(I will point out that this large number is only because China has such a large population. In terms of emission per person, USA beats them hands down)

That is why climate change is a wicked hard problem: you can't solve it on your own-- it has to be a collaborative solution involving multiple countries.

And that, in turn, is why some people would rather deny that the problem exists rather than find a way to solve it: they have an ideology that says the US should never work in collaboration with other nations, not ever, not for any purpose. They don't have any mechanism in their ideology to solve the problem, so the only choice is to deny it exists.

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Two of the top ten hits suggests that this refers to a spacecraft that orbited Venus, so I assume that this is some reference to the Venus greenhouse effect?

https://www.google.com/search?...

Citation needed.

These sources don't define it that way:

http://www.census.gov/hhes/www...
http://www.census.gov/hhes/www...
http://aspe.hhs.gov/poverty/15...

So, the CEO's side of the story is that it's all somebody else's fault.

OK, that's not surprising. That's one side of the story. And, the other side says?

That's a great link, AC... but it says the opposite of what you said it does. It does not at any point say Obama is doing this-- in fact, the one "sock puppet army" that it says it has unmasked is actually against Obama.

From page 4 of the article you reference, referring to what that article calls a "sock puppet army" and the article here calls "professional internet trolls":
"These accounts had consistent multi-faceted views: They were generally pro-Palestine and anti-Israel; they wrote “We (USA)” to present themselves as Western; were against Syria and US President Barrack Obama, and attempted to project themselves as pro-Islam with derogatory comments against Christianity.
“Who is this sock puppet army? It’s difficult to speculate"

Right, I was referring to the article referenced, not the slashdot thread.

It's amusing that in the comments on this article about pro-Russia propaganda-trolls, most of the comments are by the very pro-Russia propaganda trolls that the article exposes, belittling the article and blaming the west

First, lithium is not a rare earth element.

http://www.rareelementresource...

Second, you do know that the rare earth elements are not actually "rare," right? They are roughly the same abundance as copper.

Sure there are. "Ore" is just a word meaning "a mineral deposit containing a desired substance in economically recoverable concentrations." Lithium ores are typically lithium-containing phyllosilicate minerals, often in the form of evaporite deposits.

Saying "there are things it doesn't cover" is not the same as saying "it's wrong."

The phrase "speed of light" is historical usage. An equally accurate phrase would be the universal conversion factor from units of space (meters) to units of time (seconds). It doesn't apply just to light, it is a universal constant that applies to pretty much everything in the universe, not just light. Most particularly, it applies to gravity.

If you alter the gravitational potential, the gravitational time dilation will mean that external observers will observe your speed of light as having changed. If you're in a gravity well, your clocks have slowed down, so it looks (from the outside) as if light has slowed down. But, inside the region of altered gravitational potential, if you measure the speed of light, it's still moving at the speed of light. You can't travel faster than the speed of light where you are.

If you could travel at arbitrary speed (in any direction, in any reference frame), relativity says you could make a time machine. Space is time. If you can travel faster than the speed of light you can travel backwards or forward in time.

Right. If you can travel faster than the speed of light, but only one direction, then you can't make a time machine.

Lithium is relatively rare compared to, say, silicon in the Earth's crust, but we're not going to run out.

What you mean to say it, we need to develop better techniques to refine lithium out of lower-grade ores.

This is strange. "20 to 40% power loss" seems to be an awfully poor inverter; existing inverters are 4-8 % loss.

Rather than rewire every house in America, wouldn't it make more sense to just design better inverters?

Light goes as fast as light.

More specifically, you can't send MATTER, ENERGY, or INFORMATION faster than the speed of light IN VACUUM.

The fact that there are "things" that travel faster than light (such as phase velocities) is well known; in these neither the matter nor the energy travels faster than light, and they don't carry information.

If you could, either relativity is wrong, or you can use this to make a time machine to access the past.

Short answer: it isn't. They are unrelated phenomena.

Factually incorrect.

The actual article seems to only say that one web site, titled "What really happened to the dinosaurs", appears in response to one particular search query, "What happened to the dinosaurs".

That's annoying and stupid... but it's not the same as the hyped headline "creationists manipulating results."

The problem is that there are tens of millions of children needing education.

A school teaching tens of children (that have been hand-selected to attend) may be heartwarming, but it's irrelevant by factors of millions. With sufficient resources, it's easy to teach ten or twenty students (especially if you're allowed to select which ones).

It's replicating that by a million times that's hard.