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Is this the Chinese Sweat Shop Apocalypse?

jvolstad says

I am sure some dirt-bag Realtor will find a way to market it.

What's the listing price of 10 sq. mile iceburgs?
Of course location has a lot to do with price.
I want the worst iceberg in the best location.

Prices will only rise.

About how many cups of ice is this? I like my drinks cold.

Booger says

About how many cups of ice is this? I like my drinks cold.

You probably won't have to make an ice run.

Hater says

No doubt man effects the environment, but when the government considers banning carbon and outlawing co2 I get skeptical.

When people think that environmental protection laws or a carbon tax is "banning CO2", I get skeptical about how informed they are.

I was told that I was gay, because I'd rather fuck hoes than waste my time ... dating wonderful, perfect, so-called spiritually amazing American women, since that's what a bunch of worthless, heterosexual/straight, pussywhipped American men would rather do.

Hater says

Whenever someone says "the science is settled" I know they do not understand science.

Indeed. Lots of SJW wanna-be scientists out there whose primary degree is Propaganda-Consumption and Regurgitation.

Hater says

Is any of it true? Or is it a means of disposing of the inconvenient Medieval Warm Period

You can tell a dumb-ass denier by the fact that they repeat long-debunked lies. Even a cursory search on "medieval warm period" reveals what a fucking lie that talking point is with many independent sources.

https://www.skepticalscience.com/medieval-warm-period.htm
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/04122015/medieval
https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn11644-climate-myths-it-was-warmer-during-the-medieval-period-with-vineyards-in-england/
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/12/151204145919.htm
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2014/may/06/top-ten-global-warming-skeptic-arguments-debunked

But for people too lazy to read, as is pretty much a requirement for being a climate change denier, here's a video that thoroughly debunks the lie.
www.youtube.com/embed/CY4Yecsx_-s

Of course that's too long for anyone with such a small attention span to become a climate change denier in the first place. So here's the short version for dumb asses.

www.youtube.com/embed/Mb3FuY81-lA

Two unprofessional videos don't debunk anything Dan

Quigley says

Two unprofessional videos don't debunk anything Dan

So step up to the plate and prove they are wrong point by point.

Their "evidence" is based on CO2 dependent data, as if that was the only method by which global temperature could be raised. If in fact, CO2 concentration is NOT a significant predictor of a warmer climate, then all this evidence means nothing at all whatsoever. The only other "evidence" presented is dubious in the extreme, relying on histories from peoples with dubious ability to record histories accurately, who may or may not have noticed and remarked about a warming trend. There is little to no hard evidence either way, and these videos seem to be just various people with PhDs bashing each other's credibility to say something true.

Hater says

Whenever someone says "the science is settled" I know they do not understand science.

Complete bullshit. Don't believe me, then jump off a tall cliff. See how unsettled the science of gravity is.

We literally sentence people to death on the basis of evidence orders of magnitude less certain than the evidence for climate change. We also bomb nations and individuals on the basis of evidence of terrorism that isn't nearly as certain as the evidence of climate change.

How about we call climate change "thermo-terrorism" and then all you dumb ass conservatives will get aboard with stopping it. You're cave man mentality can't understand any threats that don't happen suddenly and don't involve neighboring tribes clubbing you over the head.

Again, cursory Google searches reveal how much the global mean temperature increased over the past 20 years and how significant that is.

To visualize it, imaging four nuclear bombs like the one dropped on Hiroshima going off every seconds of every day of every year. That's how much heat has been added to the globe.

The fact is that you don't give a shit about climate change, so you are willing to let others suffer rather than having to give up stealing from them by not polluting as much. It's like an arms dealer who sells to everyone including terrorists and then denies that terrorism is real. The answer is that people like you should get no voice at the table when the world decides what to do about climate change.

Pollution is theft, plain and simple. Those who advocate it to increase their profits should be treated as the thieves they are.

Trumpligula needs a Truman Capote vocoder to really get his message across.

Hater says

Climate change is a scam to separate people from their money and freedom.

bingo.

actually if you watch the whole thing, you see it's a pretty reasonable comment in context:

www.youtube.com/embed/ZtJs8A0cYlI

What a mess. But eh, there's no free lunch.

errc says

in order to avoid the dividend

why would you want to avoid the dividend?

Entire polling firms spent $millions of dollars polling.

O"hillary spent upwards of $1B of funds on the campaign.

Polls were oversampled to the democrats by roughly 2-8%.

Demos declared the polls right, said that Hillary had it in the bag.

When polls were wrong, the Dems did not know who to blame.

They are now mad that the polls were wrong, not what the people wanted.

They believed that their will was right, and when proven wrong they had to be upset at Republicans, who already suffered misleading polls.

False polls, false feelings, false blaming, and false outrage. So many false news stories, so few people people to believe whats true.

$133

iPhone 7 didn't have that many upgrades and sales already broke record. can't imagine what the stock price will be when all 3 models are released next year.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/could-iphone-cost-1-000-023229920.html

Ironman says

Comment from the article (note, this is where Goatfucker Dan lives):

I see you have learned to accuse others of your own very obvious weaknesses. Trump does this with applomb. Glad to see you are learning something.

RealEstateIsBetterThanStocks says

iPhone 7 didn't have that many upgrades and sales already broke record. can't imagine what the stock price will be when all 3 models are released next year.

Or they get a tax holiday and bring home all that money and do a stock buyback.

Heres Your Card says

Easy, now...

ARM! offshore banking nations to protect the 1%s money.
FREEDOM MUST BE PROTECTED!

landtof says

Hater says

Climate change is a scam to separate people from their money and freedom.

bingo.

Climate change denial is a scam to separate people from their money and freedom by letting others steal and vandalize public property, the oceans, the land, and the air.

Fixed that for you.

Hater says

How about in Fahrenheit or celsius instead of megatons?

And how much of a change in degrees would it take to be considered significant to you? Please make the argument that a one degree F temperature rise is insignificant and means we should ignore the problem. Please, please, please make that stupid argument. I've got hundreds of references ready to go showing how fucking wrong you are. Come on, call my hand.

How about you do-nothingers put your money where your mouth is? Take out a $50 trillion insurance policy on Florida that will pay each resident and business in the event that coastal flooding destroys homes and businesses. If you aren't willing to put your money where your mouth is, don't ask us to put our money and livelihoods on the line so a bunch of greedy ass, anti-American corporations can continue to pollute and destroy public property with impunity.

Uncontrolled climate change is devastating to the economy, fool.

Hater says

Given up your car yet?

OK, asshole. If your argument against fighting pollution and climate change is that we can't give up cars, then you are conceding that any plan I or anyone else can come up with that doesn't require giving up cars will be accepted. So here's my car-friendly plan.

1. Outlaw fossil fuel power plants.
2. Stop subsidizing oil in any way.
3. Fine polluters five times the cost of cleaning up the pollution they generate.
4. Tax each greenhouse gas in proportion to the amount of warming it causes. This includes both a carbon tax and a separate methane tax.

There, that's a free market solution to the problem, and it doesn't involve anyone giving up cars. Checkmate, bitch.

Hey Chucky, love your confirmation rules. Really working out well for you. Nice bed you made for yourself there.

Smooth move, Ex-lax!

Not sure why everyone is arguing about whether global warming is true or not. Really comes down to:
1) Why pollute if you don't have to?
2) What is wrong with making corporations and those who use the environment pay or mitigate their use of the shared resource (our planet)?
3) Doesn't this lead to new industries that provide for a smaller carbon footprint: windmill power, solar and so on. Even if this is "fake" - don't we want new opportunities in the economy?

I guess it really boils down to the timing of the approach. If the models are off (I don't know, seems like most agree it is on the low end of the prediction spread), then we have some time to proceed more naturally versus extreme approaches. I guess that is where the rub is: what is extreme to curb carbon emissions and what is not.

This is whachucal tied up in your own rigging.

No, stocks are higher based on the expectation that Trump will screw over Joe sixpack and let businesses run amok without regulations, oversight, and taxes.

We've seen this act before and it never ends well.

What did I predict?

Hater says

Let's get politics and name calling out of the debate.

You are the one who brings politics at the table.

As for name calling, it comes a time when things must be called with their real names - your questions above reveal ignorance and stupidity.

No, what did I predict above? You said "another" of your failed predictions. In order to be another, there had to be a prediction in that post.

"Are you that fucking stupid that you can't click on the link I gave you??"

I clicked on it. It doesn't answer my question. Let me ask again:

What did I predict on this post:

"No, stocks are higher based on the expectation that Trump will screw over Joe sixpack and let businesses run amok without regulations, oversight, and taxes."