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Comment Re:When did the Jews become the Nazis? (Score 1) 868

If Israel wanted to kill masses of Arabs, they would have. Instead, the populations of Gaza and the West Bank are soaring.

The Arabs are free to leave. There are practical difficulties, but the Israelis aren't preventing departure.

In Israel, Arabs and Druze have equal or nearly equal rights, and are judges, soldiers, lawyers, doctors, and businessmen. Arabic is one of Israel's national languages.

The acid test of whether criticism of Israel is really Jew hatred is if the standards applied to Israel are the same as for other countries. Compare the performance, for example, of Israeli air power on Gaza to the performance of American air power on Afghanistan. It turns out the ratio of civilians killed to bombs dropped is higher for the Americans.

Comment Hamas also cut electricity (Score 2) 868

Several of the power lines bringing power in from Israel to Gaza were cut by Hamas rockets. Oh the irony!

And Hamas is hundreds of millions of dollars behind in paying their power bill. I get cut off if I'm behind a few months. Hamas gets a better deal from Israel than I get from my power company. Life just ain't fair.

Comment Re:Not surprising. (97% ?) (Score 2) 725

You exaggerate here: "readily observable and incontrovertible". The study of abstracts of assorted scientific papers was done very subjectively. Some authors said they were counted as on one side when they were aren't on any side. And so on.

That said, it's clearly a majority of climate science.

Climate science finds itself in the unusual position of making quantitative predictions of chaotic systems based on numerical digital simulations, which in turn are based on limited data. Compare that to, oh say, evolutionary biologists, who spent a 100 years proving their theories about the past were correct, but don't dare try to predict the future course of evolution.

Comment Re:CAGW is a trojan horse (Score 2) 725

Curious about this:

...companies that make profits off of fossil fuels have armies of people scouring their data

I hear all sorts of stories but never see these sorts of accusations verified. Do you have evidence of armies?

It reminds me of the study that showed the Koches et cetera were spending billions on blogs and propaganda. Sounds reasonable. Until I realized there would have to be some newly rich people on the receiving end of all this dough. I haven't seen them. Got data?

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