There have been FIVE warming/cooling cycles, and all of them pre-date mankind. All you have to do to convince me of AGW is to answer these two, simple questions:
How does your explanation/what-if model account for prior cycles?
How are you able to separate human activity from whatever it is you say caused the earlier cycles?
From the excellent new book, What Government Gets Wrong: The Unelected Officials Who Actually Run Government:
"Simply comparing the total volume of congressional output with the gross bureaucratic product provides a rough indication of where lawmaking now occurs in the federal government. The 106th Congress (1999â"2000) was among the most active in recent years. It passed 580 pieces of legislation, 200 more than the 105th Congress and nearly twice as many as the 104th. Some, like campaign finance reform, seemed quite significant, but many pieces of legislation were minor. During the same two years, executive agencies produced 157,173 pages of new rules and regulations in the official Federal Register, roughly the average number for recent years."
We still elect politicians, but they no longer run the country.
Somehow, when you want to kill children in the womb, there a right to privacy in the Constitution, and the government can't regulate that. But they can regulate your "commerce" because that's a word somewhere in the Constitution.
I am an officer of election. We use DRE machines. We black-box test them before each election, the exact same technique that is the gold standard for software testing by any reputable QA team.
A properly-tested machine is far better than any paper-based system. It provides immediate feedback to the voter. It can display in large fonts. It can be used by the disabled. It has almost no moving parts. It cannot get jammed. It does not have to guess what a vote is, it is unequivocal.
Paper is a miserable medium. It gets lost. It gets wrinkled. It can be marked haphazardly or incompletely.
NO ONE counts paper ballots by hand. Humans are TERRIBLE at repetitive tasks, that's why we invented machines to do this kind of work for us. Even optical ballots are counted by machine, so it is no different than a direct-recording machine -- except it has many more moving parts, and has to GUESS at the voters intent.
Unless you are willing to personally recreate every scientific experiment ever made whose assumptions you are incorporating into your hypotheses, you MUST accept a certain level of "belief" in order to Science.
But go ahead, pretend like you are being completely objective and the other guy is a mindless twit.
Except for that guy who shot up those kids at a summer camp a few years back, and was only sorry it wasn't worse, or that guy with the moustache who put millions into death camps. Europeans have their own, unique brand of mass murderers, don't get too satisfied with yourself.
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If you can't reproduce it, it's either fake or you were just being sloppy. Either way, it's no wonder ordinary civilians have doubts.
From the excellent new book, What Government Gets Wrong: The Unelected Officials Who Actually Run Government: "Simply comparing the total volume of congressional output with the gross bureaucratic product provides a rough indication of where lawmaking now occurs in the federal government. The 106th Congress (1999â"2000) was among the most active in recent years. It passed 580 pieces of legislation, 200 more than the 105th Congress and nearly twice as many as the 104th. Some, like campaign finance reform, seemed quite significant, but many pieces of legislation were minor. During the same two years, executive agencies produced 157,173 pages of new rules and regulations in the official Federal Register, roughly the average number for recent years." We still elect politicians, but they no longer run the country.
Somehow, when you want to kill children in the womb, there a right to privacy in the Constitution, and the government can't regulate that. But they can regulate your "commerce" because that's a word somewhere in the Constitution.
That is seriously messed up. "Please, please lead me by the nose. I'm tired of thinking for myself."
I am an officer of election. We use DRE machines. We black-box test them before each election, the exact same technique that is the gold standard for software testing by any reputable QA team. A properly-tested machine is far better than any paper-based system. It provides immediate feedback to the voter. It can display in large fonts. It can be used by the disabled. It has almost no moving parts. It cannot get jammed. It does not have to guess what a vote is, it is unequivocal. Paper is a miserable medium. It gets lost. It gets wrinkled. It can be marked haphazardly or incompletely. NO ONE counts paper ballots by hand. Humans are TERRIBLE at repetitive tasks, that's why we invented machines to do this kind of work for us. Even optical ballots are counted by machine, so it is no different than a direct-recording machine -- except it has many more moving parts, and has to GUESS at the voters intent.
Unless you are willing to personally recreate every scientific experiment ever made whose assumptions you are incorporating into your hypotheses, you MUST accept a certain level of "belief" in order to Science. But go ahead, pretend like you are being completely objective and the other guy is a mindless twit.
Otherwise we'd have a hard time creating our own superpac!
Zim is a great FOSS note taking app. Saves to text files, so can be read on any device.
No, we don't "love it", we're appalled, angry, embarrassed and saddened. Trust in government is at an all-time low.
Except for that guy who shot up those kids at a summer camp a few years back, and was only sorry it wasn't worse, or that guy with the moustache who put millions into death camps. Europeans have their own, unique brand of mass murderers, don't get too satisfied with yourself.