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Looking at the comments from a previous post about social security, I wanted to address a couple of other points, and then provide some more evidence about the ridiculousness of the Social Security 'crisis.' First, as I'll discuss below, Social Security will not collapse. There is no serious…
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Subtitle: Politicians School Scientists In How To Do It
Alternative Title: Where were Bernie and Hillary????
You need to know right away that the Lede to this story is buried way the hell down the page.
That’s OK, though, because others are covering this, and the point of my missive is to put the…
Ideas like this are useful both in themselves and insofar as they are a foil to arguments that carbon pricing is 'just another tax.' More meaningfully, it might be called a financial penalty for harming future generations.
That NYT article certainly spells it out in some detail...and it needs it as it is pretty complex. Additionally there were at the time of my reading about 150 letters in the comment section. It seems that the entire issue is so contentious that it will take a long long time to gain any ground on this, not the least of which is the growing realization that even if there is some connection between human produced CO2 and global warming, the reason the sense of urgency and alarm is quite likely a bit overdone. I personally like Al Gore's charisma and liked his movie, but I know that he has a history of being in error with his judgement, such as when he selected Lieberman as his running mate and when he created a complex scheme to reduce government paperwork. In the mean time as we squabble of AGW we see habitat disappear and restoration efforts overshadowed and efforts that recognize the shifting of ecosystem aside from what will happen as the planet warms (surely nobody here believes there is some ideal state in which the earth resides which just happens to be more or less where we are now)...gosh, I wish Gore's efforts had focused on natural environmental degradation and pollution in general rather than getting ensnarled over the complexities of climate change and CO2. Some would call me a "denier" but "heretic" is probably a more accurate description which is what the orthodoxy calls those who believe but not in the approved form.
Thanks for bringin this our our attention.
I wish Gore's efforts had focused on natural environmental degradation and pollution in general rather than getting ensnarled over the complexities of climate change and CO2. Some would call me a "denier" but "heretic" is probably a more accurate description which is what the orthodoxy calls those who believe but not in the approved form. Thanks for bringin this our our attention.
f urgency and alarm is quite likely a bit overdone. I personally like Al Gore's charisma and liked his movie, but I know that he has a history of being in error with his judgement, such as when he selected Lieberman as his running mate and when he created a complex scheme to reduce gover
a complex scheme to reduce government paperwork. In the mean time as we squabble of AGW we see habitat disappear and restoration
Now what is not expensive for the world natural and disrupt the atmosphere we do not have the right to pollute the world we must choose