For the record, there actually was never a civil war where one side fought for the right to own white people under the banner of a "black power" flag. Also, there is not to this day (nor was there ever) a state that still flies that flag of white oppression.

It could give us a decade or more of reduced warming. The downside is that when the sun returns to normal output we will have accelerated warming. It may give us false confidence in the short term only to bite us in the long run.

But the paper in question didn't make any predictions about climate. It predicted that solar output would be low over the next few cycles. It was the journalists (and denial websites) who were looking for a hook and jumped to "The ice age is upon us!" Phil Plait is correcting the journalists by referencing the science. If solar output does remain low, the impact to global temperatures will be minimal.

The technology enables us to lie more effectively. We can find whatever truth we desire:

"The anti-vaccine agitators can always find a renegade researcher or random “study” to back them up. This is erudition in the age of cyberspace: You surf until you reach the conclusion you’re after. You click your way to validation, confusing the presence of a website with the plausibility of an argument.

Although the Internet could be making all of us smarter, it makes many of us stupider, because it’s not just a magnet for the curious. It’s a sinkhole for the gullible. - http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07...

Preston Manning, the father of the modern Canadian conservative party, is pushing for a fee and dividend approach: http://www.vancouversun.com/te... . The current conservative Prime Minister has also mused about the possibility of Canada joining a continent-wide carbon-pricing system along the lines of what Alberta does now.

Republican Congressman Bob Inglis and the following republican economic advisers are also in support: George Shultz, President Reagan's Secretary of the Treasury, Greg Mankiw, Romney's Economics Advisor, Art Laffer, a member of President Reagan's Economic Policy Advisory Board

The great thing about fee and dividend is that it allows you to reduce tax on things that you ought to be encouraging such as income and spending. If the fee is successful then the revenue from the fee will shrink over time. It also allows the market to determine which alternatives are adopted. There is a lot to like about this approach.

1) Yeah. that's what I said. €1 billion/year just on adaptation.

2) Scientists expect somewhere between 2-6 feet of sea level rise by 2100. Models show something closer to the low end (see Pfeffer et al. 2008; Horton et al. (2008)), but they assume no changes in ice sheet dynamics, which is known to be an iffy assumption (Overpeck et al., 2006). Empirical techniques show something closer to the high end (see Grinsted et al., 2009; Rahmstorf, 2007; Vermeer and Rahmstorf, 2009). Planning for 4.5 is not really all that cautious.

for hundreds of years prior to 1800 sea level was falling. Now it is going up quite fast and accelerating: 20th-Century sea-level rise on the U.S. Atlantic coast is faster than at any time in the past two millennia."

Just because it can be done doesn't mean it will not be costly. Sea level rise is expected to cost the Dutch more than €100 billion (US$144 bn), through the year 2100 just to take adaptive measures, such as broadening coastal dunes and strengthening sea and river dikes.

The court didn't specify a policy or a remedy, so it is hard to see how you would consider this a 'lefty' judiciary. You can't assume that just because the court accepts the science that they are 'lefty'. It is not universal that conservatives reject science or that those on the left accept it.

I don't think these scientists are all or even mostly Catholics. They are probably mostly concerned that the Pope is well informed about the science.

Here are the folks who advise the Pope on science: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Some names you may recognize: Edward Witten, Stephen Hawking, Francis Collins, Mario Molina, Maxine Singer, etc.

Maybe not even that since leap seconds can be both inserted and removed as required depending on climatic and geological events. It could very well be a wash.

This attack will be used as justification for increased security at the expense of privacy.

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