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Re: Websites hosting major US climate reports taken down

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Post by GolfPopper »

Larrikin wrote: post #28
jfengel wrote: post #16

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You don't have to see yourself as a high officer. You just have to imagine that you will be restored to your deserved state. In that state you are slightly better than average, and only those who are morally defective suffer. (Those are the ones who are now unjustly keeping you from succeeding on your merits.) The high officials are the truly great ones who have restored the natural order. You don't need that. You ju…

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Bacon's Rebellion [1] in colonial Virginia, 1676-7, was a a multi-race and cross-class uprising against the colonial government and the aritocratic planter class. The rebellion's failure was followed by measures that served to alienate the poor white population from the enslaved black population.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacon%27s_Rebellion

Re: Websites hosting major US climate reports taken down

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Post by hollerith »

noobermin wrote: post #150
DaSHacka wrote: post #147

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Pulling back on federally-funded research grants for the sciences does not address how the economy, hard power, and culture of the States will completely fall off the map leaving an "irrelevant nation" though.

The US has no real exports. All of its economic might was because it has its top tier market, and all that wealth is essentially from its soft power and position. The more you peel off that soft power, the weaker that position especially as wealthy and educated people leave. I don't agree that the US won't be relevant, it's more like the US will resemble the position of Russia in the next decade than the position it…

The US is exporting over $3 trillion worth of stuff per year:

https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/exports

China exports more, but China also must import more, including more of the things needed for the survival of its people, like food, fertilizer, fuel.

Re: Websites hosting major US climate reports taken down

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Post by GolfPopper »

timr wrote: post #93
triceratops wrote: post #90

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> Yeah, try reading a better source [1]: It's from your source. It's the very last sentence in the article as of right now.

> It's from your source. It's the very last sentence in the article as of right now. Sorry, what? I don't have any affiliation with ABC. Someone else posted the link. NPR has the same basic comments [2]: > All five editions of the National Climate Assessment that have been published over the years will also be available on NASA's website, according to NASA spokesperson Bethany Stevens. NASA doesn't yet know when that…

>How you get from that to "we don't know if they'll ever publish it again!" is beyond me.

In case you've missed it, the current administration lies constantly and loves suppressing views it doesn't like. Hosting a document is not rocket science. There is zero reason to take something down before having the new host up and running. That this has been done anyway suggests malign intent. And the current administration is long past getting the benefit of the doubt.

Re: Websites hosting major US climate reports taken down

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Post by namuol »

userbinator wrote: post #141
sorcerer-mar wrote: post #110

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Like who, exactly? How many people have died by climate paranoia versus actual climate change?

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It’s possible to do both. Attitudes like yours are manufactured by the ones to blame. Don’t shoot the messengers.

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Post by bee_rider »

barbecue_sauce wrote: post #105
timr wrote: post #96

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Why would you assume people that went on to have successful film careers failed high school science? Just because someone doesn't pursue science as a career doesn't mean they received bad grades in it, especially at a high school level.

Without regard to the broader point* in the particular case of Leo, I’d be surprised if he had great k-12 science education. He was a child star already at that point, right? Only so many hours in the day.

Of course, it isn’t a universal rule, see Dolph Lundgren, etc etc.

* I don’t care if the actor delivering an environmentalist message in a movie is actually good at science for the same reason I don’t care if Keanu Reaves knows king fu.

Re: Websites hosting major US climate reports taken down

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Post by Buttons840 »

hollerith wrote: post #152
noobermin wrote: post #150

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The US has no real exports. All of its economic might was because it has its top tier market, and all that wealth is essentially from its soft power and position. The more you peel off that soft power, the weaker that position especially as wealthy and educated people leave. I don't agree that the US won't be relevant, it's more like the US will resemble the position of Russia in the next decade than the position it…

The US is exporting over $3 trillion worth of stuff per year: https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/exports China exports more, but China also must import more, including more of the things needed for the survival of its people, like food, fertilizer, fuel.

The US exports aircraft, vehicles, and medicine, and the rest of the exports are just raw stuffs, like oil or corn. How's Boeing looking these days? Is the US auto industry where exciting new technologies are coming from? Unless the US is going to be great because we export more coal, then I too expect some decline.

US exports: https://www.ondeck.com/resources/every-states-top-import-exp...

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