[–] 1 point 8 hours ago

Not only did none of the models fail to predict the actual warming that we have experienced, but the claims about renewables are completely disingenuous if not outright lies. The only demand destruction ever witnessed for carbon based fuels was due to work from home during COVID. Current consumption levels exceed pre-covid levels and continue to grow. Yes renewable use is growing, but it is additional power consumption, not replacement. We will be pumping negative eroi oil out of the ground with solar powered pumps at some point. Have to burn all of the carbon.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 days ago

    I have a law degree from a top tier school, passed the bar, have practiced law for 19 years, and filed hundreds of lawsuits in my particular niche. I would be scared to file a lawsuit that is not in my specialty or something closely related because I have doubts about my ability to do so competently. There are so many ways to lose a lawsuit that it is very difficult to litigate successfully without years of training. You would need experienced lawyers to teach the classes.

    I doubt learning the requisite skills is worth the effort if you are not likely to ever be involved in a lawsuit (most people are not).

    All of that said, perhaps the legal system needs to be reformed to remove the complications that necessitate the training, but those complications are the results of centuries of trying to provide fairness and due process to all parties involved.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 days ago

    You can see "stripes" on humans in the infrared. Most of us are actually pretty splotchy. There is variation in how the blood vessels run which distributes the body heat on our skin unevenly. My Indian and African American coworkers' skin looks pretty much the same as mine (white guy) in the infrared.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    Back before reddit permabanned me, they would delete posts where I would say things like, "Get them before they get you. They're clearly planning to get you." Ironically, I got permabanned for asking what Eisenhower would do if he attended a Nazi march and was given access to a machine gun, because that was advocating violence. Much less advocating in that post than in some of the ones that were deleted. My grandfather's generation had a much better approach to dealing with Nazis than we do.

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    Hansen and team's research finds climate sensitivity is at least 4.5C for a doubling of CO2 with 99% certainty. Too bad COPS is using 3.0 like it is gospel. For some perspective, the CO2 baseline is around 285, and we're up to 425 (we're only 145 away from doubling and that's ignoring increases in fun things like methane and nitrous oxide). The amount to get to the doubled value is roughly the increase we have experienced in my lifetime, so it is not as far away as it might seem.

    I guess I should invest in air conditioned farming.

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