Doom is barreling down on us at an unprecedented rate. We have to turn over huge new powers to government to avoid this doom. Government will create huge new bureaucracies to combat the doom. The huge new bureaucracies will be financed by huge new taxes. The bureaucracies will control huge new swaths of business. Businesses will fund huge new lobbyists. Bureaucracies will create huge new regulations. Huge new regulations and huge new lobbyists will be funded through price increases. Huge new portions of subject populations' income will be devoted to governments, bureaucracies, and business. That smells like fascism.
~Loyal
One thing's for sure. If we don't do something about AGW all of those things will come to pass as the effects become more and more evident and people start demanding action.
On the other hand we could just impose a gradually increasing carbon tax* that would require a relatively small bureaucracy to administer and have the effect of making non-carbon energy sources more attractive as time goes on.
*The carbon tax should be imposed at the well/mine head or point of import of fossil fuels and possibly a tariff on imports from high carbon emitting countries. The carbon tax's proceeds should be distributed as an equal dividend to all legal US residents. The would have the effect of easing the tax's burden on low income residents and penalizing high carbon producers. The existing IRS could handle the dividend part of it.
I don't have a solar, but my electric bill is itemized and contains a transport cost item. It makes sense that in case of solar, you pay transport cost both ways.
Do the big generators supplying electricity to the utility pay transport costs? I don't think so. They just get paid wholesale price for the electricity they supply to the grid. At most someone with solar producing excess power should be charged for a two-way meter and the incoming electricity transport cost. They should be paid wholesale prices for the excess power they produce.
Within a decade or so the cost of in home batteries will likely come down enough that it will be practical to produce and store your own electricity and tell the utilities to get screwed, especially in the southern US.
No, it is. We set ourselves apart by trying to control everything, and having everything filtered, and processed. That increases allergies. Directly by people trying to set themselves apart from biology.
I wonder if one factor in increasing allergies is that in the past before modern medicine many people with a serious allergy would die young and their allergy would never have been identified as such.
I doubt there is much if any US Government money going in to building the Keystone XL pipeline. It's a private venture. Of course a lot of government money has been spent on analyzing it.
The cost of producing the tar sands oil is high enough ($75-$95/barrel) that at current prices (below $55/barrel) it's uneconomical to produce so it won't help reduce prices until the price goes back up over $95/barrel.
Well, there are winters in both the northern and southern hemispheres each year so maybe not. But maybe I should have said the northern hemisphere explicitly. I live on the US west coast and both winters have been warmer than normal. The point is that you can't take your experience in one small part of the globe or hemisphere and apply it to the whole.
The next "epoch of crushing cold" has been postponed indefinitely. Scientists have calculated that CO2 would have to get down to 240 ppm to get another ice age going.
And the first thing liberals say is that scientists don't fake global warming data, because they're scientists.
And they're right. Scientists are smart enough to know that if they fake the data sooner or later someone will out them because there's an objective reality to what they're studying.
It's been over 30 years since anyone asked me for ID when I buy beer.
I didn't say anything about not requiring some form of ID when you register to vote.
I'll believe that ID should be required to vote when someone demonstrates there is any amount of voter fraud that presenting such an ID prevent. No one has been able to do that even though it was a point of emphasis for the Bush II US Attorneys. So it's the epitome of an unnecessary law to require such an ID for voting.
The biggest problem with our judicial system is the cost. In any complex case the cost is out of reach for too many people. For example recently here in Oregon a soccer coach was charged with inappropriately touching a 12 year old girl on his team. After a year and a half the case was dismissed a week ago but he had run up legal bills of nearly $500,000. How many of us could afford something like that?
I think the proper time to validate whether someone is eligible to vote is when they register to vote. All that should be required on election day is the valid signature of a validly registered voter.
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What "smells like fascism"?
Doom is barreling down on us at an unprecedented rate. We have to turn over huge new powers to government to avoid this doom. Government will create huge new bureaucracies to combat the doom. The huge new bureaucracies will be financed by huge new taxes. The bureaucracies will control huge new swaths of business. Businesses will fund huge new lobbyists. Bureaucracies will create huge new regulations. Huge new regulations and huge new lobbyists will be funded through price increases. Huge new portions of subject populations' income will be devoted to governments, bureaucracies, and business. That smells like fascism.
~Loyal
One thing's for sure. If we don't do something about AGW all of those things will come to pass as the effects become more and more evident and people start demanding action.
On the other hand we could just impose a gradually increasing carbon tax* that would require a relatively small bureaucracy to administer and have the effect of making non-carbon energy sources more attractive as time goes on.
*The carbon tax should be imposed at the well/mine head or point of import of fossil fuels and possibly a tariff on imports from high carbon emitting countries. The carbon tax's proceeds should be distributed as an equal dividend to all legal US residents. The would have the effect of easing the tax's burden on low income residents and penalizing high carbon producers. The existing IRS could handle the dividend part of it.
I think you replied to the wrong person. That line was quoted from the post I replied to.
I don't have a solar, but my electric bill is itemized and contains a transport cost item. It makes sense that in case of solar, you pay transport cost both ways.
Do the big generators supplying electricity to the utility pay transport costs? I don't think so. They just get paid wholesale price for the electricity they supply to the grid. At most someone with solar producing excess power should be charged for a two-way meter and the incoming electricity transport cost. They should be paid wholesale prices for the excess power they produce.
Within a decade or so the cost of in home batteries will likely come down enough that it will be practical to produce and store your own electricity and tell the utilities to get screwed, especially in the southern US.
No, it is. We set ourselves apart by trying to control everything, and having everything filtered, and processed. That increases allergies. Directly by people trying to set themselves apart from biology.
I wonder if one factor in increasing allergies is that in the past before modern medicine many people with a serious allergy would die young and their allergy would never have been identified as such.
I doubt there is much if any US Government money going in to building the Keystone XL pipeline. It's a private venture. Of course a lot of government money has been spent on analyzing it.
What if my lap is bigger than my desk?
Then you should have a show on TLC.
The cost of producing the tar sands oil is high enough ($75-$95/barrel) that at current prices (below $55/barrel) it's uneconomical to produce so it won't help reduce prices until the price goes back up over $95/barrel.
When they can fit a complete 4Ghz pc on the tip of my dick, then I'll be amazed.
With a built in camera. Think of the porn.
Yes, the Bolos are another apt comparison.
Fred Saberhagen's Berserkers come to mind.
Sorry, you got stoned and you missed it.
What makes you think my comment was a joke? It was a straight up expression of my opinion.
Chemical weapons are essentially pesticides for humans.
Well, there are winters in both the northern and southern hemispheres each year so maybe not. But maybe I should have said the northern hemisphere explicitly. I live on the US west coast and both winters have been warmer than normal. The point is that you can't take your experience in one small part of the globe or hemisphere and apply it to the whole.
Here's the story with a link to the abstract.
Climate is complicated enough that it is not really an 'objective reality'.
Complication doesn't change the fact that there's objective reality. It just makes it harder to find.
Many things drive climate but greenhouse gases are definitely one of them.
The next "epoch of crushing cold" has been postponed indefinitely. Scientists have calculated that CO2 would have to get down to 240 ppm to get another ice age going.
And the first thing liberals say is that scientists don't fake global warming data, because they're scientists.
And they're right. Scientists are smart enough to know that if they fake the data sooner or later someone will out them because there's an objective reality to what they're studying.
He's in good company here, this scientist in 2008, using the same hypothesis correctly predicts the awful and cold winters of 2013 and 2014.
Did they predict it for the whole globe? If they did they were wrong. They were right if they only predicted it for Eastern North America.
It's been over 30 years since anyone asked me for ID when I buy beer.
I didn't say anything about not requiring some form of ID when you register to vote.
I'll believe that ID should be required to vote when someone demonstrates there is any amount of voter fraud that presenting such an ID prevent. No one has been able to do that even though it was a point of emphasis for the Bush II US Attorneys. So it's the epitome of an unnecessary law to require such an ID for voting.
The biggest problem with our judicial system is the cost. In any complex case the cost is out of reach for too many people. For example recently here in Oregon a soccer coach was charged with inappropriately touching a 12 year old girl on his team. After a year and a half the case was dismissed a week ago but he had run up legal bills of nearly $500,000. How many of us could afford something like that?
I think the proper time to validate whether someone is eligible to vote is when they register to vote. All that should be required on election day is the valid signature of a validly registered voter.
You make the claim yet cite no evidence. Why not link to a federal document that says this?