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  1. You have no evidence for the belief that it IS caused by humans. Sorry. Try tracking 20th century (pre-adjusted, ahem) temperature cycles with solar cycles. And don't fake the math with bad statistics.
  2. Vostok ice core data showed CO2 trailing warming--cause and effect are backward. I'm talking about things like this. Simple, stupid, elementary mistakes. http://wmbriggs.com/blog/?p=195 The model for the earth is flat wrong. The earth should be modeled as a black body. In the IPCC models, it is modeled such that its temperature does not change the amount of radiation it emits--radiation is constant in all IPCC models. If I used the same assumption for my wood stove, it'd work just as well without a fire in it as with. Basically, in terms of explaining problems that other chemicals can cause, in simple terms, any element can only absorb and then release energy at certain wavelengths. Once that element is absorbing all the available energy at the wave lengths it can absorb, it's done. That's saturation. Oxygen is at saturation. Carbon is close. Lots of elements are NOT usually found in our atmosphere, so their warming potentials are really, really high if they are released in a gaseous form at sufficient quantities.
  3. It is insanely busy in the summer. FWIW.
  4. BTW, Parrothead, I'm not saying that YOU and your DH wouldn't be interested in lifestyle changes. Most of the people the dr. sees want a pill, not a lifestyle change. So he reacts based on that. That's par for the course, unfortunately.
  5. I wouldn't even call it painful. Other vaccinations burn. Flu doesn't. It's just a pinch. Really.
  6. The food allergy skin and blood tests are totally unreliable. If she has an allergy to a food, you would have symptoms.
  7. You don't live on the East Coast, so anything that happens there isn't real.
  8. A + C. A gets immediate action. C requires lifestyle changes which, frankly, most people refuse to make, especially if they already have gotten to the point where cholesterol is that high.
  9. If he really cared about dance, he would train several hours a day on his own.
  10. Like the poor polar bears? Who are now more numerous than since we began recording population data for them?
  11. I understand the science, which is why I scorn it. And no, there isn't a consensus. Those who disagree are suppressed, if not simply ejected. And the most prominent "scientist" in the UK has been caught talking about how they need to manipulate data before people find out that their predictions were so wrong. Where is the science in that? Just because there is a consensus doesn't mean it's right, either. There was a scientific consensus for 2,300 YEARS that women could only get pregnant if they have an orgasm. They had all kinds of evidence. They were WRONG. There was a consensus for nearly as long that bad air or fumes was the major cause of sickness. Germ theory was a REVOLUTION, and it faced enormous contempt and opposition because the CONSENSUS was that it was bunk. Tiny animals? You have to be joking. You clearly haven't had many close ties with academia, to buy into the idea that scientists are above mere mortals in their lack of bias and self-interest. Man-made global warming is POSSIBLE, but no great amount from CO2. We're near the saturation point above which CO2 CAN'T do anything more. There are WAY scarier things that we really, really, REALLY do need to keep an eye on these things. But they're going to lose everyone's trust over this CO2 nonsense, and no one will listen when the physics actually is there to back them up.
  12. Every time the East Coast is warm, the newscasters scream about global warming. Every time it's cold, they talk about how it is a fluke. When I lived in NM and had a TERRIBLE, bitter winter when the East Coast was warm, I wanted to march over to New York and beat them all to death with my snow shovel. I'm not even sure there is ANY real warming trend over the past century, once you get past the manipulated--excuse me, ADJUSTED--figures, much less that it's caused by humans.
  13. BTW, flat paint has been the trend for about 8 years. It is a GREAT way to get people to pay for more paint every 2 years when the walls look so gross you can't stand it anymore. Eggshell, people! Eggshell on walls! :)
  14. Well, if you use a high quality paint, you should not NEED to pain any more often than once every 10 years in high traffice areas and once every 15-20 years in other areas. I paint because I want a different color, probably once every 10 years per room. I don't paint because it's dirty. If it's dirty, I clean it, and because I use nice paint, they are cleanable!
  15. I don't think he should be fired, but YES, reprimanded strongly.
  16. 70 wpm. Pretty sucky. :p I'm in the weird generation that wasn't taught proper typing but was expected to type for school a lot. So my technique stinks, but it's really easy on my wrists!
  17. Guilt is not a good reason to cloth diaper! Don't burden yourself if that's why you want to do it. :)
  18. IQ appears to be malleable in the low IQ, but a lot of this is because other factors like education and self-control affect their outcomes. Once you are nearing the normal range or above, you can swing IQ by maybe 5 points, max, GIVEN THE SAME SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT. Social environment is actually very able to depress IQ scores, but differences among those in the same society remain equally meaningful
  19. Husbands used to hide their income from their wives, too, and give them an allowance for the house. Doesn't mean it makes sense.
  20. "Be thankful you have your health" - The person is a snot, telling you that your suffering doesn't matter because you're not sick (enough). (That said, no one's ever said it to me! And I wouldn't say it to anyone.) "I'm thankful for my health." - An honest expression of how that person feels. "I'm glad it's not worse!" - What I say. :p
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