1) It didnt happen because they reduced emissions and began filtering out the chemicals that would lead to the majority of it. 2) We banned CFC's, and the ozen hole is indeed shrinking. What, you thought after 50 years of use and just dumping it straight into the air, the effect would be instantaneous? 3) The Sahara HAS expanded. The tropics (the longitudinal bands that define them) are getting larger.
The only one being dishonest here is your ignorant self.
The entire continenet is losing mass. It's simply several magnitudes larger on the western subcontinent beacuse of the weather patterns and ocean circulation (etc) that side is exposed to.
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Government SHOULD enact the will of the people, because it IS the people. Government as practiced in a free society is the collective will of the citizenry. This is first day material of Civics 101. Which like most modern wingnuts on this site you apparently slept through.
Remember: the oil billionaires are only trying to protect us from those evil, greedy scientists whose very livelihood depends on climate change being real...
Every week they published one or more rebuttals, chock full of bullshit psuedoscience backed by the bible, as to why Cosmos is wrong and misleading people.
Warning: AIG is created by the same guy who runs the Creation Museum.
Mainstream? News flash for you sonny. FOX IS MAINSTREAM.
And theyve done far more manipulation and outright lying than anyone else. No one else has an entire website dedicated to just correcting them (media matters)
no, the public prediction is merely a nudge to move the path of the story in the right direction, seeding the ground for the real prediction which remains hidden
Old people without birth certificates. Minorities who can't get to the DMV because it's only open for 3 hours, 2 days a week, during working hours, and is located clear across town in a place with no public transportation.
Across the country hundreds of thousands of people stand to be disenfranchised in an effort to stop a fraud fewer than half a dozen fraudulent voters. Voter ID only stops inpersonation, which is the most UNCOMMON form of voter fraud. Think about it: it has the highest risk, the highest cost, and the lowest reward consisting of one extra vote.
Voter ID is a soution in serach of a problem. That's a tremendous downside that way WAY outweighs a nearly nonexistent benefit. Unless of course it's all a smokescreen, and the true purpose is to prevent people you dont agree with from voting...in which case it's working out pretty well.
At the end of the day, the answer is simple: anything that prevents or impairs voting in a democracy is evil.
Anyone who opposes making voting easier, who would rather make it harder, who is threatened by higher voter turnouts, is unAmerican. Politicians should shape their politics to their constituents, not shape their constituency to fit their politics.
you're talking about anarchy. it doesn't work too well. it's been fairly well discredited by history.
it's why society has coalesced into civilizations, such as the one you're living in now, which coincidentally has quite a lot of individual liberty. in fact, the primary negatives revolve around imposing your will on others.
ah, but you're one of those who never took a basic civics class and never learned the basics of civilization, or why and how we've gone beyond simple might makes right anarchy and feudalism.
JFC. Did I say the words "ready to die" ?? you insist on misquoting to make your points, intentionally noncomprehending...that or you're just stupid. the number of 80 and 90 year olds who are enjoying a healthy life rather than slowly crumbling under the weight of age is so seriously one sided you only further prove your ignorance.
the medical community, made of medical professionals have the highest rate of living will and end of life planning of any statistical group. its because they see this crap every day. they see the vast overwhelming numbers of people who DONT make these decisions beforehand, who DONT make any sort of plans, who dont think about what is coming. End of life care and planning is seriously lacking in most of hte world, and hte US especially. we dont like to think about it. we put it off.
Medical professionals dont avoid that thinking, that planning (as much), because they see what its effects are. hell, they're fucking doctors, so they know exactly what they have to look forward to. Constant unfathomable pain from cancer. The slow undignified loss of the ability to control your own body. The loss of mind that patients suffer from and aren't even aware of themselves, but can see from the looks on the faces of their loved ones that something is wrong.
Yes, a blessed few avoid all that and simply go in their sleep. That kind of end doesn't require any planning. Almost everyone, if given the choice, would prefer to go that way. But simply because there's a chance you may go that way, doesn't mean you shouldn't think about what you want to do in case of the alternative.
This is what realistic thinking on this looks like:
Do you want chemo and three months of life, or six weeks of life without the nausea and vomiting that the chemo causes?
Do you want high-risk open-heart surgery, with a fifteen-per-cent risk of dying during the operation, or would you rather continue as you are, with a fifty-per-cent chance you will be dead in two years?
Do you want a prostatectomy, which has a five-per-cent chance of impotence and incontinence, or radiation, with a three-per-cent chance of leaving a hole in your rectum, or would you rather “watch and wait,” with the chance that your cancer will never grow at all?
some people think (for various reasons, usually religious) that they have to hold on to the very end. no matter how bad it gets, no matter how much it costs (and remember friend: in this country your family has to pick up that tab, since we refuse to create a national system), no matter the suffering you or your family goes through. now if thats what you want, and youve thought it through and your family is on board (and it helps if you're rich), then power to you.
But at some point youre going to face those kind of decisions. I just hope you show a higher intellectual ability by then than you are here.
Just remember: if we can show our pets the compassion to not force them to endure a living nightmare of misery, then surely we can show the same compassion to each other, to respect each others wishes. The only thing that's certain in life is death, and it's one of the most personal decisions you can make for yourself.
yes its a straw man. that should be obvious. but that doesn't change the point: it's a stand in for every random wanker who thinks his pet opinion or position or whatever deserves to be given equal weight, equal time, or equal consideration as actual scientific experts on a subject.
and no, it wouldn't actually be worth something if it actually was my opinion, because its wrong. as a testable, provable statement, any opinion concerning it after its already been falsified, barring the discovery of any additional data, is a worthless opinion.
no, not all opinions are worth something. and thats the point.
a lot of medical professionals carry this opinion, or a similar one, precisely because they see, every day, what the reality is of old age. and they dont change their minds; rather they are one of the largest grous with settled views on it who already know what they want and how they want to go.
So maybe there is something the concept of "listening to people who know what they are talking about" after all. Rather than giving any crank and random bum off the street equal time and assuming equal credibility.
absolutely no part of it requries giving up all your money or your standard of living, nor does it acll for forcing third world countries to wallow in filth. its not because you disagree that you are ignorant. its because of hte ignorant and moronic things you say that you are ignorant.
teachers, nay anyone, cannot rely on the beneficent feelings of mega corps or rich donors.
1) most of them wont get the funding they need. which is why we have taxes to ensure that those things get funded that need it (in theory...idiots who think teachers SHOULD be funded by bake sales not withstanding)
2) those who do will feel a lot of pressure to...adjust...their curriculum to continue recieving the funding. And as Chief Justice Roberts recently stated, that's "not corruption"./sarcasm
no no no. its the fox news theorum: if your pet message is unable to make it into the mainstream, its because the mainstream is stupid, ignorant, and and biased against you, not because there's a problem with your message.
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just to be clear the definition of a "desert" has to do with its annual precipitation, not "how green it is".
1) It didnt happen because they reduced emissions and began filtering out the chemicals that would lead to the majority of it.
2) We banned CFC's, and the ozen hole is indeed shrinking. What, you thought after 50 years of use and just dumping it straight into the air, the effect would be instantaneous?
3) The Sahara HAS expanded. The tropics (the longitudinal bands that define them) are getting larger.
The only one being dishonest here is your ignorant self.
The entire continenet is losing mass.
It's simply several magnitudes larger on the western subcontinent beacuse of the weather patterns and ocean circulation (etc) that side is exposed to.
And again: WHAT MONEY?!? There is no money money rolling in.
I direct you to: http://arstechnica.com/science...
Spoken like a true oligarch.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed [..]
The Declaration of Independence
Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth [..]
Abraham Lincoln
The legitimate object of government, is to do for a community of people, whatever they need to have done, but can not do, at all, or can not, so well do, for themselves - in their separate, and individual capacities.
Abraham Lincoln
Government SHOULD enact the will of the people, because it IS the people.
Government as practiced in a free society is the collective will of the citizenry.
This is first day material of Civics 101. Which like most modern wingnuts on this site you apparently slept through.
Remember: the oil billionaires are only trying to protect us from those evil, greedy scientists whose very livelihood depends on climate change being real...
Ah in fact, they helpfully even compiled them all into a list:
https://answersingenesis.org/c...
But I warn you: the amount of stupid contained there in is at least 10X the lethal dose.
Google "answers in genesis cosmos".
Every week they published one or more rebuttals, chock full of bullshit psuedoscience backed by the bible, as to why Cosmos is wrong and misleading people.
Warning: AIG is created by the same guy who runs the Creation Museum.
Mainstream?
News flash for you sonny.
FOX IS MAINSTREAM.
And theyve done far more manipulation and outright lying than anyone else.
No one else has an entire website dedicated to just correcting them (media matters)
no, the public prediction is merely a nudge to move the path of the story in the right direction, seeding the ground for the real prediction which remains hidden
So your stance is that one or two individuals are reason to discredit ALL PERSONS in a field....?
i was hoping someone would mention Independence War.
I never did finish it, but whoa was it fun.
Old people without birth certificates.
Minorities who can't get to the DMV because it's only open for 3 hours, 2 days a week, during working hours, and is located clear across town in a place with no public transportation.
Across the country hundreds of thousands of people stand to be disenfranchised in an effort to stop a fraud fewer than half a dozen fraudulent voters. Voter ID only stops inpersonation, which is the most UNCOMMON form of voter fraud. Think about it: it has the highest risk, the highest cost, and the lowest reward consisting of one extra vote.
Voter ID is a soution in serach of a problem.
That's a tremendous downside that way WAY outweighs a nearly nonexistent benefit.
Unless of course it's all a smokescreen, and the true purpose is to prevent people you dont agree with from voting...in which case it's working out pretty well.
At the end of the day, the answer is simple: anything that prevents or impairs voting in a democracy is evil.
Anyone who opposes making voting easier, who would rather make it harder, who is threatened by higher voter turnouts, is unAmerican.
Politicians should shape their politics to their constituents, not shape their constituency to fit their politics.
you're talking about anarchy.
it doesn't work too well.
it's been fairly well discredited by history.
it's why society has coalesced into civilizations, such as the one you're living in now, which coincidentally has quite a lot of individual liberty.
in fact, the primary negatives revolve around imposing your will on others.
ah, but you're one of those who never took a basic civics class and never learned the basics of civilization, or why and how we've gone beyond simple might makes right anarchy and feudalism.
hey look, the troll is back.
He also had a nationalized health care system.
If he had lived in the US, I doubt very much we'd even know who he is.
JFC. Did I say the words "ready to die" ?? you insist on misquoting to make your points, intentionally noncomprehending...that or you're just stupid. the number of 80 and 90 year olds who are enjoying a healthy life rather than slowly crumbling under the weight of age is so seriously one sided you only further prove your ignorance.
the medical community, made of medical professionals have the highest rate of living will and end of life planning of any statistical group. its because they see this crap every day. they see the vast overwhelming numbers of people who DONT make these decisions beforehand, who DONT make any sort of plans, who dont think about what is coming. End of life care and planning is seriously lacking in most of hte world, and hte US especially. we dont like to think about it. we put it off.
Medical professionals dont avoid that thinking, that planning (as much), because they see what its effects are.
hell, they're fucking doctors, so they know exactly what they have to look forward to. Constant unfathomable pain from cancer. The slow undignified loss of the ability to control your own body. The loss of mind that patients suffer from and aren't even aware of themselves, but can see from the looks on the faces of their loved ones that something is wrong.
Yes, a blessed few avoid all that and simply go in their sleep.
That kind of end doesn't require any planning.
Almost everyone, if given the choice, would prefer to go that way.
But simply because there's a chance you may go that way, doesn't mean you shouldn't think about what you want to do in case of the alternative.
This is what realistic thinking on this looks like:
Do you want chemo and three months of life, or six weeks of life without the nausea and vomiting that the chemo causes?
Do you want high-risk open-heart surgery, with a fifteen-per-cent risk of dying during the operation, or would you rather continue as you are, with a fifty-per-cent chance you will be dead in two years?
Do you want a prostatectomy, which has a five-per-cent chance of impotence and incontinence, or radiation, with a three-per-cent chance of leaving a hole in your rectum, or would you rather “watch and wait,” with the chance that your cancer will never grow at all?
( http://theincidentaleconomist.... )
some people think (for various reasons, usually religious) that they have to hold on to the very end. no matter how bad it gets, no matter how much it costs (and remember friend: in this country your family has to pick up that tab, since we refuse to create a national system), no matter the suffering you or your family goes through. now if thats what you want, and youve thought it through and your family is on board (and it helps if you're rich), then power to you.
But at some point youre going to face those kind of decisions.
I just hope you show a higher intellectual ability by then than you are here.
Just remember: if we can show our pets the compassion to not force them to endure a living nightmare of misery, then surely we can show the same compassion to each other, to respect each others wishes. The only thing that's certain in life is death, and it's one of the most personal decisions you can make for yourself.
yes its a straw man. that should be obvious. but that doesn't change the point: it's a stand in for every random wanker who thinks his pet opinion or position or whatever deserves to be given equal weight, equal time, or equal consideration as actual scientific experts on a subject.
and no, it wouldn't actually be worth something if it actually was my opinion, because its wrong.
as a testable, provable statement, any opinion concerning it after its already been falsified, barring the discovery of any additional data, is a worthless opinion.
no, not all opinions are worth something.
and thats the point.
No. that is not what he said.
What he said was specifically about him and HIS plans and viewpoint.
He did not call for these same things to applied to any one else.
He did not call for people to be terminated at birth.
You are attributing a lot of FALSE statements to him.
You are not insightful.
You are a troll.
a lot of medical professionals carry this opinion, or a similar one, precisely because they see, every day, what the reality is of old age.
and they dont change their minds; rather they are one of the largest grous with settled views on it who already know what they want and how they want to go.
All opinions are worth something?
My opinion is 2+2=5.
Oh right.
2+2 isnt 5.
So maybe there is something the concept of "listening to people who know what they are talking about" after all.
Rather than giving any crank and random bum off the street equal time and assuming equal credibility.
absolutely no part of it requries giving up all your money or your standard of living, nor does it acll for forcing third world countries to wallow in filth.
its not because you disagree that you are ignorant.
its because of hte ignorant and moronic things you say that you are ignorant.
hey look, it's a guy who doesnt undertsand science, and misquotes what people say in order to tell them theyre wrong.
bingo.
it's purely a PR move.
teachers, nay anyone, cannot rely on the beneficent feelings of mega corps or rich donors.
1) most of them wont get the funding they need. which is why we have taxes to ensure that those things get funded that need it (in theory...idiots who think teachers SHOULD be funded by bake sales not withstanding)
2) those who do will feel a lot of pressure to...adjust...their curriculum to continue recieving the funding. And as Chief Justice Roberts recently stated, that's "not corruption". /sarcasm
my dog is either defective or just doesnt care where she faces.
no no no. its the fox news theorum: if your pet message is unable to make it into the mainstream, its because the mainstream is stupid, ignorant, and and biased against you, not because there's a problem with your message.