Except 0 is arbitrary in Farenheit... Average Earth temp is 287 kelvin, average Venus temp is 735 kelvin. So really it's only like 2.5x hotter than Earth by any objective measurement. Otherwise you could say a 1 degree F day is infinitely hotter than a 0 degree F day and mathematically on an arbitrary scale, that would be correct.
Anti-virus suites have one huge problem. They are worse than getting a virus. At least a virus tries to hide and not kill your system. AV programs have no such respect for the users.
It's generally the educated and employed criminals that really steal your stuff. They are also unlikely to pay anything more than a token penalty and definitely not jail when caught.
I don't know why college loans aren't vetted... Why do they not evaluate the grade history of an individual, the major they want to go in to, and the earning potential of that major? Interest rates should be much higher for degrees less likely to pay off. Oh wait, interest rates are set by the government at a stupid rate and everyone can get a loan regardless of any data on how they might get to pay it back. Oh and you get the loans without collateral!
Why don't we just drop the loan bullshit and call them grants with an optional tax that might go back into funding more grants.
SO MUCH THIS. Get over yourselves college students. Get a job. College isn't the drunken partyfest that liberal Hollywood tells you it is. It's not 4 years to discover your passions. It's 4 years to work your ass off to make your life better. I graduated with an engineering degree from a private college in 7 semesters taking up to 22 credit hours a semester while working 4 nights a week tutoring and co-oping the off semesters. I then got a job and was able to pay off loans in less than 5 years.
Averages are kind of pointless here... Most college grads today are getting jobs that don't require a college education. The only reason that high school grads aren't getting these higher paying jobs is because the market is saturated with bachelors degrees. Just because Starbucks pays better than McDonalds doesn't mean it requires a degree. Starbucks can just hire people with a bachelors instead of a HS diploma because they can.
Universities don't make money by teaching. They make money by recruiting. They don't get paid to give people degrees, they get paid by having luxurious freshman dorms and fitness complexes.
A good primer maybe, but definitely biased. When doing a cost/benefit analysis of climate change, the only possible benefits they included were:
Increased agricultural production in cold climates
Lower heating costs
Less deaths from exposure to cold
Looks to me like they found a lot of costs and heavily weighted them and really kind of skimped on the benefits... I'm hardly a climate scientist, but I'm pretty sure there's more than 3 benefits to a warmer climate. The only actual item to appear on the benefit side of the balance sheet was Nonelectric heating -1.3 billion.
The land in the Netherlands will be gone, but I'm pretty sure the EU compact allows people from that country to freely move to, live in, and work in other member nations. Shouldn't be a huge problem under current legal standards, and that's not even considering if we started planning for coastal migration before it becomes a crisis. As far as Bangladesh, it would make far more sense for them to migrate to neighboring nations, but I have no problem if some of them want to come to the melting pot of the USA. I have not visited China, but my brother has fairly recently. I have no desire to go. Beijing is mostly well above sea level and 9/10th of the population there wasn't there 50 years ago. Shanghai is quite at risk due to elevation, but the population trend is similar to Beijing and the rest of China. China itself isn't that densely populated, just the urban areas are. Japan has well more than twice the population density of China and seems to be doing fine...
Siberia IS in the arctic circle, as is a lot of Canada and Alaska. That was my point. Currently no one lives there because it's too cold. If the climate gets warmer, people will be able to live there, and farm there, and provide there. The effectiveness of agriculture on existing lands is not likely to be reduced due to advances in productivity, genetic engineering, and increased production from longer growing seasons and more CO2 concentration.
The upward trend in the cost of natural disasters is more highly correlated with the increased standard of living of the average person and the concentration of populations in areas subject to natural disasters. If the same Katrina hit in 1800, the damage cost, even inflation adjusted, is far less than it is now. Any increase in frequency or strength of storms is not the primary cause for more "billion-dollar events." It's the increase in billion dollar areas.
The first step is to stop encouraging people to move TO the coasts. The government needs to stop subsidizing flood insurance and helping to replace and repair coastal area development after hurricanes. Stop the incentives to live on the coast and people will move inland on their own.
As far as not enough space for mankind on this globe... Umm by what metric are you coming to this conclusion? Have you been to Alaska? Canada? Siberia? Plenty of space there... Not currently very populated because it's really cold, but hey... Climate change is going to kill all the polar bears and free up that space right?
More land area on earth is currently uninhabited than is currently developed. And it's not even close. The total inhabitable landmass on earth is likely to go up due to a warmer climate.
You changed the AC's definition. Glaciation is different than ice age. Ice ages refer to parts of history where there are ice caps at the poles that last over entire years. There have been times in earth's history when that was not the case and life continued.
One thing we do know for sure. The earth is warming, humans are contributing, but we don't know how much of each of the climate factors are contributing. The earth has been warmer than it is now in the past.
We already have a ton of farmers growing crops IN THE FREAKING DESERT of California. I think we are already farming unsustainable land. It's ok though, most of the world's available crop land isn't even being tapped yet.
Unfortunately, reducing CO2 emissions is a guaranteed waste of billions today and all of your natural disasters can't directly be linked to CO2 levels or global temperature. It's just a bullshit argument that all disasters are obviously because of climate change. Where are the dollar figures for benefits of climate change? I know personally, I'm saving money and CO2 emissions for the fact that my heater hasn't turned on in almost 2 weeks and it's January... Want to get a calculator for me?
I'm pretty sure the correct action is to melt down (yay recycling) your old car (using massive amounts of energy of course, probably coal fired near steel plants) and buy a brand new hybrid car that has a much larger manufacturing environmental footprint, but signals to the world that you care.
Note that the 1.1 people fed is to the basic survival level of nutrition with little waste and the 150 people today are largely obese with 30-40% of all food in the US going in the trash.
Yep, it is an easy transition for Uber to start adding autonomous cars and as they come online and start taking more of the share of passengers, they can just lower the rates so that human drivers start dropping out. Eventually as they have an entire fleet of autonomous cars the rates will be low enough human drivers won't do the work. Many industries will go this way, but taxis will be very quick as autonomous cars come on the market.
It may not be true for fringe cases, but for the most part in actual elections it has worked. No one has actually managed to win the electoral college by collecting just the most populous states OR just winning the least populous states. It's not perfect for sure, but the systemic flaws with the system haven't really been exploited in real world examples. The intent was to prevent the minority of states electing the president without appealing to the smaller states. Bear in mind when the electoral college was set up there were only 13 states... There was much less of a mathematical problem with fewer states than there is with 50 states. Also, urban populations weren't nearly so lopsided compared to rural populations back then either.
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Except 0 is arbitrary in Farenheit... Average Earth temp is 287 kelvin, average Venus temp is 735 kelvin. So really it's only like 2.5x hotter than Earth by any objective measurement. Otherwise you could say a 1 degree F day is infinitely hotter than a 0 degree F day and mathematically on an arbitrary scale, that would be correct.
Anti-virus suites have one huge problem. They are worse than getting a virus. At least a virus tries to hide and not kill your system. AV programs have no such respect for the users.
Except for maybe the top 10 programs in the country, the only benefit of sports is for recruiting. Most schools sports programs are a net loss.
It's generally the educated and employed criminals that really steal your stuff. They are also unlikely to pay anything more than a token penalty and definitely not jail when caught.
I don't know why college loans aren't vetted... Why do they not evaluate the grade history of an individual, the major they want to go in to, and the earning potential of that major? Interest rates should be much higher for degrees less likely to pay off. Oh wait, interest rates are set by the government at a stupid rate and everyone can get a loan regardless of any data on how they might get to pay it back. Oh and you get the loans without collateral!
Why don't we just drop the loan bullshit and call them grants with an optional tax that might go back into funding more grants.
SO MUCH THIS. Get over yourselves college students. Get a job. College isn't the drunken partyfest that liberal Hollywood tells you it is. It's not 4 years to discover your passions. It's 4 years to work your ass off to make your life better. I graduated with an engineering degree from a private college in 7 semesters taking up to 22 credit hours a semester while working 4 nights a week tutoring and co-oping the off semesters. I then got a job and was able to pay off loans in less than 5 years.
What's your excuse?
Averages are kind of pointless here... Most college grads today are getting jobs that don't require a college education. The only reason that high school grads aren't getting these higher paying jobs is because the market is saturated with bachelors degrees. Just because Starbucks pays better than McDonalds doesn't mean it requires a degree. Starbucks can just hire people with a bachelors instead of a HS diploma because they can.
Universities don't make money by teaching. They make money by recruiting. They don't get paid to give people degrees, they get paid by having luxurious freshman dorms and fitness complexes.
Thankfully we don't rely on polls for anything useful like determining which candidates get to debate right?
Yes, those all seem like causes that the Saudis would support because they believe in those programs.
A good primer maybe, but definitely biased. When doing a cost/benefit analysis of climate change, the only possible benefits they included were:
Increased agricultural production in cold climates
Lower heating costs
Less deaths from exposure to cold
Looks to me like they found a lot of costs and heavily weighted them and really kind of skimped on the benefits... I'm hardly a climate scientist, but I'm pretty sure there's more than 3 benefits to a warmer climate. The only actual item to appear on the benefit side of the balance sheet was Nonelectric heating -1.3 billion.
The land in the Netherlands will be gone, but I'm pretty sure the EU compact allows people from that country to freely move to, live in, and work in other member nations. Shouldn't be a huge problem under current legal standards, and that's not even considering if we started planning for coastal migration before it becomes a crisis. As far as Bangladesh, it would make far more sense for them to migrate to neighboring nations, but I have no problem if some of them want to come to the melting pot of the USA. I have not visited China, but my brother has fairly recently. I have no desire to go. Beijing is mostly well above sea level and 9/10th of the population there wasn't there 50 years ago. Shanghai is quite at risk due to elevation, but the population trend is similar to Beijing and the rest of China. China itself isn't that densely populated, just the urban areas are. Japan has well more than twice the population density of China and seems to be doing fine...
Siberia IS in the arctic circle, as is a lot of Canada and Alaska. That was my point. Currently no one lives there because it's too cold. If the climate gets warmer, people will be able to live there, and farm there, and provide there. The effectiveness of agriculture on existing lands is not likely to be reduced due to advances in productivity, genetic engineering, and increased production from longer growing seasons and more CO2 concentration.
The upward trend in the cost of natural disasters is more highly correlated with the increased standard of living of the average person and the concentration of populations in areas subject to natural disasters. If the same Katrina hit in 1800, the damage cost, even inflation adjusted, is far less than it is now. Any increase in frequency or strength of storms is not the primary cause for more "billion-dollar events." It's the increase in billion dollar areas.
The first step is to stop encouraging people to move TO the coasts. The government needs to stop subsidizing flood insurance and helping to replace and repair coastal area development after hurricanes. Stop the incentives to live on the coast and people will move inland on their own.
As far as not enough space for mankind on this globe... Umm by what metric are you coming to this conclusion? Have you been to Alaska? Canada? Siberia? Plenty of space there... Not currently very populated because it's really cold, but hey... Climate change is going to kill all the polar bears and free up that space right?
More land area on earth is currently uninhabited than is currently developed. And it's not even close. The total inhabitable landmass on earth is likely to go up due to a warmer climate.
You changed the AC's definition. Glaciation is different than ice age. Ice ages refer to parts of history where there are ice caps at the poles that last over entire years. There have been times in earth's history when that was not the case and life continued.
One thing we do know for sure. The earth is warming, humans are contributing, but we don't know how much of each of the climate factors are contributing. The earth has been warmer than it is now in the past.
Ok, so we are all agreed. The planet is getting warmer and human CO2 emissions are contributing. I'm going to keep doing what I've been doing. Thanks.
We already have a ton of farmers growing crops IN THE FREAKING DESERT of California. I think we are already farming unsustainable land. It's ok though, most of the world's available crop land isn't even being tapped yet.
Maybe those New Yorkers can all move to the wonderful vast open lands of Alaska once it thaws?
Unfortunately, reducing CO2 emissions is a guaranteed waste of billions today and all of your natural disasters can't directly be linked to CO2 levels or global temperature. It's just a bullshit argument that all disasters are obviously because of climate change. Where are the dollar figures for benefits of climate change? I know personally, I'm saving money and CO2 emissions for the fact that my heater hasn't turned on in almost 2 weeks and it's January... Want to get a calculator for me?
You mean those larger coastal cities where everyone moved to over the past 200-300 years?
I'm pretty sure the correct action is to melt down (yay recycling) your old car (using massive amounts of energy of course, probably coal fired near steel plants) and buy a brand new hybrid car that has a much larger manufacturing environmental footprint, but signals to the world that you care.
I had a lot of uncanny valley in Rogue One... Way to turn Tarkin into the new Jar Jar for me.
Note that the 1.1 people fed is to the basic survival level of nutrition with little waste and the 150 people today are largely obese with 30-40% of all food in the US going in the trash.
Yep, it is an easy transition for Uber to start adding autonomous cars and as they come online and start taking more of the share of passengers, they can just lower the rates so that human drivers start dropping out. Eventually as they have an entire fleet of autonomous cars the rates will be low enough human drivers won't do the work. Many industries will go this way, but taxis will be very quick as autonomous cars come on the market.
It may not be true for fringe cases, but for the most part in actual elections it has worked. No one has actually managed to win the electoral college by collecting just the most populous states OR just winning the least populous states. It's not perfect for sure, but the systemic flaws with the system haven't really been exploited in real world examples. The intent was to prevent the minority of states electing the president without appealing to the smaller states. Bear in mind when the electoral college was set up there were only 13 states... There was much less of a mathematical problem with fewer states than there is with 50 states. Also, urban populations weren't nearly so lopsided compared to rural populations back then either.