Comment Re: Natural Gas (Score 0) 316
So what do you do after the sun goes down?
So what do you do after the sun goes down?
You misunderstand -- they're paying attention. But telling people that we need less solar doesn't get votes. You know what gets votes? Telling your constituents that under your leadership the state is producing more green energy than ever!
Yeah you're right, fuck em all, California doesn't need no stinkin' utility companies.
No, they really are producing too much. California periodically paying its neighboring states to take electricity during the day and then buying it back from them in the evening has been going on for a long time now.
I get that it's the "in thing" for progressives to defend every dumb policy decision this state makes purely on principle alone, but you wouldn't do that if you actually lived here. You literally can't even wipe your ass in this state without getting taxed, and nobody knows where that money even goes. Sure, we have a vague idea. For example, we know 100 billion of it is being spent on a high speed railway to nowhere. But despite the incredible amount of revenue coming in from taxes, there's going to be a 150 some odd billion dollar budget deficit next year anyways, and it's going to keep getting even bigger as more and more people who apparently "aren't paying their fair share" keep leaving while the state only increases its spending.
I mean it's not as if it's been happening for over 15 years now and they still keep adding more solar this whole time anyways.
All credible projections for AGW show an overall reduction in arable land.
Like this one?
https://www.nature.com/article...
Or what about this one?
https://journals.plos.org/plos...
This is not just because it takes more than warming to make a cold place a good place to grow crops, but also because weather is becoming more chaotic, so you can't count on having a growing season anywhere... But especially at higher latitudes, where the lows will be lower.
The day after tomorrow wasn't a documentary.
Besides, think about what you're saying for at least ten minutes, because I know it's going to take at least that long for you to process what I'm telling you: You're saying the cold season, which already isn't suitable for growing in higher latitudes anyways, is going to get colder, therefore unsuitable for growing. See if you can figure out where you went wrong.
Not only that, but the "chaotic" weather you're talking about is mostly weather related natural disasters like hurricanes, which bring in more fresh water. Sure, it floods cities, but that's more a symptom of making bad choices about where you build stuff. I'm sure it seemed like a really good idea at the time to build New Orleans where they did, likewise with Pompeii. But in hindsight, it really wasn't. Egypt would be a pure barren desert if not for the Nile periodically bursting its banks, but that doesn't mean you're supposed to settle in it. Likewise you also shouldn't pull a total bonehead move like California did when it encased the LA river in concrete just because you want to build around it anyways, so now the area no longer has its natural means of replenishing its aquifers so now they have to pump Colorado river water over a mountain in order to even have any water.
In most parts of Asia, the standard for what counts as malware are much lower. The typical user tends to not even care if it steals any data so long as it doesn't drain their bank account or break something else. All that really matters to them is that it works.
The courts aren't even relevant. No court will hear any case that it hasn't been asked to. A prosecutor, who is part of the executive branch and is otherwise not affiliated with the court, would need to, in order:
1) believe a crime has been committed
2) believe he can prove it
3) at his discretion determine if it should be prosecuted even if the other two have been met
4) indict, prosecute, etc
Usually that's the kind of thing unions demand.
Aren't the animators supposed to appear in the credits? If so do the producers ever meet these guys?
I think he knew exactly what he was doing but "not guilty" doesn't mean innocent, it just means you can't prove mens rea.
/facepalm
No, not Antarctica, rather regions further away from the equator will become arable land even without it. And as it turns out, the further away from the equator you go, there's more landmass overall without even considering Antarctica. That's not a coincidence either because Earth's rotation naturally raises the sea levels at the equator while also lowering them elsewhere. In fact, if there was no rotation, all of Canada and Europe would be under water with one big contiguous land bridge spanning the Atlantic and the Pacific.
Either way, this disaster scenario you're dreaming up would take place over multiple centuries, not decades.
Though I personally think civilization will collapse from one of either receiving a direct coronal mass ejection or a rapid polar shift severely weakening the magnetosphere long before this happens, both of which are completely outside of our control and are far more likely to occur first.
"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler." -- Albert Einstein