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https://reason.com/2019/12/04/kamala-harris-fans-blame-billionaires-sexists-and-racists-for-her-campaigns-collapse/ “Harris herself blamed billionaires, basically, while supporters and pundits expanded the blame to also include sexism, racism, biased media coverage“ Yes, that is right Harris accused the Democrat establishment of being racist misogynists. BTW I am a conservative leaning libertarian not a Republican.

Wasn’t it the lefties who were clamoring for Oprah to run?

for jobs (apnews.com) Times, they are a-changin. Jerry Baumchen This is awesome! Everything is going to be just great! I can’t wait for the new progressive paradise! OTOH, remember when Obama promised that he would heal the planet and reverse the seas? I’m betting Biden will fare no better.

So was the petroleum industry.

Outrageous? No Attention craving? No. Contrarian? Guilty.

This thread is not about Trump or Republicans. It is a thread about our senile gaffe master in chief. Focus people focus.

The Democrats took the measure of Harris and found her wanting. She blamed it on racism and misogyny. That’s right she blamed the racist women hating Democrats for her failed presidential bid.

Stuff like “all lives matter.”

“President Biden knew when he appointed Harris to manage the crisis on March 24 that it was a poison chalice, which gives you a hint of the growing wariness in a relationship where the VP is referred to by insiders as "The Heiress" and Biden is regarded as incapable of serving a full term.” Angry social media influencer? I’ve never seen Ms. Owens angry, the anger/hate is on the left. I would characterize her as a brave, independent thinking, conservative and author. A hell of a lot more capable than this guy. https://www.skynews.com.au/details/_6244007376001

Face palm

I reeled you in like a hungry carp.

Yes Climate change is real, it always has been. (Do ice ages ring a bell?) There is nothing we can or should do about it other than adapt. EVs are just things, the market should decide how successful they are not the government.

It’s just a matter of time life is a sexually transmitted disease with a 100% mortality rate.

I agree with Obama’s chief scientist at the DoE. https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-a-physicist-became-a-climate-truth-teller-11618597216?mod=opinion_lead_pos5 ”For the record, Mr. Koonin agrees that the world has warmed by 1 degree Celsius since 1900 and will warm by another degree this century, placing him near the middle of the consensus. Neither he nor most economic studies have seen anything in the offing that would justify the rapid and wholesale abandoning of fossil fuels, even if China, India, Brazil, Indonesia and others could be dissuaded from pursuing prosperity. He’s a fan of advanced nuclear power eventually to provide carbon free base-load power. He sees a bright future for electric passenger vehicles. “The main reason isn’t emissions. They’re just shifted to the power grid, and transportation anyway is only about 15% of global greenhouse-gas emissions. There are other advantages: Local pollution is much less and noise pollution is less. You’re sitting in a traffic jam and all of these six- or four-cylinder engines are throbbing up and down burning fuel and just doing no good at all.” But these are changes it makes no economic sense to force. Let technology and markets work at their own pace. The climate might continue to change, at a pace that’s hard to perceive, but societies will adapt. “As a species, we’re very good at adapting.”

Profitable and easily recyclable? Nothing to do now but let the market do its thing. Why do we need subsidies?

Hell I’ll grant you 20 years. The economics still fail, not to mention the environmental time bomb.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwjuzYCA9ofwAhXOB80KHSNMDv4QvOMEegQIERAB&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.texastribune.org%2F2021%2F04%2F14%2Ftexas-coronavirus-mask-order-abbott%2F&usg=AOvVaw1QGl9Eouku4CFxLzmsRqpl Abbott’s decision to end most statewide restrictions went into effect 35 days ago, on March 10. The seven-day average for daily new confirmed cases was 3,020 on that day; it was 2,456 on Tuesday. The seven-day average of the state’s positivity rate — the ratio of cases to tests — was 6.24% on March 10; it was 5.89% on Monday. (The latest positivity-rate figures are considered preliminary and subject to recalculation as more test results come in from the date in question.) Deaths and hospitalizations, which lag new cases, have seen steeper drops since March 10. The seven-day average of new daily deaths was 187 on March 10; it was 64 on Tuesday. There were 4,556 Texans hospitalized with the virus on March 10; there were 3,002 on Tuesday. Looks like Texas is opting out of the fourth wave

And have to be replaced about every eight years.

Wow, a whole lot of hate, just for sharing government climate data. It would seem a nerve has been struck. Mind you, all I did was to provide information. I don’t understand why that would illicit personal attacks. I think that says more about you guys than it does about me. I will probably get a timeout when I share next month’s data (temperatures will continue to cool from their highs and that will make you mad)

I understand what you are NOT talking about “Atmospheric CO2 comes in at 417.64 ppm (vs last year’s 414.74 ppm) Q1 global temperature barely cracks the top ten coming in at a cool 9th place (coldest in many years) Global sea ice continues to recover” According to NOAA

Looks like I am not the only one not understanding Dependence of Earth’s Thermal Radiation on Five Most Abundant Greenhouse Gases W. A. van Wijngaarden1 and W. Happer2 1Department of Physics and Astronomy, York University, Canada, wlaser@yorku.ca 2Department of Physics, Princeton University, USA, happer@Princeton.edu June 8, 2020 June 2020

His point of the diminishing greenhouse effect of CO2 seems to be borne out by observation. CO2 at record levels, temperatures not.

And 1.37 for the first quarter of this year. It hardly looks as if “the planet has a fever”

The thread continued for several years thousands of views and posts the addition of Olof seemed to be the only variable.

And it’s not even close to being in the top 10% looking back over 5000 years or even the past two decades, and that is why the laughter is mutual. Let me ask you this Bill; if CO2 is such a powerful GHG that it is, as John Kerry puts it, an existential threat to our very being, why hasn’t it warmed in the last twenty years while CO2 continues to rise?