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Comment Schumer is an idiot. (Score 0) 713

Considering that the amount of fossil fuels (coal and natural gas) required to produce all that electricity to recharge the batteries of EV's and the fact that adding one electric vehicle at your home to the grid is about the same as adding 3 houses to the grid, this is just a monumentally stupid idea.

Comment Always read the last sentence for the truth. (Score -1) 185

"In Antarctica, the mass loss in the west proceeds unabated, which is very bad news for sea level rise," Velicogna said. "But we also observe a mass gain in the Atlantic sector of east Antarctica caused by an increase in snowfall, which helps mitigate the enormous increase in mass loss that we've seen in the last two decades in other parts of the continent."

In layman's terms, this means that there is no sea-level rise as it is mitigated by gains in another sector of Antarctica.

Who wants to bet this "theoretical" 2.2MM rise will be cited by every Greta Thunberg wannabe on the internet without mentioning the mitigating increase?

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Sea Levels Will Rise For Centuries Even If Greenhouse Gas Emissions Goals Are Met 280

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Weather Channel: Sea levels will continue to rise for the next three centuries even if governments meet carbon emissions pledges for 2030 set in the Paris climate agreement, a new study indicates. Greenhouse gas emissions from 2016 to 2030 alone would cause sea levels to increase nearly 8 inches (20 cm) by 2300, research led by Climate Analytics and the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research showed. And that doesn't take into account the effects of already irreversible melting of the Antarctic ice sheet, according to a news release about the study.

"Our results show that what we do today will have a huge effect in 2300. Twenty centimeters is very significant; it is basically as much sea-level rise as we've observed over the entire 20th century. To cause that with only 15 years of emissions is quite staggering," said Climate Analytics' Alexander Nauels, lead author of the study. The 8-inch increase is one-fifth of the nearly 40-inch total rise in sea levels expected by 2300, according to the study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. More than half of the 8-inch increase can be attributed to emissions from the world's top five polluters: China, the United States, the European Union, India and Russia, the study found.
"Only stringent near-term emission reductions" aimed at preventing global temperatures from rising more than the Paris agreement goal would provide a chance of limiting long-term sea level rise to below 40 inches, the study said. Global greenhouse gas emissions, however, have not shown a sign of peaking since the adoption of the Paris agreement and the individual countries' pledges "are inadequate to put the global community on track to meet the Paris agreement Long-term Temperature Goal by the end of the 21st century."

Comment You must be kidding right? (Score 0) 437

From the article: "The Googler, sitting nearby in his car, played the Nest Cam tape for them—Yep, it’s her—and the police pulled a $107.66 Apple Magic Keyboard from Fairley’s purse and black tar heroin from her coin pocket."

Wow! That porch pirate must have been starving since all she had to eat in her purse was the Black Tar Heroin, right? (begin sarcasm) Poor drug addict oppressed by the rich guy's doorbell camera. (end sarcasm)

Comment Nothing is random... (Score -1) 480

After reading this silly article, I could help but think of the old adage that "There is no such thing as random".

I thought this because It seems obvious to me that this article is just a response to President Trump's position that MERIT should determine who is allowed to immigrate to our country. The President is correct. This article is ridiculous on it's face. I'll stick with Merit.

Comment Correction (Score -1) 166

Correction at bottom of story:

"A previous version of this story incorrectly stated that investigators cracked Cotten's laptop and discovered money was missing. In fact, they have possession of his laptop and identified money was missing through public blockchain records."

Comment Pseudo Science at it's finest. (Score -1) 354

If Johan Rockstrom claims that CURRENT weather is affected by climate change then he is an absolute fraud. It doesn't matter whether you think climate change is natural or seriously affected by man. Climate change is a process that takes HUNDREDS of years to make even the SLIGHTEST temperature difference in the AVERAGE temperature. NASA’s Goddard institute says the Earth’s average global temperature has risen by 0.8 degrees Celsius or 1.4 degrees Fahrenheit since 1880. That certainly isn't creating any superstorms or heatwaves or any other such current inclement weather changes. Climate change , no matter the cause, takes a long time to make any changes at all.

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