Ultimately coal may be the most expensive source in human history but the trick is proving it without denial wiping out the evidence. Just look at Sandy. And yes I do realize it wasn't caused by global warming that was never the issue. The point is was it a stronger storm because of the energy provided by warming? I can't remember the last time New York was threatened with being swamped. It was threatened a year or two ago then nailed this year. There's some belief it may happen every four years now. Sandy did around 60 billion in damage. Look at the tornadoes we had a couple of years ago in the mid west. I think that's a much stronger case for global warming caused storms. The tornadoes wiped out whole towns and hit multiple states. That's two incidents in one country. The worldwide total is likely in the hundreds of billions a year and it could be much more. Eventually it could be in the trillions a year. Ridiculous? Given the latest projections by mid century we could be easily talking those numbers. The coast will likely retreat anywhere between a few hundred feet to a few miles on average. That's a lot of expensive property lost just on the coast. The point is we're being short sighted and just reacting to the symptoms of climate change. We're already locked in for a few degrees of increase but what happens when we get several times that? Don't worry about changing your lifestyle, it will change! We may be able to control the degree of change but that option is going away very fast.
It's the genetic drive to buy useless shit you don't really need. Humans that lack this drive are actually less evolved but better at handling their own money.
A translation for all heretic non believers. R'lyeh only rises when the stars are right. All other times Cthulhu lays dreaming on the bottom of the ocean. I have a feeling it may rise on December 21st, fingers crossed.
Regan's proposal had the potential to be the most expensive undertaking in human history. All for no clear enemy. Look at it this way it wouldn't stop 911 from happening or car bombs so we're talking an insanely expensive program with questionable benefit. Also the missile defense tests were really problematic. They tended to boast of the time they hit the target and ignored the ten times they missed.
Wrap your turkey in C-4 and implode the turkey. The geeky part is getting a perfect implosion so shaping the explosives will take some computer modeling and getting the right detonators is tricky to achieve implosion.
The main reason for global warming denying is to avoid having to change how rich corporations do business. Energy companies want to keep burning coal and auto companies preferred to make gas guzzlers. The joke is the very ones denying global warming tend to be the ones buying beach houses. Those same beach houses won't be around in 50 or 100 years due to global warming. They can assume it'll happen after they are dead but like what just happened in New Jersey many will be lost in the next 25 years. In truth I think the majority of deniers believe it's happening they just don't want to change how they live so it's easier to just claim it's all a lie.
Rock and minerals are mosly recycled by our active planet. The oldest rock is 4.03 billion years old (gniess from NW Canada), and oldest mineral is 4.3 billion years (zircon crystals from west australia). But neither tells us the age of the Earth. That is done by assumption from meteorites and moon rocks.....true age of Earth is honestly a mystery.
Actually there's a reason for most of the rock being not much over 4 billion years old. I think it was around 4.5 billion years that Earth was impacted by a body that was maybe as big as Mars. It's what caused the Moon to form. Most of the surface went back to being molten for a few hundred million years so the oldest rock was after that impact. In truth it's hard to give an exact date because it cooled for so many years that it's hard to given a specific date when you can call it a planet. The material collected and solidified over hundreds of millions of years then it was still hot for hundreds of millions of years and once it became liveable there was the impact event. There's even a debate if life evolved twice on earth both before and after the impact.
They are hesitant to release the photo of a Martian mooning the camera since it was a single image but they hope a second photo will confirm that Martians in fact have asses.
If you want to counteract it, you kind of need to understand the root cause. However, given that there's been 90% consensus among the scientific community for more than a decade, the root cause is not really in question. At this point, posing the question of what causes climate change is code for saying, "addressing the known cause would have adverse impact on me, so I deny the known cause."
It's a myth that it will adversely affect the economy. Fixing the mess will create as many or more jobs as it takes away. The issue is the ones causing the problem have the money and resources to fight change so nothing gets done. They keep denying and adding to the problem and just pay off Congressmen to not do anything. Once they've bled out what money they can the sad joke is the ones causing the warming will switch to technologies to correct the problem so they make money off the fix. These are businessmen and they know from the stock market you want to make money as you ride the stock up then make money as you ride it down. We suffer while they get richer.
25 years from now, barring amazing new desalinization technologies, Canada's water rights will be one of the biggest international policy debates in the United States. I really really want to read this post and laugh at what an idiot I was in 2037, but I think water will be a big problem soon. Imagine 2012's Midwestern drought 5 years in a row to get where I'm coming from.
Twelve years ago I told a businessman I was dealing with oil wasn't the concern in the future, it would be water rights that caused wars. You'd be surprised at some of the corporations buying up water rights. Just imagine if fracking destroys a lot of the in ground supply and drought decreases the surface water how much those rights will be worth?
It's the same dance they run into every other cycle. People were anxious to swap out Vista because it sucked. Windows 7 is fairly stable so why go through upgrade hell for a potentially less stable system that doesn't have anything new that you need? Microsoft has to face the fact that there may be a limited future in the OS market. Most of the new "features" to me feel like bloat and actually cause problems with what I need to do with a computer. Apple in a sense has a superior approach since the OS is created to support the hardware not the other way around. Apple potentially could stop upgrading their OS and switch to an update system without having a major affect on sales. Microsoft is invested in a 20 or 30 year old system that is no longer relevant.
The only reason Hostess decided to close is to use bankruptcy law to attack the unions - and replace them with employer-supported unions such as contract workers from staffing agencies. This usually comes from companies based out of the South where workers are to "know their place" and businesses are to not be questioned.
Get rid of the provision that voids union contracts on bankruptcy and make Right to Work apply to contractors and part-time labor.
It's what Romney wanted for the auto companies. He said the unions were the problem so let them go through bankruptcy.
I'm not exactly sure what you can do with thousands of hours of footage of donuts but they have TV series where they film people's storage units so it wouldn't be the worst reality show out there.
1000 bq isn't that much. It might be much compared to the background radiation but to put it in context, recommended values in Sweden after Chernobyl is to not eat meat that radiates more than 1500 bq/kg. This radiation comes from Cesium-137 that mostly rained down over us. And 10 years after we could still kill game (mostly moose) with in excess of 4000 bq/kg.
Many residential houses stand on granite that contains radon, and the limits for radiation from radon was 1000 bq/m^2,until 2009 when the EU lowered the limit to 200 bq/m^2.
So.. We in Sweden lived with this kind of radiation for quite some time and we don't really consider this a problem. The halflife of Cesium-137 is about 30 years so the radiation is dropping steadily but slowly.
Yeah but radon is one of the main sources of lung cancer so it's far from harmless these levels. Some one in a foreign country that eats fish from there a couple of times a year probably wouldn't have much risk but a local eating it three to five times a week could be affected. I'd limit or avoid consumption of sea food from the area until the levels drop which is likely to be decades given the continued leaking and half life involved. This isn't anti nuke it's pro health so why take the risk if you can avoid it? It can't harm that fishery giving it a few decades to rebound.
Let's say...
Sell a CD copy of Michael Jackson : 15 years in jail
Kill Michael Jackson : 4 years in jail
makes sense...
It depends which Michael Jackson album we're talking about. Thriller is only worthy of a five year sentence. Bad is definitely worth at least 10 years and anyone that sells an unsuspecting buyer History would get off easy with 15 years.
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Ultimately coal may be the most expensive source in human history but the trick is proving it without denial wiping out the evidence. Just look at Sandy. And yes I do realize it wasn't caused by global warming that was never the issue. The point is was it a stronger storm because of the energy provided by warming? I can't remember the last time New York was threatened with being swamped. It was threatened a year or two ago then nailed this year. There's some belief it may happen every four years now. Sandy did around 60 billion in damage. Look at the tornadoes we had a couple of years ago in the mid west. I think that's a much stronger case for global warming caused storms. The tornadoes wiped out whole towns and hit multiple states. That's two incidents in one country. The worldwide total is likely in the hundreds of billions a year and it could be much more. Eventually it could be in the trillions a year. Ridiculous? Given the latest projections by mid century we could be easily talking those numbers. The coast will likely retreat anywhere between a few hundred feet to a few miles on average. That's a lot of expensive property lost just on the coast. The point is we're being short sighted and just reacting to the symptoms of climate change. We're already locked in for a few degrees of increase but what happens when we get several times that? Don't worry about changing your lifestyle, it will change! We may be able to control the degree of change but that option is going away very fast.
Surely will be found soon!
I have my doubts it'll ever be found. They did confirm the existence of Homo Moderatus, they are the missing link between Republicans and Democrats.
It's the genetic drive to buy useless shit you don't really need. Humans that lack this drive are actually less evolved but better at handling their own money.
ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn
A translation for all heretic non believers. R'lyeh only rises when the stars are right. All other times Cthulhu lays dreaming on the bottom of the ocean. I have a feeling it may rise on December 21st, fingers crossed.
Regan's proposal had the potential to be the most expensive undertaking in human history. All for no clear enemy. Look at it this way it wouldn't stop 911 from happening or car bombs so we're talking an insanely expensive program with questionable benefit. Also the missile defense tests were really problematic. They tended to boast of the time they hit the target and ignored the ten times they missed.
Wrap your turkey in C-4 and implode the turkey. The geeky part is getting a perfect implosion so shaping the explosives will take some computer modeling and getting the right detonators is tricky to achieve implosion.
Are they sure it isn't just the beans?
One match and the place could go up like Hiroshima and Nagasaki
I thought the Hobbit all you can eat buffets were very appropriate.
...have enough FUCKING money yet?
Why is it okay for everyone BUT the family to make money off it????
Apparently they get them to fight by shoving a pole up their asses.
The main reason for global warming denying is to avoid having to change how rich corporations do business. Energy companies want to keep burning coal and auto companies preferred to make gas guzzlers. The joke is the very ones denying global warming tend to be the ones buying beach houses. Those same beach houses won't be around in 50 or 100 years due to global warming. They can assume it'll happen after they are dead but like what just happened in New Jersey many will be lost in the next 25 years. In truth I think the majority of deniers believe it's happening they just don't want to change how they live so it's easier to just claim it's all a lie.
Rock and minerals are mosly recycled by our active planet. The oldest rock is 4.03 billion years old (gniess from NW Canada), and oldest mineral is 4.3 billion years (zircon crystals from west australia). But neither tells us the age of the Earth. That is done by assumption from meteorites and moon rocks.....true age of Earth is honestly a mystery.
Actually there's a reason for most of the rock being not much over 4 billion years old. I think it was around 4.5 billion years that Earth was impacted by a body that was maybe as big as Mars. It's what caused the Moon to form. Most of the surface went back to being molten for a few hundred million years so the oldest rock was after that impact. In truth it's hard to give an exact date because it cooled for so many years that it's hard to given a specific date when you can call it a planet. The material collected and solidified over hundreds of millions of years then it was still hot for hundreds of millions of years and once it became liveable there was the impact event. There's even a debate if life evolved twice on earth both before and after the impact.
They are hesitant to release the photo of a Martian mooning the camera since it was a single image but they hope a second photo will confirm that Martians in fact have asses.
"For myself and my stock options I'd like to thank you all and wish you all the best of luck. Forward all mail to the Cayman Islands."
If you want to counteract it, you kind of need to understand the root cause. However, given that there's been 90% consensus among the scientific community for more than a decade, the root cause is not really in question. At this point, posing the question of what causes climate change is code for saying, "addressing the known cause would have adverse impact on me, so I deny the known cause."
It's a myth that it will adversely affect the economy. Fixing the mess will create as many or more jobs as it takes away. The issue is the ones causing the problem have the money and resources to fight change so nothing gets done. They keep denying and adding to the problem and just pay off Congressmen to not do anything. Once they've bled out what money they can the sad joke is the ones causing the warming will switch to technologies to correct the problem so they make money off the fix. These are businessmen and they know from the stock market you want to make money as you ride the stock up then make money as you ride it down. We suffer while they get richer.
25 years from now, barring amazing new desalinization technologies, Canada's water rights will be one of the biggest international policy debates in the United States. I really really want to read this post and laugh at what an idiot I was in 2037, but I think water will be a big problem soon. Imagine 2012's Midwestern drought 5 years in a row to get where I'm coming from.
Twelve years ago I told a businessman I was dealing with oil wasn't the concern in the future, it would be water rights that caused wars. You'd be surprised at some of the corporations buying up water rights. Just imagine if fracking destroys a lot of the in ground supply and drought decreases the surface water how much those rights will be worth?
It's the same dance they run into every other cycle. People were anxious to swap out Vista because it sucked. Windows 7 is fairly stable so why go through upgrade hell for a potentially less stable system that doesn't have anything new that you need? Microsoft has to face the fact that there may be a limited future in the OS market. Most of the new "features" to me feel like bloat and actually cause problems with what I need to do with a computer. Apple in a sense has a superior approach since the OS is created to support the hardware not the other way around. Apple potentially could stop upgrading their OS and switch to an update system without having a major affect on sales. Microsoft is invested in a 20 or 30 year old system that is no longer relevant.
obviously sales of Surface are cannibalizing Windows 8 sales. bazinga!
Isn't that like saying Edsel sales are cannibalizing Mustang sales?
The only reason Hostess decided to close is to use bankruptcy law to attack the unions - and replace them with employer-supported unions such as contract workers from staffing agencies. This usually comes from companies based out of the South where workers are to "know their place" and businesses are to not be questioned.
Get rid of the provision that voids union contracts on bankruptcy and make Right to Work apply to contractors and part-time labor.
It's what Romney wanted for the auto companies. He said the unions were the problem so let them go through bankruptcy.
If they could have held on until more states legalized pot they could have been bigger than Apple.
I'm not exactly sure what you can do with thousands of hours of footage of donuts but they have TV series where they film people's storage units so it wouldn't be the worst reality show out there.
1000 bq isn't that much. It might be much compared to the background radiation but to put it in context, recommended values in Sweden after Chernobyl is to not eat meat that radiates more than 1500 bq/kg. This radiation comes from Cesium-137 that mostly rained down over us. And 10 years after we could still kill game (mostly moose) with in excess of 4000 bq/kg. Many residential houses stand on granite that contains radon, and the limits for radiation from radon was 1000 bq/m^2,until 2009 when the EU lowered the limit to 200 bq/m^2. So.. We in Sweden lived with this kind of radiation for quite some time and we don't really consider this a problem. The halflife of Cesium-137 is about 30 years so the radiation is dropping steadily but slowly.
Yeah but radon is one of the main sources of lung cancer so it's far from harmless these levels. Some one in a foreign country that eats fish from there a couple of times a year probably wouldn't have much risk but a local eating it three to five times a week could be affected. I'd limit or avoid consumption of sea food from the area until the levels drop which is likely to be decades given the continued leaking and half life involved. This isn't anti nuke it's pro health so why take the risk if you can avoid it? It can't harm that fishery giving it a few decades to rebound.
Google bans it's employees from flushing Alligators down the toilets.
They just need to be able to pop a beer top and open a bag of chips to be extremely useful.
Let's say... Sell a CD copy of Michael Jackson : 15 years in jail Kill Michael Jackson : 4 years in jail makes sense...
It depends which Michael Jackson album we're talking about. Thriller is only worthy of a five year sentence. Bad is definitely worth at least 10 years and anyone that sells an unsuspecting buyer History would get off easy with 15 years.