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Obama got the Nobel for being able to stand..period. If he had any class he would have politely declined that pre-emptive, meaningless gesture.

It looks from this graph at Ed Hawkins blog that the models aren’t too far from reality. By this time next year if things go as expected it will probably be even closer to the model average.

Danley, I fail to see how this mathematical metaphor does any of what you suggest. I also do not care for your apparent view of political process, which is the actual decision making apparatus of democracy.

Hi Michael, I look forward to reading your book over the Xmas break

Oil still around $40. The 1 year out contango is around $7, meaning a price pressure for crude to go to storage.

11/27/15
OIL 41.71
BRENT 44.86
NAT GAS 2.212
RBOB GAS 1.3905

http://marketrealist.com/analysis/stock-analysis/energy-power/upsteam-oil-gas/charts/

I think the vast majority of people consider how any given policy will affect themselves first. It’s easy to be magnanimous when one has all basic needs met as well as some luxuries. But when resources get scare, people become more focused on their situation.

Only the “right” goals – your mileage may vary.

We have to find a way to hold back those with certain talents and abilities, so the others can catch up. They have been making a noble attempt to accomplish this in our public school systems for decades, but it doesn’t seem to be having a beneficial effect. The permanent underclass continues to grow.

inequity is built into the system

aka

life isn’t fair

An early crash test that failed. Poof.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ess

Now tomorrows single payer.

Board error.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essenes

“Hallie, an eighth-grader at Ligon Middle School… has been marching and rallying against global warming since the 4th grade.”

There is a term for this kind of environmental activism: child abuse.

“We are in a Modern Warm Period, just like the Roman and Medieval Warm Periods. During the next few hundred years, we will have many warm years that reach or break records. That is what happens in a Warm Period.”
Really?
Last time I looked at the Milankovitch cycle for insolation at 65deg N (ie the accepted driving factor for IA’s) the Earth was some way off the bottom of a cooling period that began after the HCO with insolation at a max around 11kya.
From:http://www.sciencemag.org/content/207/4434/943.short
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milankovitch_cycles#cite_note-Imbriel1980-24

” Ignoring anthropogenic and other possible sources of variation acting at frequencies higher than one cycle per 19,000 years, this model predicts that the long-term cooling trend which began some 6000 years ago will continue for the next 23,000 years.”

A team of European researchers have unveiled a NOT scientific COMPUTER model showing that the computer output will experience a “mini ice age” from 2030 to 2040 as a result of decreased solar activity.

The oceans are too warm and the ice volume and extent on earth is too small to support a “mini ice age” in the 2030 to 2040 time period.

They use CO2 and solar cycles and ignore the ice cycles. They will most likely never be right. They may luck into some short term correlations on rare, small, time periods.

If we just gave more money to the rich we would more rich people or something like that, right?

Said she learned this junk science in school. North Carolina lawmakers should look into that.

I know so you can’t make the moral case that the poor don’t need help.

I wouldn’t attempt to make the moral case that the poor don’t need help, yoey. I needed help when I was a poor fatherless kid. We got our welfare checks, our government cheese and powdered milk, our basic dwelling in the project, medical care at General Hospital, etc. We didn’t have to do anything to get this free stuff, except remain poor and fatherless. Do you see where this is going, yoey?

The easiest way to travel is always be the one giving the directions. As any pharaoh would tell you.

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