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Comment Re:The pendulum swings too far... (Score 1) 441

Jeb isn't electable. He was once but the brand is a bit tarnished now.

There was also his book release. The one where he went with the 2010-12 GOP surge and railed against illegal immigration. Only to run smack into fast changing politics on the issue. He actually tried to claim he basically didn't write the book it was so bad.

Never said Hilary is electable :) Just that the GOP people aren't.

Comment Re:Hypocrites, liars and communists. (Score 1) 441

You're in Canada...where the effects of climate change are being felt the largest and fastest. Talk to the people living off the land in the arctic...it's changing and changing fast. Permafrost is thawing. Polar bear populations are crashing because there the ice is retreating sooner and returning later.

People freeze to death in winter.

Yep. Weather isn't climate. Irrelevant.

Comment Re:Hypocrites, liars and communists. (Score 3, Informative) 441

Perhaps you didn't read the study that the pacific has been absorbing the energy causing the seeming 'hiatus' in rising temps. linky So it's quite plausible that the pacific has been redistributing the heat lower into the ocean columns. Eventually though it stops being able to do that and the atmospheric heating continues...now with a warmer ocean to boot.

It's a complex system and we don't know everything but we continue to study and learn. As opposed to your ilk who just say 'nope, no problems' with no evidence to explain the workings of the system.

Much like claiming a snow storm means the climate isn't warming. It IS warming and has been for decades but because of a single blip in the trend you're ready to throw out decades of factual solid data on temps.

Comment Re:Hypocrites, liars and communists. (Score 1) 441

NVAP only started in the 90s. Given that we have definitely seen a plateau of increases in the intervening 20 years it's perfectly reasonable that you wouldn't seen an increase in water vapor. It's driven by temp and thus would stay fairly stable during a time of little warming.

The 'problem' again is that everything has a caveat as you so dutifully noted about NVAP. It's the grander picture that tells the real tale.

Comment Re:Do the math, that cannot charge a car... (Score 1) 441

The car doesn't have to be electric to be 'charged' via solar. Both Honda and Toyota are introducing mass market Hydrogen Cars within a year or two.

I never said this was good for everybody. The link itself says the same thing. But deploying this on a larger basis starts to make it workable in areas where single installations might not be viable.

As far as being 'way off'. This was 8 years ago. How much do you spend on all your utilities (except water)? Most people that's a couple hundred bucks a month. That's a lot of borrowing power to install something that will pay you back faster as prices keep rising.

Comment Re:The pendulum swings too far... (Score 1) 441

There are these people called 'descendents' who would still profit quite nicely, no?

Oil still runs the world. It simply doesn't move without it. Local transportation options are easily moved off of oil. Global shipping? not so much. Demand isn't going down significantly right now, but projected needs with China and India modernizing make the 'long' view not that long.

Comment Re:Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes (Score 2) 441

You do realize that charging a car overnight on solar power is entirely doable...today right? linky I think that setup cost about $500K. For a one-off installation. Do this over significant numbers and it gets affordable very very quickly. And this particular setup won't work for a decent percent of people...but it's entirely possible today.

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