| Author | Message | ||
     Aesquire |
https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2019/02/25/calif ornias-big-one-volcanic-eruption/ This is unfair! The Governor should demand LA have a volcano of it's own! | ||
| Ratbuell |
Heh. Karma's a bitch. GooooooOOOOO, Darwin!! | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/02/john_ kerry_and_other_climate_change_alarmists_refuse_to _risk_actual_debate_on_their_theory.html Who is full of it is easy to tell. If they want you arrested for not agreeing with them? Here's your sign. If they tell you the science is settled? Here's your sign. If they predicted the Bad Thing would happen in 10 years, every year for 30 years, and keep moving the goal post? Here's your sign. If they told you the Seas would rise 33 feet and bought a Malibu beach house? That's not a sign. That's a firm belief you are an idiot. | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/02/h ow_government_researchers_hijack_science_for_polit ical_purposes.html | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/03/t he_secular_theology_of_the_green_new_deal.html | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/03/03/gree npeace-co-founder-aoc-pompous-little-twit-green-ne w-deal-would-cause-mass-death/ | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2019/03/the -folly-of-solar-energy.php https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2019/03/bio mass-another-green-fraud.php The next version of the Watermelon Power Grab will be to install generators on treadmills, etc. at "fitness centers" where participation and payments will be mandatory, as per Obamacare, under threat of prison. Fitness companies will get full membership by Federal law, which, after fully subsidized upgrades to Super Green power production, will guarantee profits. On those cold, snowy nights without usable wind power, ( which means high winds & icing conditions, as well as calm winds ) you will receive a text message to report to Planet Fitness ( or other designated Super Green facility ) to generate electricity to compensate, to Save The Planet, and Your Community from death by freezing. If you find this unlikely, I'm sure there will be waivers for the unfit, unproductive, and elites. That such waivers may form the database to determine medical care and euthanasia lists, you know, For The Children, is no concern for the Right Thinking Proletariat. Super Green, and low body fat! Grass smoothie day sounds so much better than low protein starvation diets causing mental retardation and perpetual Party Rule. But not for Congressional Boss Sandy, who will eat steak. | ||
| Hughlysses |
This photo was taken about 40 miles north of where I live in South Carolina this morning:  Yes, that's a mosquito on top of a layer of snow. If that's not a sign of impending climate doom I don't know what is.  | ||
| Ratbuell |
Mutant 'skeeters! Immune to cold, they're ready for the new Ice Age! | ||
| Crusty |
I remember the last time I rode over Independence Pass in Colorado. At 12,095 ft. elevation, with snow in places, there were a lot of voracious mosquitoes just waiting for some unsuspecting tourists to step out of their cars. It has to get extremely cold to keep them down. | ||
| Zac4mac |
Don't worry, it's a male. Brachiated antennae. Only females bite. I grew up on the Texas Gulf Coast... You do know that the State Bird of Louisiana is the mosquito? Z | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2019/03/stu pidity-of-the-green-new-deal-video-version.php Let me summarize the manifesto in real world results. Because we will be a socialist utopia, we won't need much of a military. Since we've already been conquered, no need to have a war. Peace at last! The cost will require stealing all the wealth. I don't know about you, but if Sandy has stolen it all, who does she sell it to? Not me, I'm broke. Vladimir? XI? And if I'm going to be taxed at 90% for working, or 70%, or more than the 55% I'm currently taxed, then I'll take that free money for people unwilling to work. Because I'd be a fool not to. ( never mind that it's an insane fantasy ) I'll skip the obvious unspoken aspects of the GND, like no constitutional rights. Property, freedom of movement, none of that matters to the higher calling of saving the planet. No, enough to point out that only government mandated business and work will get done it there is no incentive to make a living. And no business left other than mandatory government business, since all that filthy capitalist wealth is gone. Like Venezuela. | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/03/g reen_fantasy_the_gnd_and_renewable_energy.html I won't comment on the math in this article. I suspect a bit of cheating to make his point, but one item is a truth known to me independently. It takes more energy to make solar cells than the cells will make before being discarded. That may change with robotic production from automated mining and production factories on Luna. There's no weather there to reduce power input, and tracking gear operates with a fraction of the power. You do have the minor issue that night is half a month long. I see no need to argue with our resident satellite expert on getting power from Luna to Earth. After all the GND isn't concerned with providing power, it's about stealing it. And restricting the amount available to the peasants is a feature, not a bug. | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/03/dr_ha pper_will_set_them_free.html | ||
| Ebutch |
It's going to be Global warming 22FFFFFF today.   | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/03/c limate_change_theory_whats_wrong_with_it.html | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2019/03/whe n-climate-change-really-was-catastrophic.php Green New Deal, 1400. | ||
| Ratbuell |
We should be able to agree, though, that the find in Peru counsels against extreme responses to outbreaks of extreme weather. gee...maybe because weather always re-centers itself? Because the earth is a massive, self-regulating ecosystem that's been here for a LOT longer than we ever have (or ever will be)? Cue my favorite George Carlin bit about climate change... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BB0aFPXr4n4 | ||
| Hootowl |
"The Post’s article explains that children in the South America of that time were thought to have a different kind of “personhood” than what we understand today" Just like children on the wrong side of the uterus are thought of today. History will not treat abortion kindly. | ||
| Aesquire |
That uterus part is now obsolete in some states. I'm sure I don't have the moral and legal authority to kill any human I want. No legislation is going to change that. Others, a tiny minority, thank Cthulu, do believe they have such authority. But it only takes a few to start sending folk to reeducation camps or hauling out the guillotine. The Mob will shout with glee,even as a majority in it are going along out of fear. Fear if they don't run at the head of the Mob, they'll get condemned for insufficient revolutionary zeal. The French Revolution is an excellent teaching moment in history. | ||
| Ratbuell |
But is it still in the history (or social studies, or whatever they call it this week) books? | ||
| Ducbsa |
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/201 9/03/china-has-stopped-accepting-our-trash/584131/ In my town, fewer types will be recycled. This article has a lot of scare statistics without comparative data and includes scolding for buying what we like. It seems to say that drycleaner bags are different plastic than grocery bags, which surprises me. | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.dw.com/en/almost-all-plastic-in-the-oc ean-comes-from-just-10-rivers/a-41581484 https://www.livemint.com/Politics/1zRWdpBM89zHouPW VkeOCO/Plastic-choking-oceans-can-rise-10fold-in-n ext-decade-repo.html Recent stuff is toothpaste tubes and water bottles? Even accounting for the 50 million illegal aliens, I doubt toothpaste tubes are a major increase in waste. Water bottles? Sure. A butt Ton more every year, as the fad types buy high priced tap water in a pretty labeled bottle. I pay 5 cents a bottle deposit. That's my incentive to recycle. Yes it's "State Sponsored" but it's really a tax on the lazy. Enough people don't recycle that the State can run the business at a profit, and does so by paying private companies that collect bottles a fraction of a penny more than they pay out to the consumer. Profit is made, the extra goes to the State treasury, and from there, in New York, anyway, to folk that bribe the Governor. I assume it's similar elsewhere. I'm not demanding your state go to bottle deposits, but It has made the streets cleaner, gives some income to the poorest, and is a minor hassle in this land of high taxes and crushing regulation. ( and I've taken advantage of the deposit law when I was stone broke. It's lousy pay per hour, but it's better than zero. ) All the hard plastic packaging goes in the garbage and gets put in giant piles, that gets dirt piled on top for future generations to deal with. What the article didn't mention is that China taking our trash as raw materials was a temporary thing that a lot of people never thought through. Never thought would end. Just like the free fried food grease to use to make bio diesel was a short term idea, because as soon as it was profitable, why wouldn't McDonald's etc. not make money with it? How much a restaurant pays to have grease taken away, and how much they get paid for the grease, varies from location to location, but locally, Last I looked, here, restaurants paid to have it taken away, but got reduced rates because the company taking it was selling it for fuel feed stock. That may have changed. The restaurant owners prefer paying to cleaning up the mess left behind by amateurs, and they still had to pay to have the solids taken away, ( breading crumbs, food bits ) and fry grease is regulated hazardous waste. Can't just toss it in a dumpster to go to a landfill. Likewise, China is now generating MORE than enough waste paper and plastic to feed their industry, and because it's still a land of extreme poverty and a literal police state, they just throw stuff into the rivers to pollute the planet. You have to be fairly rich to give a damn about anything other than keeping the people fed enough they don't come and burn the Masters alive in their palaces. A substantial portion of the Chinese budget is an Army to murder their own people to keep them from revolting. In North Korea, it's most of the money, total. | ||
| Ratbuell |
That's the biggest factor that Greenies seem to "forget" (read: ignore). We (the USA) aren't the only nation on earth. We (the USA) aren't the only polluters on earth. We (the USA) are nowhere NEAR the worst polluters on earth. Get the hell off MY back, and go hit up India, and Africa, and Central/South America, and China...and fix THEIR pollution issues. Once they're down to our (the USA's) level of production...THEN you can bother me about my plastic bags and my diesel truck and my Historic-tagged/no emissions test cars. Until then? PISS OFF. I've got better things to do. | ||
| Aesquire |
The goal is not to solve any problems. The goal is to steal. Since there is little to steal from an Indonesian fisherman or a Chinese factory worker..... You are the target. There's no need to argue science or facts. Not because of the lie that it's settled, but because the people in charge have admitted science has nothing to do with it. The U.N. Climate guy flat out said so. It's all about power, income redistribution aka theft, and imposing a communist dictatorship. Period. End of discussion. Take him seriously. Ditto Gun Control. The technical details are meaningless. When Congressmen admit it's about taking away your rights, the discussion is over. It's all about power, theft and establishing that lovely dictatorship. Take that seriously too. The politics is settled. | ||
| Ourdee |
I think Joe said, "Get off my lawn". | ||
| Ratbuell |
ya damn kids.... A front porch littered with empty beer cans and bottles, while cleaning firearms and having random tourettes outbursts...is a GREAT way to keep the kids off the yard. Bonus points if your aim is good enough to pick off the random groundhog or raccoon if it pops up on your 4 acre front field  Fully aware it's about power. Staying prepared as well. | ||
| Hootowl |
Several US based petrochemical companies are investing billions to encourage responsible waste management in the offending countries. Time will tell. | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/03/11/the- nuclear-option-fake-scientist-bill-nye-joins-real- socialists-to-push-green-new-deal | ||
| Ducbsa |
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2019/03/exp osing-the-real-costs-of-green-energy.php |
