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Comment on Risk assessment: What is the plausible ‘worst scenario’ for climate change? by beththeserf
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Comment on Risk assessment: What is the plausible ‘worst scenario’ for climate change? by Peter Davies
405 actually! :)
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Comment on Risk assessment: What is the plausible ‘worst scenario’ for climate change? by aneipris
“Cooling is possible;”
In fact, it’s even plausible.
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Comment on Risk assessment: What is the plausible ‘worst scenario’ for climate change? by Philip Lee
Justifying (via ignorance) spending on asteroid defense which might have been better spent on cancer research.
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Comment on Risk assessment: What is the plausible ‘worst scenario’ for climate change? by Philip Lee
Re SM’s statement: “. . . falsification is not how science works”, it isn’t hard to find those who don’t agree. Look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falsifiability to start and find more as necessary to educate yourself.
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Comment on Risk assessment: What is the plausible ‘worst scenario’ for climate change? by Willard
> Why not also post your trivial on line dictionary link?
Because quoting online dictionaries is a specialty among parsomatic artists, like we often encounter at Lucia’s. Since you insist:
: a chance that something might exist, happen, or be true : the state or fact of being possible
: something that might be done or might happen : something that is possible
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/possibility
: appearing worthy of belief
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/plausible
Denizens (go team!) can see that possibility is ontological (it refers to a state of affairs) while plausibility is epistemological, as it refers to a belief over that state of affairs. Logicians (no, not DavidW, real ones) might also refer to alethic and epistemic interpretations of modal logics.
One way to merge the two universes of discourse would be the ambiguously named possibility theory:
The name “Theory of Possibility” was coined by Zadeh [119]. In Zadeh’s view, possibility distributions were meant to provide a graded semantics
to natural language statements. However, possibility and necessity measures can also be the basis of a full-fledged representation of partial belief that parallels probability. It can be seen either as a coarse, non-numerical version of probability theory, or a framework for reasoning with extreme probabilities (Spohn [102]), or yet a simple approach to reaso
ning with imprecise probabilities [36].
http://www.irit.fr/~Didier.Dubois/Papers0804/D_CSDA06.pdf
Except for some byzantine refinements it provides over fuzzy logic, I’m not sure it’s worth handwaving to all this.
The lore of our fathers is a fabric of sentences.
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Comment on Risk assessment: What is the plausible ‘worst scenario’ for climate change? by Willard
> I admit to too much ennui
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Comment on Risk assessment: What is the plausible ‘worst scenario’ for climate change? by Jim D
While the EPA can’t control the world’s emissions, if the world followed Obama’s goals for decarbonization by 80% by 2050, they would keep CO2 levels near 450 ppm, which would meet the goals for global emissions. While their 0.01 C number looks like it is low by a factor of at least ten (they really need to show their work), it is not the number you need when you put this policy on a global scale where it becomes more like 2 C.
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Comment on Risk assessment: What is the plausible ‘worst scenario’ for climate change? by aaron
I think it is plausible. If it cools and food productivity drops we’ll find all kinds of inventive ways to use coal and extract coal and methane. We’ll probably set charges to release methane we can’t easily extract directly into the ocean and atmosphere, both to prevent cooling and fertilize the planet.
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Comment on Risk assessment: What is the plausible ‘worst scenario’ for climate change? by Horst Graben (@Graben_Horst)
Donnie: The US of A has a moral responsibility to be the beacon of righteousness in all aspects, not just military might, banking usury, and sweatshops. My god, as long as we can keep McDonalds, Starbucks and Costco, quit yer whinging.
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Comment on Risk assessment: What is the plausible ‘worst scenario’ for climate change? by opluso
@Don Monfort
==>“Necessary” is in the eye of the beholder.
That’s trivial.
And that’s a non sequitur.
The only thing bigger than the American defense budget is the pack of lies our government spreads to convince us the expenditures are existentially necessary.
We should have weaned the Military-Industrial Complex from the taxpayer’s teat after WWII but our leaders decided to provide proxy forces to prop up collapsing colonialism around the globe. And we’re still doing it 70 years later.
Fortunately, when Bernie Sanders is elected president, I’m sure things will finally change…
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Comment on Risk assessment: What is the plausible ‘worst scenario’ for climate change? by captdallas2 0.8 +/- 0.3
So many problems so little time. The drugs and counselling might work for more that one problem.
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Comment on Risk assessment: What is the plausible ‘worst scenario’ for climate change? by PA
The scenario was laughable.
The way you find out that you underspent on national defense is when you are having to learn a new language.
Most people prefer to overspend a little.
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Comment on Week in review – science edition by jim2
From the article:
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The volume of Arctic sea ice increased by around a third after an unusually cool summer in 2013.
Researchers say the growth continued in 2014 and more than compensated for losses recorded in the three previous years.
The scientists involved believe changes in summer temperatures have greater impacts on ice than thought.
But they say 2013 was a one-off and that climate change will continue to shrink the ice in the decades ahead.
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Comment on Risk assessment: What is the plausible ‘worst scenario’ for climate change? by Jeff Id
It makes some uncomfortable to be in the passenger seat.
I would suggest that we recognize that the steering wheel we hold is the plastic one mom nature handed us to play with while she drove the car. Not that she might not veer slightly left due to our misbehavior while she smacked us in the head once in a while.
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Comment on Risk assessment: What is the plausible ‘worst scenario’ for climate change? by aplanningengineer
Think of the children,
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Comment on Risk assessment: What is the plausible ‘worst scenario’ for climate change? by cerescokid
opluso
Defense spending in the last 15 years has gone up from $300 Billion to $600 Billion. Spending on Social Programs has gone up in the last 15 years $1.9 Trillion from $1.1 Trillion to $3 Trillion. Lets see, that is an increase of $300 Billion vs. an increase of $1.9 Trillion. Which one is causing the deficit?
Bernie is feeding the Liberal Myth that returning to a 91% top marginal rate will help the Middle Class since there was massive income redistribution going on during the 1950s and 1960s. What a joke! There were 201 tax payers in 1954 making over $1 million. There were just 600 tax payers who paid the top marginal rate of 91%. The taxes contributed by the latter group made up 1% of Total Tax revenue and less than .5% by the former group. That is hardly massive income redistribution. The effective rate for all tax payers (taxes paid of Adjusted Gross Income) in 1954 was 13.8%. The latest IRS report (2012) shows an effective tax rate of 14.2%. If we return to the effective tax rate for the top 1% existing in 1954, that would generate about $100 Billion a year, which would put barely a dent into the annual deficit leaving nothing for income redistribution.
The amount of funding available for income redistribution in 1954, if adjusted for inflation, would be less than $130 Billion vs the current $3 Trillion. Income redistribution has never had it so good.
There are dozens of reasons for income inequality. The current top marginal rate does not make the top 10.
But, if you want to believe in Myths, be my guest.
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Comment on Risk assessment: What is the plausible ‘worst scenario’ for climate change? by Mike Kenny
What is the plausible ‘worst scenario’ for climate change? (rather a silly question) — An Ice-Age of course !!
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Comment on Risk assessment: What is the plausible ‘worst scenario’ for climate change? by justinwonder
Appx. 50,000 USA troops were killed in Korea trying to repel an invasion from the communist north – andproxy war was just a ” police action”. Many of those soldiers were killed at night because the AF did not have night capability. Now we can fly at night and all weather – for good reason. Next war will be different from all previous and if we aren’t prepared many people will cry themselves to sleep for a long time. Btw, note the difference between North and South Korea. Final note, sometimes the war comes to you, like it or not. I’d rather have the modern analog of a superior aircraft than a Solyndra.
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Comment on Risk assessment: What is the plausible ‘worst scenario’ for climate change? by JCH
Lol.
ncome level Tax rate 2008 PPC Adjusted Income [2]
up to $2,000.00 20% up to $37,500.00
$2,000.01 – $4,000.00 22% $37,500 – 75,000
$4,000.01 – $6,000.00 26% $75,000 – 112,500
$6,000.01 – $8,000.00 30% $112,500 – 150,000
$8,000.01 – $10,000.00 34% $150,000 – 187,500
$10,000.01 – $12,000.00 38% $187,500 – 225,000
$12,000.01 – $14,000.00 43% $225,000 – 262,500
$14,000.01 – $16,000.00 47% $262,500 – 300,000
$16,000.01 – $18,000.00 50% $300,000 – 337,500
$18,000.01 – $20,000.00 53% $337,500 – 375,000
$20,000.01 – $22,000.00 56% $375,000 – 412,500
$22,000.01 – $26,000.00 59% $412,500 – 487,500
$26,000.01 – $32,000.00 62% $487,500 – 600,000
$32,000.01 – $38,000.00 65% $600,000 – 712,500
$38,000.01 – $44,000.00 69% $712,500 – 825,000
$44,000.01 – $50,000.00 72% $825,000 – 937,500
$50,000.01 – $60,000.00 75% $937,500 – 1,125,000
$60,000.01 – $70,000.00 78% $1,125,000 – 1,312,500
$70,000.01 – $80,000.00 81% $1,312,500 – 1,500,000
$80,000.01 – $90,000.00 84% $1,500,000 – $1,687,500
$90,000.01 – $100,000.00 87% $1,687,500 – $1,875,000
$100,000.01 – $150,000.00 89% $1,875,000 – $2,812,500
$150,000.01 – $ 200,000.00 90% $2,812,500 – $3,750,000
$200,000.01 or more 91% $3,750,000 or more
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