Know what happens to a military firing range when a base is shutdown and transferred or sold back to the local economy? Millions of dollars in cleanup of a hazardous waste site due to the hundreds of thousands of lead bullets in the ground.
A training round with reduced or even zero lead content would go a long way to eliminate those costs in the future.
Assange has always had his own agenda, and assuming he at all cares about the US is pure stupidity. sometimes those interests will align with the American publics, sometimes not. his own origins are in the extreme left (the dangerously extreme), with an real dislike of the US, one not based in rationality. He's turned wikileaks into his own pet vendetta machine having driven out the original ideological and objective purists long ago. just some of his personality cult worshippers (ie, like you) refuse to see him for what he is.
most of us have always wanted the EC to go away, and to use a normal electoral method...like every other western democracy in the world. further, the EC as implemented by the states, violates the 14th Amendment: https://medium.com/equal-citiz...
it has its faults, and its areas where its safety net or protections fall short (public education below the college level is currently in need of a lot of improvement), but its the most diverse state with the best economy and some of the best social protections in the nation.
Compare to say, the several Failed Red State Experiments (NC, KS, OK, LA, WI, and more!) where they tried out the full gamut of GOP economic wet dreams, and only made things worse, cratered their budgets, shrunk their wages, and instead of saying "whoa, maybe we should slow down".... are mashing the pedal to the floor cause obviously they can fix their budgets by lowering taxes more and giving even more tax subsidies to corporations....cause nothing puts out a fire like pouring gasoline on it.
Oh F off troll. The relationship is well documented and well understood. Just because YOU don't understand the relationship or acknowledge the accuracy of the models, doesn't mean they don't exist.
They call it the greenhouse effect because they, smart men like John Tyndall and Alexander Graham Bell, realized that the atmosphere of the earth functions and acts much the same way as the glass or plastic sheeting of a greenhouse, and the planetary system we call earth thus functions much like a greenhouse as it drifts through space: it prevents the energy from escaping the system into the surrounding medium.
the precise mechanics are more nuanced: -in a greenhouse both convective and radiative loss are prevented by the glass/sheeting. -in the earth system, convective loss is prevented by the vacuum of space...ie, no molecules for convection to act up. and radiative loss is prevented by the molecules of atmosphere as they absorb energy of one wavelength and re-radiate at other wavelengths, chiefly infrared, ie heat.
but the effect is the same, so the analogy holds.
and, as ol oscoc points out, pumping CO2 into greenhouses not only directly affects the plants, but also affects the thermal properties of the greenhouse, increasing its heat efficiency.
Go re-read your Adam Smith. Or this handy copy pasta:
How Rent-Seeking Works Rent-seeking occurs when an individual or business attempts to make money from its resources without using those resources to provide a benefit to society or generate wealth for everyone. One of the most common ways companies in the 21st century engage in rent-seeking is by using their capital to contribute to politicians who influence the laws and regulations that govern and industry and how government subsidies are distributed within. If the company succeeds in receiving subsidies or in getting laws passed that restrict competition and create new barriers to entry into the industry, it has increased its share of existing wealth without increasing the total of that wealth. Moreover, it has earned income without actually producing anything or putting its capital at risk.
Rent-Seeking Examples Lobbying for occupational licensing requirements represents a perfect example of rent-seeking. Airline pilots and doctors require rigorous licensing for obvious reasons, but in many U.S. states, expensive and onerous licensing is required for taxi drivers, florists and interior decorators. Often, these regulations exist as a result of lobbying efforts from existing industry participants. [[dywolf note-- Note that if environmental groups lobby for this, they don't gain any material benefit, ie, "share of the wealth" by doing so]] When licensing requirements prevent newcomers from competing, the revenue generated within an industry is divided between fewer players, resulting in a larger share of wealth accruing to each without any additional economic benefit. Furthermore, since competition drives down prices and lack of competition keeps them high, consumers pay more than they would in a truly efficient market unfettered by rent-seeking.
If or when environmental groups do succeed in lobbying, they are not the only ones that benefit. When they benefit, not only yheir benefit not in the form of gaining a larger "share of the wealth", but we all benefit, whether its national parks that continue to exist, or pipelines that have sufficient safety standards that leaks and accidents are reduced to minimum or swiftly cleaned up.
Rent seeking doesn't even apply. You have equated lobbying or non-productiveness (relative to the "market") with rent-seeking, and that is wrong. Worse, your example is "not even wrong". The concept does not even apply to your example.
You example only reveals your own ignorance, about both rent-seeking, and how most environmental groups meet their funding needs.
As I said: No, you don't know what rent-seeking is.
Metrology. IE, the science of measurements. Not meteorology, or the study of weather.
As far as "not being smart enough for engineering school"... My engineering degree would beg to differ.
And if you don't realize the importance of the science of measurements as it relates to engineering, then it is you who isn't smart enough for engineering.
you may not notice your room heating because it's not a perfectly enclosed system. it has substantial losses to the surrounding house via convection.
the earth in contrast is much closer to the ideal enclosed system for the same reason that heat sinks don't work very well in space: no convection.
note however that in fact burning a candle in your living, if it were sealed and approximated an enclosed system, would in fact warm it measurably. because thermodynamics.
some of these folks were kind enough to actually do some of the thermo math and work it out: https://www.reddit.com/r/asksc... , but the gist is, yes, actually, a candle can raise the temp of your room by roughly 1 degree, which is a significant or measurable amount.
similarly the human output of CO2, which is over 40 billion tons annually, does has a measurable impact despite its relatively small proportion of the atmosphere, in no small part due to a positive feedback loop involving water vapor (increase temp a lil bit via co2, more h20 in air, which is also a GH gas, which causes more warming, which causes more h2o in the air, which causes more warming....until the system reaches equilibrium and the warming stops...which right now cannot happen because were are still pumping several orders of magnitude more CO2 and methane into the atmosphere than the planetary system is capable of adjusting to.)
Also note, that you are actively choosing to side with a nuclear physicist in the belief that he knows more bout climate science than actual climate scientists. Do you also then get home repair quotes from your car mechanic, or vice versa? How about heart surgery from a pediatrician? Steak tartare from your plumber? How deep does your silliness of valuing non-subject-matter-experts over subject-matter-experts go?
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Know what happens to a military firing range when a base is shutdown and transferred or sold back to the local economy?
Millions of dollars in cleanup of a hazardous waste site due to the hundreds of thousands of lead bullets in the ground.
A training round with reduced or even zero lead content would go a long way to eliminate those costs in the future.
https://www.hrw.org/world-repo...
I hear theres thing thing called a search engine that lets you look up the numerous news articles interviewing several of the paid shills.
oh stfu.
Assange has always had his own agenda, and assuming he at all cares about the US is pure stupidity. sometimes those interests will align with the American publics, sometimes not. his own origins are in the extreme left (the dangerously extreme), with an real dislike of the US, one not based in rationality. He's turned wikileaks into his own pet vendetta machine having driven out the original ideological and objective purists long ago. just some of his personality cult worshippers (ie, like you) refuse to see him for what he is.
- Russia wanted the candidate who didn't want to start WW3 to win
Then why did they help Trump?
He not only believes that nuclear war is inevitable: http://www.motherjones.com/pol...
But that a nuclear arms race is good, and winnable: http://www.businessinsider.com...
stop being dumb: an even bigger majority voted ABT.
see class, this is how you lie with statistics and state, falsely, that the guy with 3 million fewer votes was actually the more popular candidate.
most of us have always wanted the EC to go away, and to use a normal electoral method...like every other western democracy in the world.
further, the EC as implemented by the states, violates the 14th Amendment: https://medium.com/equal-citiz...
https://medium.com/equal-citiz...
mod up
it has its faults, and its areas where its safety net or protections fall short (public education below the college level is currently in need of a lot of improvement), but its the most diverse state with the best economy and some of the best social protections in the nation.
Compare to say, the several Failed Red State Experiments (NC, KS, OK, LA, WI, and more!) where they tried out the full gamut of GOP economic wet dreams, and only made things worse, cratered their budgets, shrunk their wages, and instead of saying "whoa, maybe we should slow down" .... are mashing the pedal to the floor cause obviously they can fix their budgets by lowering taxes more and giving even more tax subsidies to corporations....cause nothing puts out a fire like pouring gasoline on it.
wtf are you on?
Any US Birth Certificate automatically indicates US citizenship, as does a passport.
Only Aryans of Sufficient Purity, are allowed to vote, eh?
It's a BS talking point is what it is.
And that's probably related to why our western liberal democracy is one of the least free and least repsentive of the people.
Besides, 49 of those small elections violate the 14th Amendment: https://medium.com/equal-citiz...
Oh F off troll.
The relationship is well documented and well understood.
Just because YOU don't understand the relationship or acknowledge the accuracy of the models, doesn't mean they don't exist.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
They call it the greenhouse effect because they, smart men like John Tyndall and Alexander Graham Bell, realized that the atmosphere of the earth functions and acts much the same way as the glass or plastic sheeting of a greenhouse, and the planetary system we call earth thus functions much like a greenhouse as it drifts through space: it prevents the energy from escaping the system into the surrounding medium.
the precise mechanics are more nuanced:
-in a greenhouse both convective and radiative loss are prevented by the glass/sheeting.
-in the earth system, convective loss is prevented by the vacuum of space...ie, no molecules for convection to act up. and radiative loss is prevented by the molecules of atmosphere as they absorb energy of one wavelength and re-radiate at other wavelengths, chiefly infrared, ie heat.
but the effect is the same, so the analogy holds.
and, as ol oscoc points out, pumping CO2 into greenhouses not only directly affects the plants, but also affects the thermal properties of the greenhouse, increasing its heat efficiency.
you need to re-read the definition of correlation.
CO2 is the driver of a positive-feedback loop involving the water vapor portion of the water cycle, as it relates to water vapors heat trapping abilities.
There, you've been edumicated.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
you really need to work on your definitions.
Go re-read your Adam Smith.
Or this handy copy pasta:
How Rent-Seeking Works
Rent-seeking occurs when an individual or business attempts to make money from its resources without using those resources to provide a benefit to society or generate wealth for everyone. One of the most common ways companies in the 21st century engage in rent-seeking is by using their capital to contribute to politicians who influence the laws and regulations that govern and industry and how government subsidies are distributed within. If the company succeeds in receiving subsidies or in getting laws passed that restrict competition and create new barriers to entry into the industry, it has increased its share of existing wealth without increasing the total of that wealth. Moreover, it has earned income without actually producing anything or putting its capital at risk.
Rent-Seeking Examples
Lobbying for occupational licensing requirements represents a perfect example of rent-seeking. Airline pilots and doctors require rigorous licensing for obvious reasons, but in many U.S. states, expensive and onerous licensing is required for taxi drivers, florists and interior decorators. Often, these regulations exist as a result of lobbying efforts from existing industry participants. [[dywolf note-- Note that if environmental groups lobby for this, they don't gain any material benefit, ie, "share of the wealth" by doing so]] When licensing requirements prevent newcomers from competing, the revenue generated within an industry is divided between fewer players, resulting in a larger share of wealth accruing to each without any additional economic benefit. Furthermore, since competition drives down prices and lack of competition keeps them high, consumers pay more than they would in a truly efficient market unfettered by rent-seeking.
If or when environmental groups do succeed in lobbying, they are not the only ones that benefit. When they benefit, not only yheir benefit not in the form of gaining a larger "share of the wealth", but we all benefit, whether its national parks that continue to exist, or pipelines that have sufficient safety standards that leaks and accidents are reduced to minimum or swiftly cleaned up.
Rent seeking doesn't even apply. You have equated lobbying or non-productiveness (relative to the "market") with rent-seeking, and that is wrong.
Worse, your example is "not even wrong". The concept does not even apply to your example.
You example only reveals your own ignorance, about both rent-seeking, and how most environmental groups meet their funding needs.
As I said: No, you don't know what rent-seeking is.
So much for that bit about we can't/shouldn't do anything about global warming because China isn't so any effect on our part is pointless.
Metrology. IE, the science of measurements.
Not meteorology, or the study of weather.
As far as "not being smart enough for engineering school"...
My engineering degree would beg to differ.
And if you don't realize the importance of the science of measurements as it relates to engineering, then it is you who isn't smart enough for engineering.
JFC your grasp of thermodynamics is weak.
you may not notice your room heating because it's not a perfectly enclosed system. it has substantial losses to the surrounding house via convection.
the earth in contrast is much closer to the ideal enclosed system for the same reason that heat sinks don't work very well in space: no convection.
note however that in fact burning a candle in your living, if it were sealed and approximated an enclosed system, would in fact warm it measurably.
because thermodynamics.
some of these folks were kind enough to actually do some of the thermo math and work it out: https://www.reddit.com/r/asksc... , but the gist is, yes, actually, a candle can raise the temp of your room by roughly 1 degree, which is a significant or measurable amount.
similarly the human output of CO2, which is over 40 billion tons annually, does has a measurable impact despite its relatively small proportion of the atmosphere, in no small part due to a positive feedback loop involving water vapor (increase temp a lil bit via co2, more h20 in air, which is also a GH gas, which causes more warming, which causes more h2o in the air, which causes more warming....until the system reaches equilibrium and the warming stops...which right now cannot happen because were are still pumping several orders of magnitude more CO2 and methane into the atmosphere than the planetary system is capable of adjusting to.)
further readings: "It's only a trace gas."
Also note, that you are actively choosing to side with a nuclear physicist in the belief that he knows more bout climate science than actual climate scientists.
Do you also then get home repair quotes from your car mechanic, or vice versa? How about heart surgery from a pediatrician? Steak tartare from your plumber? How deep does your silliness of valuing non-subject-matter-experts over subject-matter-experts go?