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Unfriendly Climate Greets Gore At Apple Meeting
theodp writes "Apple's shareholder meeting this week took on a Jerry Springer vibe, with harsh comments about Al Gore, former VP and Apple board member, setting the tone. Several stockholders took turns either bashing or praising Gore's high-profile views on climate change. Apple shareholder Shelton Ehrlich urged against Gore's re-election to the board, claiming that Gore 'has become a laughingstock. The glaciers have not melted. If [the] advice he gives to Apple is as faulty as his views on the environment then he doesn't need to be re-elected.' Hey, at least he moved a few copies of Keynote, Shelton. Shareholders introduced proposals regarding Apple's environmental impact — one asking Apple to commit publicly to greenhouse gas reduction goals and to publish a formal sustainability report; another proposing that Apple's board establish a sustainability committee. These proposals were rejected by shareholders. However, preliminary voting results indicated that Gore was re-elected to Apple's Board."
We get loudmouthed know-nothings like Shelton Ehrlich at our homeowner association meetings. All they do is make a lot of noise and annoy everyone else. If our loudmouths started ranting about global-warming at our HOA meetings instead of complaining about leaf-blowers and such, they'd probably get front-page coverage too. But for the sake of my neighbors, I won't tell *them* that.
Why is it BS to turn down the radio? Because it's only a small percentage decrease? Newsflash: any decrease helps. I don't understand this general derision that is specific to Americans when the topic turns to conservation. Yes, one little change by itself won't change the world, but then again, nothing will to that. Instead, it will be a combination of lots of small, little things. Maybe that's the reason: Americans are singularly fascinated by the one big thing - everything has to be historic, unique; a silver bullet in every box of Cheerios....
Those who can, do. Those who can't, sue.
The solder issue isn't about conserving materials AT ALL. It's "about" lowering the lead content of electronics equipment. It doesn't do any good to anyone, and it's an idiotic idea forced upon all engineers because it's "green". It's being replaced, obviously, by very carcinogenic solvents, much, much more dangerous than the lead ever was.
It doesn't do any good at all, there is no shortage of lead (quite the opposite, so it doesn't conserve anything), and lead isn't any more dangerous than aspartame, which is being pushed because it's "less calories". But hey, it's an idea that can be forced on powerless individuals that makes democrats feel good, so it's unstoppable.
Oh and how do the chinese comply with it ? Simple : they lie about it. But hey, democrats feel good, and that should cover all the bad environmental impact. And it isn't the greenies who come into contact with the dangerous solvents, so who cares about those stupid little electrical engineers ?
These sort of policies, stupid, useless at best, and mostly dangerous, are enough to make a surprising number of electrical engineers HATE environmental policies. For good reason.
The IPCC did not fiddle anything, they made a bad mistake in a single paragraph in a 3000 page report and have set up an oversight body to make sure that it doesn't happen again.
Facts are history now plebs have politics for religion on social media.
The biggest problem with AGW predictions is
IF WE CAN'T EXPECT THEM TO PREDICT THE WEATHER FOR THE NEXT WEEK RIGHT THEN WHY CAN WE TRUST THEM FOR THE NEXT CENTURY??
seriously in many cities the five day forecast would be about as accurate if you listed the weather on a d6 and rolled five times
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actually, there are trillions in dollars in "cap and trade" that are to funnelled through world bank and to enrich markets that institutions like Goldman Sachs have set up. AGW backed policy is the new pig trough. The hypocrite Al Gore with his carbon footprint huge house is oinking for his slop.
The truth is carbon dioxide is a very minor greenhouse gas compared to the dominant one which is water vapor. And it is hopeless to try to model that, for either the new future or far.
Meanwhile, the datasets of the GSS are being attacked by real scientists, who point out most of them are located in heat islands, cities (and the wimpy rebuttal for that contains laughable claims only address their placement in relation to aiport tarmacs and a/c condensers when its the city itself!)
But there is a whole mindset of large portion of society, that imagines some penance must be paid for our prosperity, and so they believe the useless climate models and doom prophecies. Never mind that the climate models have been regularly re-cooked to conform to whatever the recent weather is doing. Climate change will cause drought! Climate change will cause flooding. Climate change will cause bigger hurricanes. Even today I read climate change is causing the huge snowfall this winter!
AGW is a religion, as is carbon offsets. CRU is a propoganda machine for those who will benefit from the Cap and Trade fraud.
Sounds like the typical creationist argument against evolution: "Whatever happens, it's used as proof that evolution is true"
Also, "why didn't biologists predict that this species would evolve into that"? LOL.
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