The E wrote:Why are so many of your posts filled with wild generalizations about muslims? What are you, an islamophobe? That would explain much.
Why generalizations? Because every time I cite specifics on any subject you leftists squawk
ANECDOTE!! ANECDOTE!! MEANS NOTHING!How about the Moslem terrorist that stabbed a bunch of people in London yesterday?
I’ve been watching ‘Holmes + Holmes’, a TV show filmed in Canada about fixing houses for people after they’ve been fucked over by incompetent and/or larcenous contractors. The last few episodes have featured a couple whose house was in a deplorable condition, mainly because they couldn’t afford to hire proper contractors to do the necessary work. The wife has endometriosis, and her ‘free socialized health care’ costs them over $18,000 a year, leaving them barely enough to live on.
Why
do patients in the U.S. wait three hours for an MRI scan, while patients in Canada wait three months?
But, of course, those are all just
ANECDOTES!!So, to you, specifics are meaningless anecdotes, and non-specifics are meaningless generalizations. How very convenient.
And you still haven’t addressed the issue of why your posts are full of childish insults, just flung bullshit and more insults to cause a distraction.
The E wrote:You heard it here first, folks: Climate models that take historical data into account are wrong.
Do you have precise measurements of solar activity spanning the last 700 years? Can you accurately quantify the effects of changes in solar activity on global temperatures? Because, you see, the sun does have some effect on climate.
Today we have satellites that continuously measure solar radiation. We have found that it varies hour by hour, day by day, year by year, and decade by decade. We have overwhelming evidence that it varies over the course of centuries and millennia, as well. We have proven that sunspots are a consistent indicator of solar activity, though not a precise one, and up until the last 70 years, counting sunspots was the best we could do. We have never been able to measure the sun during a period similar to the Maunder Minimum. We can make only rough estimates of how much heat the sun put into the atmosphere before those detailed measurements were possible.
We have determined that solar activity has been increasing since the early 1800s, and the sun is currently hotter than it has been for the last 8,000 years.
In addition, it was impossible to record precise temperatures before the thermometer was invented in 1709, or to measure air pressure before the barometer was invented in 1643. People looked at the sky, or listened to old folks complain about their aching bones. We can only estimate historical temperatures, and errors of a few degrees make big differences in those climate predictions.
Between the lack of data on solar activity and the absence of air pressure and temperature readings, yes, worthless is a fair description.
Climate is not a one-variable equation where X CO2 = Temp, and 1.5X CO2 = 1.5Temp, although the Global Warming Doomsayers are damn near treating it as such. They don’t even take into account the effects of increased cloud cover.
The E wrote:Hah, those silly scientists, never getting their stories straight. You ask them something, you get an answer, you ask the same question a year later, and they're telling you the opposite; just what are they good for, really?
The alarmists
have been quite consistent about being wrong…
The E wrote:If the alternative is to rely on people like you, who seem to believe that any self-interest must be enlightened and therefore good, then yes.
And you Believe that all self-interest is inherently Eeevil — except the self-interest of those big-government authoritarians you practically worship. I think I see why. You in Europe are accustomed to being ruled by authoritarians, while our ancestors came to this country to be rid of the rule of kings, emperors and despots. Most of us do not want such rule reinstated.
Greedy businessmen can affect our lives only in limited ways. Even at their worst, we can stymie them by moving out of town, or to another state. Government, on the other hand, can take our money, our property, our rights, our freedom, and our very lives, wherever we go. Such appalling power
MUST be kept under strict control — but the only mechanism we have to control the power of government
IS the government. That is why our government was set up with limited power and built-in controls — but those safeguards are being broken down.
Maybe your government is comprised entirely of virtuous paragons and saints, but ours is full of greedy corrupt self-serving sociopathic narcissists, of which Hillary Clinton and, to a lesser extent, Bill, are prime examples. They already have too much power over our lives; giving them more would be profoundly stupid.
The E wrote:However: You wouldn't have been able to do that without a lot of government intervention to fund research and subsidize production.
More bullshit. Those solar panels, and the converter, were built by private companies seeking profit. They funded their own research into solar power, to make more profit. Almost all of the companies that
did get money from the government were run by political hacks that knew nothing of science, engineering or business. They collapsed, and took our money with them.
Here in the U.S. the government does not dictate what products are sold on the open market by private companies. Other than by prohibiting some products, that is, or imposing fees and regulations that make other products unprofitable. And, of course, the endless, useless piles of government paperwork every business has to fill out.
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If a business tries something, and it doesn't work, they have to stop doing it or they will go broke. When the government tries something that doesn't work, they will keep shoveling our money into it forever.
