Windows 10 is fucking awful. It's tablet mode is broken. I have a Win10 tablet, and it just plain sucks when running anything but the Win8/8.1 optimized Metro apps. The way the new start menu works is also a pain in the ass, not to mention the ease with which the underlying XML files can be damaged.
If he defunds climate research and fires all the government climatologists, not to mention depriving university researchers of satellite monitoring (which the move against NASA's climate research is clearly meant to do), the damage to US science will be incalculable. In four years, you'll probably see the amount of atmospheric and oceanic research dwindle.
Of course, the laws of physics won't change, so AGW will keep getting worse, but Trump and his band of anti-science fanatics will be long gone by the time the morons who voted him in begin to find out just how much of a fucking moron he was. The only thing that I can think of that comes close is the incompetence of the Administrations prior to Lincoln when trying to deal with the free/slave state issues, making the Civil War inevitable. History doesn't remember Buchanan fondly, though it did very little for the tens of thousands of soldiers that died during the Civil War.
Yes, modded insightful, because it actually supports science, instead of a pack of delicate right wing snowflakes that want a government that tells them happy stories about how CO2 doesn't lead to vast increases in energy (heat) in the lower atmosphere.
Science doesn't just stop. More research is always needed in virtually every area of research.
There's no real trade off. Don't start curbing CO2 emissions substantially now, and the cost to national and global economies in fifty years will be beyond astronomical.
Even a half-meter sea level rise means storm surges become a helluva lot more destructive, not to mention that in many coastal areas erosion will become a lot worse. Sure, not many people are going to watch their houses floating into the Atlantic in one storm season, but in the end some of those folks are going to find themselves having to move.
The insurance industry is already pricing in AGW, and every time I go to renew my house insurance on my property about 500 feet above sea level, it keeps going up because of the costs that are increasingly being calculated by actuaries from the vast number of people who live a lot closer than that.
I urge you to look at a topographical map of Bangladesh, or heck even consider how far inland the 2005 Indian Ocean tsunami went in some areas. A lot of people in the world live in vulnerable coastal areas, and while there's no doubt that most industrialized countries will be able to absorb the costs, there are parts of the world that won't, and people whose homes suddenly spend even part time under water aren't going to be buying snorkels, they're going to be getting up and moving.
And for fuck's sake, mate, it isn't even the first time this has happened.
I think what you're looking for is a just-so story where puking tens or hundreds of thousands of years of sequestered methane doesn't end up greatly accelerating climate change. You're not looking for the "complete story", you're looking for pleasant-sounding platitudes.
I call it a witch hunt against scientists by evil men, enabled by morons like yourself.
CO2 won't stop magically absorbing solar radiation and heating the lower atmosphere just because Trump and his science-hating peons get rid of the scientists. The universe doesn't give one flying fuck about Donald Trump or some halfwit who goes around by the handle SuperKendall.
A 2C rise by the end of this century is going to create some major problems. The whole "hyper-alarmism" thing is pretty much been manufactured by the pseudo-skeptics to make scientists look bad. No climate researcher I'm aware of thinks we're going to turn into a Venus, but we are going to see significant changes in rain belts, sea levels, oceanic pH levels, desertification, and some of this is already apparent.
Let me ask you. What do you think your grandchildren are going to think when the Midwest grain belt suddenly finds much higher precipitation winters and springs, and frequent summer droughts? That's the sort of changes researchers are talking about. How about large chunks of Florida under water? How about ever worsening storm surges in Britain, a country with a helluva lot of lowlying territory? How about hundreds of millions of people in Asia being misplaced? Think that might have some significant regional and even global ramifications?
Things don't have to be apocalyptic to be bad, really bad, and the point of trying to educate people is so that you can say "Look, we have to do something now, or we are going to cost our grandchildren trillions of dollars."
So what you're really looking for is someone to tell you "It's okay that we're fucking up the planet, because there's this magic reversing process..."
There's no doubt there will be a new equilibrium, but that hardly means it's going to be a very pleasant point, and so long as we're bound and determined to just keep barfing hundreds of millions of years of sequestered CO2 into the atmosphere every few decades, that equilibrium point keeps getting worse.
And really, let's try to imagine that all that trapped methane got trapped there over a few tens or hundreds of thousands of years. You want to seriously assert that it's release in a matter of decades will somehow be mitigated?
Yes, coal will be deregulated when the EPA is gutted, NASA and NOAA's likely being refunded of climate monitoring, not to mention what looks like a big fat subsidy program for coal, I'm sure for a few years there will be a resurgence, before the universe reminds the Republicans that political ideology doesn't
It isn't, because currently they're making every possible effort to stymie any attempt to reduce emissions. Yes, they may invest heavily in renewables, but in a way this is a huge conflict of interest, as they hold the cards in two decks. With their vast and now much greater political clout, they can basically hand any politician, even a high ranking one, their ass if they apply any serious effort to a meaningful action to reduce emissions (like, say, a carbon tax), but then when the effects of climate change become so obvious that not even the Heartland Institute can provide sufficient memes to keep the faithful convinced, then they'll flip the switch. "Oh hey, Florida, sorry you're underwater, but guess what, here's some ultra-efficient solar panels with large-capacity batteries, and we're happy to sell them to you at a price you can't really afford to say no to..."
Not if the fossil fuel companies have anything to say about it. That's why they put so much effort into attacking AGW climate change, and they now have a President who makes GWB's flip flopping on AGW look like a positive endorsement of the science. The fossil fuel companies, particularly the large ones, are probably in the best position they've been since the early 1990s to basically get whatever they want. Sure, they know their product is fucking the planet up, but let's remember here that the larger investors have the wealth to insulate themselves, and probably their descendants for a few generations, so what do they care what happens not only to brown skinned people with funny languages on the other side of the world, but even to the average Westerner? And they're investing heavily in renewables, so they are in the even more enviable position of being able to dictate the timing of when a full-scale shift happens.
Unfortunately, population growth isn't happening in the industrialized world, but rather in the developing world. So unless you want to start letting in a lot of immigrants over the coming decades, you're going to have to accept that people in the West need to have children as well.
Presumably PT positions would be upgraded to FT or temps would be brought in. This is about attracting and retaining talent, not about fucking people over.
Translation: Fuck, the asshole hired Goldman Sachs people, I need some way to argue myself out this box my stupidity put me in.
He's populated his cabinet with like-minded bazillionaires (well, presuming the Senate approves). Simply put, you voted for the Elite, but this is an Elite unconstrained by even a modicum of decency.
China may be rapidly militarizing, but even at current rates it is decades away from being able to project force with the ability of the US and even some of the US's allies. China has exactly one aircraft carrier actually in the water at this point.
And while I think Trump is a farcical moron, all he's really doing with this latest saber rattling is making open that which has been US policy for decades. Yes, the US won't acknowledge the Taiwanese government, even as arms it to the teeth and makes it clear that any attempt by China to seize Taiwan would lead to retaliation. And really, with China's military as it is, it's dubious it could even take Taiwan, which is one of the most fortified chunks of rock on the planet.
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Windows 10 is fucking awful. It's tablet mode is broken. I have a Win10 tablet, and it just plain sucks when running anything but the Win8/8.1 optimized Metro apps. The way the new start menu works is also a pain in the ass, not to mention the ease with which the underlying XML files can be damaged.
If he defunds climate research and fires all the government climatologists, not to mention depriving university researchers of satellite monitoring (which the move against NASA's climate research is clearly meant to do), the damage to US science will be incalculable. In four years, you'll probably see the amount of atmospheric and oceanic research dwindle.
Of course, the laws of physics won't change, so AGW will keep getting worse, but Trump and his band of anti-science fanatics will be long gone by the time the morons who voted him in begin to find out just how much of a fucking moron he was. The only thing that I can think of that comes close is the incompetence of the Administrations prior to Lincoln when trying to deal with the free/slave state issues, making the Civil War inevitable. History doesn't remember Buchanan fondly, though it did very little for the tens of thousands of soldiers that died during the Civil War.
You're the delicate little snowflake
"Oooh noooo, science says we're doing something bad, but i'm a whittle baby and want my cheap dirty energy! Science bad!"
We're fucked, and it's because of contemptible even morons like you.
Yes, modded insightful, because it actually supports science, instead of a pack of delicate right wing snowflakes that want a government that tells them happy stories about how CO2 doesn't lead to vast increases in energy (heat) in the lower atmosphere.
Science doesn't just stop. More research is always needed in virtually every area of research.
There's no real trade off. Don't start curbing CO2 emissions substantially now, and the cost to national and global economies in fifty years will be beyond astronomical.
What it doesn't mean is the laws of physics will magically change.
For many years now. Even the fossil fuel companies have known about AGW for four decades.
Even a half-meter sea level rise means storm surges become a helluva lot more destructive, not to mention that in many coastal areas erosion will become a lot worse. Sure, not many people are going to watch their houses floating into the Atlantic in one storm season, but in the end some of those folks are going to find themselves having to move.
The insurance industry is already pricing in AGW, and every time I go to renew my house insurance on my property about 500 feet above sea level, it keeps going up because of the costs that are increasingly being calculated by actuaries from the vast number of people who live a lot closer than that.
I urge you to look at a topographical map of Bangladesh, or heck even consider how far inland the 2005 Indian Ocean tsunami went in some areas. A lot of people in the world live in vulnerable coastal areas, and while there's no doubt that most industrialized countries will be able to absorb the costs, there are parts of the world that won't, and people whose homes suddenly spend even part time under water aren't going to be buying snorkels, they're going to be getting up and moving.
And for fuck's sake, mate, it isn't even the first time this has happened.
I think what you're looking for is a just-so story where puking tens or hundreds of thousands of years of sequestered methane doesn't end up greatly accelerating climate change. You're not looking for the "complete story", you're looking for pleasant-sounding platitudes.
The universe doesn't care about your feelings.
I call it a witch hunt against scientists by evil men, enabled by morons like yourself.
CO2 won't stop magically absorbing solar radiation and heating the lower atmosphere just because Trump and his science-hating peons get rid of the scientists. The universe doesn't give one flying fuck about Donald Trump or some halfwit who goes around by the handle SuperKendall.
Yes, let the purge of climatologists began. After all, King Trump will demonstrate, unlike King Canute, that he can stop the tides!
A 2C rise by the end of this century is going to create some major problems. The whole "hyper-alarmism" thing is pretty much been manufactured by the pseudo-skeptics to make scientists look bad. No climate researcher I'm aware of thinks we're going to turn into a Venus, but we are going to see significant changes in rain belts, sea levels, oceanic pH levels, desertification, and some of this is already apparent.
Let me ask you. What do you think your grandchildren are going to think when the Midwest grain belt suddenly finds much higher precipitation winters and springs, and frequent summer droughts? That's the sort of changes researchers are talking about. How about large chunks of Florida under water? How about ever worsening storm surges in Britain, a country with a helluva lot of lowlying territory? How about hundreds of millions of people in Asia being misplaced? Think that might have some significant regional and even global ramifications?
Things don't have to be apocalyptic to be bad, really bad, and the point of trying to educate people is so that you can say "Look, we have to do something now, or we are going to cost our grandchildren trillions of dollars."
So what you're really looking for is someone to tell you "It's okay that we're fucking up the planet, because there's this magic reversing process..."
There's no doubt there will be a new equilibrium, but that hardly means it's going to be a very pleasant point, and so long as we're bound and determined to just keep barfing hundreds of millions of years of sequestered CO2 into the atmosphere every few decades, that equilibrium point keeps getting worse.
And really, let's try to imagine that all that trapped methane got trapped there over a few tens or hundreds of thousands of years. You want to seriously assert that it's release in a matter of decades will somehow be mitigated?
Yes, coal will be deregulated when the EPA is gutted, NASA and NOAA's likely being refunded of climate monitoring, not to mention what looks like a big fat subsidy program for coal, I'm sure for a few years there will be a resurgence, before the universe reminds the Republicans that political ideology doesn't
It isn't, because currently they're making every possible effort to stymie any attempt to reduce emissions. Yes, they may invest heavily in renewables, but in a way this is a huge conflict of interest, as they hold the cards in two decks. With their vast and now much greater political clout, they can basically hand any politician, even a high ranking one, their ass if they apply any serious effort to a meaningful action to reduce emissions (like, say, a carbon tax), but then when the effects of climate change become so obvious that not even the Heartland Institute can provide sufficient memes to keep the faithful convinced, then they'll flip the switch. "Oh hey, Florida, sorry you're underwater, but guess what, here's some ultra-efficient solar panels with large-capacity batteries, and we're happy to sell them to you at a price you can't really afford to say no to..."
Not if the fossil fuel companies have anything to say about it. That's why they put so much effort into attacking AGW climate change, and they now have a President who makes GWB's flip flopping on AGW look like a positive endorsement of the science. The fossil fuel companies, particularly the large ones, are probably in the best position they've been since the early 1990s to basically get whatever they want. Sure, they know their product is fucking the planet up, but let's remember here that the larger investors have the wealth to insulate themselves, and probably their descendants for a few generations, so what do they care what happens not only to brown skinned people with funny languages on the other side of the world, but even to the average Westerner? And they're investing heavily in renewables, so they are in the even more enviable position of being able to dictate the timing of when a full-scale shift happens.
If you don't like that your company offers maternal benefits to people with children, then quit.
Unfortunately, population growth isn't happening in the industrialized world, but rather in the developing world. So unless you want to start letting in a lot of immigrants over the coming decades, you're going to have to accept that people in the West need to have children as well.
Presumably PT positions would be upgraded to FT or temps would be brought in. This is about attracting and retaining talent, not about fucking people over.
You mean, the guy who was shot, and then lived for an hour, indicating that if it was a hit, it was a hit by the worst hit men ever?
Or maybe the poor bastard was simply the victim of a robbery gone wrong.
She was for it... then against it.
If Trump can be given a pass on what he was for, and then against, then why is Hillary still judged by this different standard?
Translation: Fuck, the asshole hired Goldman Sachs people, I need some way to argue myself out this box my stupidity put me in.
He's populated his cabinet with like-minded bazillionaires (well, presuming the Senate approves). Simply put, you voted for the Elite, but this is an Elite unconstrained by even a modicum of decency.
China may be rapidly militarizing, but even at current rates it is decades away from being able to project force with the ability of the US and even some of the US's allies. China has exactly one aircraft carrier actually in the water at this point.
And while I think Trump is a farcical moron, all he's really doing with this latest saber rattling is making open that which has been US policy for decades. Yes, the US won't acknowledge the Taiwanese government, even as arms it to the teeth and makes it clear that any attempt by China to seize Taiwan would lead to retaliation. And really, with China's military as it is, it's dubious it could even take Taiwan, which is one of the most fortified chunks of rock on the planet.
It's called stormfront
Oh don't worry, with the likes of Bannon around, the very best ideas in ethnic purification willing explored.