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    I avoid these rural shitholes.



    That's probably not a bad thing for you. With your attitude, you might get shot. :)
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    I own two awesome companies in a major city, so congrats (sincerely).



    Trust fund baby?
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    If you want to live and die for a flag by all means go for it



    It's the values behind the flag that people in this country die for. You clearly don't have such values.

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    At the end of the day the borders that were drawn mean nothing;



    What an ignorant thing to say. Current borders exist today primarily because of people who were willing to die for the political systems within those borders. You're not capable of seeing that, otherwise we wouldn't be having this conversation.

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    more than likely you have contributed nothing significant to make the US better or worse than any other country.



    I probably pay more taxes in a year than you'll ever make in a lifetime. Are you still living with your mom and dad? Do you even pay taxes?

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    Fortunately I grew up in a civilized metropolitan area and spent the majority of my life traveling.



    How many of your friends served in the military?

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    If you ever visit a major city anywhere in the world you'll find most people share these "punk ass values".



    I've lived in many major cities around the world, and I've always found people who are willing to die for their culture. I tend to get along really well with said people.

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    If you ever visit backwoods Pakistan, you'll find your middle eastern counterparts still living in the stone ages who are willing to die for their flag as well.



    I don't share values with said people. Actually, I find their values to be incompatible with mine. That's one of the major reasons they are still living in mud huts, and I'm not. I'd love to see you go and burn a Pakistani flag in Pakistan. Please video it when you do. I'll look for it on liveleak.com.

    I hope you never see the day where you may need to die for your values. Something tells me, you won't. And that will be the day your values end up on the trash heap of history, where they belong.
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    If you're upset by someone burning a flag you need to get a life.



    You clearly were not raised in a culture where being willing to die for your country and its values is something that is a point of pride, discussed over the dinner table, and used as an anchor in political discussions.

    There are lots of people, mainly in "fly over country", that have that value, and live it, die for it, and it's because of their efforts the US continues to be a sovereign country. It is their efforts that allows assholes like you to burn flags. The next time you see someone in a uniform, get your shit together and say thank you. Their cultural values far transcends your punk ass values, IMO. You and your ilk are the last fucking people that should have any say in the direction the country is going. With your values, we wouldn't be sovereign for long.
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    I use that solar to charge an EV.



    Where do you fill up when you're not at home?

    BTW, I wish I had your skill set in this area. My wife doesn't let me use power tools. She's not worried about me, it's the innocent bystanders she's looking out for... :$;)
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    In 50 years, when D-T fusion finally becomes practical, we'll hear the same thing. "The simple truth of the matter is we won't change to fusion because we won't want to destroy our current renewables-based economy to try to use it."



    I doubt that. It'll be a epochal day in the planet's history. Especially when you consider the number of D-T fusion reactors required for distributed production. There will be plenty of work to go around.
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    So you oppose nuclear power, better electrical grids, replanting dead forests and efficiency improvements in cars and industry?



    I'm not seeing anyone in this thread advocate against that.
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    And that could trigger a runaway situation, but we don't really know if it will or not.



    Seriously, the current weight fraction of CO2 in the troposphere is 0.0004. Just in case you hadn't noticed, that's an incredibly small number. Over the next hundred years, that's expected to increase to 0.0008. From that, an increase in temperature of ~1DegF is expected. Considering we already have ~60DegF warming due to water vapor alone, I find it hard to see how an additional 1DegF is going to produce catastrophic results. The Earth is not that fragile. If it was, we wouldn't be here.

    I am more than happy to see Earth's population reduce the 40GT+ of CO2 and equivalents that's being pumped into the troposphere each year. But, the methods used to address this need to do two things:
    1) It's got to work
    2) It needs to be cost effective.

    Nothing being advocated by Paris Agreement participants is going to do either of those. Giving UN agencies $1 Trillion per year is absolutely insane.
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    You've got to be kidding me. There are ample examples of things that are severely affected just by a few degrees temperature difference. Do you fish? Do you chase the spawn? Do you know what temperature the water needs to be at a certain time of year for those eggs to live? How about temperatures that trigger seasonal changes in plants and trees or crops in Texas?



    All of which can also be reasonably attributed to the natural variation in the Earth's climate.

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    Do you understand the energy difference in a cup of coffee vs a bath tub at a given temperature degrees? What if that bath tub were the Atlantic Ocean at the beginning of hurricane season.



    Do you realize we're going through one of the longest stretches in recorded history without a major hurricane hitting the US?

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    How about the difference in volume a liquid at two temperatures? Again....Atlantic Ocean.



    Do you realize how small the coefficient of expansion for water is? Along the same lines as its compressibility. Negligible.
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    Is someone asking for such an extraction and redistribution?



    The Paris Agreement.

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    And if that can not be justified then just what sort of investment can?



    Going full blown nuclear for the next 100 years while we sort out fusion. Full speed ahead.
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    Can't be much of a fever.



    Nothing being discussed here can justify extracting $1 Trillion per year from the productive economy to be redistributed via UN agencies. That is sheer insanity.
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    It has already produced a rise of 1.6F.



    Since when?

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    In order to be a "greenhouse gas", there must be a dipole moment.



    Actually, that's not completely true. CH4 does not have a dipole moment. What else is going on out there that isn't understood? Quite a bit, IMO.

    Later note here: I just went out to verify my understanding of CH4's lack of a dipole moment. Every site I came across also said CO2 _does_not_ have a dipole moment... due to it's linear arrangement.

    We are missing something here... I'm still trying to catch my breath re: CO2... I've taken it as gospel for years now that it had a dipole moment... And I was wrong.

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    Fortunately that is not the plan,...



    So, what is the plan?
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    CO2 is a greenhouse gas. By increasing greenhouse gas concentrations in a planet's atmosphere you will CAUSE (important word there; write it down) more heat to be retained. Retaining more heat will CAUSE (there it is again!) average temperatures to rise. This is science, not assumption.



    Yeah, right. CO2's weight fraction in the troposphere is currently 0.0004. And at current rates, it'll be ~100 years before it reaches 0.0008. Which will produce a rise in temperature of about 1DegF. Considering our species wouldn't be here without the 60DegF greenhouse warming due to water vapor, this change will not be catastrophic.

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    Fill a large chamber with nitrogen.



    Nitrogen does not have a dipole moment. In order to be a "greenhouse gas", there must be a dipole moment. Lots of molecules out there that have dipole moments.

    Considering the uncertainty in measurements, everything that's happening can equally be judged to be part of a natural cycle. Nothing being measured today can justify extracting $1 Trillion dollars from the productive economy, and giving it to multiple UN agencies to redistribute that money. That is pure insanity, IMO.
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    ...and they want to be able to have everyone be the same religion, or at least accept that all other religions are lesser?



    Like Dearborn, Michigan?
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    This is pretty much why I take Climate Change orthodoxy with a grain of salt



    I read that article today. Spot on, IMO! Way beyond confirmation bias.

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    'Social Scientists,' OTOH, are given more credence than is their due on far too many subjects, supporting the perception of the field as trivial.



    I've recently read several articles on the abuse of P-values (statistics) by "social scientists". Need to track them down and post them here. Massive abuse.
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    Killing thousands.



    Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster casualties

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    The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster (福島第一原子力発電所事故 Fukushima Dai-ichi (About this sound pronunciation) genshiryoku hatsudensho jiko?) was a series of equipment failures, nuclear meltdowns, and releases of radioactive materials at the Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant, following the Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami on 11 March 2011.[6][7] Although it was the largest nuclear disaster since the Chernobyl disaster of 1986,[8] and the radiation released exceeded official safety guidelines, there were no casualties caused by radiation exposure.



    You should really double check things before you post them.
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