you a link to click on.
Yes you did. So rarely done, I missed it. I'm sure this harbingers more good solid on point links to come?...
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Mon Feb 18, 2019 12:40 am
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Wind, solar and nuclear
by Lance Kennedy » Fri Oct 05, 2018 8:53 pm
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Wind power is not, after all, that climate friendly. If the USA did wind power very large scale, it would redistribute heat in such a way as to raise...
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Lance: whats so hard about: copy and paste one issue you think I am wrong about? .........and why? for as you know, I am so hysterical I won't get...
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Wed Feb 06, 2019 12:30 am
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Fri Feb 01, 2019 4:32 pm
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Climate change == no more free pr0n
by Abdul Alhazred » Sun Jan 06, 2019 12:27 pm
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Buried internet infrastructure at risk as sea levels rise
Science Daily
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... critical communications infrastructure that could be submerged by rising seas in as soon as 15 years ...
and
Much of this infrastructure is...
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Mon Jan 07, 2019 12:14 am
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Potholer54!!!
by Bart Stewart » Thu Dec 14, 2017 7:56 pm
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I haven't been to this section of the forum in a while. Where are all the deniers? They camped out here around the clock, with spam-a-rama unlike any...
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His sniper buddy Robinson still shoots a round off now and then. Doesn't break cover to stay engaged.
Jim Steel has expertise.........he's just off...
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Sat Jan 05, 2019 12:46 am
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Factfulness facts.
by Lance Kennedy » Sat Dec 29, 2018 10:11 pm
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Factfulness is the title of Dr Hans Roslings new book, and refers to the sad reality that most people do not know the true facts about the human...
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Obviously, resources are not equally shared. That is why wealthy nations have their poor. But nations become wealthier as a whole by steady economic...
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Thu Jan 03, 2019 2:27 pm
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Climate change is cool, so chill out bro.
by Abdul Alhazred » Tue Jan 01, 2019 10:32 am
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Late frost gives UK magic mushroom hunters an extra high
Psychedelic fungi may still be in bloom on New Year’s Day due to climate change...
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Give yourself credit: pre bloom period.
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Wed Jan 02, 2019 8:32 am
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100 Million Could Die From Climate Change By 2030
by bobbo_the_Pragmatist » Sat Sep 15, 2018 6:24 pm
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Hey!==a nice firm prediction we all should be alive to see? I was gonna let it go as just one more dire prediction, but its been reaffirmed 3 times...
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No need to be silly, Bobbo.
Future worse than the past ?
Just think of the Cuban Missile Crisis without Arkhipov.
How does that get you to the...
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Sun Dec 30, 2018 3:07 am
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Danielle Pletka on Meet the Press
by Gord » Fri Nov 30, 2018 11:34 am
Hank Green responds to a speaker, Danielle Pletka from the American Enterprise Insitute, who spoke on Meet the Press and made a few rather odd...
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Last post by Gord
Fri Nov 30, 2018 11:34 am
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Nothing objectively wrong with eating insects, but ...
by Abdul Alhazred » Mon Oct 15, 2018 2:55 pm
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Would you eat insects to save the planet from global warming?
Teh Gruniad
It sounds to me like one of those juvenile truth or dare things.
If...
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Reptiles taste like chicken.
Except alligators. With alligators you taste like chicken to them .
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Mon Nov 19, 2018 11:03 pm
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Fri Oct 12, 2018 11:57 pm
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1000ppm by 2100?==>We're All Gonna Die!!
by bobbo_the_Pragmatist » Tue Aug 07, 2018 4:55 am
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I keep googling the how is AGW going to end us and have never gotten a good feel for what really is going to happen. I think the scientist who know...
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Re threats.
Prediction is difficult, especially about the future.
But the best basis for predictions is trends. The threat of nuclear power is best...
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Last post by Lance Kennedy
Wed Aug 29, 2018 2:59 am
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Just the weather
by Gord » Mon Aug 06, 2018 11:21 pm
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It's 46 celsius in Palm Springs today, and it's freaking my brother out. (He's not there, he's here next to me, freaking out about someone else's...
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If anyone can hack my computer, they can keep it. But they must provide their own axe.
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Last post by Gord
Wed Aug 22, 2018 11:24 am
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Climate change, global warming and the coming ice age
by robinson » Fri Jul 27, 2018 2:31 pm
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When this subject first came up for debate, it was called global warming. After a couple of years, or whatever, it became climate change. Well,...
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:lol:
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Thu Aug 09, 2018 3:47 am
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118 all-time heat records set or tied across the globe
by bobbo_the_Pragmatist » Mon Jul 30, 2018 5:28 am
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Short read. Some, not all, in the news lately. Of Course this is NOT PROOF of AGW or even GW. Just consistent with it.
It never really hit me...
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landrews post is a quick read supporting an uptick in the strength of Hurricanes as well.
Exactly. Glad to help clarify the issue for people who...
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Last post by landrew
Mon Jul 30, 2018 5:24 pm
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Climate Change - Natural or Not.
by Phoenix76 » Mon Jul 02, 2018 6:48 am
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Y'all, haven't been around much of late, some of you will say, Thank Christ for that . But given there is no Christ , who cares.
Anyway, came across...
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Biofuels are a good idea: turn organic waste currently burned or put into landfills into a resource for useable fuel and plastics. The biofuel scams...
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Mon Jul 30, 2018 4:24 am
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Phaeodarians: Trying to Kill Us All......
by bobbo_the_Pragmatist » Thu Jul 19, 2018 10:05 pm
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Short one page read. New carbon cycling element not previously quantified. Not clear to me what happens after the phaeodarians eat the carbon. The...
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Hats? How could that be?? Hats evil enough to kill you are too tight to put on in the first place.
Fedoras.
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Fri Jul 20, 2018 8:07 am
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Pruitt
by Lance Kennedy » Thu Jul 19, 2018 5:35 am
Reference, New Scientist, 14 July 2018, page 6
Scott Pruitt, an appointee of Trumps, has just resigned as head of the EPA. What has he achieved in...
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Thu Jul 19, 2018 3:34 pm
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Climate change == no more free pr0n
by Abdul Alhazred » Tue Jul 17, 2018 12:26 pm
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:shockd:
Buried internet infrastructure at risk as sea levels rise
Science Daily
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Since we are entering a decades long mini ice age, it will not be a problem for us.
Must be nice for you. The rest of the planet is still heating...
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Thu Jul 19, 2018 12:14 am
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All-time heat records being set all over the world
by bobbo_the_Pragmatist » Sun Jul 08, 2018 7:18 pm
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Interestingly, the map does show a cooler area off shore California and I can confirm the weather for summer has been mild. I was gonna buy a window...
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No.
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Wed Jul 11, 2018 7:58 am
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Basic global warming theory
by robinson » Fri Oct 06, 2017 6:18 pm
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Pointing out the evidence of warmer temperatures despite lower CO2 simply adds to the argument that CO2 is not the driver of climate change....
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Yep, I was right. Can't delete a post once it has been responded to....but I think you can totally edit it to zero and the same effect? Lets give...
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Thu Jul 05, 2018 6:23 pm
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Climate Science From Space
by Gord » Wed Jul 04, 2018 11:58 pm
SciShow Talk Show Youtube Video
Dr. Steve Running discusses his work at NASA using satellites to keep tabs on Earth’s ecological systems. Jessi...
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Wed Jul 04, 2018 11:58 pm
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Money bonds oppose global warming.
by Lance Kennedy » Sun Jul 01, 2018 3:22 am
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Reference : New Scientist, 23 June 2018, page 36
Increasingly, financial bonds are being issued for issues related to mitigating global warming. In...
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The biggest reason people oppose the idea of AGW is that it might cost them money. Showing them how to make a profit off the efforts would reduce or...
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Billions.....going to wish they were Dead...
by bobbo_the_Pragmatist » Thu Jun 21, 2018 7:09 pm
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One paragraph summary of how AGW will be hitting the People of Earth mid century. Thats 30 years from now.
.............and the fact that people are...
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What clued you in?
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Thu Jun 21, 2018 9:58 pm
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Fact Checking Global-Warming Hysteriabal-warming-hysteria-mona-charen/
by bobbo_the_Pragmatist » Mon Jun 18, 2018 1:51 am
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Watching an interview of Bill Press by Mona Charen (CSpan2). Informative to see how a skilled Republican/Business shill denies science: Agree CC is...
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Its copy and paste: I didn't want to manipulate the info.............
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Mon Jun 18, 2018 2:13 am
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Antarctica lost 3 trillion tonnes of ice in blink of an eye
by Subaru7 » Thu Jun 14, 2018 10:51 pm
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Antarctica lost 3 trillion tonnes of ice in blink of an eye
We have long suspected that changes in Earth’s climate will affect the polar ice...
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I can agree with that sentiment, but I reserve the right to pedantry should the mood, opportunity, and keyboard exist with which to express it....
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Sun Jun 17, 2018 5:50 pm
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Ocean: Is it for fish, or the disposal of Plastic?
by bobbo_the_Pragmatist » Sat Jun 16, 2018 7:58 am
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We should all know by now that: By 2050, there will be more plastic than fish in the world’s oceans, study says .
How much micro plastic can go...
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Gord: I edited what is a common feature of most religions to show what kind of religion I was thinking about as one element of what needs to change...
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I Love Big Trees...but they are dying at an increased rate
by bobbo_the_Pragmatist » Tue Jun 12, 2018 2:24 am
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2500 years old....and dying. Sure, CC is causing a drought but nothing these trees haven not lived thru before, so, its a mystery. A too short read...
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The bush could well be just the angle or position from which the picture was taken. The difference is in the almost.
Lance: you do provide a lot of...
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Thu Jun 14, 2018 9:43 am
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Drought-induced changes in forest composition amplify effects of climate change
by Gawdzilla Sama » Thu Mar 22, 2018 12:07 pm
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Drought-induced changes in forest composition amplify effects of climate change
Date: March 21, 2018
Source: University of Florida
Summary: The...
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I skip over the nonsense and focus on what is informative.
Try it.
EDIT: HA, HA...like I'm skipping over the interview with Dennis Rodman. Lots of...
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Tue Jun 12, 2018 1:55 am
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Mysterious chlorofluorocarbon (CFC) production
by Gord » Sat Jun 02, 2018 12:05 pm
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It appears that someone, possibly in East Asia, is still producing ozone-depleting CFCs.
Illegal CFC production may be slowing ozone layer...
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Communist capitalism in action.
More like free market, unregulated capitalism in action .
I try, I really do, but it just goes swoosh.
Yes - the...
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Fri Jun 08, 2018 9:42 am
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Good Times: Nuclear Powers running out of Water
by bobbo_the_Pragmatist » Mon May 28, 2018 10:10 pm
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The Pakistani megacity of Karachi, home to more than 20 million people, is among the most water-stressed cities in the world,.............
Short...
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Lance: you make my point..........rather than make a generalization: LOOK AT who is being helped and who is being hurt. Put the analysis THERE, are...
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