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Comment Re:What is the time resolution of our knowledge? (Score 1) 417

the acidification likely occurred fairly quickly. ocean uptake of CO2 is a fairly well known mechanism based on available CO2.
the actual PT extinction event however unfolded over a period of a few thousand years.
the sheer amount of biomass on the planet takes a while to grind itself down in a long gradual cascade failure.

its a different mechanism and rate of failure from the cretaceous extinction, which would occurred much more rapidly due to the blockage of sunlight following an enormous extraterrestrial impact.

Comment Re:Strictly speaking... (Score 1) 417

Incidentally, the only things I don't accept are the doomsday rhetoric about the consequences of climate change and the proposed "solutions" that will ultimately accomplish nothing. Well, that's not entirely true, they'll massively increase energy bills in the first world while simultaneously halting development in the third world. But hey, who gives a shit, we've got ours, fuck all of those poor brown people.

Whether you're willing to admit it or not, energy is civilization and massively increasing the cost thereof condemns billions of people to remain in poverty. You'd do better to spend those countless trillions on preparing humanity for the change that we couldn't stop even if we axed all carbon emissions tomorrow.

what makes you wrong and a denier is that your givens aren't. your conclusions and assumptions are all jacked up.
if it accomplished nothing, then man can't have an affect. but then how do you claim to agree than man is having an affect?
its not a foregone conclusion that halting development in the third world is required, or that it will massively increase first world bills.

you are currently the final stage of denialism: "its too hard/expensive/unfair, so lets not even try."

Comment Re:Reason: for corporations, by corporations (Score 1) 489

You literally just said the words "an isp is not a telecommunication service".
All further words you may utter are now invalid by virtue of your rank stupidity.

but then we've covered this before: you dont know what youre talking about:
-you ignore that net neutrality is how the internet -already- largely operates
-you ignore that it ISNT a "hypothetical that hasnt happened"; it HAS happened, repeatedly
-you dont know the definitions of words or what the FCCs mandate is
-and you keep speaking of the FCC as this big scary apparatus with a dark and sordid history...without ever giving any examples...largely because there are none (i already schooled you on the fairness doctrine once, dont make me do it again)

Comment Re:Reason: for corporations, by corporations (Score 1) 489

Reality calling:
9 times out 10 privatization saves nothing, ends up costing more, reduces efficiency, or worsens the end product. Or all of the above.

The only thing privatization is guaranteed to do is provide profits to private entities at tax payer expense.

Socialize costs.
Privatize profits.

AKA screw the taxpayer.

Comment Re:But do we know? (Score 1) 166

after 4-5 years with almost no significant snow/ice, getting an actual snow storm with substantial snow (a whopping 5 inches!!) this year was considered a freak event (and of course, a reason to disprove global warming)...

and of course prior to 4/5 years ago, this sort snow storm was much common, being an almost yearly event.

Oklahoma: living proof of https://xkcd.com/1321/

Comment Re:But do we know? (Score 1) 166

They tabled that until the next legislative session, after seeing Indiana and Arkansas.

But it's pretty much identical to them, being both:
-misleadingly titled a "restoration act" (when they aren't restoring anything; it's already perfectly legal to discriminate against homosexuals in the state in pretty much any manner)
-extending the existing legal shield for private persons created by the existing religious freedom act to also extend to businesses (cause businesses are people apparently...)

Comment Re:But do we know? (Score 4, Informative) 166

It gets better:

Recently the legislature introduced a bill that would block the oil/gas industry from liability for spills and earthquakes.
There's another that calls for an investigation into the scientists investigating the earthquakes (sound familiar to another topic??).

And they recently gave the oil/gas industry yet another tax break....while the state has a massive 600million dollar shortfall in its budget (Kansas gets most of the press for doubling down failed red state budgetary policies, but OK is right there with them). Further, they want to continue to cut the income tax again, and eventually eliminate it entirely. These two items of course not being negotiable, even in the face of the massive budgetary shortfall.

And the legislature passed a bill last week (which will be signed soon by the idiot Fallin if it hasn't already) that would ban local municipalities from interfering with, restricting, or banning oil/gas operations within their jurisdictions. That's right: the state government has told local government they cannot govern themselves in this area. Oil and gas by state law must (essentially) be given free reign to drill and operate where they want in the state.

Just like last year the state legislature banned local municipalities from setting their own minimum wages. By state law now, no city in Oklahoma may set a minimum wage higher than the state minimum wage, which of course is only as high as the federal. This was done in response to the mere idea being floated in OKC of setting a city minimum wage higher than the fed/state minimums.

Blech.

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