jim2, your link was from January 2014, and back then, that was the way people were thinking, but it has evolved a lot since then as my link states. Also note that it is Republicans who are now reaching out to these countries saying don’t deal with the US on emissions, even as they continue to say that China isn’t doing anything so we shouldn’t.
Comment on Week in review – energy and policy edition by Jim D
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Comment on Week in review – energy and policy edition by Jim D
Also from someone at the Cato institute, no less, this favorable view of Trump’s foreign policy relative to the Republican establishment that now includes the Tea Party. Basically, even if he doesn’t know much in detail, he is much less warlike, and thinks of the finances, so he would probably only attack people who have the oil to pay for it.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/doug-bandow/is-donald-trump-the-best_b_8101448.html
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Comment on Week in review – energy and policy edition by Arch Stanton
Soon you will be able to worry about imaginary stuff if you need help.
Carry a few ashes at Burning Man and poof…there you are.
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Comment on Week in review – energy and policy edition by Jim D
Engineers should be the ones who realize most how much can be accomplished in 15-35 year time scales, especially with a worthy goal. Imagine comparing today’s technology with 1980’s. That’s what we would look like to someone in 2050.
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Comment on Week in review – energy and policy edition by AK
Imagine how a telephonics “engineer” in 1995 would have responded to some visionary description like this:
Sprint Spark combines 4G FDD1-LTE at 800 Megahertz (MHz) and 1.9 Gigahertz (GHz) and TDD1-LTE at 2.5GHz spectrum, TDD-LTE technology (2.5GHz), and carrier aggregation in the 2.5GHz band. These spectrum assets, technology and architecture are designed to deliver a seamless customer experience via tri-band wireless devices. Tri-band devices, named for their ability to accommodate multiple spectrum bands, support active hand-off mode between 800MHz, 1.9GHz and 2.5GHz, providing data session continuity as the device moves between spectrum bands.
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Comment on Week in review – energy and policy edition by AK
Sorry, [<a href="http://www.talkandroid.com/181616-sprint-announces-spark-technology-to-surpass-competitor-speeds/" rel="nofollow">link</a>].
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Comment on Week in review – energy and policy edition by jim2
AK – the free market is more than adequate to handle any future energy needs. The only problem is government impediments. Once the government takes an APPROPRIATE regulatory role, there will be no energy problem. And until ACO2 is proved to be problematic, no money should be spent and no regulations created to curtail it.
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Comment on Managing uncertainty in predictions of climate change and impacts by wijnand2015
<blockquote>And there seems little doubt in the same minds that a “tiny trace gas” could make a significant impact on plant growth.</blockquote>
That is because it has been established empirically.
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Comment on Week in review – energy and policy edition by Don Monfort
Have you forgotten that elections have consequences, yimmy? Every one of those Republicans in Congress and also the Democrats who vote with them on climate issues were elected by the people. And you support the UN consipiracy to thwart U.S. democracy. Shame on you, yimmy.
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Comment on Week in review – energy and policy edition by Jim D
For the Republicans, knowledge is optional and not a prerequisite for being elected. I know you like HuffPo, so here is one on that subject today.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/know-nothing-candidates_55ef45eae4b093be51bc94c7
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Comment on Week in review – energy and policy edition by AK
<blockquote>AK – the free market is more than adequate to handle any future energy needs.</blockquote>The “<i>free market</i>” is a myth. Don't get me wrong, I'm a libertarian (of sorts), and that myth, and the realities behind it, mean a lot to me. But until a few decades ago, “<i>free markets</i>” were <b>always</b> fenced off behind walls of tariffs and import/export strictures, in the service of "national policy". And since WWII, there has been massive regulation of that “<i>free market</i>” in even the most "capitalist" countries. Again, mostly in the service of "national policy".
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Comment on Week in review – energy and policy edition by jim2
Right and good points, AK. I’m also more libertarian than anything else. That’s why I emphasized appropriate regulations.
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Comment on The Urgenda ruling in the Netherlands by Peter Davies
Not one of my better worded comments VP. The distinction I had in mind were laws made by individual members of the jurisprudence and laws made through legislation. The community can dismiss the parliamentarians but not the judges!
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Comment on The Urgenda ruling in the Netherlands by Vaughan Pratt
clairvoyance
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Comment on The Urgenda ruling in the Netherlands by Vaughan Pratt
Your point is an excellent one, Peter, and will never go away, not even after the Singularity. Judges will forever be faced with the question of WTF did those legislators have in mind. Answering it is almost always a lose-lose proposition, since they’ll be attacked for their answer by whomever’s ox has been gored by it.
That said, I wouldn’t mind being a judge because I’d rather be attacked for taking sides on such a question than for robbing a bank or murdering someone. Only in countries like Pakistan can being a judge be more than typically miserable.
Few judges are unreasonable (though they certainly exist), and fewer still in such high profile cases.
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Comment on The Urgenda ruling in the Netherlands by Peter Davies
The agreement to achieve a reduction in emissions is not worth anything because if not achieved, it just becomes another broken promise by the government of the day. I rather doubt that it would be legally enforceable as there seems no binding contract in place and any court would therefore seem incapable of enforcing anything. If the above ruling were not taken notice of by the Dutch Government what penalties would be applicable and to whom would these penalties be imposed?
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Comment on Week in review – energy and policy edition by jim2
How long is Obumbles going to kowtow to these people?
From the article:
Al Qaeda Mag Urges Attack on Koch Brothers, Buffett, Bloomberg
by ROBERT WINDREM and TRACY CONNOR
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A notorious al Qaeda magazine is encouraging lone-wolf terrorist attacks on U.S. economic leaders, including Bill Gates, Michael Bloomberg and Warren Buffett.
The list in Inspire magazine also included industrialist brothers Charles and David Koch, internet entrepreneur Larry Ellison, and casino magnate Sheldon Adelson. A prominent economist was also on the list but asked that his name be withheld. Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke was named, though not Janet Yellen, who succeeded him.
Also pictured was Jim Walton, one of the heirs to the Wal-Mart fortune, although he was misidentified in the caption as his late father, Sam Walton. Several other names on the list were misspelled.
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The slickly produced magazine article begins with a photo illustration showing blood-spattered pictures of several of the leaders next to a dripping gun. Its stated goal is to derail the “revival of the America Economy.”
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http://www.nbcnews.com/business/economy/al-qaeda-mag-urges-attack-koch-brothers-buffett-bloomberg-n424386
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Comment on Week in review – energy and policy edition by jim2
moderation
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Comment on The Urgenda ruling in the Netherlands by jim2
Well, then you knew yesterday my comment – what do you say of it?
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Comment on Week in review – science edition by jim2
(On Drudge) From the article:
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Red shows the September 2012 minimum extent. Green shows the current extent, which is likely the minimum for 2015. The Arctic has gained hundreds of miles of ice over the past three years, much of which is thick, multi-year ice.
Nobel Prize winning climate experts and journalists tell us that the Arctic is ice-free, because they are propagandists pushing an agenda, not actual scientists or journalists.
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https://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2015/09/09/arctic-has-gained-hundreds-of-miles-of-ice-the-last-three-years/
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