an even more frightening perspective

[pdub]

Oh OkAY iF U saY So.

[Shirley]

There is no overpopulation problem.

Ahahahahahahahahaha!

After the subject surfaced, I almost warned them that you would fight to the edge of the earth arguing exactly this, but I was afraid they'd think I was crazy/lying.

Ahahahahahahahaha!

[Deleted User 89]

Maybe coronavirus is mothernatures way of undoing the overpopulation problem. Kidding of course....

except you aren’t necessarily wrong, presuming the outbreak isn’t manufactured by the chinese

[DCHawk1]

Warned them, you say?

Why would they need warning?

Can they not argue the case that overpopulation is an issue?

Were they not educated at KU, like the great Paul Ehrlich?

[Shirley]

[MICHHAWK]

It was 1 degree when I woke up this morning.

[ousdahl]

Welp, that settles it. Mich just disproved global warming.

[pdub]

It was 1 degree when I woke up this morning.

Kansas basketball is one of the winningest programs in college history.

MICH: "They lost to Baylor last month"

[Shirley]

[DCHawk1]

bu...bu...bu...bu...muh Paris...

https://www.iea.org/articles/global-co2 ... ns-in-2019

The United States saw the largest decline in energy-related CO2 emissions in 2019 on a country basis – a fall of 140 Mt, or 2.9%, to 4.8 Gt. US emissions are now down almost 1 Gt from their peak in the year 2000, the largest absolute decline by any country over that period.

Also, Ben Rhodes is a failed novelist.

[Deleted User 89]

yeah, who cares that the US wouldn’t show solidarity with the rest of the devolved world

this drop has more to do with market forces than the disastrous environmental policies of this “administration”

[DCHawk1]

yeah, who cares that the US wouldn’t show solidarity with the rest of the devolved world

this drop has more to do with market forces than the disastrous environmental policies of this “administration”

So...what I'm hearing here is: market forces work better than gummint.

Fair enough.

/politics bored

[Deleted User 295]

yeah, who cares that the US wouldn’t show solidarity with the rest of the devolved world

this drop has more to do with market forces than the disastrous environmental policies of this “administration”

So...what I'm hearing here is: market forces work better than gummint.

Fair enough.

/politics bored

Facts don't really matter apparently.

Now it's about solidarity?

[Deleted User 295]

It's concerning.

Is it solely caused by humans? I don't know the answer to that...but I do know this....

"Antarctica hasn't always been covered with ice - the continent lay over the south pole without freezing over for almost 100 million years. Then, about 34 million years ago, a dramatic shift in climate happened at the boundary between the Eocene and Oligocene epochs."

https://www.sciencefocus.com/planet-ear ... en-frozen/

Climate change is interesting stuff. Regardless of if we're solely causing it, I'm fully in support of limiting our impact on the climate. I'm a crunchy hippie when it comes to leaving mother nature alone and reducing our pollution. I don't think taking care of our earth is or should be a partisan issue. For most it's not.

And I agree that we've got to help be a leader on it. This administration hasn't been a leader on it. Whether we decreased ours or not isn't the end all be all of the topic. China and India (and the rest of the world's developed countries) have to be brought on board or what we do is rather meaningless.

While I don't think we can fully control our climate, as earth is a living thing that changes over time (and will likely be here long after humans are extinct), I do think we should do everything in our power to limit our negative impact and help reduce what damage has already been done...cleaning open ocean trash for example.

[Shirley]

bu...bu...bu...bu...muh Paris...

https://www.iea.org/articles/global-co2 ... ns-in-2019

The United States saw the largest decline in energy-related CO2 emissions in 2019 on a country basis – a fall of 140 Mt, or 2.9%, to 4.8 Gt. US emissions are now down almost 1 Gt from their peak in the year 2000, the largest absolute decline by any country over that period.

Also, Ben Rhodes is a failed novelist.

From your linked article:

...The agency cited several factors, including a drop in emissions from electricity production in advanced economies due to the “expanding role” of renewables like wind and solar...

Other factors included increased nuclear power generation, fuel switching to natural gas from coal...

Coal use for power generation declined by 15% in the United States...

It strikes me as odd that you would cite this article to make your "point". Didn't your party's leader run on a promise to "save" the coal industry, in 2016? In fact, the Republican platform in 2016, among other things, pledged to do away with the Clean Power Plan, and touted coal as an “clean, affordable, reliable domestic energy resource.”

In the United States the all but total "conservative" republican opposition, (going back decades), to nearly every reason cited in your article for the "decline in energy-related CO2 emissions", should have been a tell that you were likely to make yourself look like a hypocrite. But, you chose to take the lameness to another level by then citing said "progress" as a reason to ridicule, i.e., oppose, further attempts to raise awareness to the still deteriorating situation.

But, by all means, you be you.

#broken

[DCHawk1]

lulz

You're mad at me cuz Trump said some things.

#gethelp

[Shirley]

lulz

You're mad at me cuz Trump said some things.

#gethelp

Adjust your dose.

#up

[DCHawk1]

Good point. The phrases "at me" and "said some things" were unnecessary in my post.

#stopselfmedicating

#orstart

[Geezer]

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/australia- ... 020-02-16/

[DCHawk1]

Take it to the "things to tell Xi board."