brenthutch

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  1. How about there will be fewer climate related deaths in 2021 than there were in 1921? If there was no dangerous global warming in 1921 and we have an existential climate crisis in 2021, it should show up in the number of climate related deaths, right?
  2. I think their problems have more to do with being “located on a mere sandbar” than with climate change. You can’t say they weren’t warned. Matthew 7:24-27 “Everyone therefore who hears these words of mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man, who built his house on a rock. The rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat on that house; and it didn't fall, for it was founded on the rock. Everyone who hears these words of mine, and doesn't do them will be like a foolish man, who built his house on the sand. The rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat on that house; and it fell—and great was its fall.”
  3. That hardly matters. What matters is, we are not in the throes of a climate crisis with run away global warming. It is what I have been saying for nearly twenty years and with each passing year I am more and more vindicated.
  4. For now let’s just enjoy February but rest assured I will be watching closely to see if record levels of CO2 lead to record levels of temperatures, every single month. (it’s funny how the website CO2.earth can publish February’s record high CO2 level but can’t bring itself to post February’s temp. (They leave January’s up instead ))
  5. Let’s ignore her for a moment and concentrate on the fact that, according to NOAA, this February’s GLOBAL temperatures were less than those in 1998. Exactly the point in the original post.
  6. You didn’t have a problem w Zoe’s graph? You attacked the messenger while ignoring the message, that is why I linked to a different messenger
  7. The ENTIRE GLOBE is no warmer than it was in 1998. Given it is the title of this thread, I thought it worth mentioning. (And yes you are correct, That is NOT global warming)
  8. I’m not disputing higher CO2, nor slight rise in temperatures (that has been happening, on and off since the last ice age). I disagree that it represents an existential threat.
  9. Really? “February 2021 was characterized by colder-than-average temperatures across much of North America and northern Asia, where temperatures were at least 3.0°C (5.4°F) below average. Other areas with below-average temperatures included much of the eastern and central tropical Pacific Ocean, Australia, southern Africa, southern South America, and parts of the southern oceans. North America, as a whole, had its coldest February since 1994 and the 20th coldest February in the regional 112-year record. Similarly, the contiguous U.S. had its coldest February since 1989. For additional climate information on the U.S., please visit the national climate report. Oceania had its coldest February since 2012.” https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/global/202102
  10. 1. The increase in homicides is largely occurring in Democrat controlled cities and is a result of failed leadership. 2. The Texas disaster was a result of record COLD, not warming. 3. Globally there is no trend with regard to hurricanes. 4. Tornadoes are trending down, not up. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2018/12/28/tornadoes-set-record-lows-2018-only-10-deaths-us/2431360002/ 5. Most of Texas is in no, or only mild drought, hardly the worst in history. https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/currentmap/statedroughtmonitor.aspx?TX 6. Biden’s stated policy goals are what is driving record gun and ammunition sales, not Ted Cruz. (Is Ted Cruz your new bogeyman?)
  11. I didn’t bring anyone anywhere, just linked to her graph. You didn’t like it so I posted another from another source, I believe it was NASA. (Got crickets on that one). The climate scientists I am referring to are the ones at NOAA and they show the globe to be no warmer than it was 23 years ago.
  12. 600,000 more FBI background checks, for gun purchases, this February than last. I can only imagine how big March’s numbers will be, with millions of folks pouring into gun stores, $1400 stimulus checks in hand. Demand is already greatly outpacing supply, this will only drive up prices and redirect billions of tax dollars into the coffers of gun and ammunition manufacturers.
  13. Facts are stubborn things, and I just learned, from climate scientists, that the earth is no warmer than it was 23 years ago.
  14. “February 2021 was characterized by colder-than-average temperatures across much of North America and northern Asia, where temperatures were at least 3.0°C (5.4°F) below average. Other areas with below-average temperatures included much of the eastern and central tropical Pacific Ocean, Australia, southern Africa, southern South America, and parts of the southern oceans. North America, as a whole, had its coldest February since 1994 and the 20th coldest February in the regional 112-year record. Similarly, the contiguous U.S. had its coldest February since 1989. For additional climate information on the U.S., please visit the national climate report. Oceania had its coldest February since 2012.” Wow! The globe is colder now than it was in ‘98 #where’s-the-crisis?
  15. Well I’m back from Florida and happy to report bars and restaurants were open and packed. Disney required masks and capacity was reduced but so was the number of rides, so the lines were long and crowded. Although masking was required, pretty much any face covering sufficed. Folks were selling mask inserts that worked great, they held the mask away from my face so I could breathe normally and not fog up my sunglasses while still complying with the mandate. Back here in Happy Valley the mass spreader event known as “State Patty’s Day” failed to produce even a slight bump in COVID cases. Newsom is facing a recall election, Andrew “COVID Gold Standard” Cuomo is in the barrel and DeSantis is on the short list of GOP presidential candidates. All in all a great week.
  16. Sorry I hadn’t had my coffee yet. When I said cheap, reliable and abundant beats expensive, intermittent and sometimes unavailable, you asked me “So...is this the hill you choose to die on” Just what did you mean by that?
  17. I said “The technology powered by cheep reliable and abundant energy sources will always out perform the same technology powered by expensive, intermittent and sometimes unavailable power sources.” Are you arguing, expensive, intermittent and unavailable is better than cheep reliable and abundant? Is that really the hill you choose to die on?
  18. Yes. The technology powered by cheep reliable and abundant energy sources will always out perform the same technology powered by expensive, intermittent and sometimes unavailable power sources. I don’t get why this is so hard to understand.
  19. The benefits of technology powered by fossil fuels, the CO2 is just a byproduct.
  20. I would like to see where you heard that argument, source please. If that argument made any sense, the South, where slavery was most prevalent, would be the richest region. But they weren’t, so there goes that red herring. If anything, fossil fuels are the great emancipator of humanity, freeing us from the bonds of physical labor. Fossil fuels are literally bringing billions of people out of poverty. To somehow equate that to slavery is not only stupid, it verges on evil.
  21. I am all for technology. I have nothing against electric anything (my wife’s GLS 450 is a hybrid) what I am against is wasting trillions of dollars on boondoggles that attempt to fix a non-problem while lining the pockets of politicians and their cronies.
  22. You don’t like her how about https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/gcb.14950
  23. The benefits are not solely the modest warming. The benefits, primarily, are a result of the exploitation of fossil fuels and the CO2 that comes with it.
  24. I didn’t bring anybody in I just linked to that graph. I do admit I can’t read, I can’t cypher, and I fail to grasp the most basic concepts. All I can do is cherry-pick inconvenient facts. It must be terribly discouraging you guys to have a rube like me occupy so much bandwidth.