So what's the concern? One person is undoing a commitment made by another - reversing a unilateral agreement by President Obama. I guess leaving such agreements in place is the best thing to do? How about we do International agreements as we're supposed to do them - with the advice and consent of the Senate.
So, better to let a dictatorial decision stand, rather than do the proper action which is negotiate an actual treaty and present it to the Senate for ratification? Rule by Presidential Executive Order is OK with you? I'd rather "dictatorially" undo such non-binding actions and go through the proper channels. But hey, I know - Trump!
So - when was the treaty presented to the Senate for ratification? Short of that - it's not a treaty, just a singular agreement by the President of the US, with no more authority or binding action on future Presidents other than any other statement. In other words - none whatsoever.
It never was a treaty - President Obama never presented it to the Senate for approval (as must be done for all treaties), so it was a simple "gentleman's agreement" at best. President Trump is right to withdraw on this basis alone - let alone whether or not Iran is violating their agreement. We should not bind ourselves by agreements made dictatorially by a single person.
I guess you're not aware of the Green River oil shale that has about 1.5 trillion barrels of recoverable oil, enough to run 100% of current US demand for nearly 3 centuries. All it takes is a desire to get it.
Firing Comey wasn't obstruction, it was firing the FBI director who serves at the pleasure of the president.
More importantly, Comey was fired at the recommendation of Rosenstein - who wrote a memo highlighting the failures of Comey and why he should be fired. Then once Comey was fired, Rosenstein immediately appointed a special prosecutor (Mueller) to look into the Russian collusion and obstruction of justice for following his recommendation to fire Comey!
No, if the cycle is 400K years, we're half-way though the cycle. We're at the "dry" end of things, we're heading towards the next wetter peak. In geometric terms, we're at 180 degrees of a cosine wave - in the trough between peaks.
What's your point, though? No one expects CO2-induced climate change to outright kill all life. But it will massively disrupt the current stable ecosystem
Wait, the ecosystem is stable? Or, it was? When was that? You do realize we're pretty much through the normal interglacial period, and just 12,000 years ago much of the Northern hemisphere was under hundreds of meters of ice, and the oceans were 100+ meters shallower than now. Is that stable?
Natural climate changes takes hundreds of thousands of years, about the amount of time it took for humans to become distinctly humans.
They do? Ice covered most of the Northern US just 12,000 years ago, during the last glacial period. Oceans were ~100 meters lower back then, too... Now we're being warned about maybe a meter over 100 years (about the same rate of change as we've seen since the last glacial period) and that it's doomsday!
It's the quantities that make the poison. Especially in complex systems like our climate or biological life you often can't simply reduce things to 'this is always good' or 'this is always bad'.
How much is poison? What amount of CO2 in the air is needed to be a poison?
No one is guilty of vehicular manslaughter. This is an accident due to bad design. You don't jail the engineers or architects who design a building that fails in an earthquake.
It turns out, return sales are higher than new sales. Customers who have already bought from us like to buy again - because they already know what they're getting. Did it ever occur to you that you could simply opt-out at the beginning, or any subsequent e-mail (and that is an option we offer)? But either way - I know have a big set of EU regulations about how I control/use/store/analyze my data because of - why?
CLICK ON THE LINKS BELOW THE GRAPH! The one labeled "Annual mean temperature change for hemispheres" and you'll see exactly what happened. EXACTLY. Then read back up above what I stated (which is NOTHING like you are talking about, today being hotter or cooler than back then). Please!
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Did you read the page I linked? It includes costs and techniques to extract that oil. Seriously - give it a read, you might learn something!
So what's the concern? One person is undoing a commitment made by another - reversing a unilateral agreement by President Obama. I guess leaving such agreements in place is the best thing to do? How about we do International agreements as we're supposed to do them - with the advice and consent of the Senate.
Equating the actions of Trump with Obama. When someone steals a bag of apples, do you equally castigate the individual who turns the bag back in?
So, better to let a dictatorial decision stand, rather than do the proper action which is negotiate an actual treaty and present it to the Senate for ratification? Rule by Presidential Executive Order is OK with you? I'd rather "dictatorially" undo such non-binding actions and go through the proper channels. But hey, I know - Trump!
So - when was the treaty presented to the Senate for ratification? Short of that - it's not a treaty, just a singular agreement by the President of the US, with no more authority or binding action on future Presidents other than any other statement. In other words - none whatsoever.
It never was a treaty - President Obama never presented it to the Senate for approval (as must be done for all treaties), so it was a simple "gentleman's agreement" at best. President Trump is right to withdraw on this basis alone - let alone whether or not Iran is violating their agreement. We should not bind ourselves by agreements made dictatorially by a single person.
I guess you're not aware of the Green River oil shale that has about 1.5 trillion barrels of recoverable oil, enough to run 100% of current US demand for nearly 3 centuries. All it takes is a desire to get it.
Firing Comey wasn't obstruction, it was firing the FBI director who serves at the pleasure of the president.
More importantly, Comey was fired at the recommendation of Rosenstein - who wrote a memo highlighting the failures of Comey and why he should be fired. Then once Comey was fired, Rosenstein immediately appointed a special prosecutor (Mueller) to look into the Russian collusion and obstruction of justice for following his recommendation to fire Comey!
we're heading for the minimum (since it referenced extremes, that seems to mean less-full lakes and less extreme weather.)
Which is the opposite of what you say now... We are headed to wetter, more extreme weather at the maximum - not the minimum.
On a typewriter, it's fixed width font.
The IBM Executive from 1944 was a proportional-font typewriter. Rest of comment rendered moot by the mistake of this belief.
No, if the cycle is 400K years, we're half-way though the cycle. We're at the "dry" end of things, we're heading towards the next wetter peak. In geometric terms, we're at 180 degrees of a cosine wave - in the trough between peaks.
Pluto is a dwarf planet, although I guess in our hyper-sensitized culture we should call it a little planet.
Not unexpected, they are probably all found with the Milky Way as well...
Actually, assuming you're talking about 2000-4000 PPM like it was back in the age of dinosaurs, we could absolutely survive as there is a vast wealth of medical data about living in CO2 levels at 2500 to 11,000 PPM.
What's your point, though? No one expects CO2-induced climate change to outright kill all life. But it will massively disrupt the current stable ecosystem
Wait, the ecosystem is stable? Or, it was? When was that? You do realize we're pretty much through the normal interglacial period, and just 12,000 years ago much of the Northern hemisphere was under hundreds of meters of ice, and the oceans were 100+ meters shallower than now. Is that stable?
Natural climate changes takes hundreds of thousands of years, about the amount of time it took for humans to become distinctly humans.
They do? Ice covered most of the Northern US just 12,000 years ago, during the last glacial period. Oceans were ~100 meters lower back then, too... Now we're being warned about maybe a meter over 100 years (about the same rate of change as we've seen since the last glacial period) and that it's doomsday!
It's the quantities that make the poison. Especially in complex systems like our climate or biological life you often can't simply reduce things to 'this is always good' or 'this is always bad'.
How much is poison? What amount of CO2 in the air is needed to be a poison?
When did you stop beating your wife?
No one is guilty of vehicular manslaughter. This is an accident due to bad design. You don't jail the engineers or architects who design a building that fails in an earthquake.
You do if it wasn't designed to code.
You don't arrest the airline execs when a plan component fails.
Maybe not the exec, but certainly the maintenance engineer who committed fraud that resulted in the death of people.
So here - who's to blame? Who decided to live-test an experimental system that can operate with the safety disengaged?
Wait, what? The BLUE line? You don't see -0.32 deg C for 1935, and +0.18 deg C for 1940? You don't see that big hump from 1939 to 1942?
I think the code had to have dismissed her as lens flair or something similar.
Damn you Michael Bay!
Who is guilty of vehicular manslaughter, here?
It turns out, return sales are higher than new sales. Customers who have already bought from us like to buy again - because they already know what they're getting. Did it ever occur to you that you could simply opt-out at the beginning, or any subsequent e-mail (and that is an option we offer)? But either way - I know have a big set of EU regulations about how I control/use/store/analyze my data because of - why?
I dunno, this computer runs things plenty fine for most non-techie people. Surfing, Facebook, e-mail, basic gaming, etc. All-in-one for under $500.
CLICK ON THE LINKS BELOW THE GRAPH! The one labeled "Annual mean temperature change for hemispheres" and you'll see exactly what happened. EXACTLY. Then read back up above what I stated (which is NOTHING like you are talking about, today being hotter or cooler than back then). Please!