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That'd only show CO2 was not the *sole cause* of warming (which should be obvious) - if you'd demonstrated significant warming before significant CO2 (which you haven't).

There are many short-term causes (like ENSO et al) and weaker long-term causes (like orbital cycles, and changes in solar output & vulcanism) - even colonisation can have an indirect effect. None of these come close to accounting for the dramatic temperature rise we've observed.

But CO2 does. We've measured its effect in the lab, and measured the amount we've added to the atmosphere, and confirmed it with measurements from GOSAT and the Orbiting Carbon Observatory 2 - and guess what? The rise is nearly all due to greenhouse gases.

with the progress in the Koreas

You know NK hasn't stopped nuclear testing right?

- The missile launches have stopped.
- The industrial grade loudspeakers spewing propaganda have stopped AND have been torn down. Stopping the propaganda would have been something. Tearing down the loudspeakers and the 30' platforms they were on is next level sh!t.
- Bodies were exhumed in the 100s (if not 1000s now) and returned to SK and the US. DNA tests shows that these are not simply "bodies"
- Mine shafts leading to underground testing sites have been blocked up and the railroad tracks leading there have been ripped up.
- Mine fields are being dug up on both sides of the border.
- NK artillery piece were moved away from the border. The first time in close to 70 years.
- The Koreas are talking - and beginning development of shared commuter railroad lines. (This is amazing.)

But yeah. Nothing is happening.

First soldiers identified from remains returned by North Korea - BBC ...
https://www.bbc.com/news/world...
Sep 21, 2018 - The US Army has identified the first of the remains believed to be US troops killed during the Korean War and returned by Pyongyang, officials ...

North and South Korea begin removing landmines along fortified DMZ
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/ News
Oct 1, 2018 - Troops from North and South Korea began removing some landmines along their heavily fortified border on Monday, the South's defence ...

North and South Korea Hope to Link the Peninsula Through Railways ...
fortune.com Briefing Korean peninsula
Dec 26, 2018 - North and South Korean officials try to connect a railroad during a groundbreaking ceremony for a project to modernize access the heavily ...

To demonstrate who is actually the brainwashed idiot, consider this: Trump has, on at least 7 occasions, acknowledged that the climate is warming, and that humans likely play a role in that.

Citations please?

Oh never mind. Trump says lots of things and then says the opposite a short time later. His AGW stance has been a textbook example. He may have grudgingly accepted AGW on occasion, but his most emphatic pronouncements have been decidedly on the other side of the issue.

The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive. -- Donald J. Trump, 2012

Not enough? Okay:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world...
https://www.theguardian.com/us...
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/1...
https://www.motherjones.com/en...

Bonus question:

How come poor countries can afford it but the US can't?

Even in NON-poor countries, they are having trouble keeping up healthcare for all and the costs are starting to weigh in heavily.

Healthcare problems in the UK

Canada isn't that much better than US

It's worth pointing out that English is the second most spoken language in the world and arguably the most widely spoken language since the only one with more speakers is Mandarin Chinese which is predominantly only spoken in one country that has a less-than-open market.

English is actually the most spoken language in the world according to Wikipedia. There are more people in China than the total number of worldwide English speakers, but not everyone in China speaks Mandarin, with about 30% of people in China unable to speak Mandarin (Cantonese and Hokkien are prominent dialects).

The original Slashdot summary is also incorrect that English as a native language is not in the top-8 languages. It's actually third. This is obvious because the total population of the US, the UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand is close to half a billion people, the overwhelming majority of which speak English as a native language.

NY just legalized killing a baby, brought to full term, born fully alive, and then being killed and called an "abortion".

For those of you playing along at home, that statement is what's known as "bullshit".

https://www.bbc.com/news/world...

We already do this to collect the closing costs of a nuclear plant. For every dollar a customer pays for electricity generated with nuclear power, a few cents go into building up a fund to pay for the cleanup of any accidents. Japan's nuclear plants have produced roughly 200 TWh per year for the last 30 years, or 6000 TWh. The Fukushima cleanup cost is currently estimated at $180 billion. So its cost relative to the amount of power generated is ($180 billion) / (6000 TWh) = $30 million / TWh = $30 / MWh = 3 cents / kWh.

So a surcharge of just 3 cents/kWh on all electricity generated by nuclear power would have paid for the Fukushima cleanup costs. As there have only been two major nuclear accidents, 3 cents/kWh is probably towards the high end. But it's small enough you could just go with it and collect that into a disaster fund. (The third-biggest accident - 3 Mile Island - had a $1 billion cleanup cost. If you amortize that over all nuclear power production in the U.S., it works out to just 0.006 cents/kWh. A Fukushima-sized cleanup here would work out to a 1.1 cent/kWh surcharge.)

And to address AC's comment, Insurance doesn't work because only a small number of nuclear plants are necessary to power the world. The U.S. has about 100 nuclear plants, which generate 20% of all our electricity. About 450 nuclear plants throughout the world provides 10% of the world's electricity. For insurance to work, insurers have to be able to reliably predict what the rate of payout will be year-to-year. This requires a huge number of individual insurance policies.

The greater your sample size (the more individual insurance policies there are), the tighter the probability distribution gets. That's what turns unexpected costs of accidents and disasters into predictable costs. To get a distribution tight enough for insurance to be reliably predictable requires at least ~10,000 individual insured. Fewer than that and it becomes dfficult to make business decisions with a high degree of certainty. (i.e. their profit margin fluctuates by several percent each year based on random chance, swamping out any effects of their actual business decisions, making it difficult for them to determine if a good year was due to good decisions or good luck, or a bad year was due to bad decisions or bad luck.)

This is why insurance on nuclear plants is astronomical. The insurers can't sell enough policies to make the risk predictable. So they end up having to charge a premium several hundred or several thousand times the expected payout to minimize their risk exposure.

It speaks only to political intolerance, i.e. intolerance of political views. But liberals are more tolerant of literally everything else than conservatives.

Pay attention!

Basket of Deplorables

And if they do start piling up, who's to blame? Is it the small, impoverished third world nation that's been trying to modernize itself or the giant empire that's been throwing economic sanctions at them non stop?

Maybe Venezuela could have pulled out of their nose dive with a bit of international help. Maybe they could have had Democracy and permanent first world nation status with just a friendly push in the right direction. But we'll never know, because to be blunt somebody is after their oil and by God and Country they're gonna get it...

I don't expect to get much of anywhere with this line of thought and it frustrates me. The US has been fucking with the rest of the Americans non stop for over a century.

I know where not supposed to bitch about mods but come one. It's 2019. We have the internet. We're adults (mostly, /.'s readership is getting up there in years). We should be able to figure out the difference between socialism and using Karl Marx's rhetoric to get the rubes to buy in. We should be able to understand the difference between Donald Trump & Bernie Sanders when they both promise us Universal Healthcare. We shouldn't trust our gov't when it tells us Venezuela's bad when that same gov't supports the Saudi's who just murdered one of our journalists and got away with it. We should be able to see the pattern of destabilizing nations and then using the refuges as jingoistic props.

Fuck. I mean, just fuck.

we've done what the EU. the OAS, and many others have done

Let me stop you right there. First, the "EU, OAS and many others" have not proposed sending troops to Venezuela.

Second, are you really suggesting that the fact that the EU has adopted a policy is a good reason for us to adopt the policy? If so, you're showing some growth there, Rooster.

This isn't about who to recognize or who to condemn. This is about direct intervention.

As far as "wag the dog", how about that Libya move by Obama and Hillary? That was a great one, wasn't it? Syria as well...

First, Obama has admitted that Libya was the worst mistake of his presidency (see link). Second, I bet you didn't know that more Americans died in Syria under Trump than under Obama.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world...

That's "whose". Repeat after me: Possessives do not get apostrophes.

Also, ambassador guy no longer ambassador.

The problem with renewable energy is not so much the price to do so but the cost of not running non renewable energy.

... you need enough standby generation to cover those low days and they are going to get paid if they run or not.

THIS. I'd upvote you to 6 but I don't have any points, never mind cascading points.

All these guys with renewables forget they're not 100% dependable and unless you want to be in the dark you need a backup source ready to go within seconds, not construction years. And 10x overproduction is great, but at night none of the solar banks are busy. I want an average load-out with peaks, but I've got variable input that ranges from 0-200%. NOT the same thing.

It's kind of interesting what tesla is doing in Australia

THAT. Besides pushing trains or water uphill or spinning wheels or compressing air, that's the only innovation I've heard in a long time. And they're doing it with millisecond quantity, not just supporting a hospital or single neighborhood. (30,000 homes for an hour.)

Informative AND pretty pictures: One, Two, Three, Four, Five.

Here's the source on that. Here's the "scare version" in the Western media:

https://www.gamesradar.com/min...

"Chinese gamers face direct ‘social penalties’, such as lack of access to Visa schemes and dating sites ... Buying games could potentially lower your ‘social credit’ in China by 2020 if a new government scheme gains traction. The Black Mirror style trial scheme discourages certain types of behaviour and can even penalise people for buying video games."

As much as I don't like the phrase, this text is absolutely "fake news" since there is no such plan for the Feds in China to monitor video game playing, or block people from dating sites:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world...
"Someone who plays video games for 10 hours a day, for example, would be considered an idle person, and someone who frequently buys diapers would be considered as probably a parent, who on balance is more likely to have a sense of responsibility," Li Yingyun, Sesame's technology director told Caixin, a Chinese magazine, in February."

Note, these are ideas completely concocted by a private company Sesame, owned by Ali Baba fo their social-network score "Sesame Credit". If you score higher on Sesame Credit, then the company wants to do things like place you higher in search results on their platform-owned dating app. And you can score poorly for e.g. playing games ON the Sesame platform for 10 hours a day.

Note: this is completely different to the first article's claims that (1) buying games will (2) get you banned from dating apps due to (3) the Chinese government's social credit system. It's actually, if you (1) game too many hours per day on particular online platform you could be (2) down-rated on THEIR dating app due to (3) a scoring system unique to that company. It's nothing to do with the government, the social-credit system and doesn't in fact mention "banning" anyone from anything.

this is why the articles are junk, it takes very little research to prove them wrong. There are almost no sources you can trust to get the basic facts right here, no matter who you agree with.

Data would be like sunshine, if Facebook/Google/etc were capable of blocking out large portions of the sky to prevent the sun from shining on anyone else. Hey, maybe that's why Facebook is building a satellite and Google is building balloons.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world...

Not only for political reasons.
Algeria switches off the Internet during the annual high-school exams.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world...

For the past couple of months, I also received a lot of these variants.
All of them have a Bitcoin address that you should pay a ransom to.
All of them claim that they hacked my "internet" and viewed me on webcams (which I don't use).
All of them claim that they have compromising videos of me watching porn.
Most of them have my leaked email address in the From: header.
Many of them have a password that I used or part of it (and use that as proof they hacked "my account").
Many of them claim the hack is on my router and reference a CVE for Cisco (I don't own any Cisco equipment)

BBC reporters were targeted, and they did a piece on this scam. Worth watching ...

Adrian Carton deWiart fought in WW2 after losing a hand and an eye in WW1
https://www.bbc.com/news/magaz...

I didn't realize we lock up hundreds of thousands without trial and "re-educate" them about their wrong thinking... And good luck going to China and posting on WeChat something critical of the Government or President Xi. Here in the US, you can protest all you want; in China if you protest the Government. They love to arrest and lock up journalists who speak out against the Government. If the same was in the US, Jim Acosta would have been in prison most of the last 24 months...

China doesn't give two fucks. They're rounding up religious minorities and sending them to reeducation camps. They won't care about international criticism from those former groups on Twitter either.

China doesn't care about domestic criticism either--hence the "camps".

The US and EU have sucked in our dealing with Africa, mostly realizing that the area is too hospitable to colonize, they just left it alone. Not realizing there is a population of workers being under under utilized, and can be supported to be stronger economies, which in turn create more customers.

I don't think it's that. Trying to get involved in Africa as a western company just gets a mountain of whinging twats complaining about colonialism on Twitter or other social media.

China doesn't give two fucks. They're rounding up religious minorities and sending them to reeducation camps. They won't care about international criticism from those former groups on Twitter either.

Here's the evidence.

Hot off the presses - one of the things that gives me hope: https://www.bbc.com/news/scien...

Studies show making products more efficient has - along with other factors - already been slightly more effective than renewable energy in cutting CO2 emissions.

The difference is that glamorous renewables grab the headlines.

It's not an all-or-nothing approach. Too much CO2 in the atmosphere has a lot of causes, and a lot of solutions. The key is to work on all of them, not fixate on one of them.

The reason the US government doesn't steal foreign tech

Except the US government has done exactly that:

The report recommends “a multi-pronged, systematic effort to gather open source and proprietary information through overt means, clandestine penetration (through physical and cyber means), and counterintelligence” (emphasis added). In particular, the DNI’s report envisions “cyber operations” to penetrate “covert centers of innovation” such as R&D facilities.

The level of American hypocrisy makes me vomit every day.

Yeah, this shit is why bananas are in danger of going extinct. Bringing asexual reproduction to a core component of most of the world's food supply is the height of irresponsibility.

As an outsider (living in Sweden, Europe) I am a bit curious, but mostly alarmed how the US have got such a seemingly malfunctioning health care system. Most other 1:st world countries (in Europe, Japan, South Korea ...) have some variation on a single-payer system, where hospital visits and drugs are in most part paid by everyone via taxes, without what seems like the bureaucracy of private or employer-paid insurance.

In Sweden, a visit to a doctor, district nurse, psychologist or physiotherapist always cost $10-$20 (free for children below 18 years old and the elderly). A hospital visit is $20-$40, regardless of what procedures are administrated. (hospitals also seems to base the procedures applied based on medical need, rather than what can be billed). On top of that, there is a yearly cap so no citizen need paying more than $150 each year in hospital fees, and no more than $150 each year for prescription drugs.

And, to the point, the average EU citizen pay much less (including paid via taxes) for equal 1:st world class health care than the US citizen.

For example, the British spend around half the US amount on health care per capita, despite having by several measures higher quality:
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-42...

China-Japan trade is also high, https://www.bbc.com/news/world...

The top export destinations of South Korea are China ($121B), the United States ($70.1B), https://atlas.media.mit.edu/en...

https://vietnamnews.vn/economy...

You mean Pret A Mourir?

https://www.bbc.com/news/busin...

[indians have] been more republican oriented than democrat

No, they haven't been. That's your world view combined with your racism distorting your perception. Actual data shows "Indian-Americans" are overwhelmingly Democrat.

Why do Indian-Americans flock to the Democratic Party?
Hindu-Americans Don’t Vote Republican

You probably need to check your racism; your distaste for Hindu American's has you associating them with your enemies, despite the fact that such alignment is highly improbable, as common sense should have told you; immigrant groups always align with Democrats.

No government needs to control what its citizens can read and write unless it has totalitarian aims.

Or unless they're trying to prevent a lynching based on false information.

You've never done business in China, have you? There is zero concept of "win-win"; if there is a winner, there MUST be a loser. You negotiate for "win-win" and YOU are the loser. You might not like his "bull in a China shop" approach, but it works, because that is how business is done in China in the first place.

And why is the Left suddenly full of hawks who want to deepen and increase wars? President Obama campaigned on ending Iraq and Afghanistan; instead of that, he involved us in numerous new wars. Do the Democrats now want to see us get deeper into military wars and conflicts around the world?

And people forget that President Obama went through 3 Secretaries of Defense in just over 2000 days - the average being shorter than Secretary Mattis.

Uninsured numbers weren't cut in half, and premiums increased at the same rate as prior to Obamacare.

You also conveniently ignore that President Obama had complete control for a good chunk of the first two years of his Presidency (Chuck Schumer was Senate Leader, and Nancy Pelosi was Speaker).

Despite being given $350 billion by President Bush (as then-President Elect Obama requested) to stimulate the economy, the economy was starting to slink back to recession when President Trump was elected, with GDP plunging back down. Thankfully that's been arrested, and interest rates (which were at 0% for most of the Obama Administration) have started to come back up (which will strengthen the economy long-term). All while racking up more debt than pretty much all previous Presidents combined. He even got Congress to amend President Bush's 2009 budget by adding another $900 billion to it - and his supporters love to pin that $900 billion back on President Bush (which is completely disingenuous).

Now, you forgot things like his own self-described "worst mistake" of Libya, failures in Syria, drove world opinion of the USA down (thankfully it's rebounding back up), assassinated US citizens without due process, knowingly illegally selling guns to Mexican drug gangs (one of which was used to kill a US border patrol officer), and many, many more things which could be considered abject, Administration-destroying failures.

But if you're one of their nationals and you commit murder in the US, they'll be quite happy to help you evade justice.

Pacific islands are overwhelmingly growing, very few are going away. Adding land typically doesn't qualify for "going bye-bye"... But scary phrases and lies rule the day, eh?

When I watched it I thought something looked wrong, but I couldn't say exactly what.

All the major news outlets and FOX covered it:

FOX:
https://www.foxnews.com/tech/f...

CNN:
https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/18...

ABC:
https://www.abcactionnews.com/...

NBC:

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/new...
https://www.nbcchicago.com/new...
https://www.nbc-2.com/clip/147...

CBS:

https://www.cbsnews.com/video/...

Washington Post:
https://www.washingtonpost.com...

New York Post:
https://nypost.com/2018/12/19/...

Huffington Post:
https://www.huffingtonpost.com...

BBC:
https://www.bbc.com/news/techn...

I think the New York Times is the only major news organization that didn't cover it from what I can google, but I don't have a subscription so I may have missed their coverage.

The "open borders" of many Western nations facilitate the entry of ethnic or racial groups which lack the will or the intellect to assimilate into Western culture. Such groups include Hispanics and Middle Easterners, and they exhibit high rates of violent crime. Facial-recognition software is needed to identify the numerous violent criminals in such groups.

Two strong indicators that an ethnic or racial group lacks the will or the intellect to assimilate are (1) exhibiting a disproportionately high rate of violence and (2) demanding preferential treatment.

Consider Middle Easterners. According to a report by the BBC, "in 8.5% of all crimes [in Germany in 2017], German police suspected a [Middle-Eastern] migrant of involvement. But for violent crime that figure was even higher, at 15%, according to a report in Die Zeit." (Get more information about his issue.)

Now, consider Hispanics. Hispanics commit murder at 3 times and 6 times the rate at which European-Americans and Asian-Americans, respectively, commit murder. (Get more information about this issue.)

Of course, Hispanics expect, demand, and receive preferential treatment from most politicians, bureaucrats, and administrators via (typically) affirmative action. (Get more information about this issue.)

The "open borders" of many Western nations facilitate the entry of ethnic or racial groups which lack the will or the intellect to assimilate into Western culture. Such groups include Hispanics and Middle Easterners, and they exhibit high rates of violent crime. Facial-recognition software is needed to identify the numerous violent criminals in such groups.

Two strong indicators that an ethnic or racial group lacks the will or the intellect to assimilate are (1) exhibiting a disproportionately high rate of violence and (2) demanding preferential treatment.

Consider Middle Easterners. According to a report by the BBC, "in 8.5% of all crimes [in Germany in 2017], German police suspected a [Middle-Eastern] migrant of involvement. But for violent crime that figure was even higher, at 15%, according to a report in Die Zeit." (Get more information about his issue.)

Now, consider Hispanics. Hispanics commit murder at 3 times and 6 times the rate at which European-Americans and Asian-Americans, respectively, commit murder. (Get more information about this issue.)

Of course, Hispanics expect, demand, and receive preferential treatment from most politicians, bureaucrats, and administrators via (typically) affirmative action. (Get more information about this issue.)

The report basically claims, any Russian, ANY RUSSIAN

Did you read TFA? The article quite specifically talks about the Russian Internet Research Agency (IRA), not "any Russian", and links to this article which gives more details.

Not any Russian: specific Russians: those working at the IRA.

This 60% thing is an interesting statistic, but it would be more relevant if we could see the proportion of Americans who didn't get pay raises for the last 5 years or so. It's effectively citing a number without a baseline for comparison.

Additionally, it could also be phrased as "40% of Americans got a pay raise this year", and in the context of our recent depression (starting at around 2008) might be a piece of good news. We'll never know.

The economy only really started to take off about October of last year, so we've only had a little more than a year of good economy. Will this trend continue? It might be nice to see a sparkline for this pay raise information month-by-month to see if represents an increasing trend.

Additional to that, the article as posted in a negative light (60%, without baseline) and immediately dives into how management all got raises. It then goes on to talk about minimum wage and how inflation hit a 6-year high in July of 2018.

The article is all about class envy, trying to gin up outrage in order to get clicks. Isn't it simply *awful* how those evil managers reward themselves while keeping most worker wages the same!!!

(Inflation in July 2018 was 0.01%, yet another number cited without baseline to provoke outrage.)

Really. It's well known that wages have been flat for much of the 2000's, and others report that US wage growth is at a nine-year high.

Take a skeptics view of click-bait articles.

That said, it's still creepy, and given how the Chinese have used the system to sweep up enemies of the state, I'm not sure I feel comfortable with this.

Well, get comfortable, because it turns out this tech isn't just rolling out to Taylor Swift concerts. It's already implemented in hotels and convention centers. They have a database of faces that will automatically alert security of individuals who have been "banned." Just hope you don't look too much like an "undesirable" or you may find it impossible to enter hotels.

To be fair to Swift, she really does have some crazy stalkers, including people who break into her home and take naps in her living room, harass her family, and legal restraining order type of crazy. Concerts are one of the few openings they have where they can try to get close, so these systems are probably being used for that specific slice of risk. Yes, they can check at the door, but given that many have resorted to criminal actions to try and get close, it wouldn't be surprising if some tried to sneak in through other means. It is after all a private event, private venue, with video consent already given.

That said, it's still creepy, and given how the Chinese have used the system to sweep up enemies of the state, I'm not sure I feel comfortable with this.

Let's be clear and honest, the Huffington post is far right wing, they just play to the left for views, they profit off the left, they are most definately not part of the left. Just like the pretend left indentitarians, the SJW freaks, they play left, well, they are fucking worse, they are deep state and shadow government tools, created to make the left look bad, left == workers and right == bosses, all else is a lie, put out by the bosses, just the way it is. Huffington Post, sold out to far right corporations, the second a big enough offer came in and they just gave the people who did the writing the finger and no share of hundreds of millions of dollars.

What happens when dinosaur media bought up the internet, well they tried to turn them into dinosaurs and well, it failed because dinosaurs turning new media into dinosaur media, wont save them from extinction, just take down the new media they bought.

Dinosaur media, simply failed to come to terms with the level of competition on the internet, hence the skullduggerous push for the elimination of net neutrality to create an entirely corrupt and disingenuous barrier to block competition. Problem is, well, the likes of slashdot, how much bandwidth do you need for text, not much at all and hence whilst they can try to stifle video competition, they totally fail on touching text based.

The level of global competition is also growing, look at https://www.rt.com/ or https://www.bbc.com/, their focus international news to an international audience, something for which US news media is extremely poorly equipped due to the level of empty headed bullshit and corporate propaganda flooding their channels, simply news, most people do not want to hear and who will go elsewhere at the first opportunity and you ain't seen nothing yet. The best current job for AI is auto translation services for web sites and the level of competition that will introduce for international content to an international audience will be huge and will be the downfall of US media, to used to dominating in order to adapt to mass competition, hence their solution the end of net neutrality and US internet isolation.

Sigh.
I have tried to tell you over this last year, that OCO2 is showing for the last 2 years that China's CO2 emissions was growing (and not shrinking like you claimed). Now, it is growing FAST.
NOW, they were forced to admit to burning more coal. In fact, a minimum of 4.5% coal (it is likely to go higher next year when this group re-calculates 2018 for real).
You can see that China's energy usage, esp. Coal, along with gas that is at least partially made from coal (unknown how much is from coal, but unless CHina is burying the CO2, it generates more than just burning it) is growing VERY fast.

Then we see that China is ADDING ANOTHER 250-300 GW of COAL. Not replacing. This is ADDING. They are going on sites that have current coal and adding to them. Again, not replacing, but adding.
FOr the last year, I have told you that they were expanding, but you continue to claim otherwise. Yet, here are private space photos that positively prove that what your Chinese gov claims is not even close to true. China is building and they are building MORE than what is being acknowledged.

Now, you can continue to ignore the FACTS, and simply keep burying your head. But, I think that you have the same belief that I do, that all of the nations need to take responsibility and cut their emissions. And yes, China is more than developed enough to have them lower their emissions.

Ray is right about the drive for impeachment (and wasn't it those very Democrats who were concerned that President Trump wouldn't abide by the election - the exact same thing they seek to do?). It will be a waste of effort (there is nothing illegal or a "high crime" or even misdemeanor suggested - it's just "Orange Man Bad"), and if they can get enough together to pass articles of impeachment - it will go NO WHERE in the Senate.

And your trolling must include the BBC and Reuters. I guess it's a world-wide conspiracyto build a lie that South Africa will expropriate land without compensation? Either that or the SJW snowflake of an AC is hurt that the facts don't support their delicate world-view...

We can't let her go. Our extradition laws are terrible. On of our citizens was sent to France on bad evidence to sit in a prison cell for three yeas in relation to a bombing.

The headline is misleading because we only made the arrest due to our extradition treaty with the US. Not because we think she did anything wrong. The only reasons we wouldn't send her to the US is if we think she'd face the death penalty or torture. We don't judge on whether or not the case is stupid. China won't be made at us for honouring our treaty commitments. They might complain that no anonymous little tip might have told her to that a family member "needed" her back home before someone came to arrest her.

Just because America has the clout to make this happen and China would not doesn't mean we shouldn't have asked Canada to do this. Really, we'll have to wait until we see what the charges are as last I read she had filed for and been granted a publication ban of the charges ( https://www.bbc.com/news/busin... ) although that info was a bitch to track down after I read it the day before as I couldn't remember where I had read that at and most media outlets are focused on the mystery and not the cause of.

Whoever told you either of those two things is an idiot and no one in the mainstream scientific community believes that it will never snow again in those locations. What they probably said (or what the scientists said before twisted by someone somewhere) was, snow will be more rare- but also more extreme when it does occur in those locations.

That came out of the mainstream scientific community, and was promoted by the various government meteorological offices and so forth. In the case of the UK, the MET openly stated that kids wouldn't know what snowfall was by I think it was 2015 or something. It was the same with DC.

Wow, in that case it should be SUPER EASY TO FIND, because they just came right out in the open and said it, right? And it was the government, too, not like you can walk that back.

I can find things like this:
      http://www.bbc.com/earth/story...
which is obviously later than your "2015 or something" statement. I could see someone reading this and thinking "There won't be snow in DC", but that would be a conclusion _they_ had based on reading this. I don't think the article in any way says that, though. Statements like "may drop by as much as 65%, on average" - they're trying hard to just present what their model is telling them without making really concrete predictions, because their model is talking about the next 100 years or something, not the coming winter, and that normal human beings have troubles operating that way.

Huawei will dominate the market!

I'd really like to see who they take to court to try and undo the encryption on the Monero et al. blockchains.

I'm waiting for all of the smart phones in Australia to be made by Huawei.