Good Grief. OK so for the record I do have a degree in Economics.

You pay someone $10. They deposit that money in a bank. The bank loans the $10 to someone else. Your $10 is now $20. The person who takes out the loan pays someone for equipment they want. That person puts the money in their money market savings account. The bank invests that money in Apple stock. And so it goes. How fast this happens is called the velocity of money.

The government spends more than they earn, prints money. That's another lesson, called stupid shit politicians do.

Tom Petty was right

Well you can't turn him into a company man
You can't turn him into a whore
And the boys upstairs just don't understand anymore
Well the top brass don't like him talking so much,
And he won't play what they say to play
And he don't want to change what don't need to change
There goes the last DJ
Who plays what he wants to play
And says what he wants to say, hey hey hey?
And there goes your freedom of choice
There goes the last human voice
There goes the last DJ
Well some folks say they're gonna hang him so high
'Cause you just can't do what he did
There are some things you just can't put in the minds of those kids
As we celebrate mediocrity all the boys upstairs want to see
How much you'll pay for what you used to get for free

Being arrogant and condescending - and then insinuating I'm deluded - is the mark of youth. You'll grow out of it. You impressed me by not calling me a racist or a Nazi.

I suggest you re-read the quotes and try to engage in critical thinking, rather than denigrating everyone who disagrees with you. Start with "We're running out of time"

The point of the CO graph is to show the incredible progress that's been made since the Environmental Movement started - a fact that's almost always omitted from any news story. The majority of quotes in the other article are from Environmental Scientists and the like, not celebrities.

IMHO the Climate Change Industry has done far, far more damage to the Earth's Climate than any polluter. Had they not wildly exaggerated their claims, had they not enlisted the elites to their climate conferences in private jets and limos, had they not turned the whole thing into a money making project for many of the participants, had they not made dire predictions of doom year after year, had they not turned environmentalism into some kind of religion where any discussion is treated as heresy, had they not fudged the fucking data to keep the grant money coming.... Had all that money been spent on true Environmental Cleanup and technology... We as a species would be one hell of a lot better off. This article is yet another chapter in the Climate Change Industry shooting itself in the foot, and it makes me very sad.

But I can tell from your response I am wasting my breath. Because I don't parrot the Climate Change talking points I am obviously the enemy and therefore need to be labeled as ignorant, racist, or worse. Which is also a huge part of the problem, and it does insurmountable damage to Climate Science as well.

The greatest contributor to CO2 is carbon monoxide. Here's how we are doing on that front according to the EPA:

https://www.epa.gov/air-trends...

Between 1980 and 2016 we've had an 85% decrease. 85%! These numbers are from the EPA.

Here's a nice collection of quotes from experts:

http://www.c3headlines.com/glo...

This is why some people are skeptical.

Chromecast, You Tube, and a tablet or a phone, the number of full length high quality programs on You Tube is astounding. Want sports, get an antenna. Clearly the author is shilling for cable.

Best Post Ever.

I suggest you need to re-evaluate the whole "Us .vs. Them" mindset.

Here's the reality of the situation here.

All the budgets Obama submitted were defeated like 98-2 but you and I both know that was by design. If you don't pass a budget, you get to run the government on the mandatory increases in the only budget you have, which was written when the economy was booming, so that budget allowed the Democrats to spend, spend, and spend while blaming it all on Bush. And now, if they resist Trump's budget tooth and nail, they can continue to write all those nice fat checks to their constituents that were baked into the earmarks, pork, and BS in the old budget - as well as spend at the same rate of increase, so they can blame the Republicans for spending like drunken sailors - and the idiot followers of the party will believe it. To put it bluntly neither party wants quit paying the current bribe structure, or they risk not getting elected. So there will be plenty of lies told about the budget on both sides. Same reason the ACA (the biggest bribe EVER paid to a single industry in the history of mankind) can't be changed, you can't stop that bribe money flowing or it doesn't get returned to you. Single Payer would allow even bigger bribes to be paid for an even lower quality of service. Surely you aren't that naive... Neither Republicans or Democrat incumbents want ANYTHING to change, which is exactly why Trumps election is such a huge inconvenience.

Nobody really knows what the Iraq war cost. It's a great political point, to claim it's Bush's war when so many leading Democrats in the house and senate voted for the thing. You've taken that kool-aid to the next level by using it as an excuse to justify a stimulus that was, in effect, a post election bribe to the donors (same thing Clinton did), and the ACA, which was the biggest bribe ever paid in the history of the world....

I'm not a member of either party and I think the whole system stinks, but it's the best system on earth relative to every other country.

Under Obama the Democrats refused to pass a budget, so they could tell the kind of tall tales you're spinning now. This is the same crop of politicians who told us there was a surplus, when in fact what happened was "We projected to spend 5% more than last year and we only spent 3% more". Which is EXACTLY THE SAME as "I was going to borrow $100 I don't have, but I only borrowed $50, therefore I have a surplus of $50". Which for anyone other than a lying politician would get you laughed out of the room. Now you're trying to sell me "Only new programs count". Give me a break.

And then the Iraq war nonsense. The 1.6T number is bandied about in sock puppet echo chambers, do you know how it is calculated? And as long as we're taking revisionist history, how many Democrats voted for it?

It's just like the "All Republican Presidents are stupid ignoramuses whereas all Democratic Presidents are BRILLIANT!

Or "All Republicans are Racist"

Your statement only works if you lie with statistics, expressing debt as a percentage of something else. Obama set a spending record that most likely won't be touched in a century.

"It is MUCH more difficult to jam Loran, even in theory."

Not if you're close to the target you want to jam. Free-space path loss is proportional to the square of the distance between the transmitter and receiver, and also proportional to the square of the frequency of the radio signal.

Thank you! But that doesn't make for a good salacious clickbait headline, does it?

They also failed to mention that LORAN is only good around coastlines. I have fond memories of sailing in the Santa Barbara channel using LORAN, where if you got a fix every 30 minutes or so you felt really good about life in general.

I guess "modern" mariners are just pansies LOL

There are pig headed assholes on both sides, no doubt about it. That being said my leftist friends tend to be much better at overblown righteous indignation, and the you're ALL IN or your OUT mindset. You've proven this by insinuating I'm a "deluded right winger" when the truth is I have a sense of humor, and made a little joke.

Should I assume that you consider all right wingers "deluded" and therefore any conversation is impossible? Racism really turns me off.

It's a joke. But it has a lot of truth in it. How many times have you had these conversations:

"I'm concerned about EPA over-reach"

"So, you're against clean air and water? Don't you breathe the air? Think of the children!"

"I'm concerned that Maxine Waters is tarnishing the perception of the party with her over the top rants on television"

RACIST!! RACIST FUCKING PIG! DIE DIE DIE!

I'm not so sure we need to be so caught up in this whole transgender thing. Seems like we have bigger problems to solve

HOMOPHOBE! INTOLERANT PIG! DIE DIE DIE!