I think that CNN story was overly reliant on the oh-so-clever title 'Weapons of Math Destruction'. Har-har, effing hilarious.
Everything in the "news" today is all about the headline and the fleeting image / impression that the "news consumer" retains about the subject matter, which is all to often politically-agendized.
That keeps happening to me as well. Bouncing up and down from 'Excellent' to 'Good' depending on if I've mentioned the CAGW farce recently. Let's see if it goes down after this one.
FWIW, eating Kelp / Dulce is a thing on the east coast of North America, probably elsewhere, too.
All the enviro-"concerned" groups do this. And the media uncritically eats it up, elevates non-issues and amps up the alarmism. Looming disaster is a "compelling story" and as such is absolutely irresistible to feckless media.
"99.9% of the scientific community and all indicators point that way"
100% of scientists worried about CAGW are government-funded. No crisis = no jobs, so, not surprisingly, there's a crisis. All the time. To be "fixed" with taxpayer money. And taxpayer money is the best kind of money.
Well, to have actual enforcement for climate rules you'd need something like a world government or something. And what happens when China and / or India says "fuck off" (hint: they already have)?
There was no reliable instrumentation prior to 1900. All data about past temperatures is proxy data that has been statistically "massaged". End of story. You can stop worrying now.
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I think that CNN story was overly reliant on the oh-so-clever title 'Weapons of Math Destruction'. Har-har, effing hilarious.
Everything in the "news" today is all about the headline and the fleeting image / impression that the "news consumer" retains about the subject matter, which is all to often politically-agendized.
"my karma will be reduced based on"
That keeps happening to me as well. Bouncing up and down from 'Excellent' to 'Good' depending on if I've mentioned the CAGW farce recently. Let's see if it goes down after this one.
FWIW, eating Kelp / Dulce is a thing on the east coast of North America, probably elsewhere, too.
"carefully cherry-picking things"
All the enviro-"concerned" groups do this. And the media uncritically eats it up, elevates non-issues and amps up the alarmism. Looming disaster is a "compelling story" and as such is absolutely irresistible to feckless media.
"we have 34 years to get CO2 neutral"
What's it like to be gullible and easily frightened? Were you at some protests recently, by any chance?
"99.9% of the scientific community and all indicators point that way"
100% of scientists worried about CAGW are government-funded. No crisis = no jobs, so, not surprisingly, there's a crisis. All the time. To be "fixed" with taxpayer money. And taxpayer money is the best kind of money.
Let's go down to 250PPM.
I'm sure there'll be lots of sophistry upcoming in the comments here trying to discredit your post.
"The air smells cleaner, there's less smog...
That's actual pollution, not CO2. I await your reasonable response mentioning that the US Supreme Court had deemed CO2 to be a "pollutant".
What if they don't get a pony for Christmas? Their favored political party loses an election?
Isn't the 'Nature Finds A Way' quote from Michael Crichton, who was a famous CAGW skeptic?
Shhhh! You're threatening taxpayer funding for #ClimateChange!
They live in a reality of their own construct and have weaponized victimization mentality and grievance politics.
Yeah, I know, but this is America though. No ministries (government departments) except for religious ones.
Department of Truth
"Educated" these days ain't what it used to be.
"Something MUST be done!"
"Well, THIS is something..."
"Then we must do it!"
Isn't this phenomenon called, "Grubering"?
Delete two pieces of legislation for every new one proposed. There's an idea!
Well, to have actual enforcement for climate rules you'd need something like a world government or something. And what happens when China and / or India says "fuck off" (hint: they already have)?
Only the headlines matter when it comes to the ClimateChange scam.
When they go high , you go low !
There was no reliable instrumentation prior to 1900. All data about past temperatures is proxy data that has been statistically "massaged". End of story. You can stop worrying now.
"trend from 1900 onwards is graphing the instrumental record, while the period before 1900 is from their proxy reconstruction"
Shhhh! You're disrupting the narrative, and therefore endangering the taxpayer-funded gravy train!
Lysenkoism respawned. Don't ask questions, Comrade!
It's NOT a hoax; it's a scam.