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Comment: Re:Not just in the U.S. (Score 1) 273

by WindBourne (#43777205) Attached to: Uptick In Whooping Cough Linked To Subpar Vaccines
It is almost certainly BOTH issues causing it. You have an increase in regular citizens that do not take their vaccines, and then you add illegals who bring in the disease with them. That is the whole issue with whopping cough here in Colorado. It comes in with illegals, but some of our nutjob citizens did not take precautions.

Comment: Of course, it is not as effective (Score 1) 273

by WindBourne (#43777187) Attached to: Uptick In Whooping Cough Linked To Subpar Vaccines
Originally, we had live attenuated virus. These are GREAT, with one exception: they CAN revert. That was esp. true of the small pox vaccine. So, then they went to killed virus. But this also introduces some issues with cross-over stimulis. So, now, they try to pick one or two proteins and grow just those. That is probably the worse way to do it. We should go back to live virus for the majority of diseases (those that are not killers), and then use the killed virus for those that would normally kill.

Comment: no, ppl do not believe that science is split (Score 1) 1090

by WindBourne (#43760315) Attached to: 97% of Climate Science Papers Agree Global Warming Is Man-made
That really is NOT the case. The fact is, that a MINORITY of Americans think that climate change has some doubt.
The problem is NOT that, though republicans use it as a crutch.
The REAL problem is that the Liberals are making a HORRIBLE mistake with this and refuse to come up with NEW ideas on how to solve this. And CO2 and other GHG will continue. Heck, even Europe is backing off because they have found that they can NOT compete against other nations that are NOT taking the economic hit.
Assume that USA takes the economic hit. Then what will happen is that China, India, Russia, South Africa, etc. will build up coal plants WITHOUT pollution control as quickly as possibly. Why? To capture more manufacturing and other items from USA.
So, what is a REAL SOLUTION? Involve ALL nations (and states ) at the same time.

For America, we need 2 things ASAP:
1) require all new buildings under 4 stories to have unsubsidized on-site AE to provide energy equal to 95% or more of their HVAC. Why do this? Because it will encourage builders to NOT put up loads of solar, but to instead, look for alternatives such as better insulation, aerogel windows, geo-thermal HVAC, etc.
2) put a tax on ALL goods based on which nations/state they come from and the CO2 emissions. But several things about this:
a) none of this guess work. We need it based on OCO2, which will measure directly. Greenies are in for a REAL shocker. Their beliefs about America's emissions are probably close since we do direct measurements, but China is way too low. In addition, it does not matter the source. Just co2(out) - co2(in).
b) this needs to be normalized, but not based on per capita. It needs to be on tonnes / $ of actual GDP (not GDP-ppp). The truth is, that the vast majority of emissions is not tied to ppl, but to business.
c) it needs to start low and increase. If you want your product to be an exception to the tax, then you will say where components come from and then the tax is lowered based on the location being more efficient. As such, goods from China would have the max tax on it.
America's own goods would then have average tax, but dropping.
Likewise, goods from Sweden would have a low tax.

Here is some data for the later:
This is wiki, but it is based on 2006 data.
Here is 2009 data, but it is ppp GDP (which rewards nations for manipulating their money against the dollar; hence why it has to be real $GDP ).

With the above approaches, it would put ALL nations/states on the same footing. If they want to sell here without a tax, they need to drop their emissions. And by spending a bit of money cleaning up, it rewards a nation by paying lower taxes.

Comment: And it will continue to climb because of Liberals. (Score 0) 367

by WindBourne (#43636355) Attached to: Observed Atmospheric CO2 Hits 400 Parts Per Million
Seriously, you liberals are hurting yourselves. You scream that America needs to destroy the economy, while allowing Europe to move their heavy dirty work to monitored eastern Europe. More importantly, all of BRIC, will continue to grow quickly with coal, not AE. China says that they will put limits, but they have broken every single treaty that they have signed over the last 40 years. Heck, they are now inside of Indian land claiming that it is theirs, even though India has had control of it since the 60's.

If you liberals and Europeans REALLY want to make a difference, then you will change tactics.
First and foremost is to get rid of this idea that emissions is tied to ppl. It is not. It is tied to rapid expansion of GDP. As such, you want to tackle the CO2/GDP. From another posting elsewhere:

BTW, There is a much better solution for all of this.
We should simply require a tax on all goods, local and imported (save maybe unprocessed food) that slowly raises over time. It should be tied to the components in the goods and the CO2 from where they come from. This needs to be normalized, but not on CO2 per capita, but on CO2 per GDP.
The best argument for this is China. They have had a large population, but their Co2 emissions have gone up with their GDP. The same is true all over.

In addition, it needs to be GDP, not GDP PPP, which rewards nations cheating.

Right now, our CO2 / nation is based on measurements in the west, and lots of guess work elsewhere, esp. China. That is the WRONG way to do things.
Instead, we have the OCO2 going up next year. It will measure the CO2 directly. It will not know that source, which is great. All that matters is that CO2 increases as it leaves your borders from what it was coming in.

If we do this, then EVERY nation/state has to make decisions on how best to drop their CO2. For some, it might be increasing their ag and forests. For others such as China and America, it would be solving our Coal/Cement issue.
Regardless, this is about the only way to solve this issue

Comment: yes, it can be. (Score 1) 329

by WindBourne (#43625099) Attached to: Is Buying an Extended Warranty Ever a Good Idea?
We made the mistake of buying Electrolux fridge and dishwasher. An extended warranty for the two cost us 300+. However, we have had over 10 visits on the 2 and invoked lemon law on dishwasher. Now we have kitchenaide with no issues. However we have had over 5 visits for fridge with different issues, but they have to be more than 1 month apart. With this next call(yeah we have a call in), we will have to invoke lemon law again. And we will switch to kitchen aide. If u buy some appliance from overseas get extended warranty. Electrolux, frigid are poorly designed, built, and supported. The same is true of IKEA junk And haier. LG and Samsung are not poorly made, but apparently are horrible for repairs. And very expensive. Get extended for any of these. I would also recommend for GE.

Comment: Avoid Quirky (Score 2) 103

by WindBourne (#43549903) Attached to: Two Changes To Quirky Could Change The World
Quite honestly, it is not what you think. Basically, it is a nice outsourcing sham business that sends it all to China. In addition, I have had more difficulty dealing with them than with local manufacturers. That is why I tried an easy idea to see what would happen. I also tried to get ahold of Kaufman to ask about future direction. Instead, I got some gal who told me zero chance to talking to him and zero chance of anything being produced in America. Quirky makes Shark Tank vultures look like boy scouts.

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