That is a strawman that is so fundamentally dishonest that you should be ashamed for even suggesting it. Of course climatologists work with models, what's the matter with you? Ice cores, etc. are not just data collection techniques, though, there is plenty of research using those techniques that does not involve the creation of models, for example simply correlating high atmospheric CO2 levels to temperature.
If you are going to make the extraordinary claim that significantly increasing atmospheric CO2 concentration in the air will not cause warming, then it's up to you to prove such a remarkable claim. What's your explanation?
What's hilarious is how these people shriek and cry about how the earth has always experienced climate change, pointing to the research of climatologists to prove this, but then when those same climatologists say there is evidence that this warming trend is caused by anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions, suddenly they can't be trusted.
Actually I've done coursework in graduate-level ecology and climatology. Your statement doesn't really make sense; I was talking about an economic issue, you're just talking about the scope of change.
I got my boss a coke once when he asked me once, because he's older and was polite about it. At my current job I'll sometimes help take out the trash. Work is work, if you start obsessing over whether every single thing you do during the day is worthy of you or in your contract then it's going to introduce a lot more stress into your job and make you unpleasant to work with.
I agree. His employer should stop giving him money for free to just sit there and do nothing. They should make him write this application he's complaining about in exchange for that money.
Anyone who tells you that dealing with climate change requires a "total overhaul of our economic system" is a liar. If you tell other people that, you become a liar. You don't want to be a liar, do you?
"Over and over, we read of hidden, manipulated, and cherry-picked data, refusals to abide with having outsiders vet their work, and allowing naked advocacy into the IPCC reports on climate change as if they were peer-reviewed science. "
"I'd say the dollar has taken a plunge halfway to death (dollar has fallen to half, sometimes a third of it's value in the 80's and 90's)"
Helping American exports. Having a weak national currency is not necessarily a bad thing; if it were, why would the Chinese intentionally keep theirs devalued?
"that governments around the world are re-structuring to be free from US-assets like bonds and other government-backed economic tools"
Wrong. There has been a lot of demand for US treasury bonds because of the global economic downturn; they're considered "safe" investments.
And the Japanese are doing good
Absolutely wrong. Japan's economy is in terrible shape and it's only gotten worse in recent years.
Different cultures have their own blind spots on science; I just get a little irritated by Americans are constantly excoriated over beliefs in say, creationism, but sort of fanatic resistance to GMO foods in Europeans is portrayed as somehow noble.
Social security was never meant to be like a 401(k); it was meant as a combination retirement plan/insurance plan. That's why you can get SS benefits well before retirement in certain circumstances, in which case you are almost inevitably getting a lot more out than you paid in.
My point is simply you still "own" it in the traditional sense. You can strip it down to the molecular level, incinerate it, use it as a cutting board, etc.
I was taking issue with a ownership definition that I thought was incorrect, not saying someone should not be able to criticize certain design decisions.
I was MUDding back in the day (early 90's) and I remember being able to run MUD servers on desktops of the time at like 4-5% CPU usage. The hardest resource at the time was an actual internet connection with higher bandwidth than dial-up, so yes, technically that did require some resources but for the MUD admin themselves if they had an on-campus machine at a university they were fine.
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True, but if you eat fish at a low trophic level (sardines/anchovies/herring) you can eat a fair amount without worrying about mercury.
Not if you are trying to avoid sodium.
"Everything there is served in huge amounts compared to other countries."
Never had an English breakfast, have we...
That is a strawman that is so fundamentally dishonest that you should be ashamed for even suggesting it. Of course climatologists work with models, what's the matter with you? Ice cores, etc. are not just data collection techniques, though, there is plenty of research using those techniques that does not involve the creation of models, for example simply correlating high atmospheric CO2 levels to temperature.
If you are going to make the extraordinary claim that significantly increasing atmospheric CO2 concentration in the air will not cause warming, then it's up to you to prove such a remarkable claim. What's your explanation?
Nope. Read the primary research.
What's hilarious is how these people shriek and cry about how the earth has always experienced climate change, pointing to the research of climatologists to prove this, but then when those same climatologists say there is evidence that this warming trend is caused by anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions, suddenly they can't be trusted.
Actually I've done coursework in graduate-level ecology and climatology. Your statement doesn't really make sense; I was talking about an economic issue, you're just talking about the scope of change.
"Restructuring our economy" and "total overhaul" are not synonyms.
I got my boss a coke once when he asked me once, because he's older and was polite about it. At my current job I'll sometimes help take out the trash. Work is work, if you start obsessing over whether every single thing you do during the day is worthy of you or in your contract then it's going to introduce a lot more stress into your job and make you unpleasant to work with.
Just don't read the book itself...you would not believe how poorly written it is. You can definitely tell English wasn't this woman's native language.
I agree. His employer should stop giving him money for free to just sit there and do nothing. They should make him write this application he's complaining about in exchange for that money.
I stand corrected.
Anyone who tells you that dealing with climate change requires a "total overhaul of our economic system" is a liar. If you tell other people that, you become a liar. You don't want to be a liar, do you?
"Over and over, we read of hidden, manipulated, and cherry-picked data, refusals to abide with having outsiders vet their work, and allowing naked advocacy into the IPCC reports on climate change as if they were peer-reviewed science. "
No, we don't; you just made those things up.
What's it like to be part of the anti-science crackpot brigade?
"I'd say the dollar has taken a plunge halfway to death (dollar has fallen to half, sometimes a third of it's value in the 80's and 90's)"
Helping American exports. Having a weak national currency is not necessarily a bad thing; if it were, why would the Chinese intentionally keep theirs devalued?
"that governments around the world are re-structuring to be free from US-assets like bonds and other government-backed economic tools"
Wrong. There has been a lot of demand for US treasury bonds because of the global economic downturn; they're considered "safe" investments.
And the Japanese are doing good
Absolutely wrong. Japan's economy is in terrible shape and it's only gotten worse in recent years.
Different cultures have their own blind spots on science; I just get a little irritated by Americans are constantly excoriated over beliefs in say, creationism, but sort of fanatic resistance to GMO foods in Europeans is portrayed as somehow noble.
More painful than not having insulin? Really?
Social security was never meant to be like a 401(k); it was meant as a combination retirement plan/insurance plan. That's why you can get SS benefits well before retirement in certain circumstances, in which case you are almost inevitably getting a lot more out than you paid in.
Or Americans are less hysterical over quack science?
Horizontal gene transfer actually is a fairly significant evolutionary force in nature.
My point is simply you still "own" it in the traditional sense. You can strip it down to the molecular level, incinerate it, use it as a cutting board, etc.
I was taking issue with a ownership definition that I thought was incorrect, not saying someone should not be able to criticize certain design decisions.
I was MUDding back in the day (early 90's) and I remember being able to run MUD servers on desktops of the time at like 4-5% CPU usage. The hardest resource at the time was an actual internet connection with higher bandwidth than dial-up, so yes, technically that did require some resources but for the MUD admin themselves if they had an on-campus machine at a university they were fine.
You can do whatever you want to them, so yes, you do own in a traditional sense. They're not required to make it easy for you to root.