That's it, no more using words to describe the colors a person sees, only wavelength numbers allowed.

I don't know about all you other crazy people out there, but I clearly see 582 nanometers.

Right, I hear this all the time too, and we still fly airplanes.

This is false, pigs are used for inspection, not flow. Pumps maintain flow. The bitumen is diluted with (actually the term) diluent before injection into the pipe.

The Canadian oil deposits being mined for the source of KXL oil are not shale deposits.

As a Canadian myself, I fully support your right to have the viewpoint you do - as long as you realize you're in the minority and that most Canadians in-the-know don't see investing in additional pipeline infrastructure and new energy technologies as mutually exclusive activities.

Citation needed. (Disclaimer: I work in the pipeline industry, but not for TCPL nor have any stake in KXL).

This simply isn't true and is fear-mongering about pipelines at it's best. Sure, you can point to a few stories, but fact remains pipelines have over a 99.999% safe delivery rate. The vast majority of spills are where there's breaks in the line - eg. pump stations, terminals, manifolds, etc., and those are only are already-contained and monitored property. Opponents like to point to devastating spills, but the unfortunate truth is even in areas where major spills have happened, twenty years after the fact there is little to indicate it ever happened. The earth is very good at cleaning itself up.. not dismissing spills, but the long term effects are SEVERELY overblown, though any suggestion of this truth is impossible to discuss given the politics.

Wrong, wrong. Tesla's current market cap (valuation) is a little over $25B. Thus in terms of size they're about 40% as big as Ford, who no doubt sells millions of vehicles per year, pays a dividend, has huge product lines and a wide dealer base.

So, if Tesla's sales were to double along with their market cap, they would be a size roughly comparable to Ford, but their business is nowhere near as brisk as Ford's. What I'm trying to say is current investors have priced in perfection in reaching the company's goals of being a major auto player. A report like this is definitely justification to sell, because what do you know, reality is not as easy and rosy as investors had thought.

Apparently a similar funny thing happened in the wine industry in the 90s...

The French/Italian/old world wines had always been chosen as the "best", though international tasting competitions started moving to blind testing. Big surprise, the Californian/Australian/new world wines started winning much more often. So what happened? Well, they went back to looking at the label and choosing French wines again.

Big lesson - there's no such thing as a wine tasting expert.

Your comment doesn't make any sense. The ruling in this case is about people with terminal illnesses and/or those in irreversible chronic agony. This is not setting up a system where any random able-bodied person can choose to commit suicide. The people this targets are definitely no longer part of the workforce.

Bullshit.

Nearly everyone I know eats meat, and I doubt a single one would find burning an animal to death an acceptable thing to do.

I've always said that I drive a hybrid.

Burns gas and rubber ;-).

Yeah, great article. Funny they left off a typical line or bar chart showing temperature progression, which would have shown the REAL point of contention: The warming rate has decreased (or slowed) since then.

I know this doesn't change the fact is it getting warmer in an absolute sense, but I don't know why the scientists here are more open about the fact they clearly don't understand the system. Sorry, but if they did, they should be able to predict specific outcomes based on statistics and trends - they cannot do this.

Look at it this way - I used to manage a help desk. I understood the system, and had a model (simple extrapolation) whereby I could predict the number of tickets that would come in a future month within a certain degree of accuracy. If it did not match, I was always able to clearly point to the reason (new rollout, etc.). Why can't we do this with climate systems? We don't understand them yet.

I don't live anywhere near a sea, and furthermore, we have long, long brutal winters here. And there's lot of people living in places like me. So.. tell me again why I would fight against rising temperatures?

Let me expand - if they had taken the children away, and the only evidence of neglect they had to bring to civil court was evidence they were found walking home alone... well, I know you like to think the worst of the legal system, but I can't imagine an appeals process that would get to the end to without someone saying the obvious: it's not neglect.

It IS, faced with that evidence, negligence on the part of CPS to remove children. Make them pay.

So what?

Hire a lawyer to represent you. If they're "threatening" you, do the same right back. If they argued for a warrant without reasonable cause (on second, more close examination of the evidence they had in a civil court), they can be held liable and a lawyer will juice them until they beg for mercy. I know it sucks to be under duress and have your children taken away, but that just ups their liability.

CPS, police, prosecutors, etc... they will all threaten the worst so they can get their way. Only one defence, unfortunately: lawyers.