Maybe so but considering the likely consequences of business as usual I'm close to putting climate change deniers in a moral category close to that in which I put holocaust deniers. It sounds harsh but global warming could lead to far more human deaths than the holocaust. They will just be spread out over a longer time period.
The increase in CO2 levels in the atmosphere from 280 ppm in 1830 to 389 this year is almost entirely human causes either directly or indirectly. That's a 40% increase in 180 years.
Water vapor is still the big greenhouse gas in that it causes a greater percentage of the greenhouse warming than all the other gases put together. But the level of water vapor in the atmosphere is entirely dependent on temperature and once it reaches 100% humidity it precipitates out so water vapor can't drive greenhouse warming. CO2 and other greenhouse gases do not precipitate out under normal earth conditions and so they can drive greenhouse warming.
Actually I think the way it works is that it is a tax on everyone but if you show that you have health care coverage then you are allowed a tax credit equal to the tax. So you aren't forced to buy something from a private company, you can just get a tax credit if you show you are covered in some way. Buying from a private company is one way to do that.
Tort reform is a strawman. Tort costs are less than 1% of the total amount spent on health care in this country. It seems worse because a few spectacularly large malpractice awards get splashed all over the news but tort reform won't save much money.
They did not create another bureaucracy, the IRS will administer the tax/fine. By nearly all accounts I've seen the cost of litigation is less than 1% of total spending on health care. The largest amount I've ever seen attributed to this is about 1.5%. Also I believe one of the provisions of the bill is that health insurance companies will be required to spend either 80 or 85 cents of every dollar they receive in premiums on covering their clients, in effect a cap on their profits.
The UPS airline already has it installed. It has improved the efficiency at the Louisville center and others immensely. In fact while UPS owned the company I work for we were heavily involved in the development of ADS-B and won the 2007 Collier Trophy award for the work.
The way this GPS system works is by essentially broadcasting network packets of information that any properly equipped "node" can receive. The requirements for format, accuracy and precision are necessary so anyone can interpret and trust the information received. It's not just ATC that can receive the information but other airplanes as well so they can display the same information in the cockpit that ATC has in the tower.
The problem with radar is that it's fairly limited in its coverage. It is mostly installed only around airports and doesn't cover mountainous regions or ocean areas well at all. With this system each airplane originates the data which is available to any other airplane within range of the signal so they are able to see and avoid each other without the benefit of ATC. This is particularly true above 18,000 feet elevation where all airplanes are required to fly by IFR (Instrument Flight Rules).
For more information on how it works look up ADS-B and for some real life data check out the Capstone project in Alaska.
Reconciliation, the "Slaughter Rule", and a variety of other legislative tricks will be kosher.
I've got news for you. These "legislative tricks" you are so concerned about have all been used in the past, in most cases more by Republicans than Democrats.
The Republicans strategy since the election of Obama has been to try and block everything regardless of whether they've supported it in the past or not. That's not an environment that bipartisanship can work in. They're more worried about winning the next election than they are about good governance.
Well, any other place in the world that you might care to move to (at least the industrialized nations) will have some form a universal health care coverage where you are either required to buy insurance from a non-profit provider or you pay taxes to the government to provide the coverage. There aren't many places you could go and avoid paying for health care coverage one way or another.
I got a kick out of Rush Limbaugh saying he was moving to Costa Rica if this passes. Costa Rica is a country with government run health care.
The question I have for you is if you have schools that includes Christians, Jews, Muslims, Hindus, etc. what kind of prayer or religious symbols would you allow in the school. Allowing a dominant Christian culture to take over may be intimidating to members of other religions and the non-religious, something the Federal Government is required to protect you against in public life.
"Respecting" is used in the sense of concerning or referring to, not in the sense of esteem. And establishment is used in the sense of an existing institution, not creating a new one.
There are already cows with ports surgically installed into their rumens for research purposes. The hole is big enough for you to stick your hand in and is plugged with a be rubber cork. You may have seen it recently on Dirty Jobs. I saw one years ago (1968?) at Oregon State University.
Even a spherical piece of iron can have magnetic poles and will align along those in a magnetic field even though you can't really tell just by looking at it.
Earthquakes also move matter uphill. For instance what do you think caused much of the Andes to rise, and the Himalayas for that matter. Earthquakes are but a symptom of the forces causing those mountain ranges to rise.
So what is it. Should climate scientists use the raw data or the massaged data? The data Menne used from Watts was his ratings on the quality of weather stations. I haven't heard that there are problems with that. The actual temperature records were from the NOAA database. Watts was most certainly aware they were using information from his site and dragged his feet on participating long enough that they went ahead and wrote the paper without his input. Is Watts trying to hide is raw unscrubbed data? Does he not want to share it with others? Sounds familiar.
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Maybe so but considering the likely consequences of business as usual I'm close to putting climate change deniers in a moral category close to that in which I put holocaust deniers. It sounds harsh but global warming could lead to far more human deaths than the holocaust. They will just be spread out over a longer time period.
Citation needed.
The increase in CO2 levels in the atmosphere from 280 ppm in 1830 to 389 this year is almost entirely human causes either directly or indirectly. That's a 40% increase in 180 years.
Water vapor is still the big greenhouse gas in that it causes a greater percentage of the greenhouse warming than all the other gases put together. But the level of water vapor in the atmosphere is entirely dependent on temperature and once it reaches 100% humidity it precipitates out so water vapor can't drive greenhouse warming. CO2 and other greenhouse gases do not precipitate out under normal earth conditions and so they can drive greenhouse warming.
Actually it's been a pretty warm winter in Canada and extremely warm in the Arctic above Canada and the west coast of Greenland.
Actually I think the way it works is that it is a tax on everyone but if you show that you have health care coverage then you are allowed a tax credit equal to the tax. So you aren't forced to buy something from a private company, you can just get a tax credit if you show you are covered in some way. Buying from a private company is one way to do that.
Tort reform is a strawman. Tort costs are less than 1% of the total amount spent on health care in this country. It seems worse because a few spectacularly large malpractice awards get splashed all over the news but tort reform won't save much money.
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They did not create another bureaucracy, the IRS will administer the tax/fine. By nearly all accounts I've seen the cost of litigation is less than 1% of total spending on health care. The largest amount I've ever seen attributed to this is about 1.5%. Also I believe one of the provisions of the bill is that health insurance companies will be required to spend either 80 or 85 cents of every dollar they receive in premiums on covering their clients, in effect a cap on their profits.
The ADS-B test in Alaska was called the Capstone program if you want to look into it some more.
The UPS airline already has it installed. It has improved the efficiency at the Louisville center and others immensely. In fact while UPS owned the company I work for we were heavily involved in the development of ADS-B and won the 2007 Collier Trophy award for the work.
Or into the IRS building?
The way this GPS system works is by essentially broadcasting network packets of information that any properly equipped "node" can receive. The requirements for format, accuracy and precision are necessary so anyone can interpret and trust the information received. It's not just ATC that can receive the information but other airplanes as well so they can display the same information in the cockpit that ATC has in the tower.
The problem with radar is that it's fairly limited in its coverage. It is mostly installed only around airports and doesn't cover mountainous regions or ocean areas well at all. With this system each airplane originates the data which is available to any other airplane within range of the signal so they are able to see and avoid each other without the benefit of ATC. This is particularly true above 18,000 feet elevation where all airplanes are required to fly by IFR (Instrument Flight Rules).
For more information on how it works look up ADS-B and for some real life data check out the Capstone project in Alaska.
Just like most Republicans don't really want to outlaw abortion. It's too good a vote getting issue.
Reconciliation, the "Slaughter Rule", and a variety of other legislative tricks will be kosher.
I've got news for you. These "legislative tricks" you are so concerned about have all been used in the past, in most cases more by Republicans than Democrats.
The Republicans strategy since the election of Obama has been to try and block everything regardless of whether they've supported it in the past or not. That's not an environment that bipartisanship can work in. They're more worried about winning the next election than they are about good governance.
Well, any other place in the world that you might care to move to (at least the industrialized nations) will have some form a universal health care coverage where you are either required to buy insurance from a non-profit provider or you pay taxes to the government to provide the coverage. There aren't many places you could go and avoid paying for health care coverage one way or another.
I got a kick out of Rush Limbaugh saying he was moving to Costa Rica if this passes. Costa Rica is a country with government run health care.
What concerns me the most is that some biolab is going to develop some superbug that gets out and kills half the population.
At least he's braver than some AC. (Not that I don't occasionally post AC myself).
The question I have for you is if you have schools that includes Christians, Jews, Muslims, Hindus, etc. what kind of prayer or religious symbols would you allow in the school. Allowing a dominant Christian culture to take over may be intimidating to members of other religions and the non-religious, something the Federal Government is required to protect you against in public life.
"Respecting" is used in the sense of concerning or referring to, not in the sense of esteem. And establishment is used in the sense of an existing institution, not creating a new one.
I thought that Jefferson and the other founding fathers were in favor of acceleration of independence not deceleration.
Do they refuse to put out fires for people in the district that don't help support the volunteer fire department then?
Maybe it's been cold in eastern North America and Europe but it's been extraordinarily warm in Greenland, Alaska and Siberia where this is happening.
There are already cows with ports surgically installed into their rumens for research purposes. The hole is big enough for you to stick your hand in and is plugged with a be rubber cork. You may have seen it recently on Dirty Jobs. I saw one years ago (1968?) at Oregon State University.
Even a spherical piece of iron can have magnetic poles and will align along those in a magnetic field even though you can't really tell just by looking at it.
Earthquakes also move matter uphill. For instance what do you think caused much of the Andes to rise, and the Himalayas for that matter. Earthquakes are but a symptom of the forces causing those mountain ranges to rise.
So what is it. Should climate scientists use the raw data or the massaged data? The data Menne used from Watts was his ratings on the quality of weather stations. I haven't heard that there are problems with that. The actual temperature records were from the NOAA database. Watts was most certainly aware they were using information from his site and dragged his feet on participating long enough that they went ahead and wrote the paper without his input. Is Watts trying to hide is raw unscrubbed data? Does he not want to share it with others? Sounds familiar.