No, the Democrats that were the racist "Dixiecrats" (they were just called democrats before the revisionist term was created) are all dead. They didn't become anything but dirt. There have have been entirely new generations of racist Democrats that replaced them.
So what you are saying is the present day Democrats have a time machine in order to go back in time to make the racist rules the Dixiecrats are credited with making, but were actually made by modern Democrats?
Wow. Just wow.
I find your ideas very Intriguing, and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
This is Bill Manher, so I only give it as a cite since you won't watch it 1:43 to 2:45
"I want to tell you one more thing about the Negro, They abort their Children and put their young men in jail because they never learned to pick cotton"
You might want to watch the whole thing if you can avoid puking because these are all people hailed by the Republican party as their heroes.
Um, no they are not. They have bought into the revisionist bullshit. Democrats are the party of slavery, Jim Crow, and the KKK. This is historical fact.
What you are referring to is the Dixiecrats. After the civil war, The majority of thites in teh south would never dream of voting Republican - the party of the dreaded A. Lincon, and the archetects of the great war of Northern Aggression. So they were Democrats.
Eventually, as the Democrats over further left, The Republican party initiated the Southern Strategy. And the parties switched. Yes, you ar right, but the Democrats that were the Racist Dixiecrats are now the Racist Republicans of the south. This might sound very odd to you, but if this was the 60's, and you lived south of th eMason Dixon line, you probably would have been a Democrat.
Here's the fun part... Because Hanna-Barbara did that for *this* day-care, the original one, they ended up having some legal issues that came out of it, as others sought to license them at the same cost that the Floridian day cares paid.
In 1989, a day care center in Florida had some paintings of some Disney characters on the wall in their playroom. What better way to get little children to become fans and put more money into the coffers? Little kids begging for their parents to take them to Disney again and again to see the real characters that they fondly remember from a very young age
But Disney didn't see it that way, so they bitchslapped the the center with the threat of legal action.
Hanna Barbera stepped in and allowed the place to use it's characters gratis.
Oh, just wait cosplayers and Star Wars fans. Just wait until the court cases over Han shot first. The C and D lawsuits over sexy Leia bikinis.
If you thought Lucas was an asshole, welcome to your new overlords.
The thing is, people are posting less and less even of pictures. My feed is all idiotic "shares". This is why I use FB less and less with every passing month.
I'm not sure what surprises you here. The amount of CO2 that is claiming to be the problem is about 120 parts per million. (The difference between current levels of 400ppm and the levels at the beginning of the industrial revolution at 280ppm) That would be 0.012% or.0012 units that make up the atmosphere. It gets even smaller if you consider the 1990 baseline used for most of the countries that had limits under the Kyoto protocol.
And the amount of radiative forcing is a mere 1.6 Watts per Square meter, hardly enough to be worried about. Until you figure that is 800 Terawatts of radiative forcing. You figure the atmosher is a black hole, where all goes in, and none comes out?
Why not replace it with one of your own choice. Oh wait Mr. anonymous Troll, coming from Windows land you aren't aware that you can do this. With Windows Bill and Fester makes that decision for you.
Bam! This. While there are an almost ridiculous number of distros, that means that all we have to do to find an interface we like is to search out until we find one that trips our trigger. While I've been big on installing Mint Cinnamon for people the last couple years, I gave Ubuntu Mate a try a few weeks ago. A "normal" interface, and works and looks just like I want.
The sad part is you apparently know what shit tastes like.
But to the topic at hand, FreeBSD, which is more of a server OS, is going to have to make the changes to "become" Ubuntu as opposed to Ubuntu becoming BSD. Most who install Ubuntu expect to have their devices ans peripherals running after install.
It's funny how "drink the fundy koolaid" is used to insult conservatives when Jonestown was a communist commune, and not a religious cult..
You managed to take a bunch of idiots following a madman and assume I was talking about that. I'm talking about Fundamentalist Christians of the evangelical type. Not Jones' nuts, or Heaven's Gate or David Korech and the Branch Davidians.
of course everyone ignores that because "hey look at the dumb conservative christian".... but you keep throwing out inappropriate comparisons that show off your ignorance.
I was raised by Conservative Catholics, but more importantly the Grandparents were evangelical Christians. You can cal me ignorant all day, but I sometimes had to spend all day being preached to.
They hate homosexuals with a deep abiding passion. They belive that science is often a tool of the devil. And the only thing they hate more than the sodomites is the "Rigors, and that isn't the word they used. It's sort of a powerful weird jarring moment when the bible is used to prove that the "nigras" are an inferior race, and we must not interbreed. Or even share facilities with.
I might have an issue with the social conservatives, but its earned, not formed of ignorance.
(and no, I am an atheist that rejects both major political parties, so I'm not being pedantic for the sake of making my side better, since I don't have any skin in this game. I just cringe a little when people use Guy Fawkes to represent anarchism when he was a theocratic nutjob, and use the Koolaid bit to insult religious wackos when it was a revolt against American capitalism and for soviet style communism. It was also flavoraid, but whatever.)
Drinking the Kool-aid isn't often used these days to refer to the Jonestown massacre, as Wikipedia puts it:
"Drinking the Kool-Aid" is a figure of speech commonly used in North America that refers to a person or group holding an unquestioned belief, argument, or philosophy without critical examination. It could also refer to knowingly going along with a doomed or dangerous idea because of peer pressure. The phrase often times carries a negative connotation when applied to an individual or group. It can also be used ironically or humorously to refer to accepting an idea or changing a preference due to popularity, peer pressure, or persuasion.
Ask and ye shall receive!
From the 2008 Republican Party platform.
Addressing Climate Change Responsibly
The same human economic activity that has brought freedom and opportunity to billions has also increased the amount of carbon in the atmosphere. While the scope and long-term consequences of this are the subject of ongoing scientific research, common sense dictates that the United States should take measured and reasonable steps today to reduce any impact on the environment. Those steps, if consistent with our global competitiveness will also be good for our national security, our energy independence, and our economy. Any policies should be global in nature, based on sound science and technology, and should not harm the economy.
Oh those terrible, terrible Republicans and their hatred towards renewable energy! Oh wait...
I'mWaitingI'mWaitingI'mWaitingI'mWaitingI'mWaitingI'mWaiting , nah - no more.
Tell me, you really have to hate the Internet. It is most inconvenient for you. If you want to argue with me, I will give citations, and I check them out before I post, most of the time. Oh yeah, Here's the 2008 Republican party platform link http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu...
As far as your other strawmen, they're not even addressed in the 2012 platform. Don't know where you got the GOP position - for or against - on any of those.
ahem... this microphone on? You in the back I said the 2007 platform.
Tell me, it's gonna be Trump, or Dominionist Cruz as your chosen representative. Which one acknowledges AGW? or GW?
Your Presidential Candidate Donald Trump says about Global warming
"“This very expensive GLOBAL WARMING bullshit has got to stop. Our planet is freezing, record low temps,and our GW scientists are stuck in ice”
"Antarctic ice shelf melt 'lowest EVER recorded, global warming is NOT eroding it'"
"It's really cold outside, they are calling it a major freeze, weeks ahead of normal. Man, we could use a big fat dose of global warming!"
"The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive."
He's your presidential Candidate, and he wil control the party platfom
And dear reader, is a straw man when a person uses verifiable quotes?
Take your stupid "left winger" pejoritives and spend spome time doing research instead of lockstepping.
The bubble and the echo chamber is your home, and no doubt.
Nah. They'll just say that man doesn't understand everything, God is doing it and besides those scientists are all biased liburs cuz they're taking govt money.... *sigh* yes I actually have heard this argument
It's like you ask a Republican politician if he or she believes in Evolution, or that the world is more than 6000 years old.
They have to answer "Well - I'm not a scientist. That is the only answer one is permitted, unless they want to drink the fundy koolaid.. And that's treading on thin ice.
It's amazing how a small cadre of nut jobs has the Republican party by the balls, and they dance like a puppet to their demands.
Because as late as 2007, The Republicans as a party believed in AGW Said so right in the party platform.
Now Dinosaurs and Men existed at the same time, Light slows up and speeds down in order to suit gawd, and all science is a work of Beelzebub.
Oh. And the Freemasons.
Oh, and the Kenyan Terror baby.
Oh, and gays and transgenders
Oh, Let's just say everyone but the core constituency.
Most people I know are already at that point. The Yahoo website became so atrocious that it doesn't even matter how good the search results are. I had to use it recently for a fantasy hockey league at work and holy shit, it's almost AOLian. I cringe a little when I think that there are enough people using the site to keep them relevant.
Verizon buying them might actually be, and it's hard to say this, good for the brand.
I use them for their sports content, which is very good. But Holy Jeebus on a maglev train, every other "story" is now a sponsored link.
I think there are people who fall into all camps, but the people who say that weather has always been in flux, are typically the people that will bring out graphs of the average temperature over the last few hundred million years that show the current day as nothing out of the ordinary and quite a bit on the chilly side of this ordinary. Among these people there will be those that do not think humans have had any significant effect on the modern climate ("natural fluctuations"), and others who believe that we have but that it is a great thing to drag the Earth out of the ice age it is currently stuck in.
FIrst off, there is no ordinary climate to be out of. We've had much warmer periods, interestingly enough, at the time the sun was dimmer, and giving us less insolation. Roughly 541 million years ago during the Cambrian, The atmospheric CO2 content was around 6000 ppm, as compared to totay's 385 ppm with a sea level hight rising steadily as much as 90 meters over present day.
That time was known as "greenhouse earth"
Then there is "Snowball Earth" hypothesis Whether the earth surface was completely frozen over is the speculation - regardless, it was damn cold. around 700 million years ago. This was very possibly a result of oxygen reacting with methane, to produce CO2 - ironically, but methane is a much stronger greenhouse gas. There was very little of any greenhouse gases regardless. Volcanos probably enriched the atmosphere, eventually providing more CO2, which then allowed the world to heat up.
So while your buds are thinking "Friggin awesome! I'll never have to shovel snow again!", increased warmth comes at an impressive cost. And the rate at which it is happening makes it less predictable. Some areas that are now verdant may become deserts. Nebraska for instance, is a desert waiting to happen. A bit less average rainfall, and the dunes underneat the state will become the dominant landscape once again. Places like England might become colder, interestingly enough, if the glacial melt from Greenland overwhelms the Gulf Stream. Today, palm trees grow in Ireland, but if the Gulf stream is weakend or interrupted, the British Isles might end up with weather like Montana, at which latitude they lie.
It is highly possible that some superpowers today might disappear, as weather alters the earth.
And if your buds are like mine, who get excited about things getting warmer, most of them want to live in Florida, which is getting smaller every day.
I think that in this case weather is used as a synonym to climate tho.
Surely you jest! I've had to listen to doxens of deniers who every time it is below freezing, they say "So much for global warming." They never say anything when it's 78 degrees in January, but sometimes when it snows, they quip "Just shoveld a foot of global warming out of my driveway.
Of course, they point out that they don't believe in global warming period.
These people do not say that the average global temp has been the same since the earth's crust solidified.
They certainly don't. Who are yuo kidding? As likely as not, if you were to bring that up, they'll start yapping about the age of the earth. And yes, many of the people who believe that the earth was created roughly 6000 years ago are also stalwart deniers. THen believe that the earth and the life on it was created over seven days and in it's present form. They don't believe any of that "claptrap" about a much older universe, and all of the physics and biology we know of today.
They claim, rightly, that the climate has been in huge flux for as long as the earth has had an atmosphere, and that it is actually quite relatively cold relative to the distant past.
So what to they say is the reason for the constant change? Looks like you are surrounded by the most savvy deniers on earth. Good.
I know exactly why some ages of earth were warmer than the present. And you and your denialist friends are going to really hate the answer to that.
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No, the Democrats that were the racist "Dixiecrats" (they were just called democrats before the revisionist term was created) are all dead. They didn't become anything but dirt. There have have been entirely new generations of racist Democrats that replaced them.
So what you are saying is the present day Democrats have a time machine in order to go back in time to make the racist rules the Dixiecrats are credited with making, but were actually made by modern Democrats?
Wow. Just wow. I find your ideas very Intriguing, and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
slavery, Jim Crow, and the KKK.
You're right, and we have a word for that kind of Democrat today: Republican.
So Republicans are advocating these things? You are delusional. Oh and when did you quit beating your wife?
You figure there are many Democrats in the KKK? One thing is for certain - there are no atheists.
As for jim Crow and Slavery, famous Republican mentor Cliven Bundy had this to say. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
This is Bill Manher, so I only give it as a cite since you won't watch it 1:43 to 2:45
"I want to tell you one more thing about the Negro, They abort their Children and put their young men in jail because they never learned to pick cotton"
You might want to watch the whole thing if you can avoid puking because these are all people hailed by the Republican party as their heroes.
Um, no they are not. They have bought into the revisionist bullshit. Democrats are the party of slavery, Jim Crow, and the KKK. This is historical fact.
What you are referring to is the Dixiecrats. After the civil war, The majority of thites in teh south would never dream of voting Republican - the party of the dreaded A. Lincon, and the archetects of the great war of Northern Aggression. So they were Democrats.
Eventually, as the Democrats over further left, The Republican party initiated the Southern Strategy. And the parties switched. Yes, you ar right, but the Democrats that were the Racist Dixiecrats are now the Racist Republicans of the south. This might sound very odd to you, but if this was the 60's, and you lived south of th eMason Dixon line, you probably would have been a Democrat.
Here's the fun part... Because Hanna-Barbara did that for *this* day-care, the original one, they ended up having some legal issues that came out of it, as others sought to license them at the same cost that the Floridian day cares paid.
Some days, people are very hard to like.
They could have also done a Spaceballs themed Swartz battle, assuming that whoever owns that copyright also isn't an asshole.
That would be Mel Brooks, who I suspect would not only not sue, but would probably show up and make them laugh their asses off, as well.
Who didn't see this coming when Disney bought Lucasfilm? This is just the beginning.
This better hit 5 insightful.
Way back in time.... http://www.snopes.com/disney/w...
In 1989, a day care center in Florida had some paintings of some Disney characters on the wall in their playroom. What better way to get little children to become fans and put more money into the coffers? Little kids begging for their parents to take them to Disney again and again to see the real characters that they fondly remember from a very young age
But Disney didn't see it that way, so they bitchslapped the the center with the threat of legal action.
Hanna Barbera stepped in and allowed the place to use it's characters gratis.
Oh, just wait cosplayers and Star Wars fans. Just wait until the court cases over Han shot first. The C and D lawsuits over sexy Leia bikinis.
If you thought Lucas was an asshole, welcome to your new overlords.
"I see you got electricity in your cabin in Idaho, now. Takes a serious amount of paranoia to want to do updates in secret."
you can have your paranoia. I choose wisdom.
So tell me, How is the guvmint going to persecute you for an OS update?
FreeBSD, which is more of a server OS
Servers like Sony's PS3 (Vita OS) and PS4 (Orbis OS), both of which are based on FreeBSD?
Most who install Ubuntu expect to have their devices ans [sic] peripherals running after install.
Citation Needed!
SO you ayr sAyn' that peepule d'unt expect they're nstuls to work? It's to mech! Gow fguure/
You're a fucking bitch for degrading Doctor King's work by relating it to your little pet OS.
Mighty sensitive little snowflake aren't we, precious?
FreeBSD, which is more of a server OS
FreeBSD officially supported platforms include XBox and embedded ARM systems.
you really could not be more wrong even if you actually tried
And you couldn't pay less attention to what peopel wrote if you tried.
There are peopel using FreeBSD for just about everything. That doesn't change it's core competency.
The thing is, people are posting less and less even of pictures. My feed is all idiotic "shares". This is why I use FB less and less with every passing month.
Welcome to understanding how useless shit dies.
Well, it wasn't Al Gore, it was Dr. James Hansen who, in 1988, claimed the NY West Side Highway would be underwater by now.
I've been looking for the specific statement. What I do know is that the White house censored and altered what he testified to>
http://www.nytimes.com/1989/05...
Regardless, the only place I've found that testimonial quote is on a denialist website. You deniers have to have the cite from a transcript don't you?
I'll search the Government transcripts later today
I'm not sure what surprises you here. The amount of CO2 that is claiming to be the problem is about 120 parts per million. (The difference between current levels of 400ppm and the levels at the beginning of the industrial revolution at 280ppm) That would be 0.012% or .0012 units that make up the atmosphere. It gets even smaller if you consider the 1990 baseline used for most of the countries that had limits under the Kyoto protocol.
And the amount of radiative forcing is a mere 1.6 Watts per Square meter, hardly enough to be worried about. Until you figure that is 800 Terawatts of radiative forcing. You figure the atmosher is a black hole, where all goes in, and none comes out?
SQL Server on Linux, and now Bash on Windows... MS-Linux is coming.
Here's my conspiracy theory: they annoyed everyone with Metro, then Windows 10, just to pave the way for MS-Linux. Brilliant.
I did a MLK parody of "I have a dream" a few months ago, when I dreamt that one day we'd all be united under Unix.
It would be awesome for great levels of awesomenitude.
not with Tails they can't.
oh and Tails now has:
apt-transport-tor
"APT transport for anonymous package downloads via Tor
I see you got electricity in your cabin in Idaho, now. Takes a serious amount of paranoia to want to do updates in secret.
Why not replace it with one of your own choice. Oh wait Mr. anonymous Troll, coming from Windows land you aren't aware that you can do this. With Windows Bill and Fester makes that decision for you.
Bam! This. While there are an almost ridiculous number of distros, that means that all we have to do to find an interface we like is to search out until we find one that trips our trigger. While I've been big on installing Mint Cinnamon for people the last couple years, I gave Ubuntu Mate a try a few weeks ago. A "normal" interface, and works and looks just like I want.
Or of course, roll our own.
Tastes like SHIT!
The sad part is you apparently know what shit tastes like.
But to the topic at hand, FreeBSD, which is more of a server OS, is going to have to make the changes to "become" Ubuntu as opposed to Ubuntu becoming BSD. Most who install Ubuntu expect to have their devices ans peripherals running after install.
Is the sky still falling? Hadn't noticed. Al Gore said we'd be 4 meters under water by now.
Citation?
It's funny how "drink the fundy koolaid" is used to insult conservatives when Jonestown was a communist commune, and not a religious cult ..
You managed to take a bunch of idiots following a madman and assume I was talking about that. I'm talking about Fundamentalist Christians of the evangelical type. Not Jones' nuts, or Heaven's Gate or David Korech and the Branch Davidians.
of course everyone ignores that because "hey look at the dumb conservative christian" .... but you keep throwing out inappropriate comparisons that show off your ignorance.
I was raised by Conservative Catholics, but more importantly the Grandparents were evangelical Christians. You can cal me ignorant all day, but I sometimes had to spend all day being preached to.
They hate homosexuals with a deep abiding passion. They belive that science is often a tool of the devil. And the only thing they hate more than the sodomites is the "Rigors, and that isn't the word they used. It's sort of a powerful weird jarring moment when the bible is used to prove that the "nigras" are an inferior race, and we must not interbreed. Or even share facilities with.
I might have an issue with the social conservatives, but its earned, not formed of ignorance.
(and no, I am an atheist that rejects both major political parties, so I'm not being pedantic for the sake of making my side better, since I don't have any skin in this game. I just cringe a little when people use Guy Fawkes to represent anarchism when he was a theocratic nutjob, and use the Koolaid bit to insult religious wackos when it was a revolt against American capitalism and for soviet style communism. It was also flavoraid, but whatever.)
Drinking the Kool-aid isn't often used these days to refer to the Jonestown massacre, as Wikipedia puts it:
"Drinking the Kool-Aid" is a figure of speech commonly used in North America that refers to a person or group holding an unquestioned belief, argument, or philosophy without critical examination. It could also refer to knowingly going along with a doomed or dangerous idea because of peer pressure. The phrase often times carries a negative connotation when applied to an individual or group. It can also be used ironically or humorously to refer to accepting an idea or changing a preference due to popularity, peer pressure, or persuasion.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
That's all
- GOP 2012 Platform
Ask and ye shall receive! From the 2008 Republican Party platform. Addressing Climate Change Responsibly
The same human economic activity that has brought freedom and opportunity to billions has also increased the amount of carbon in the atmosphere. While the scope and long-term consequences of this are the subject of ongoing scientific research, common sense dictates that the United States should take measured and reasonable steps today to reduce any impact on the environment. Those steps, if consistent with our global competitiveness will also be good for our national security, our energy independence, and our economy. Any policies should be global in nature, based on sound science and technology, and should not harm the economy.
Oh those terrible, terrible Republicans and their hatred towards renewable energy! Oh wait...
I'mWaitingI'mWaitingI'mWaitingI'mWaitingI'mWaitingI'mWaiting , nah - no more.
Tell me, you really have to hate the Internet. It is most inconvenient for you. If you want to argue with me, I will give citations, and I check them out before I post, most of the time. Oh yeah, Here's the 2008 Republican party platform link http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu...
As far as your other strawmen, they're not even addressed in the 2012 platform. Don't know where you got the GOP position - for or against - on any of those.
ahem... this microphone on? You in the back I said the 2007 platform.
Tell me, it's gonna be Trump, or Dominionist Cruz as your chosen representative. Which one acknowledges AGW? or GW? Your Presidential Candidate Donald Trump says about Global warming
"“This very expensive GLOBAL WARMING bullshit has got to stop. Our planet is freezing, record low temps,and our GW scientists are stuck in ice”
"Antarctic ice shelf melt 'lowest EVER recorded, global warming is NOT eroding it'"
"It's really cold outside, they are calling it a major freeze, weeks ahead of normal. Man, we could use a big fat dose of global warming!"
"The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive."
He's your presidential Candidate, and he wil control the party platfom
And dear reader, is a straw man when a person uses verifiable quotes? Take your stupid "left winger" pejoritives and spend spome time doing research instead of lockstepping.
The bubble and the echo chamber is your home, and no doubt.
Nah. They'll just say that man doesn't understand everything, God is doing it and besides those scientists are all biased liburs cuz they're taking govt money.... *sigh* yes I actually have heard this argument
It's like you ask a Republican politician if he or she believes in Evolution, or that the world is more than 6000 years old.
They have to answer "Well - I'm not a scientist. That is the only answer one is permitted, unless they want to drink the fundy koolaid.. And that's treading on thin ice.
It's amazing how a small cadre of nut jobs has the Republican party by the balls, and they dance like a puppet to their demands.
Because as late as 2007, The Republicans as a party believed in AGW Said so right in the party platform.
Now Dinosaurs and Men existed at the same time, Light slows up and speeds down in order to suit gawd, and all science is a work of Beelzebub.
Oh. And the Freemasons.
Oh, and the Kenyan Terror baby.
Oh, and gays and transgenders
Oh, Let's just say everyone but the core constituency.
Most people I know are already at that point. The Yahoo website became so atrocious that it doesn't even matter how good the search results are. I had to use it recently for a fantasy hockey league at work and holy shit, it's almost AOLian. I cringe a little when I think that there are enough people using the site to keep them relevant.
Verizon buying them might actually be, and it's hard to say this, good for the brand.
I use them for their sports content, which is very good. But Holy Jeebus on a maglev train, every other "story" is now a sponsored link.
I'm apparently an asshat.
Could be - We all are at some point
I think there are people who fall into all camps, but the people who say that weather has always been in flux, are typically the people that will bring out graphs of the average temperature over the last few hundred million years that show the current day as nothing out of the ordinary and quite a bit on the chilly side of this ordinary. Among these people there will be those that do not think humans have had any significant effect on the modern climate ("natural fluctuations"), and others who believe that we have but that it is a great thing to drag the Earth out of the ice age it is currently stuck in.
FIrst off, there is no ordinary climate to be out of. We've had much warmer periods, interestingly enough, at the time the sun was dimmer, and giving us less insolation. Roughly 541 million years ago during the Cambrian, The atmospheric CO2 content was around 6000 ppm, as compared to totay's 385 ppm with a sea level hight rising steadily as much as 90 meters over present day.
That time was known as "greenhouse earth"
Then there is "Snowball Earth" hypothesis Whether the earth surface was completely frozen over is the speculation - regardless, it was damn cold. around 700 million years ago. This was very possibly a result of oxygen reacting with methane, to produce CO2 - ironically, but methane is a much stronger greenhouse gas. There was very little of any greenhouse gases regardless. Volcanos probably enriched the atmosphere, eventually providing more CO2, which then allowed the world to heat up.
So while your buds are thinking "Friggin awesome! I'll never have to shovel snow again!", increased warmth comes at an impressive cost. And the rate at which it is happening makes it less predictable. Some areas that are now verdant may become deserts. Nebraska for instance, is a desert waiting to happen. A bit less average rainfall, and the dunes underneat the state will become the dominant landscape once again. Places like England might become colder, interestingly enough, if the glacial melt from Greenland overwhelms the Gulf Stream. Today, palm trees grow in Ireland, but if the Gulf stream is weakend or interrupted, the British Isles might end up with weather like Montana, at which latitude they lie.
It is highly possible that some superpowers today might disappear, as weather alters the earth.
And if your buds are like mine, who get excited about things getting warmer, most of them want to live in Florida, which is getting smaller every day.
You think your buddies would like that?
I think that in this case weather is used as a synonym to climate tho.
Surely you jest! I've had to listen to doxens of deniers who every time it is below freezing, they say "So much for global warming." They never say anything when it's 78 degrees in January, but sometimes when it snows, they quip "Just shoveld a foot of global warming out of my driveway.
Of course, they point out that they don't believe in global warming period.
These people do not say that the average global temp has been the same since the earth's crust solidified.
They certainly don't. Who are yuo kidding? As likely as not, if you were to bring that up, they'll start yapping about the age of the earth. And yes, many of the people who believe that the earth was created roughly 6000 years ago are also stalwart deniers. THen believe that the earth and the life on it was created over seven days and in it's present form. They don't believe any of that "claptrap" about a much older universe, and all of the physics and biology we know of today.
They claim, rightly, that the climate has been in huge flux for as long as the earth has had an atmosphere, and that it is actually quite relatively cold relative to the distant past.
So what to they say is the reason for the constant change? Looks like you are surrounded by the most savvy deniers on earth. Good.
I know exactly why some ages of earth were warmer than the present. And you and your denialist friends are going to really hate the answer to that.