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I do watch Nova, and am generally satisfied, but not.. really energized. With respect their political views affecting the science they -do- put out, I am waiting for an objective review of weather/climate change. Even the PBS ombudsman calls them out: http://thinkprogress.org/clima... I winced at this one: "I watched NOVA last night, “Becoming Human”, and I was shocked and dismayed that PBS would air a show that is funded by David Koch and clearly supports his perspective: climate change is good for humans. " So much for Koch Funded science-broadcasts being balanced. New Word : Greenwashing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G... - Betraying the publics' trust should be a crime. Lets see a piece from the Bros K about how to run industry, and look good. and from Scientists about things they find magical.

What you are calling a growth curve is often called a learning curve. It is the idea that costs reduce as more of the technology is deployed. People get bright ideas as they work in the field, going to greater scale means more can be produced with less labor, etc... You are correct that nuclear power gets more expensive with time. http://thinkprogress.org/clima... There are technologies where the more common behavior is seen. Wind and solar power are growing exponentially owing to lower and lower cost as more are deployed. At their current growth rates either can replace all the world's energy demand around the year 2035. http://www.realclimate.org/ind...

Our Chinese friends (yes.. the capital-communists ) are beginning to figure out the need to have a balance between industry and pollution for the publics' good. http://thinkprogress.org/clima... The incessant back and forth of the Red Vs Blue (especially when fabricated) is not helping anyone. There is no guarantee that the earth can stay inhabitable... Its up to us to treat it as the gift that it is. Why an instinct to protect our environment is harpooned is beyond me. Here is the question..., Does the perfect net catch -all- the fish? Think about it.

"Considering how frequently, blatantly, and deliberately the US government has lied..."

The U.S. government is EXTREMELY corrupt in many areas, not just in this situation. A few areas of corruption:

Finance: in 2008, banks were allowed to steal from taxpayers. Bank managers were rewarded with extremely high pay: The Divide. "New York Times bestseller -- Named one of the best books of the year by the Washington Post, NPR, and Kirkus Reviews".

Health care: The new health care system will further bankrupt the country. The ACA, Affordable Care Act, is NOT affordable. The ACA benefits everyone but the citizens. #1 Best Seller: America's Bitter Pill: Money, Politics, Back-Room Deals, and the Fight to Fix Our Broken Healthcare System.

Prison system: The U.S. has the largest percentage of its citizens in prison, of any country, in any century. The prison system is hugely profitable for prison corporations. ACLU: With only 5% of the world's population, the U.S. has 25% of the world's prison population. ThinkProgress: The United States Has The Largest Prison Population In The World -- And It's Growing.

Violence: The U.S. government has killed, or caused the death of, an estimated 11,000,000 people since the end of the 2nd world war. War is extremely profitable for some corporations: House of Bush, House of Saud by Craig Unger. Bush and Cheney started a war that was profitable for them.

I think solar is great - I have some panels on my camper, which is very conducive to solar type use because it's already designed to function off-grid. But let's be realistic. Let's say every home in America stuck a couple thousand watts of solar power on their roof, and wanted to sell the power into the grid (as opposed of having to store it on-site). How is that supposed to work? If no power generation is required by the power company when the sun is shining, but the full normal generation is required the instant clouds sweep over a community or at night, etc, then how is that supposed to work? None of the power generation plants can function in that "instant on / instant off" type of a mode. Particularly not nuclear. The point is, once the adoption reaches some (rather smallish) percentage, there will be some major problems and costs that will have to be addressed.

Before that occurs (in the US), a lot of years will have passed. Germany has had a day with 75% renewable energy production and 50% solar production and will undoubtedly get similar occurences this year too. They also still have nuclear power plants and it all works. Sure, nuclear power plants are notoriously bad to change in output on short term and will therefore gradually fade from view, which is not a bad thing alltogether (even though I am not opposed to nuclear). New technologies will come to mitigate problems of temporary overproduction, like Elon Musk's battery pack for homes.

It is all not a problem that can be solved. The only problem is big powerful companies fearing for their livelyhood and having the money and influence to prevent these changes from happening.

Just ask the members of the South Dakota state legislator and they could tell you how CO2 is the gas of life! http://thinkprogress.org/polit...

Blacks are allowed to own guns too.

Are they really? It sure doesn't look like it.

Yes. It's that simple: Shortsighted moronic stupidity.

But this is the GOP playbook: break things so they don't work, then complain that they don't work, and break them some more.

Case in point: the IRS.
Now nobody particularly likes the taxman.
But the IRS is responsible for funding the rest of government.
So impairing the governments ability to actually pay for the things it does, is stupid.

Specifically, for every dollar spent on the IRS, government takes in 5-7 dollars.
So cutting the IRS, impairing it, preventing it from doing its job, WILL RESULT IN INCREASED DEFICITS.

Customer service wait times, ie help filling out forms, has already more than doubled due to lack of staffing to answer calls. Nearly 40% of

callers give up and hangup before even being helped. There's the issue of tax fraud that they are unable to prevent/investigate because of

lack of staffing, meaning some of the refunds they payout are fraudlent.

And again, there is the simple issue of, if you want government to actually pay for the things it does, someone needs to collect that

money. And making it harder for them to due that, is moronic. Sabotaging and impairing the government's ability to function in order to them

blame them for the dysfunction that you ahve caused is the height of hypocrisy. But again: its the standard GOP playbook.

Mr Bookman says it best:

I suppose they think that’s some kind of revenge for the IRS’ perceived persecution of conservatives, but the agency isn’t some

living, breathing entity that feels pain or retribution. It also won’t affect IRS employees all that much, because they’ll keep coming into work,

doing their job and going home at night, just like before.

However, enforcement will decline, tax cheaters will prosper and even be encouraged, honest taxpayers will get played for suckers,

revenue will fall, the deficit will rise and hundreds of thousands of Americans who call the IRS for information or assistance will be stuck on

the line for an eternity before hanging up, angry at what looks from their end to be an arrogant, unresponsive government that is

supposed to be helping them. Those taxpayers will mutter that no business would ever get away with treating its customers that way. They

will be right.

That’s because no business is run by people whose goal is to make customers hate that business. It’s dumb and it’s destructive, but

that’s what happens when we are governed by children.

So next time you complain about government spending money it doesn't have, remember that it was you that did it to yourself.
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How Stupid Sequester Cuts To The IRS Could Result In A Bigger Deficit
http://thinkprogress.org/econo...

The IRS estimates that every dollar spent on enforcement brings in $4-$5 dollars of additional revenue. As Reuters’ David Cay

Johnston found, every hour spent on corporate tax enforcement bring in more than $9,000 in revenue.

GOP’s childish attack on IRS will hurt honest taxpayers
http://jaybookman.blog.ajc.com...

The IRS Oversight Board, a citizen panel created by a Republican Congress in 1998 to help “rein in” the agency, is even more

blunt about the impact of cuts imposed since 2010. IRS staffing is down 26 percent from two decades ago, and some 5,000 enforcement

agents have disappeared from its payroll just since 2010. That’s pretty dumb, since every dollar spent on enforcement is estimated to

produce $7 in additional revenue to help cut the deficit.

The board notes that account

http://thinkprogress.org/clima...

http://thinkprogress.org/healt...

The same professors that supported and advised on ACA.

Shows how bizarre people are!

All the ACA waivers, yet it's a law.

Perhaps our education-overlords are worried too many Americans will learn to speak German and head over to Deutschland so they can get a quality education without going into life crushing debt :|

Nachrichten für Nerds Deutsch

Its hard to trust the reports of an organization that said 2013 was the fourth warmest year on record:

http://thinkprogress.org/clima...

While at the same time we had record breaking cold temps and huge growth in the polar ice caps:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/...

Ignorance of the law is an excuse.
http://thinkprogress.org/justi...

Zediva was shutdown because like Aero they tried to work around the laws to skip paying for a license from the content provider.

They were purchasing regular DVDs and renting them in violation of the DVD license. Rental DVDs require a totally different license.

[bolded by me] That part is not true AFAICT. See The Consumer Video Sales/Rental Amendment of 1983.
In that case, the doctrine of first sale was upheld, and you can do whatever you want with something that you have legitimately acquired a copy of (ex. VHS or DVD).
Just one of many examples:
http://thinkprogress.org/ygles...

Yes. Let's look at Chicago.

Such as this graph: http://d35brb9zkkbdsd.cloudfro...

Seems Chicago isnt the hotbed of crime it's been made out to be.
Their gun ban was in effect from 1982 to 2010, when it struck down.
The recent uptick in homocides occured -AFTER- the gun ban was struck down,
so if there is any correlation to drawn (and im not saying there is), its not the one you are trying for.

Chicago homocides peaked in early 90s, with the increase and subsequent decrease matching the peak in crime around teh country, both in locations with and without gun bans. The recent uptick is nothing like the historical crime rates.

Or as summed up at http://thinkprogress.org/justi... :

Most significantly, it is important to understand that Chicago is not an island. Although Chicago has historically had strict gun laws, laws in the surrounding parts of Illinois [incuding the suburbs of Chicago] were much laxer — enabling middlemen to supply the criminals in Chicago with guns they purchased elsewhere. Forty three percent of the guns seized by law enforcement in Chicago were originally purchased in other parts of Illinois. And even if the state had stricter gun laws, Illinois is not an island either. The remaining fifty seven percent of Chicago guns all came from out of state, most significantly from nearby Indiana and distant Mississippi — neither of which are known for their strict gun laws.

It’s also important to put Chicago’s very recent increase in gun violence in perspective. Data from the University of Chicago Crime Lab’s Harold Pollack shows that this uptick, while certainly worrying, isn’t anything like a return to the historic peaks during America’s crime wave. Pollack notes that “Chicago ranks 79th on Neighborhood Scout’s list of the 100 most dangerous places to live in Americathe idea that Chicago faces a unique or unprecedented rise in homicides is incorrect. Our problems are all too familiar and chronic throughout much of urban America.” Chicago, following the national trend, has experienced a significant downturn in homicides in the past decade and a half:

And there was event a report into what caused the the 2012 spike in homocides, which was chiefly a result of an uptick in gang violence:

he points to three factors are particularly important: escalating gang conflict as a consequence of police crackdowns and shifting gang territory, outdated law enforcement practices, and — yes — access to guns.
[..]
Chicago’s streets are flooded with guns: it has roughly six times as many guns as New York City per capita, despite its restrictive laws. So if gang conflict escalates, and the gangs have easy access to guns, the homicide rate should rise. This explanation fits with the fact that 87 percent of Chicago homicides in 2012 were gun-related. New York, by contrast, did not experience a surge in homicides in 2012.

The guns that fueled this fire came from a small number of individuals bringing guns into the city. A study of Chicago’s gun market (which, incidentally, concluded that tight enforcement of Chicago’s gun ban and restrictions significantly disrupted illegal gun markets) found that most of guns in high-crime neighborhoods entered through a small, tight network of suppliers and middlemen: “Gun suppliers report that 60-80% of their sales are negotiated through brokers (we assume the 80% figure) and by our own estimates gun suppliers account for around half of all gun sales in the GB community.” Because most criminals weren’t comfortable going out of their neighborhoods to buy guns, and Chicago had no gun stores in the city, they relied on this network to get them guns from outside of Chicago.

There's some scary Supreme Court precedent just handed down. The cop can be ignorant of the law, i.e., think you broke a law when you didn't, and then conduct a search, and that search is now legal thanks to a brand new Supreme Court decision. That's right, ignorance of the law is no excuse, except for cops.

Pick your poison:
http://thinkprogress.org/justi...

http://www.foxnews.com/politic...

Of course this is supposed to be limited to "reasonable" ignorance, but look at Smith v. Maryland. A one time, short term, metadata collection on a specific individual where there was certainly probable cause for a warrant if the cops had not been lazy, is today interpreted to mean that all metadata can be collected for every person, for all time, in the absence of probable cause. Or how the Executive branch interprets "imminent" to include "maybe possibly at some point of time in not so near future." This ruling is a free pass for the cops to do whatever the hell they want and claim ignorance of the law. Just give it 30 years.

According to this modelling done 10 years ago

http://thinkprogress.org/clima...

it's not as simple as global warming
I stopped using the term global warming ages ago
and instead use the term extreme climate

quote
" ... we cannot say that climate change caused a particular drought, but only that it is expected to increase the frequency, intensity, and duration of drought in some regions and that such changes are being observed ... "

More cyclones = more cyclone swells = more surf = great

surfs up dudes

and yes I blame man because of the rapid changes in extreme climate

because they fear that making them illegal will affect conventional abortion

It has been the standard operating procedure ever since Roe v Wade: chip away at abortion without passing an Ireland-style ban. Because shit happens when medical decisions are made by religious fanatics rather than doctors.

That was the original point - "Both sides are afraid of incrimentalism by the other, which compels them to adopt the extremist position in order to prevent that strategy working."

Both sides are forced to take extreme positions. Thus we have wars over things where otherwise there might be compromise. The case you cited is an example that actually touches on both abortion and euthanasia, which are both incredibly controversial topics. In the US euthanasia is illegal even when consented to by a completely competent adult, let alone in the case of a child where the consent is provided by a parent. Any rational discussion on the matter is trumped by, "OMG, Death Panels!"

I guess even people who are supportive of abortion (but not supportive of late term abortions) will defend late term abortions simply because

Simply because no one gets a dilatation and extraction for shits and giggles.

because they fear that making them illegal will affect conventional abortion

It has been the standard operating procedure ever since Roe v Wade: chip away at abortion without passing an Ireland-style ban. Because shit happens when medical decisions are made by religious fanatics rather than doctors.

Here are a few references on the high cost of nuclear power:
http://thinkprogress.org/clima...

http://thinkprogress.org/clima...

Each of these articles has multiple links to additional references.

For France, electricity is not cheap ($0.19 kwh) compared to the US ($0.12 kwh).
http://shrinkthatfootprint.com...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E...

Here are a few references on the high cost of nuclear power:
http://thinkprogress.org/clima...

http://thinkprogress.org/clima...

Each of these articles has multiple links to additional references.

For France, electricity is not cheap ($0.19 kwh) compared to the US ($0.12 kwh).
http://shrinkthatfootprint.com...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E...

http://thinkprogress.org/clima...

Wikipedia has the same numbers on an article somewhere, can't find it now.

If 20-25 out of 20-25 cops are all bad, it is likely that most, if not all, cops are bad cops:

http://thinkprogress.org/justi...

(There are several videos on youtube of this incident.)

20-25 cops participated in the torture murder of a father in San Diego (beaten and tasered to death, as he lay on the ground screaming "Ayudame, Ayudame por favor!" (Help me, Help me please!).

100% of the cops present participated in the cover up of the police murder-- some stealing camera phones, etc. and ALL witnessing, yet NOT intervening in any way during the murder-- most, participating-- getting at least a couple kicks in against the helpless man, as he lay crying on the ground.

With this large number of cops present, and ALL confirmed to be bad cops, it does not appear there are such things as good cops, or if there are, they are a vanishingly small minority which for practical purposes can be considered non-existent.

Yeah ... banksters explain some part (certainly not all, but some for certain) of the immigration reform push:

Head of banking group pushes Republicans to back immigration reform

Wells Fargo Official Links Lending to Immigration Reform

Silicon Valley Bank: In Support of Immigration Reform

How Immigration Reform Will Help Fix The Housing Recovery

This post is spot on, because many of the people impacted by the influx of GMO seeds are sustenance farmers, not profit based farms. Attempting to convert them to a money making agriculture system does not work very well because the people have little to no income sources to go buy food that people are selling. The few jobs these companies create do not support the economy, and the pay is so low that it can't support the economy.

The current reality is that these small governments must subsidize what used to be sustenance based economies. Until manufacturing, repair facilities, etc.. are functional in the country there is no choice, because there are no income sources. And lets face it, there are no plans to bolster anything else in these economies

In other words, the only people currently gaining from these programs are the people pushing the programs. There is plenty of information out there on the subject, you can start with this one, or this one, or this one (get the point? There is plenty of information). Sure, Dupont is not the same company but a new face on a same exact problem.

Maybe not so much. From the link:

3. The New York Police Department city made more stops of young black men in 2011 than there are young black men in the city, as part of its aggressive stop-and-frisk program that a federal judge deemed racial profiling earlier this month. In the years since, the NYPD has decreased the number of stops, but the disproportionate impact on blacks and Hispanics remains dramatic. A chart from the New York Public Advocate illustrates the disparity: National studies have found that blacks and Hispanics are approximately three times more likely to be searched during a traffic stop than white motorists. African Americans are twice as likely to be arrested and almost four times as likely to experience the use of force during encounters with the police.

[emphasis added]

Can this "debate" please not go on like climate "Debate" has?

Studies have shown that climate change makes people violent. No joke.

In fact, the higher the pay the CEO receives, the worse [pbs.org] the company performs.

In 2010, PBS President Paula Kerger earned $632,233. I doubt that has decreased in the last four years. I'd call that rich.

Further, NPR former President Kevin Klose $1.2 million, and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting CEO Patricia de Stacy Harrison earned $298,884, plus $70,630 in additional compensation.

Now, the link downplays those numbers because other CEOs are paid a lot more, but we're still talking about three non-profit organizations.

I should have specified a longer-term history than just the past few years. Here is a nice long and detailed list. Enron, for example, and the recent banking-crisis-caused Recession, are Republican scandals, because they have never been interested in making sure businesses do honest dealings, and they block Democrat attempts for such oversight at every opportunity. (It is possible that the Democrats want to over-do it, but History shows we need more than Zero oversight, of business dealings.) Attempts to repeal the Clean Air Act is a Republican scandal (they don't care if they poison more millions of people with air pollution). Nixon was a Republican scandal. Reagan and Eisenhower weren't, but their underlings most certainly were scandalous. Attempts to reduce the Minimum Wage is a Republican scandal (millions of people are already living from paycheck-to-paycheck, and they want to make the situation worse?). Attempts to increase numbers of skilled foreign workers is a Republican scandal (preferring cheap labor over American labor; whatever happened to companies being willing to do OJT?). The entire Republican economic "trickle down" policy has been proved to not work, yet they still push for more of it, because it financially benefits them, and very few others. And per that list presented at the start of this message, lots more Republican politicians have been associated with financial shenanigans, than Democrat politicians.

http://thinkprogress.org/elect...

The ad is a variation of a GOTV (Get Out The Vote) strategy called “vote shaming.” The tactic is employed by liberals and conservatives to use social psychology to increase the chances that people vote. In every state but Virginia, whether or not you participated in an election is public. “[I]f you publicize something, it has a very powerful effect on behavior,” Chris Larimer, an Iowa political scientist, told USA Today in 2012.

The Facebook ads at issue go beyond traditional “vote shaming” by strongly implying that their ballot will not be secret. Two Facebook users who posted screenshots of the ad on social media confirmed to ThinkProgress that they had seen the ads on their Facebook newsfeed.

Be shocked.
56.5% of workers over 20 in fast food are women, 52.6% under 20. Around 35% have a kid to take care of, though it doesn't mention whether said workers are single or not.

'Most' fast food workers are not single mothers, though I have the feeling that the rate is disturbingly high.

http://thinkprogress.org/elect...

http://thinkprogress.org/elect...

> Where is the pissing and moaning about the over-representation of women in nursing?

Right here.

The reason women are over-represented in nursing and under represented in doctoring is because society pushes them towards nursing and away from doctoring. Women are herded towards the lower-status jobs all the time - executive assistant versus executive, teacher versus principal, meter-maid versus police officer.

And now I'm sure this one will piss you off even more -- the reason blacks dominate american pro sports is because they have much less opportunities available to them. When you live in the ghetto it is pro-sports or drug-dealing so there is a ton of competition for pro-sports. Richer people with more opportunities just opt out of the entire field because the lottery nature of pro-sports means it is only an option for the desperate. Sure there are a handful of exceptions, but even a guy like Richard Sherman who went to Stanford started out in Compton.

Good thing you've invested in Lockheed! They're going to build a fusion reactor soon!

Only a fool would not be invested in Locheed Martin during a highly technical, perpetual war. Since no one is inclined towards world peace, while they make a killing so do I.

Good thing you've invested in Lockheed! They're going to build a fusion reactor soon!

It may just be "just one person", but - isn't it one for one? If there were a few hundred ebola patients across a few hospitals and "just one" healthcare professional was infected, I'd be much less concerned.

You say HIV is more virulent. Do you get HIV from someone with HIV coughing or sneezing on you? Can you get it from sharing a glass of water? Growing up in the 90s, I've been pretty conditioned that the only way I'm going to get HIV is through sharing a needle with someone, or screwing without a condom. Use a condom, woot, no worries about HIV. There was even a tv movie designed to make you feel guilty about denying HIV-infected people the pleasure of human contact. Hell, you can play sports with it, no worries - there are apparently no records of HIV being transmitted through sports. And we're not talking competitive chess here.

If ebola is less virulent than that, and it's still spreading like this, we may need to rethink this whole "HIV people are just like you and me", don't-ask don't-tell policy.

Regardless, you try to help someone bleeding on the sidewalk and get infected with HIV/Ebola, tough titties. Guess I should carry around sterile gloves, a mash, goggles and a quart of prep soap just in case. It's one pretty damn gray area.

I know that some people love to blame everything on our Muslim, Kenyan, black president but...
Probably best not to blame Solyndra on Obama since Bush started it.
http://www.politifact.com/trut...
http://thinkprogress.org/clima...

The same could be said about pretty much everything. The things you like are incredibly boring and stupid to a lot of people.

Yes, but I'm sure that no one spends huge amounts of their tax dollars supporting his boring recreational activities...

National parks, PBS, National Endowment for the Arts, etc. There are plenty of was the government funds recreational activities.

According to Grantmakers in the Arts, public funding in the arts comes to about $1.14 billion per year. With the NFL receiving $146 million per year, the NFL is still getting a sizeable amount of money in comparison. But with about 1 in 3 Americans watching at least some football each year, football probably entertains at least as many people as the entire NEA funding does, so perhaps it is money well spent.

Actually, it is very true and even required by law. (Renewable Energy Sources Act – EEG)

http://instituteforenergyresea...

"Because German energy laws stipulate that “green” power must always have priority on the grid, control centers cannot take wind farms off the grid when too much electricity is being generated. System operators also try to avoid shutting down their coal, gas and nuclear facilities because they rely on these power plants to produce a consistent level of baseload power at all times. "

And here; http://thinkprogress.org/clima...

"Renewable electricity has priority on the German grid and therefore offsets conventional "

And many other places, its easy to verify if you even try. The fact is, you cannot find a single source that back up your contention, and the reason you can't is because you just made it up. If not, show me a single source. Just one. I can guarantee you do not have it.

the whole thing may either turn around or at least shift toward day-time electricity being cheaper simply because of basic economy principles, not because of some malicious intent.

We should stop pretending that there is anything like a "Law of Supply and Demand" when it comes to energy.

And if you want proof of "malicious intent"...

http://thinkprogress.org/clima...

http://www.tulsaworld.com/news...

http://www.deseretnews.com/art...

The Koch Brothers (and others) are pushing these "solar tariff", sun tax and surcharge laws all across the country. The rationale in their advertisements has varied from place to place, but generally it's "Solar energy is costing us money so people who use solar energy should pay double, one way or the other, because screw you, that's why". And yes, it even applies to solar which is not on the grid. So if you want to set up some solar panels to augment your daytime energy use and maybe a battery for night time, be prepared to pay this new tariff because of the Koch Brothers and their representatives at Americans For Prosperity

They're determined to send a message: "If you think you can leave us and go back to your mother, think again sweetie, or maybe you'll run into another door."

furthermore, here's images to illusrate how bad the arctic polar ice situation is. Just 10 years ago the arctic ocean was not navigable except by specially built boats (ie: icebreakers), even in summer/fall (minimum is reached ~September). Now it is. So again, Mi: nothing you say is correct or factual.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F...
http://thinkprogress.org/wp-co...

Facts bitches!! Accept them, or hand in your geek card NOW!

http://www.abc15.com/news/nati...

http://www.judicialwatch.org/b...

http://philadelphia.cbslocal.c...

http://thinkprogress.org/immig...

http://www.theblaze.com/storie...

you didnt debunk anything.

you just linked to another faulty denier site that has itself been proven wrong, and an article that trots out the same "warm period and "little ice age" misconceptions.
Roy Spencer is not a valid source.

Tree ring reliability: ( http://www.skepticalscience.co... ):

The divergence problem is a physical phenomenon - tree growth has slowed or declined in the last few decades, mostly in high northern latitudes. The divergence problem is unprecedented, unique to the last few decades, indicating its cause may be anthropogenic. The cause is likely to be a combination of local and global factors such as warming-induced drought and global dimming. Tree-ring proxy reconstructions are reliable before 1960, tracking closely with the instrumental record and other independent proxies.

Medieval Warm Period: ( http://www.skepticalscience.co... ) AND ( http://www.skepticalscience.co... ):

The Medieval Warm Period predominantly affected the North Atlantic and Europe, not the whole world. While the Medieval Warm Period saw unusually warm temperatures in some regions, globally the planet was cooler than current conditions.

The Little Ice Age: ( http://www.skepticalscience.co... ) AND ( http://www.skepticalscience.co... ):

The sceptical argument that current warming is a continuation of the same warming that ended the LIA is unlikely. There is a lack of evidence for a suitable forcing (e.g. the sun) and numerous correlations with known natural forcings that can account for the LIA itself, and the subsequent climate recovery. Taken in isolation, the LIA might cast doubt on the theory of climate change. Considered alongside the empirical evidence, model predictions and a century of scientific research into the climate, recovery from the LIA is not a plausible theory to explain the observed evidence and rate of global climate change.

As for Roy Spencer himself:
-He believes in the "global scientific conspiracy" ...a conspiracy involving tens of thousands of scientists, and perfect secrecy...
-He believes that they lie to make money off research grants" myths....cause theres just so much money to be made that way...as opposed to being on the payroll of a big oil company, like him.
-Oh, and he also believes that GW cant be happening....because God.

So ya...that's a "wonderful" source you have there.

http://www.desmogblog.com/roy-...
http://www.desmogblog.com/2014...
http://thinkprogress.org/clima...
http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/R...
http://www.sourcewatch.org/ind...

He's correct and the article you point to doesn't say what you think it does.

Utility grade PV is cheaper than nuclear power without subsidy. With continued price drops that solar has been experiencing for the last 4 years Utility grade solar PV will be cheaper than coal by 2020.

Companies like First Solar have their entire production for the next 4 years already sold to utility scale power plants. A Utah power company just purchased all the power out of a solar plant being built nearby because it was the cheapest power available.

http://thinkprogress.org/clima...

Solar panels are no joke. They're already out-competing all other forms of electricity on price in some places in the USA.

"because the kick started in March".

http://thinkprogress.org/econo...

Started typing the wrong month then brain farted and didn't go back to correct.

Why? WINDMILLS DON'T WORK!

That's why they power a million homes, yes? It's all an illusion, or all those people just pretend that they have light and warm water. I'll tell a friend of mine, she works in the industry, and runs the numbers on wind power generators for a living.

Wind power generators work fucking well. In fact, they cover about 9% of Germanys energy use. Oh wow, 8 GW of new installed coal power plants, that's your argument? You argue with 8 GW as proof that 35 GW of installed wind power capacity somehow "don't work" and nobody has ever noticed?

Germany has been a NET IMPORTER of energy.

Of energy, yes - because phrased that way, oil also counts and we don't have much of it. But of electrical energy, which this is all about, nope.

For example, we just broke records:
http://thinkprogress.org/clima...

Germany has so much electrical energy generation, that most days of the year, a considerable part of our power plants are shut down because the grid can't handle it.

Here's an article in german that explains most of your non-questions: http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel...

Bjorn Lomborg Is Part Of The Koch Network — And Cashing In: http://thinkprogress.org/clima...

Way to miss the point, dumb ass.

Solar is part of the solution, allowing people to use less carbon. Why ois that so fucking ard to get both your brain cells around.

Here is some more current data.

http://thinkprogress.org/clima...

Like I said solar is Part of the solution.

They have a long term phase out plan; which is how it's done. There is no solution that you just flip a switch and it's done.

And the are designing coal plants that can be phased out with far, far less waste as they are used less and less.
Solar can very well be the solution. The ONLY hurdle is political.

You're a fucking shit head shill.