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HeadSet says

But the AGW crowd does not want solutions other than everyone has the "original sin" of being a polluter and must fund big government as contrition

They (Greta and Co) are funded by so-called alternative, green energy companies which want to suck on gov't teat, as most of them can not compete in free marketplace.

What kind of pancakes?

Asking for a friend?

Only if she kneads it.

Is coffee included?

Big nose, big hose
Big nose, big hole
So, pass

APOCALYPSEFUCKisShostikovitch says

Trump can just order a tactical nuke strike on the court and have the judge's relatives raped to death and fed to lions at the National Zoo.

One phone call.

MAGA.

Is that not what happened?

HEYYOU says

Two examples of many Dem retard posts.
If we still had nut house mental institutions around the country,they would be full of Democrats.

Not just Democrats, but yeah filled to capacity day 1.

Why can’t parents raise normal non retarded kids anymore.

Timothy Snyder is a Globalist Cunt, he's good at playing with dates to advance his thesis.

The problem with the US is not Free Speech, but the lack of rational discourse and shaming/screeching by the Cathedral.

Mayor Pete would felch her bung hole.

HeadSet says

Ok, I am dumb here. What is meant by "adjustments." I would expect to see something like "Actual Predicted Temps" compared to "Actual Measured Temps." Also, what is the scale on PPP CO2? And how do you measure "atmospheric CO2? CO2 is heavier than air and would vary with altitude and proximity to sources.

The temperature record has been adjusted for "reasons".. This graph shows how much the record has been adjusted. The rise in co2 has been fairly linear over the last century rising from 310 ppm to 410 ppm so the x axis represents the time over the last century. You can see the co2 ppm scale in the middle of the chart.

The y axis, plotted with the little blue boxes, shows all of the adjustments that have been made to the raw temperature records over the last century. notice that in order to show warming they had to subtract a small anomaly from the early 20th century and then add a small anomaly to the later temperatures.

By manipulating the temperature record they are trying to erase history, the dust bowl never happened.

As far as how they measure earth wide co2 levels and worldwide yearlong temperature anomalies down to hundredths of a degree, that is beyond my understanding.

Below is a graph of co2 ppm vs temp anomaly. Scary warming, with adjustments the temperature warmed almost a whole degree in a century.


Charts can be manipulated to show whatever you want. I have a lot more faith in humanity's ability to adapt to the climate than to change how we change it.

Charts can be manipulated to show whatever you want. I have a lot more faith in humanity's ability to adapt to the climate than to change how we change it.

Yes, even primitive humans live worldwide in extremes from the Arctic to the Sahara. It is asinine to think a 2 degree increase anywhere will wipe out humanity.

I'd like to be optimistic, but I am not...
about teabaggers, Texas R's redistricted Ron Paul out of his district because he was telling mean things to them.

Bolton - enthusiastic YES, John Kelly no

Bolton might be the cause of a few tens or hundreds of thousands of deaths around the world. He was way too fond of starting wars....

When we get the House of Representatives back maybe we can do something about this.
Obamacare is a giant drain on the taxpayers. Fixing that would help.
Trump at least froze government goldbrick pay increases.

clambo says

When we get the House of Representatives back maybe we can do something about this.

ain't gonna work, R's had house for 2 yrs after tRUMP election and ZILCH!
Salary freeze is good, but without cuts to Medisomething and so-called defense aka handouts to Rayeton and Boeing nothing will work

thomasdong1776 says

Where are the teabaggers?

Apparently they like the cut of great leader's jib. He's old, white, and his amoral sociopathic tendencies scare the crap out of most of those smarty pants elitist educated intelligent folks.

What's not to like ?

Drinking tea?

I think at this point no one gives a shit anymore. Everyone sees it as someone else’s credit card.

Only if it’ll be on payperview.

Oh look, the Economy is on fire, Unemployment at 50 year lows, strong wage gains not seen since the late 90s.

Predictions of economic collapse if OrangeManBad got in have been royally trounced and look ridiculous. Right down to the inability to work on the trade deficit and the inevitable rise of CHYNA.

All of a sudden the Democrats became Deficit Hawks, who woulda thunk it? I guess Medicare-for-all would be revenue-neutral, amirite?

NoCoupForYou says

All of a sudden the Democrats became Deficit Hawks, who woulda thunk it?

Actually, going back to at least Clinton, democrats have been clearly way more fiscally responsible than republicans.

You're right. The economy has been decent (only), with gdp growth to the obama years. What is it now ?

This is in spite of Trump, not becasue of him. I think the economy would have been similar with Clinton, but with way less new debt. . Because of the lower deficit spending, we might have had a recession by now, but that has to happen sooner or later anyway.

marcus says

Actually, going back to at least Clinton, democrats have been clearly way more fiscally responsible than republicans.

Clinton was forced into it by a Republican takeover of Congress in 1994.

As for caring about Deficits, that's only when the Dems aren't in Power:
2004: Not tax cuts! Deficits Horrible!

Back then, a disapproving Krugman called the deficit "comparable to the worst we've ever seen in this country. ... The only time postwar that the United States has had anything like these deficits is the middle Reagan years, and that was with unemployment close to 10 percent." Take away the Social Security surplus spent by the government, he said, and "we're running at a deficit of more than 6 percent of GDP, and that is unprecedented."

2010: Spend and Spare Not, Obama

We must guard against "deficit hysteria." In "Fiscal Scare Tactics," his recent column, Krugman writes: "These days it's hard to pick up a newspaper or turn on a news program without encountering stern warnings about the federal budget deficit. The deficit threatens economic recovery, we're told; it puts American economic stability at risk; it will undermine our influence in the world. These claims generally aren't stated as opinions, as views held by some analysts but disputed by others. Instead, they're reported as if they were facts, plain and simple."

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/02/11/krugman_bushs_deficit_bad_obamas_deficit_good_100258.html

When Hillary was going to win and the Election Can't Possibly be rigged:
"Overwhelming case for surge in Public Investment" May 2016
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/23/opinion/remembrance-of-booms-past.html

After Trump won: "Deficits Matter Again" January 2017
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/09/opinion/deficits-matter-again.html

marcus says

This is in spite of Trump, not becasue of him. I think the economy would have been similar with Clinton, but with way less new debt. . Because of the lower deficit spending, we might have had a recession by now, but that has to happen sooner or later anyway.

Will Medicare-for-all be revenue neutral and not impact the Deficit and National Debt?

rd6B says

ain't gonna work, R's had house for 2 yrs after tRUMP election and ZILCH!

Much worse than nothing we got increases, trillion plus deficits for years and that assumes growth and no recession. The OP is correct the tea baggers choked on loose pubes and decided Trump and Congress can spend and tax cut till we are all taking wheel barrows full of cash to buy a bag of groceries. United States of Zimbabwe.

I can't decide so I guess yes to both of them.

Batter Up!

They still had good years of psychopathic atrocities ahead of them. What a waste of waste.

At school they said Eric would be smarter if he were a brain in a jar.

As Harvey Weinstein would say: "Erective justice, not selective justice!"

Fortwaynemobile says

I think at this point no one gives a shit anymore. Everyone sees it as someone else’s credit card.

Just like the public. 30 Year mortgages - no problem. $100k College Debt - no problem. Max out credit cards - no problem. 5 year car loans - no problem. Even luxuries like boats and campers are bought on credit. Greedy fools do not realize one would be richer in the long run by living within one's means and avoid paying all that interest.

marcus says

NoCoupForYou says

All of a sudden the Democrats became Deficit Hawks, who woulda thunk it?

Actually, going back to at least Clinton, democrats have been clearly way more fiscally responsible than republicans.

You're right. The economy has been decent (only), with gdp growth to the obama years. What is it now ?

This is in spite of Trump, not becasue of him. I think the economy would have been similar with Clinton, but with way less new debt. . Because of the lower deficit spending, we might have had a recession by now, but that has to happen sooner or later anyway.

You are absolutely FOS.

Your idol and mentor repeatedly stated that debt could go to infinity provided that interest rates remained low.

Not one time did you counter that point. Not once.

Yet here we are.

Maybe Trump is trying to spend all of the money so there wont be none left for the Liberal's forced gender reassignment surgery on our under 9yr old population.
It's a noble cause if you think about it.

Who does he think he is Pope Bendmydick?

APOCALYPSEFUCKisShostikovitch says

Interest is SATAN!'s paycheck!

Excellent way to put it. Now just be sure Satan pays you.

jazz_music says

https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/one-year-after-trumps-election-revisiting-autocracy-rules-for-survival

I suspect Jazz is pulling our legs (or other body parts). The article is so retarded that a lefty who wrote it does not see that it is her, in fact, who is advocating for cancelling the Will of People (aka election of tRUMP), which seems like autocracy to me.

A few select quotes from that nonsense:

For months, we have been living with the very real threat of nuclear war with North Korea and the near-inevitability of irreversible and unmitigated climate change, made that much more catastrophic by the actions of the Trump Administration.

On the occasion of the first anniversary of the election, they vowed to begin weekly demonstrations demanding impeachment....

the last does seem like autocratic solution - as opposed to democratic solution of coming up with an electable platform and convincing voters that YOUR candidate is better than the Orange Monster, which seems to me should not be too difficult given the antics of our Orange leader.

@AF, are you prepared for another 5 years of the current shitshow?

Given that retardation of D's has risen to stratospheric levels, I believe this is >95% guaranteed.

Reliance on China would do that.

Take this as you will, but who do we owe and how do they make us pay it? (the debt) We don't live in a world with money trees, but think about it. Deficit spending is bad, but it ain't going away anytime soon.

NoCoupForYou says

All of a sudden the Democrats became Deficit Hawks, who woulda thunk it?

Just like how all the Nancy-boys suddenly became Russia hawks under Trump.

The hypocrisy is head spinning.

That said, I understand why Trump didn't want to touch deficits in his first term since all of the Democrat hacks will run adds of Trump throwing grandma off the cliff. Here is hoping he does something on it in his second term.