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Malachai Constant Member
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I loved having defendants who refused to settle ended up with bigger damages that way
"You do not laugh when you look at the mountains, or when you look at the sea." Lafcadio Hearn
"You do not laugh when you look at the mountains, or when you look at the sea." Lafcadio Hearn
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MtnGoat Member
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Tue Oct 17, 2017 10:56 am
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If you win, sure. Makes sense.
Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock. - Will Rogers
Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock. - Will Rogers
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MtnGoat Member
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Tue Oct 17, 2017 11:02 am
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Quote: | Beyond US President Donald Trump's decision in June to withdraw the United States from the 2015 Paris climate agreement, a more profound challenge to the global climate pact is emerging. No major advanced industrialized country is on track to meet its pledges to control the greenhouse-gas emissions that cause climate change.
Wishful thinking and bravado are eclipsing reality. Countries in the European Union are struggling to increase energy efficiency and renewable power to the levels that they claimed they would. Japan promised cuts in emissions to match those of its peers, but meeting the goals will cost more than the country is willing to pay. Even without Trump's attempts to roll back federal climate policy, the United States is shifting its economy to clean energy too slowly.
The Paris agreement offered, in theory, to reboot climate diplomacy by giving countries the flexibility to set their own commitments. As of July 2017, 153 countries have ratified the agreement — 147 of which have submitted pledges to reduce emissions, also known as nationally determined contributions. The idea is that as each country implements its own pledge, others can learn what is feasible, and that collaborative global climate protection will emerge. That logic, however, threatens to unravel because national governments are making promises that they are unable to honour. |
Nothing eclipses reality. Reality has always been that this is a pointless, costly, damaging political theatre in pursuit of power.
Of course they're unable to honor their promises. The economic damage due to their goals and methods piles up and they find themselves up against the reality that their costly actions cost everyone more money, and for what? More expensive elections, more nonsensical interference and regulations and unintended consequences as the outcome of subsidy and distortion begets more chaos
.... and ongoing failure to meet carbon emissions targets, meaning even *more* interference and cost must be imposed upon populations.
Prove Paris was more than hot air? You can't prove something is other than what it is...reality doesn't work that way.
Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock. - Will Rogers
Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock. - Will Rogers
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Randito Snarky Member
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Tue Oct 17, 2017 11:05 am
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I find the use of the terms "Trump" and "Reality" within the same statement hilarious.
As real as "Reality TV"
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MtnGoat Member
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Tue Oct 17, 2017 11:32 am
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We're seeing climate action is just as productive as reality TV as well.
Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock. - Will Rogers
Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock. - Will Rogers
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Ski ><((((°>
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Tue Oct 17, 2017 12:53 pm
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The art of understatement:
Victor, Akimoto, et al, in the 'Nature' article cited above by MtnGoat wrote: | Cost is one indicator for which better ties are needed between academic studies and the real world. |
Who knew?
"I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach.
I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each."
"I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach.
I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each."
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MtnGoat Member
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Tue Oct 17, 2017 1:10 pm
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I did.
Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock. - Will Rogers
Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock. - Will Rogers
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Ski ><((((°>
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Tue Oct 17, 2017 1:14 pm
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Well... you're not the only one. Unfortunately the individuals involved in this "policy making" fiasco are (for the most part) living in Never-Never Land.
"I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach.
I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each."
"I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach.
I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each."
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MtnGoat Member
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Wed Oct 18, 2017 8:07 am
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Unsustainable
Quote: | In Germany as 20 years of wind subsidies comes to an end in 2020, half to three quarters of the industry may disappear.
So many parallels with Australia. The Germans have had wind subsidies for 20 years, but even after two decades of support, the industry is still not profitable on a stand-alone basis. In 2016, some 4600MW of new wind plants were installed, but that may drop to one quarter as much by 2019 as subsidies shrink. According to Pierre Gosselin (August 31st, 2017) there are more wind protests, electricity prices are “skyrocketing” and “the grid has become riddled with inefficiencies and has become increasingly prone to grid collapses from unstable power feed in.”
Pierre Gosslin writes that “Germany is more in the green energy retreat mode”.
German flagship business daily “Handelsblatt” reported … how Germany’s wind energy market is now “threatening to implode” and as a result “thousands of jobs are at risk“. José Luis Blanco, CEO of German wind energy giant Nordex, blames the market chaos on “policymakers changing the rules“. Subsidies have been getting cut back substantially. The problem, Blanco says, is that worldwide green energy subsidies are being capped and wind parks as a result are no longer looking profitable to investors. The Handelsblatt writes that “things have never been this bad“. |
German wind industry “threatening to implode” as subsidies end wiping out half or more of new plants
Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock. - Will Rogers
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MtnGoat Member
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Wed Oct 18, 2017 10:38 am
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The *fact* that they were correct in the face of consensus against them, points up the fact that consensus means *nothing* scientifically.
Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock. - Will Rogers
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Randito Snarky Member
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Wed Oct 18, 2017 6:46 pm
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MtnGoat Member
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Thu Oct 19, 2017 10:05 am
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In Australia, faulty BoM temperature sensors contribute to “hottest year ever”
Quote: | I don’t believe in conspiracies of silence except when it comes to Harvey Weinstein and the Australian Bureau of Meteorology.
For some time, weather enthusiasts have been noticing rapid temperature fluctuations at the ‘latest observations’ page at the Bureau’s website. For example, Peter Cornish, a retired hydrologist, wrote to the Bureau on 17 December 2012 asking whether the 1.5 degrees Celsius drop in temperature in the space of one minute at Sydney’s Observatory Hill, just the day before, could be a quirk of the new electronic temperature sensors. Ken Stewart, a retired school principal, requested temperature data for Hervey Bay after noticing a 2.1 degrees Celsius temperature change in the space of one minute on 22 February 2017.
In both cases, the Bureau assured these ‘amateurs’ that they didn’t understand what they were noticing. In the case of Dr Cornish, he was referred to a Bureau report that makes reference to international studies, which explains how measurements from the fast responding electronic sensors are made comparable with measurements from the more inert mercury thermometers by averaging over at least one minute – except the Bureau does not actually average any of the measurements recorded from its custom-built sensors. |
Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock. - Will Rogers
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MtnGoat Member
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Thu Oct 19, 2017 10:07 am
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Doppelganger wrote: | It didn't take me long to learn who this was. I'm interested in who you think this is, MtnGoat.
Big fan of trying to 'scientifically' dismiss the concept of consensus, you might be on to something really huge. Can you expand please? I like the idea of getting a free Fact Pass if I can show people I was right about one thing, one time.
Hey, Randy got the table ready! Thanks! |
It doesn't take much to scientifically dismiss the concept of consensus as evidence. Consensus is a *demographic* measurement of opinions, scientific evidence consists of objective empirical measurements or mathematics.
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