The conclusions they drew were fine, they said. It was a difference of a degree of uncertainty. And yes, mistakes happen. That doesn't necessarily invalidate the entire study, no. You might want to learn how science works.
The IPCC consists of tens of thousands of studies that all tend to correlate very strongly with each other. There's plenty of science out there. This isn't the only climate change study in the world, any more than you're the only person in the world.
OMG! Scientists are all lairs, trying to make billions of dollars for themselves. They were just caught lying again. Climate change is Fake News!
I think that captures a good portion of the posts we'll see here. The truth is that the IPCC studies are summaries of tens of thousands of studies, and they all point to the same problem and the same cause and the same predictions. Humankind is still largely fucked, whether this one researcher miscalculated uncertainty in this one study or not.
You're right. Not doing something climate change right away is costing trillions of dollars and lives. The world's citizens and their governments need to get on this problem *yesterday*.
Yup. That's the inherent flaw behind our current corporate/capitalist structure. The corporations have all of the right of individuals, and none of the liabilities. Corporations can't go bankrupt, and corporations can't go to jail. Individuals go bankrupt and go to jail every day, That's why the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer in the US (https://www.marketwatch.com/story/wealth-inequality-in-the-us-is-almost-as-bad-as-it-was-right-before-the-great-depression-2018-07-19). The US is really only a comfortable place if you're wealthy. It's increasingly a uncomfortable place to live as a poor or even a middle-class person. That's a large reason why the Great Orange Asshole happened.
Oh, you're right. If it hits at the wrong time, you can be fucked. At the same time, a year and a half to get back what you lost isn't all that bad. But, there have to be special (shitty) circumstances where somebody would have to dump their entire portfolio immediately after a crash. Most people should be able to just wait a bit longer.
The US has plenty of money to pay for Medicare for everybody who needs it. Please don't spread the lie that it's not "sustainable". It's simply "unsustainable" if the Republicans decide they don't want to pay for it.
Only people who own things can retire in the US. You can't earn enough working for people to retire. You need to be collecting rent, either figuratively or literally. We're building our wealth by doing that literally... collecting rent from real estate.
Your balanced mutual funds didn't recover since the last two market crashes? The market as a whole rebounded in an average 1.5 years after the last few crashes. What kind of dog shit mutual funds do you own?
How cities and states can get away with handing piles of tax money to only particular businesses is beyond me. Why are smaller businesses not given the same handouts, on a per-tax-dollar generated, or a per-employee basis? How is this even legal?
Neither Amazon nor EBay are "safe". I wouldn't buy anything from either company. We buy all of out computers refurbished, and we don't use either of these companies.
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"climategate" was a false narrative created by conspiracy kooks and funded by the oil and gas industries. Benghazi! Big Foot! Leprechauns!
The conclusions they drew were fine, they said. It was a difference of a degree of uncertainty. And yes, mistakes happen. That doesn't necessarily invalidate the entire study, no. You might want to learn how science works.
No, the science is not bad. RTFA.
The IPCC consists of tens of thousands of studies that all tend to correlate very strongly with each other. There's plenty of science out there. This isn't the only climate change study in the world, any more than you're the only person in the world.
Try again troll. It's called science.
They have had to throw away all the most alarmist models/datasets.
That's a lie.
Internet trolls and conspiracy theorists won't stop. Science makes mistakes. It doesn't matter if those groups can't or won't understand that.
The science isn't bad. A mathematical calculation is bad. The science on climate change is solid and getting better every day.
We'll be hearing about the oceans heating faster then expected for decades.
Unfortunately, we will hearing about it for decades, because it's true.
OMG! Scientists are all lairs, trying to make billions of dollars for themselves. They were just caught lying again. Climate change is Fake News!
I think that captures a good portion of the posts we'll see here. The truth is that the IPCC studies are summaries of tens of thousands of studies, and they all point to the same problem and the same cause and the same predictions. Humankind is still largely fucked, whether this one researcher miscalculated uncertainty in this one study or not.
Climate is a measure of the sum total of weather in an area over a 30 year average.
You're right. Not doing something climate change right away is costing trillions of dollars and lives. The world's citizens and their governments need to get on this problem *yesterday*.
Yup. That's the inherent flaw behind our current corporate/capitalist structure. The corporations have all of the right of individuals, and none of the liabilities. Corporations can't go bankrupt, and corporations can't go to jail. Individuals go bankrupt and go to jail every day, That's why the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer in the US (https://www.marketwatch.com/story/wealth-inequality-in-the-us-is-almost-as-bad-as-it-was-right-before-the-great-depression-2018-07-19). The US is really only a comfortable place if you're wealthy. It's increasingly a uncomfortable place to live as a poor or even a middle-class person. That's a large reason why the Great Orange Asshole happened.
That's some simplistic garbage you're spewing there. Care to think about your statement for more than a few seconds?
Tuition in a state college is about $4-5K/semester. The other half of his $20K is room, board, and books.
Oh, you're right. If it hits at the wrong time, you can be fucked. At the same time, a year and a half to get back what you lost isn't all that bad. But, there have to be special (shitty) circumstances where somebody would have to dump their entire portfolio immediately after a crash. Most people should be able to just wait a bit longer.
Kids are expensive. I'd be broke if I had kids, for sure.
The US has plenty of money to pay for Medicare for everybody who needs it. Please don't spread the lie that it's not "sustainable". It's simply "unsustainable" if the Republicans decide they don't want to pay for it.
Only people who own things can retire in the US. You can't earn enough working for people to retire. You need to be collecting rent, either figuratively or literally. We're building our wealth by doing that literally... collecting rent from real estate.
Your balanced mutual funds didn't recover since the last two market crashes? The market as a whole rebounded in an average 1.5 years after the last few crashes. What kind of dog shit mutual funds do you own?
Good! Hurry up! I love my VW's, and I'd love to have an electric VW. Teslas are ugly, overpriced, and the UI is awful.
And Tesla will have won.
No, everybody on the planet will have won.
Why would they test a visual ad blocker? Who uses those? All the ad blockers I have ever seen block domains. A visual ad blocker seems doomed to fail.
How cities and states can get away with handing piles of tax money to only particular businesses is beyond me. Why are smaller businesses not given the same handouts, on a per-tax-dollar generated, or a per-employee basis? How is this even legal?
Neither Amazon nor EBay are "safe". I wouldn't buy anything from either company. We buy all of out computers refurbished, and we don't use either of these companies.