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Comment Re: This is huge (Score 1) 308

Ok, here is what I have never understood about climate change science. The premise that elevated levels of carbon dioxide will lead to elevated temperatures on the planet. The reason that this is weird to me is that water vapor is a much more effective "greenhouse gas" than CO2. Water vapor is the gaseous form of water that is the result of evaporation and sublimation of liquid water and ice from the surface. The higher the temperature, the more water vapor that can be dissolved into the atmospheric solution. When the levels of water vapor in the atmosphere reaches its saturation point in the atmosphere surplus water vapor precipitates out in the form of rain. The problem is that additional things dissolved in the atmosphere, like CO2, reduce the amount of room available for water vapor. That means that the more CO2 (less effective greenhouse gas) there is in the atmosphere, the less room there is for water vapor (more effective greenhouse gas). It is basically like replacing a nice warm comforter with a cheap thin sheet. So, using the premise that the carbon dioxide we are adding to the atmosphere is enough to effect change in the climate, why is the temperature not decreasing since we are displacing (trading) the good insulator (water vapor) for a poor one (CO2)?

Comment Re:One size does not fit all... (Score 2) 268

The problem is that when we set up schools that are tailored to the kids that are easy to educate, we tend to separate them from the kids that are hard to educate. At that point, someone will decide that because the classes are made up of 42% white kids and 58% minority kids and they are being taught arithmetic and sixth grade reading instead of calculus and creative writing, we are trying to bring back segregation. In fact they will almost certainly file a lawsuit based on the Civil Rights Act and talk about how we are limiting the opportunity of these children by pigeon holing them as underperforming children and after the lawyers of these fine high minded organizations collect their big fat fee, we will be worse off than we started but some champion of the minority community will get to claim a "victory" in the fight to eradicate racism even though they have all but guaranteed that none of the children that they "defended" will be able to correctly say, read or even write the word eradicate. Winning!!!

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