Will the United States again respect Science?

[PredFan]

As with other disciplines, Americans have been subjected to a contempt for the science of climatology that has festered in the highest echelons of government recently.

The stark disparity between reality and crackpot notions has dire ramifications, and no, ingesting disinfectants will not protect you from the ravages of unchecked fossil fuel consumption.

Climate change is making people sick and leading to premature death, according to a pair of influential reports on the connections between global warming and health.

Scientists from the World Meteorological Organization released a preliminary report on the global climate which shows that the last decade was the warmest on record and that millions of people were affected by wildfires, floods and extreme heat this year on top of the global pandemic.

Separately, a sprawling analysis published Wednesday by the medical research journal The Lancet focuses on public health data from 2019, and finds that heat waves, air pollution and extreme weather increasingly damage human health. It is the most comprehensive annual report yet on the nexus of climate and health, and is routinely cited by climate policymakers. The authors include dozens of physicians and public health experts from around the world.

Both reports make an explicit connection between death, disease and burning fossil fuels.

'We Don't Have To Live This Way': Doctors Call For Climate Action

Heat waves, air pollution and extreme weather are making people sick and, increasingly, killing people. A key report by global physicians says fossil fuels are to blame.

www.npr.org

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This foolishness has not only been an embarrassment for the United States that has surrendered leadership in the global crisis. It is a perverse refutation that will have severe economic impact, provoke mass migrations, and destroy quality of life for humans as well as other species.

Will the nation step up to face this enormous challenge that is already wreaking havoc?

Bull shit. You leftists ONLY respect the science that you agree with. You know very little about science, you ignorantly believe that unquestioning devotion to whatever scientist promotes what you want means you respect science.

That isn’t science.

Just about Every scientific advancement started with skepticism of the current “science”. Progress never comes from blind acceptance of the status quo.

Think for yourself, be skeptical, use your brain for once.

 

[jasonnfree]

Yep.

It would have been a different story if we had reelected this buffoon. But we woke up and corrected our fuckup immediately.

And that applies to several different issues. We will recover from this much faster, since it only lasted four years. The stain has only had so much time to set in.

Of course we will recover. How could we not with a guy that wants to increase taxes on our job creators, a guy who is going to increase the minimum wage to $15.00 an hour causing inflation, job losses, more companies moving overseas, outsourcing, or investments in automation to replace us humans, and less new job startups, a guy who's going to increase our capital gains taxes so our market slows down where many of us have our IRA's in, a guy who wants to shutdown fracking not only doubling or more our price of fuel, but shutting down our exports since you can't export green energy, a guy who wants to move lowlifes into now safe and beautiful suburbs which will close down stores, drastically reduce property values, turning now safe and good schools into zoos?

I mean......what can go wrong with Biden in charge?

You will never admit it here two years from now, but you'll be longing for the days when President Trump was in charge.

Look where we are with Trump in charge in just four years. And he had been given an economy that had been slowly on the rise for several years.

 

[Ray From Cleveland]

Look where we are with Trump in charge in just four years. And he had been given an economy that had been slowly on the rise for several years.

It has nothing to do with Trump, it has to do with Biden's buddies in China. Our unemployment rate today is less than half of our high when this first hit. We had the least GDP damage of all G7 countries with the exception of China, and that's only if you can trust their reporting. Our stock market recovered quickly. Even in July, new housing starts increased by 21.7% This all has to do with the confidence in our President.

If Biden does make it to the White House and even implements half of his plans, we are going to go in the opposite direction. And I'll be my hundred dollar bill to your dollar bill every one of you will be on USMB looking for ways to blame Trump for all of Biden's F-ups.

 

[schmidlap]

Florida Republican leaders look at climate change plans

Florida Republican leaders look at climate change plans

Planning work to address flooding from rising sea levels, similar to how the state maps out road and bridge projects for five years, is being considered by the new Republican leaders of the Florida House and Senate.

www.news4jax.com

"So I'll just re-bill Mar-a-Lago as
TRUMP ATLANTIS!"



"Under the sea
Under the sea
Darling it's better
Down where it's wetter
Take it from me
Up on the shore they work all day
Out in the sun they slave away
While we devotin'
Full time to floatin'
Under the sea!"​

 

[bripat9643]

Yep.

It would have been a different story if we had reelected this buffoon. But we woke up and corrected our fuckup immediately.

And that applies to several different issues. We will recover from this much faster, since it only lasted four years. The stain has only had so much time to set in.

Trump can still tweet to his adoring lickspittles that ingesting disinfectants is the cure for climate change if he wants to.

Elsewhere, science will be the guide.

Trump's surrendering global leadership by absconding from the Paris Climate Agreement is not irrevocable, but the damage has been done. Trump decided to align the U.S. with international pariahs Iraq, Iran, Turkey, Libya, Angola, Sudan, Yemen, and Eritrea, rather than be a leader among the overwhelming consensus of nations.

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"It must be my B.O."​

What a load of horseshit. "Global leadership" must mean being the first down the chute to the abattoir.

So tell us, Mr science is our guide, how many genders are there?

 

[schmidlap]

It has nothing to do with Trump, it has to do with Biden's buddies in China.

NATIONAL REVIEW:

Trump Praises Xi for Handling of Coronavirus Outbreak

“Just had a long and very good conversation by phone with President Xi of China.
He is strong, sharp and powerfully focused on leading the counterattack
on the Coronavirus. Great discipline is taking place in China,
as President Xi strongly leads what will be a very successful operation."

Trump Praises Xi for Handling of Coronavirus Outbreak as Death Toll Passes 600 | National Review

As of Friday, the number of confirmed coronavirus cases in China rose to 31,161, with 636 deaths.

www.nationalreview.com

​

Trump's lavish praise for his totalitarian buddy is not something Xi can look forward to from a Biden administration.

Responsible leadership in confronting climate change is essential for the U.S. economy:

WALL STREET JOURNAL:

Big Companies Urge Biden, Congress to Address Climate Change

Big Companies Urge Biden, Congress to Address Climate Change

More than 40 corporations, including Amazon, Citigroup and Ford, said in a letter to Congress that they supported the U.S. rejoining the Paris climate accord.

www.wsj.com

​

 

[BlindBoo]

As with other disciplines, Americans have been subjected to a contempt for the science of climatology that has festered in the highest echelons of government recently.

The stark disparity between reality and crackpot notions has dire ramifications, and no, ingesting disinfectants will not protect you from the ravages of unchecked fossil fuel consumption.

Climate change is making people sick and leading to premature death, according to a pair of influential reports on the connections between global warming and health.

Scientists from the World Meteorological Organization released a preliminary report on the global climate which shows that the last decade was the warmest on record and that millions of people were affected by wildfires, floods and extreme heat this year on top of the global pandemic.

Separately, a sprawling analysis published Wednesday by the medical research journal The Lancet focuses on public health data from 2019, and finds that heat waves, air pollution and extreme weather increasingly damage human health. It is the most comprehensive annual report yet on the nexus of climate and health, and is routinely cited by climate policymakers. The authors include dozens of physicians and public health experts from around the world.

Both reports make an explicit connection between death, disease and burning fossil fuels.

'We Don't Have To Live This Way': Doctors Call For Climate Action

Heat waves, air pollution and extreme weather are making people sick and, increasingly, killing people. A key report by global physicians says fossil fuels are to blame.

www.npr.org

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This foolishness has not only been an embarrassment for the United States that has surrendered leadership in the global crisis. It is a perverse refutation that will have severe economic impact, provoke mass migrations, and destroy quality of life for humans as well as other species.

Will the nation step up to face this enormous challenge that is already wreaking havoc?

Probably not...Kim Stanley Robinson has a series of science fiction books that feature climate change...he calls this era, "The Dithering'...and so it is. He also predict that
'Boomer' will become an insult..denoting a wasteful person whose selfishness condemns later generations to decades of austerity..and millions of deaths.

Great writer....probably a bit too....everything...for right-wingers.

Kim Stanley Robinson - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

He's a bit too much of a moron. He's a "science fiction" writer. Did you notice the "fiction" part?

A SciFi writer gave us the concept of a geostationary satellite.

Science is not infallible.

But it's better than mysticism.

How many genders are there?

How many licks does it take to get to the center of a tootsie pop?

No it's not 364, at least according to an owl friend of mine!

 

[bripat9643]

Yep.

It would have been a different story if we had reelected this buffoon. But we woke up and corrected our fuckup immediately.

And that applies to several different issues. We will recover from this much faster, since it only lasted four years. The stain has only had so much time to set in.

Trump can still tweet to his adoring lickspittles that ingesting disinfectants is the cure for climate change if he wants to.

Elsewhere, science will be the guide.

Trump's surrendering global leadership by absconding from the Paris Climate Agreement is not irrevocable, but the damage has been done. Trump decided to align the U.S. with international pariahs Iraq, Iran, Turkey, Libya, Angola, Sudan, Yemen, and Eritrea, rather than be a leader among the overwhelming consensus of nations.

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"It must be my B.O."​

I do think it would have been significantly worse if we had re-elected him, doubling down on our worst behaviors and impulses, proving them to be true.

When a person or group or country immediately recognizes their mistake and corrects it, it's human nature to give them another shot. Especially when it had formerly been the most trusted and depended-upon country in the world. The rest of the world was worried but hopeful, and we didn't let them down.

There was no "mistake," douchebag. We voted for Trump precisely to put an end to the agenda you and shit-for-brains support.

 

[jasonnfree]

Look where we are with Trump in charge in just four years. And he had been given an economy that had been slowly on the rise for several years.

It has nothing to do with Trump, it has to do with Biden's buddies in China. Our unemployment rate today is less than half of our high when this first hit. We had the least GDP damage of all G7 countries with the exception of China, and that's only if you can trust their reporting. Our stock market recovered quickly. Even in July, new housing starts increased by 21.7% This all has to do with the confidence in our President.

If Biden does make it to the White House and even implements half of his plans, we are going to go in the opposite direction. And I'll be my hundred dollar bill to your dollar bill every one of you will be on USMB looking for ways to blame Trump for all of Biden's F-ups.

The economy was on the rise when Trump took office. He then juiced the economy a little more by tax cuts....permanent for the corporations and temporary for the average person.
He then ignored the coming virus. Even making fun of it. Look where we are now. Pandemic getting progressively worse and worse and under trump's reign we're doing horribly with it compared to other, more advanced nations with normal adults, not nut jobs like trump, in charge. Exampl...Taiwan. Seven or eight people dead. USA? pushing towards a quarter million under Trump.

Explaining the Trump Tax Reform Plan

President Trump created a sweeping tax overhaul, which rewards the wealthy and corporations the most, has fizzled among voters.

www.investopedia.com

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanwpc/article/PIIS2666-6065(20)30044-4/fulltext

 

[evenflow1969]

As with other disciplines, Americans have been subjected to a contempt for the science of climatology that has festered in the highest echelons of government recently.

The stark disparity between reality and crackpot notions has dire ramifications, and no, ingesting disinfectants will not protect you from the ravages of unchecked fossil fuel consumption.

Climate change is making people sick and leading to premature death, according to a pair of influential reports on the connections between global warming and health.

Scientists from the World Meteorological Organization released a preliminary report on the global climate which shows that the last decade was the warmest on record and that millions of people were affected by wildfires, floods and extreme heat this year on top of the global pandemic.

Separately, a sprawling analysis published Wednesday by the medical research journal The Lancet focuses on public health data from 2019, and finds that heat waves, air pollution and extreme weather increasingly damage human health. It is the most comprehensive annual report yet on the nexus of climate and health, and is routinely cited by climate policymakers. The authors include dozens of physicians and public health experts from around the world.

Both reports make an explicit connection between death, disease and burning fossil fuels.

'We Don't Have To Live This Way': Doctors Call For Climate Action

Heat waves, air pollution and extreme weather are making people sick and, increasingly, killing people. A key report by global physicians says fossil fuels are to blame.

www.npr.org

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This foolishness has not only been an embarrassment for the United States that has surrendered leadership in the global crisis. It is a perverse refutation that will have severe economic impact, provoke mass migrations, and destroy quality of life for humans as well as other species.

Will the nation step up to face this enormous challenge that is already wreaking havoc?

Well half if America never left science. The other half will have to check with their republican overlords.

 

[bripat9643]

It has nothing to do with Trump, it has to do with Biden's buddies in China.

NATIONAL REVIEW:

Trump Praises Xi for Handling of Coronavirus Outbreak
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“Just had a long and very good conversation by phone with President Xi of China.
He is strong, sharp and powerfully focused on leading the counterattack
on the Coronavirus. Great discipline is taking place in China,
as President Xi strongly leads what will be a very successful operation."

Trump Praises Xi for Handling of Coronavirus Outbreak as Death Toll Passes 600 | National Review

As of Friday, the number of confirmed coronavirus cases in China rose to 31,161, with 636 deaths.

www.nationalreview.com

​

Trump's lavish praise for his totalitarian buddy is not something Xi can look forward to from a Biden administration.

Responsible leadership in confronting climate change is essential for the U.S. economy:

WALL STREET JOURNAL:

Big Companies Urge Biden, Congress to Address Climate Change

Big Companies Urge Biden, Congress to Address Climate Change

More than 40 corporations, including Amazon, Citigroup and Ford, said in a letter to Congress that they supported the U.S. rejoining the Paris climate accord.

www.wsj.com

​

what a dumb fuck:

 

[ReinyDays]

how much money do you have in your IRA that you pay capital gains tax? ...
You realize that if a capital gains tax hike makes stock prices go down, stocks in IRAs go down.

Wait a minute ... capital gains is taxed when the asset is liquidated ... why are you investing in companies that are being liquidated? ... God, I hope you have an investment manager ...

Companies typically roll over capital gains ... there's several ways to do this ... the only time capital gains would be taken out of the company is if the shareholders voted for a cash payment ... and either pay 20% capital gains tax or 20% dividend tax ... not both ...

The poster that started this already admitted he's some Middle Class slob ... so in every way, he'd be better off paying straight income tax of 15% on this ... capital gains tax is for the Rich so they don't have to pay the 38% income tax rate ...

In general, share prices depend on dividend payments ... so there's nothing about a rarely used tax rate that would change these payments ... IBM sell a factory, they'll just invest in another factory ... they don't go out buying TV's and airplanes with the money ... sheesh ...

Wait a minute ... capital gains is taxed when the asset is liquidated ... why are you investing in companies that are being liquidated? ...

When I sell shares of Microsoft, the company isn't being liquidated.

Companies typically roll over capital gains ... there's several ways to do this ... the only time capital gains would be taken out of the company is if the shareholders voted for a cash payment ..

Ummmmm......if I buy a share at $50 and sell at $100, that has nothing to do with the company "rolling over capital gains" or a "shareholder vote".

In general, share prices depend on dividend payments

And future growth and earnings. And tax rates. And morons adding regulations.

... so there's nothing about a rarely used tax rate that would change these payments ...

Rarely used? Then why does dopey Joe want to hike the rate to 40%?

If you could sell your shares today and keep 80% of your gains or sell
them in 2021 and keep 60% of your gains, what are you more likely to do?

God, I hope you have an investment manager ...

Based on what you've shown here, I hope you have nothing more
complicated than a mutual fund.

Horsefeathers ... you buy $400,000 worth of stock, then sell at $800,000 ... you don't pay any taxes ... see instructions for the 1040, qualified dividend and capital gains tax worksheet, line 15 ... yes, I contacted a tax professional about this ... it's as real as real gets ... you're just another Middle Class slob who shouldn't be commenting on high finance ... and this is only if you use the money to buy comsumer goods like an airplane for personal use ... those options for rolling over the gain is available to you as well ...

Ah ... you must earn over a million a year to be worried about the hike in capital gains taxes ... and that would be the normal income tax rate of 37% ... did you know we've added $25 trillion in debt since George XLIII dropped the cap gains rate from 25% to 15%? ... and still you whine about a tax rate you'll never pay ... if tax breaks for the Rich work, we wouldn't be in this deep of debt ...

Yes yes yes ... I know ... without a massive tax hike on the Middle Class ... the debt won't get paid ... or hyperinflation is the typical result ... just raising taxes on the Rich isn't enough money to run government ...

I will admit being a little weak on IRA's ... the $50 you bought Microsoft with wasn't taxed at all if you're playing by the rules ... you sell for $100, then you pay income taxes on the entire $100 ... plus a 10% penalty if you're not 59-1/2 years-old yet ... or perhaps you're not clear on the claim I was responding to ... that making the Rich pay regular personnel income tax rates on moneys they draw out of their IRA somehow effect the values of some Middle Class slob's IRA ...

What kind of moron makes over a million a year and then relies on an IRA for retirement? ... just another Middle Class slob who shouldn't be commenting on high finance ...

 

[bripat9643]

Look where we are with Trump in charge in just four years. And he had been given an economy that had been slowly on the rise for several years.

It has nothing to do with Trump, it has to do with Biden's buddies in China. Our unemployment rate today is less than half of our high when this first hit. We had the least GDP damage of all G7 countries with the exception of China, and that's only if you can trust their reporting. Our stock market recovered quickly. Even in July, new housing starts increased by 21.7% This all has to do with the confidence in our President.

If Biden does make it to the White House and even implements half of his plans, we are going to go in the opposite direction. And I'll be my hundred dollar bill to your dollar bill every one of you will be on USMB looking for ways to blame Trump for all of Biden's F-ups.

The economy was on the rise when Trump took office. He then juiced the economy a little more by tax cuts....permanent for the corporations and temporary for the average person.
He then ignored the coming virus. Even making fun of it. Look where we are now. Pandemic getting progressively worse and worse and under trump's reign we're doing horribly with it compared to other, more advanced nations with normal adults, not nut jobs like trump, in charge. Exampl...Taiwan. Seven or eight people dead. USA? pushing towards a quarter million under Trump.

Explaining the Trump Tax Reform Plan

President Trump created a sweeping tax overhaul, which rewards the wealthy and corporations the most, has fizzled among voters.

www.investopedia.com

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanwpc/article/PIIS2666-6065(20)30044-4/fulltext

Democrats are the ones who insisted that the tax cuts for average person where temporary. I love the way you scumbags always blame Trump for your sleaze.

Trump didnt ignore the virus, shit for brains. That's a Dim myth.

Taiwan is an Island nation of 23 million people. It's easy to control a virus when you can entirely cutoff travel from other nations.

 

[ReinyDays]

You do like to eat? Well if it wasn't for oil, get ready to plant and raise your protein on your own. Are you ready?

Then go at it, but don't buy anything from the nearby store. They rely on fossil fuels and will for years.

So are you trying to tell us you don't use any products that contain oil? You don't drive a car, you don't use a bus, you don't have shingles on your roof, you don't have an asphalt driveway or use asphalt roads, you don't have tires on your car, you don't depend on products in your store being delivered via oil powered vehicles? Are you going to mow your lawn with an electric tractor, or snow blow your driveway with a solar panel snow blower?
Even your mail is delivered by vehicles powered by oil. Do you think freight trains are ran on electricity?

Hey stupids ... the hypothetical was there is no oil ... moron can't even read his own writing ...

 

[Ray From Cleveland]

It has nothing to do with Trump, it has to do with Biden's buddies in China.

NATIONAL REVIEW:

Trump Praises Xi for Handling of Coronavirus Outbreak
View attachment 424589
“Just had a long and very good conversation by phone with President Xi of China.
He is strong, sharp and powerfully focused on leading the counterattack
on the Coronavirus. Great discipline is taking place in China,
as President Xi strongly leads what will be a very successful operation."

Trump Praises Xi for Handling of Coronavirus Outbreak as Death Toll Passes 600 | National Review

As of Friday, the number of confirmed coronavirus cases in China rose to 31,161, with 636 deaths.

www.nationalreview.com

​

Trump's lavish praise for his totalitarian buddy is not something Xi can look forward to from a Biden administration.

Responsible leadership in confronting climate change is essential for the U.S. economy:

WALL STREET JOURNAL:

Big Companies Urge Biden, Congress to Address Climate Change

Big Companies Urge Biden, Congress to Address Climate Change

More than 40 corporations, including Amazon, Citigroup and Ford, said in a letter to Congress that they supported the U.S. rejoining the Paris climate accord.

www.wsj.com

​

You can address it all you want, but you can't control something that's controlled by God. The only thing you'll accomplish is destroying our economy because these trillions of dollars we throw at this supposed problem are absorbed in the products we buy and the services we use.

Next time you go on the highway, look at all the trucks in the opposing lane. They are hauling products we buy or will eventually buy after processing. Then realize it's costing us tens of billions dollars a year more to haul that freight than it was 20 years ago because of all the global warming costs government inflicted on the transportation industry. Are the global warming people any happier than they were 20 years ago? Of course not. If anything, they're angrier yet.

So it doesn't matter what we do, and it makes zero sense to dump all this money into a problem when nobody will be satisfied.

 

[bripat9643]

As with other disciplines, Americans have been subjected to a contempt for the science of climatology that has festered in the highest echelons of government recently.

The stark disparity between reality and crackpot notions has dire ramifications, and no, ingesting disinfectants will not protect you from the ravages of unchecked fossil fuel consumption.

Climate change is making people sick and leading to premature death, according to a pair of influential reports on the connections between global warming and health.

Scientists from the World Meteorological Organization released a preliminary report on the global climate which shows that the last decade was the warmest on record and that millions of people were affected by wildfires, floods and extreme heat this year on top of the global pandemic.

Separately, a sprawling analysis published Wednesday by the medical research journal The Lancet focuses on public health data from 2019, and finds that heat waves, air pollution and extreme weather increasingly damage human health. It is the most comprehensive annual report yet on the nexus of climate and health, and is routinely cited by climate policymakers. The authors include dozens of physicians and public health experts from around the world.

Both reports make an explicit connection between death, disease and burning fossil fuels.

'We Don't Have To Live This Way': Doctors Call For Climate Action

Heat waves, air pollution and extreme weather are making people sick and, increasingly, killing people. A key report by global physicians says fossil fuels are to blame.

www.npr.org

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This foolishness has not only been an embarrassment for the United States that has surrendered leadership in the global crisis. It is a perverse refutation that will have severe economic impact, provoke mass migrations, and destroy quality of life for humans as well as other species.

Will the nation step up to face this enormous challenge that is already wreaking havoc?

Probably not...Kim Stanley Robinson has a series of science fiction books that feature climate change...he calls this era, "The Dithering'...and so it is. He also predict that
'Boomer' will become an insult..denoting a wasteful person whose selfishness condemns later generations to decades of austerity..and millions of deaths.

Great writer....probably a bit too....everything...for right-wingers.

Kim Stanley Robinson - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

He's a bit too much of a moron. He's a "science fiction" writer. Did you notice the "fiction" part?

A SciFi writer gave us the concept of a geostationary satellite.

Science is not infallible.

But it's better than mysticism.

How many genders are there?

How many licks does it take to get to the center of a tootsie pop?

No it's not 364, at least according to an owl friend of mine!

Did you believe I wouldn't notice that you didn't answer the question?

Why are Dims always afraid to answer this?

 

[BlindBoo]

As with other disciplines, Americans have been subjected to a contempt for the science of climatology that has festered in the highest echelons of government recently.

The stark disparity between reality and crackpot notions has dire ramifications, and no, ingesting disinfectants will not protect you from the ravages of unchecked fossil fuel consumption.

Climate change is making people sick and leading to premature death, according to a pair of influential reports on the connections between global warming and health.

Scientists from the World Meteorological Organization released a preliminary report on the global climate which shows that the last decade was the warmest on record and that millions of people were affected by wildfires, floods and extreme heat this year on top of the global pandemic.

Separately, a sprawling analysis published Wednesday by the medical research journal The Lancet focuses on public health data from 2019, and finds that heat waves, air pollution and extreme weather increasingly damage human health. It is the most comprehensive annual report yet on the nexus of climate and health, and is routinely cited by climate policymakers. The authors include dozens of physicians and public health experts from around the world.

Both reports make an explicit connection between death, disease and burning fossil fuels.

'We Don't Have To Live This Way': Doctors Call For Climate Action

Heat waves, air pollution and extreme weather are making people sick and, increasingly, killing people. A key report by global physicians says fossil fuels are to blame.

www.npr.org

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This foolishness has not only been an embarrassment for the United States that has surrendered leadership in the global crisis. It is a perverse refutation that will have severe economic impact, provoke mass migrations, and destroy quality of life for humans as well as other species.

Will the nation step up to face this enormous challenge that is already wreaking havoc?

Probably not...Kim Stanley Robinson has a series of science fiction books that feature climate change...he calls this era, "The Dithering'...and so it is. He also predict that
'Boomer' will become an insult..denoting a wasteful person whose selfishness condemns later generations to decades of austerity..and millions of deaths.

Great writer....probably a bit too....everything...for right-wingers.

Kim Stanley Robinson - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

He's a bit too much of a moron. He's a "science fiction" writer. Did you notice the "fiction" part?

A SciFi writer gave us the concept of a geostationary satellite.

Science is not infallible.

But it's better than mysticism.

How many genders are there?

How many licks does it take to get to the center of a tootsie pop?

No it's not 364, at least according to an owl friend of mine!

Did you believe I wouldn't notice that you didn't answer the question?

Why are Dims always afraid to answer this?

Smells like a psychological trap.

 

[Ray From Cleveland]

The economy was on the rise when Trump took office. He then juiced the economy a little more by tax cuts....permanent for the corporations and temporary for the average person.
He then ignored the coming virus. Even making fun of it. Look where we are now. Pandemic getting progressively worse and worse and under trump's reign we're doing horribly with it compared to other, more advanced nations with normal adults, not nut jobs like trump, in charge. Exampl...Taiwan. Seven or eight people dead. USA? pushing towards a quarter million under Trump.

The problem with those numbers is that they are phony. If you get into a car crash, die in the hospital from those injuries, and test positive for Covid, they mark it as a Covid death.

My Uncle died from colon cancer at the end of summer. When his son realized his father was near the end, he called the family to come by for one last visit. A dozen people showed up. Hugs and kisses went around. When he got to the hospital, they claimed he had Covid.

He died a few weeks later, and nobody in the room with him that day had it, including my 89 year old father. Anybody that came near him was either quarantined or tested. So how did a man that couldn't walk, never stepped foot outside the house, never in contact with anybody that had Covid get the virus?

A few weeks after his death, the doctor called my cousins to get their opinion about the care provided to their father. My one cousin replied the care wasn't the problem. The problem was marking his death as a Covid death. The doctor told him to take a number. Many families complained about the same thing.

 

[schmidlap]

"Who knows more about climate?
a) A climatologist
or
b) An ideologue

"Whoa! Kin ah 'fone-ay-friend'?"​

There was no "mistake," douchebag. We voted for Trump precisely to put an end to the agenda you and shit-for-brains support.

When asked, "How could it be that spewing hundreds of millions of tonnes of industrial greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere does not effect the atmosphere?," 94.3% of climate change deniers scratched their elbows.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

There is only science. It is non-partisan and non-political..at least..until the politicians and partisans get a-hold of it.

Not when libs get their hands on it

there is no science behind 20-something snowflakes freaking out because they think the world is going to end due to global warming

they are nuts

but that's what the lib teachers have been telling them since they were toddlers

You need a laxative because you are so full of shit. I have three adult children who attended school where I worked. In fact, the teachers dismissed the hoax for what it was.