brenthutch

I don't think it ever looked peaceful, but the West certainly didn't help things when it carved up the region after WWI. And we did not help when we intervened.

I didn't know that you were a big GWB supporter. I think that it would be better for all involved to sort out their own problems without "big brother" imposing his will.

F**k them all, pull out and let the Taliban, ISIS, al-Qaeda, Assad, the Turks the Russians, the Pakiesthe Iranians, the Houthi's, the Saudi's and others kill each other to their hearts delight. We don't need their oil, (thanks to fracking and shale oil). We just need to ban the press from covering the resulting carnage so the bleeding heart lefties, and the neo-con nation builders don't cry out for intervention.

I know, it pisses you off when I am right and you are wrong. It happens to my wife all of the time. "It's not that you are wrong, your delivery just sucks"

That's pretty rich, coming from someone who just said I sound stupid.

If you go by the narrative you would be correct, if you go with the data, I would be correct. 1) Global wildfire activity has decreased in recent decades, making any localized increase (or decrease) in wildfire activity difficult to attribute to ‘global climate change’. 2) Like California, Australia is prone to bushfires every year during the dry season. Ample fuel and dry weather exists for devastating fires each year, even without excessive heat or drought, as illustrated by the record number of hectares burned (over 100 million) during 1974-75 when above-average precipitation and below-average temperatures existed. 3) Australian average temperatures in 2019 were well above what global warming theory can explain, illustrating the importance of natural year-to-year variability in weather patterns (e.g. drought and excessively high temperatures). 4) Australia precipitation was at a record low in 2019, but climate models predict no long-term trend in Australia precipitation, while the observed trend has been upward, not downward. This again highlights the importance of natural climate variability to fire weather conditions, as opposed to human-induced climate change. 5) While reductions in prescribed burning have probably contributed to the irregular increase in the number of years with large bush fires, a five-fold increase in population in the last 100 years has greatly increased potential ignition sources, both accidental and purposeful. Historical Background Australia has a long history of bush fires, with the Aborigines doing prescribed burns centuries (if not millennia) before European settlement. A good summary of the history of bushfires and their management was written by the CSIRO Division of Forestry twenty-five years ago, entitled Bushfires – An Integral Part of Australia’s Environment. The current claim by many that human-caused climate change has made Australian bushfires worse is difficult to support, for a number of reasons. Bushfires (like wildfires elsewhere in the world) are a natural occurrence wherever there is strong seasonality in precipitation, with vegetation growing during the wet season and then becoming fuel for fire during the dry season. All other factors being equal, wildfires (once ignited) will be made worse by higher temperatures, lower humidity, and stronger winds. But with the exception of dry lightning, the natural sources of fire ignition are pretty limited. High temperature and low humidity alone do not cause dead vegetation to spontaneously ignite. As the human population increases, the potential ignition sources have increased rapidly. The population of Australia has increased five-fold in the last 100 years (from 5 million to 25 million). Discarded cigarettes and matches, vehicle catalytic converters, sparks from electrical equipment and transmission lines, campfires, prescribed burns going out of control, and arson are some of the more obvious source of human-caused ignition, and these can all be expected to increase with population. Trends in Bushfire Activity The following plot shows the major Australia bushfires over the same period of time (100 years) as the five-fold increase in the population of Australia. The data come from Wikipedia’s Bushfires in Australia.

What would that be? Global temperature has risen by a degree or two? Who cares? It has been beneficial. No increase in hurricanes, droughts, floods, tornadoes, wildfires or acne. The only effect has been shrinking deserts, greater food production, longer lifespan, greater global standard of living and greatly reduced poverty. The larger ones carbon footprint the better ones standard of living. Those are just stubborn facts.

All plants do better, some just better than others. Are you worried about CO2 income inequality?

Survival of the fittest?

Yes I did. Here is some more good news from the same link "A 1993 review of scientific greenhouse studies found that a doubling of CO 2 concentration would stimulate the growth of 156 different plant species by an average of 37%. Response varied significantly by species, with some showing much greater gains and a few showing a loss. For example, a 1979 greenhouse study found that with doubled CO 2 concentration the dry weight of 40-day-old cotton plants doubled, but the dry weight of 30-day-old maize plants increased by only 20%"

Neither does CO2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxy-fuel_welding_and_cutting

Uh, newsflash! PREHISTORIC CO2 CONCENTRATION WAS GREATER THAN IT IS TODAY!!!! "About 34 million years ago, when the Antarctic ice sheet started to take its current form, CO2 was about 760 ppm," Did you catch that? CO2 at 760 and ice was GROWING https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_dioxide_in_Earth's_atmosphere

Oxygen, cuts steel much better that your puny CO2 laserhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxy-fuel_welding_and_cutting , and water vapor traps vastly more energy than CO2 could ever hope to. As far as my facial, just show me you beauty school diploma and next time you are in State College you can laser away.

Right here' https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/oct/20/susan-crockford-fired-after-finding-polar-bears-th/ Here https://onenewsnow.com/science-tech/2017/02/15/reporter-fired-for-questioning-climate-change Here https://dailycaller.com/2019/03/17/patrick-moore-claims-google-scrubbed-founders/ Here https://www.cnn.com/2015/11/03/europe/france-weatherman-sacked-climate/index.html I could go on all day, but you get the idea. With regard to the money, Penn State hired Michael Mann because of the federal research dollars that would come with him not because of his ground breaking (fraudulent) research.

Funny, it looks just like the old normal.

No problem, I'm game. But why are you so hell bent on giving me a facial? https://www.webmd.com/beauty/laser-resurfacing#1

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Cherry picked start date. If they went back twenty years instead of thirty, it would show cooling.

I believe the cause of death was listed as “AGM-114 poisoning”

So we are simpatico.

I have laid out my predictions, what are yours?

My prediction for 2020: Atmospheric CO2 will continue to rise, and we will all still be here.(And by all, I mean humans, polar bears, koalas,snail darters and coral reefs. Who has a different view?

10 out of 10 on the irony scale.

CO2? Harmless. Mirrors? Absolutely terrifying

The hottest EVER, (since 1939) https://jennifermarohasy.com/2020/01/it-has-been-hotter-fires-have-burnt-larger-areas/