The Global Warming thread.

[rstrong]

You'll have to build a road first.

Sorry; I was thinking of the highway that goes down through the Florida Keys.

[Vrede too]

Ah, tried it once, it was so developed and traffic-heavy I turned back. Others like it, though.

[O Really]

That would be US-1, ending in Mile Marker 0.
Wouldn't be all that crowded if it weren't for all the Ontario and Quebec cars, though.
You might want to go soon, though. Streets are flooding in Key Largo from the ocean levels that aren't rising.

[billy.pilgrim]

Maybe this should be in a - shit republicans do - thread

http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/solar-fa ... mg00000063

how do they get so fucking stupid

[O Really]

Maybe this should be in a - shit republicans do - thread

http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/solar-fa ... mg00000063

how do they get so fucking stupid

Probably listening to Fox News and getting home schooled.
But they aren't really the stupid ones. That would be the NC Republican legislature that cut out the tax credits for alternate/solar energy, due to lots of them (and the guv) being owned by Duke Energy. Some fallout has already occurred, as Facebook, that has a massive operation in a place that really really likes having highish paying jobs, has said they won't expand further in NC because of the solar fiasco.

[billy.pilgrim]

how do they get this way? this is right up there with the Obama special forces invading texas through secret tunnels connecting vacant walmarts.

the science teacher said that the solar panels would hinder photosynthesis and then she added that no one could tell her that solar panels didn't cause cancer.

this moron was a teacher

a teacher

[O Really]

From MIC .."It's tempting to mock Woodland residents for their skepticism of solar farms, and to place blame on rural populations for the country's resistance to renewable energy and environmental technology. But don't blame Woodland. Don't blame the Manns.

Instead, consider political figures like Ted Cruz, Donald Trump and Marco Rubio, who drum up publicity for their 2016 presidential campaigns by trumpeting anti-science rhetoric, convincing voters that climate science is a myth and falsely linking alternative energy to a dearth in jobs.

Blame media outlets like Fox News, whose continued denial of climate change — despite all scientific evidence to the contrary — helps encourage lies about planet-saving progress."

[Vrede too]

Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me. Fool me for years . . . ?

[Vrede too]

Arctic Set New Warming Record in 2015

November crushes temperature record while 2015 careens toward new milestone



Up next - the idiot deniers will claim there's a "pause" in AGW after this year like they did after conveniently selecting the last strong El Nino year, 1998, as a benchmark.

[Boatrocker]

From MIC .."It's tempting to mock Woodland residents for their skepticism of solar farms, and to place blame on rural populations for the country's resistance to renewable energy and environmental technology. But don't blame Woodland. Don't blame the Manns.

Instead, consider political figures like Ted Cruz, Donald Trump and Marco Rubio, who drum up publicity for their 2016 presidential campaigns by trumpeting anti-science rhetoric, convincing voters that climate science is a myth and falsely linking alternative energy to a dearth in jobs.

Blame media outlets like Fox News, whose continued denial of climate change — despite all scientific evidence to the contrary — helps encourage lies about planet-saving progress."

All to blame, agreed. But it only works on people who are stupid and gullible and easily-frightened to begin with.

[rstrong]

Wouldn't be all that crowded if it weren't for all the Ontario and Quebec cars, though.

I learned an interesting figure today: More than 700,000 Canadians own second homes in Florida. But we've been replaced by the Chinese as the top international buyers there.

[O Really]

Wouldn't be all that crowded if it weren't for all the Ontario and Quebec cars, though.

I learned an interesting figure today: More than 700,000 Canadians own second homes in Florida. But we've been replaced by the Chinese as the top international buyers there.

Nationally, yes, but I don't think so in Florida. Chinese tend to like West Coast places like Seattle, San Francisco, LA. And NY.

[Vrede too]

Apples and oranges? Could the Chinese be buying investment property while the Canadians have a personal interest in making the Keys Highway impassable?

[O Really]

The article I read was all residential. Actually, my first thought was going to be that the Canadians were buying residential and the Chinese were buying hotels, but apparently that's not the case. A high percentage of all foreign purchasers also expected to use the property as their primary residence. Something else for the fear-mongers to stir up on the immigration front. Chinese and Canadians moving into the neighborhoods taking away the club memberships from the Caucasians.

[rstrong]

Something else for the fear-mongers to stir up on the immigration front.

REAL fear mongering is when you mention that the number of people in Canada eligible to vote in US elections - dual citizens, Americans living in Canada, etc. - outnumber the eligible voters in some US states. Even more Canadian/US dual citizens live in the US.

And then mention that this is with Canada having just 1/10th the population of the US and 1/40th the population of China.

And then cap it off by claiming that the massive and increasing number of Chinese investors living in the US, given a generation or two, will control US elections.

[bannination]

Wouldn't be all that crowded if it weren't for all the Ontario and Quebec cars, though.

I learned an interesting figure today: More than 700,000 Canadians own second homes in Florida. But we've been replaced by the Chinese as the top international buyers there.

Do they migrate back north during the winter for the healthcare? lol

[rstrong]

Do they migrate back north during the winter for the healthcare? lol

During the summer. The whole point of a home in Florida is to avoid Canadian winters.

If I recall correctly they have to live in Canada for six months of the year, or they'll lose their health care and other Canadian residency benefits.

[Seth Milner]

I learned an interesting figure today: More than 700,000 Canadians own second homes in Florida. But we've been replaced by the Chinese as the top international buyers there.

Because Walmart doesn't buy hardly anything from Canada. Practically everything bought in stores worldwide is made in China.

[O Really]

The topic was purchase of real property, not sale of goods.

[rstrong]

Because Walmart doesn't buy hardly anything from Canada. Practically everything bought in stores worldwide is made in China.

The US has the largest manufacturing base of any country, and it's only increasing.

On the other hand the number of manufacturing jobs has dropped considerably, but that's due to automation. It's much the same as with farming. There are FAR fewer farming jobs than there were a couple generations ago. But that's because of mechanization; far more food is being produced.

But yes, you may be right for small consumer stuff. Toasters and iPads. But not for larger stuff like automobiles, lawn mowers and heavy equipment. Just today for example Boeing announced the sale of 110 jetliners to China Southern Airlines.