"[COVID-19] is going to disappear. One day, it’s like a miracle, it will disappear" - Donald J Trump, Feb 28, 2020

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

60 Minutes reported on this last Sunday

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/60...

XKCD produced this graph http://xkcd.com/1732/ to shows how temperature has changed over the last 22,000 years

I blithely updated my windows 10 / Mint 17.3 dual boot system and it's running fine. It did have a couple of attempts at downloading the Windows files and rebooted several times back into linux because that is the default OS. I just rebooted manually into Windows each time and it kept on trucking until successful completion.

I assume I am being rewarded for clean living.

We cannot force other governments to pay but when can offer incentives. The US could come to an agreement with as many other governments as possible to implement a steadily increasing carbon tax. We could use the money raised to give tax relief to the 1% to appease the right wing or to give subsidies to those hurt by the tax to appease the left wing or whatever was needed to get it passed. An import duty would be charged on the carbon content of any imports into participating countries of twice the current carbon tax rate with an allowance given for any taxes levied in the exporting country.

I realize this is never going to happen, not when a significant minority in the US thinks climate change is a hoax and the chairman of the Senate's Environment and Public Works Committee can prove it by throwing a snowball on the Senate floor.

"Global cooling" did receive coverage in the popular press in the 1970s but it was far from a scientific consensus. A simple google of "global cooling 1970s" brings up many references to show this, including:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

http://journals.ametsoc.org/do...

It is amazing that of all the people who get advanced degrees, the vast majority of those who are "intellectually dim but emotionally blinding bulbs in the box" are attracted to climate research. You must be thankful that your strong intellect, emotional stability and settled world view allow you to see the truth.

Is it just climate scientists that are so dishonest and unethical? I never hear claims that physicists faked the Higgs Boson particle so they could have job security building the LHC or of paleontologists creating fossils in rocks so they could live high on the hog at taxpayer expense.

This could be the one you're thinking of

http://www.gocomics.com/joelpe...

All the models have failed to predict the non-growth in GW over the last decade because growth has continued unabated.

https://tamino.wordpress.com/2...

The Democrats needed the vote of Olympia Snow to break the filibuster and get the bill passed in the Senate. It then went to the house where a modified bill was eventually passed. It then came back to the Senate and was passed using budget reconciliation rules requiring only a 50% vote and thus not needing the vote of any Republicans.

Please become better informed before calling people delusional.

You perhaps should have checked murder rate statistics before claiming That the UK has a higher violent crime rate than the US...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L... (Firearm deaths)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L... (All homicides)

I realize there is nothing I can say which will make you pull your head out of your ideological corner, but you have gone from claiming single payer systems have no competition to maybe they do but they are worthless and expensive to maybe they're ok, but you don't want to pay for mine. So let's take the next logical step and have medicare for all. That way we will all be paying and all be getting the benefit. It should have the added advantage of slowing the rate of growth of medical costs, since the US is the only OECD country with does not have some kind of government provided health care for all residents and it costs us 50% more than the next most expensive country for generally lower quality healthcare. Here are some links for you to consider.

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/ru...

http://healthaffairs.org/blog/...

http://www.medicareforall.org/...

You can choose not to buy health insurance under Obamacare. If you make this choice you will pay more in taxes (the individual mandate tax). Just like if you choose not to buy a house, you will pay more in taxes (no mortgage interest deduction).