tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post7828552152349932113..comments2024-03-19T03:14:04.172-04:00Comments on Rabett Run: Nature Prepares to Launch the Black HelicoptersEliRabetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07957002964638398767noreply@blogger.comBlogger46125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-34489269447190325532015-09-28T03:40:31.352-04:002015-09-28T03:40:31.352-04:00"Welcome to Climateboria, Land of the Twee.&q..."Welcome to Climateboria, Land of the Twee."<br /><br />Welcome to the land of oldt imers disease. Where words don't have any meaning, but you don't know long enough to care.Blogger profilehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00960226353157929688noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-59146220745098869222015-09-28T03:39:38.961-04:002015-09-28T03:39:38.961-04:00" Like it or not China's one child pol..." Like it or not China's one child policy has had an effect and will have an effect going forward"<br /><br />It's taken forty years, though, to start.<br /><br />And they still use less than the average, never mind the average European, USAian or Middle East wallah.Blogger profilehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00960226353157929688noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-21777950365696222252015-09-27T21:26:12.606-04:002015-09-27T21:26:12.606-04:008c7793aa-15b2-11e5-898a-67ca934bd1df27/9/15 11:20 ...<i>8c7793aa-15b2-11e5-898a-67ca934bd1df27/9/15 11:20 AM<br /><br />You seem somehow blind to the problems of stripmallothon, pavementotopia and wastelandia.</i><br /><br />Welcome to Climateboria, Land of the Twee.<br />THE CLIMATE WARShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02578106673226403151noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-53801505723571887102015-09-27T16:06:25.499-04:002015-09-27T16:06:25.499-04:00Like it or not China's one child policy has ha...Like it or not China's one child policy has had an effect and will have an effect going forwardEliRabetthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07957002964638398767noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-60701264293023787952015-09-27T15:47:55.101-04:002015-09-27T15:47:55.101-04:00Speaking of black helicopters, here is one for you...Speaking of black helicopters, here is one for you Eli.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.pointlessplanet.com/2015/05/carson-revival.html#.VghHbW7VLwc" rel="nofollow">http://www.pointlessplanet.com/2015/05/carson-revival.html#.VghHbW7VLwc</a><br /><br />Religion and culture are so lovely, no?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-37136728241638619282015-09-27T14:20:21.237-04:002015-09-27T14:20:21.237-04:00You seem somehow blind to the problems of stripmal...You seem somehow blind to the problems of stripmallothon, pavementotopia and wastelandia.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-84180502155681336822015-09-27T14:09:50.466-04:002015-09-27T14:09:50.466-04:00"Who said CO2 emissions were the only problem..."Who said CO2 emissions were the only problem?"<br /><br />Since we have enough food for 9 billion people, it's just that we waste it where we have plenty and corruption and incompetence (and prejudice) means we don't get to move it to where it's needed, then, yes, CO2 emissions are the only problem that population is an issue for.<br /><br />Feel free to shuffle off this mortal coil, E Swanson. And cut the CO2 emissions AND food, water and energy use that is quite a bit higher than the world average.Blogger profilehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00960226353157929688noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-235334325040888932015-09-27T14:07:27.007-04:002015-09-27T14:07:27.007-04:00" Ah, the smell of conspiracy in the morni..." Ah, the smell of conspiracy in the morning."<br /><br />Ah, the smell of someone who thinks that a conspiracy with evidence supporting it is the same as one with no evidence supporting it *and that fact used as evidence for the conspiracy*.<br /><br />Sorry, you're full of shit, Tom.Blogger profilehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00960226353157929688noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-62385912512121588692015-09-27T13:48:53.991-04:002015-09-27T13:48:53.991-04:00BP guy said:
Just like EVERY SINGLE PERSON who...<i>BP guy said:<br /> Just like EVERY SINGLE PERSON who has EVER brought up "population" has NEVER brought up that it would require massive euthanasia worldwide of billions to make it affect CO2 in the near future (within 25-50 years).<br />...<br />Alternatively, we could halve the CO2 per capita emissions in the first world and save over a third of the CO2 production, equal to killing off 3-4 billion people taken at random from all around the world.</i><br /><br />Who said CO2 emissions were the only problem? Sustainability involves much more than that, especially food and water. Each of us needs food to survive and modern agriculture has been able to meet that demand by using ever more fossil fueled production technologies. As the fossil fuels are burnt and depleted, providing the required food to those billions will become ever more difficult. We already read reports about farmers in India who can not afford to buy fertilizer to grow enough food for their families, who then kill themselves. At the same time, China has surged ahead with their 1 child per couple policy, employing draconian controls on their population. It's been estimated that the population in China is around 300 million below what it would have been without those controls. <br /><br />The liberals claim that educating women will lead to lower rates of reproduction, but that isn't happening in many developing nations. Don't forget that Russia has started a campaign to increase the birth rate, as their population has declined since the collapse of the Soviet Union. The US population would be declining, absent immigration (legal or otherwise), as immigration represents about half our yearly population increase. The political attacks on Planned Parenthood are another symptom of the problem, as folks from the radical conservative side of the political spectrum worry that the US is becoming overrun by people from other nations, peoples who have much different cultures and historical perspectives. Given that we already have massive unemployment for young Blacks and Latinos, why is it OK for other low skilled peoples to migrate to the US?<br /><br />As for your comments about euthanasia, I submit that it's better from a moral perspective that the children are not born in the first place, else the population will increase such that things will deteriorate to the point that those excess people will indeed die in the streets or be culled out of the herd by some authoritarian standard of an individual's social worth...E. Swansonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16458400506150142847noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-64907875139906093752015-09-27T12:37:07.040-04:002015-09-27T12:37:07.040-04:00All is well
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/201...All is well<br /><br />http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/09/28/washington-scribeEliRabetthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07957002964638398767noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-85174052889338965832015-09-27T09:37:38.089-04:002015-09-27T09:37:38.089-04:00Presenting a social conscience to the world is the...Presenting a social conscience to the world is the pope's new marketing plan for the vatican. Fortunately there are people in the world with enough critical thinking skills to see that as a marketing plan and not anything that will add up to action, besides donating to the church.<br /><br />Tax free revenue from disinformation and lies is a lucrative business. And of course, I fear the pope. That's why I criticize him. Sure, uh-huh. Nuttery knows no bounds, only profits.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-66273907455165805702015-09-27T06:03:03.261-04:002015-09-27T06:03:03.261-04:00Ah, the smell of conspiracy in the morning. Better...Ah, the smell of conspiracy in the morning. Better than coffee. Better than Robert Duvall stepping out of a (black) helicopter. Paging. Stefan Lewandowsky...Tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12747117922597525042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-73361084008770701892015-09-27T05:41:06.241-04:002015-09-27T05:41:06.241-04:00"I read somewhere not too long ago that Bangl..."I read somewhere not too long ago that Bangladesh is in negotiations to build coal fired power plants.<br /><br />Despair? Greed? "<br /><br />May be the WTO.<br /><br />The big dam projects were all because the WTO financed big projects to "help" the developing world, but the projects were big and therefore could only be done by first world companies.<br /><br />They insisted on big infrastructure like dams and this was pretty much a worldwide government handout of commercial welfare.<br /><br />Of course, it would produce SOME benefit to the nations who used it, but most of the benefit of the scheme was felt in the first world. Doubly so when these schemes were done on a loan basis, and that loan is now paid many times over and still higher than before.<br /><br />Of course, there was plenty of scope for some skimming by those in positions to make deals. So there was plenty of reason for limited corruption to ensure this continued to happen.<br /><br />So it may be that the new projects are coal power stations, offered with a few sacks of cash in "campaign donations", and being done there because the market for the work is dropping like a stone elsewhere.<br /><br />It's just a theory.Blogger profilehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00960226353157929688noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-76106981261451725542015-09-27T05:34:46.411-04:002015-09-27T05:34:46.411-04:00"That's because the pope is a very wealth..."That's because the pope is a very wealthy criminal con artist,"<br /><br />So no different from the thousands of televangelists in the USA.<br /><br />But what REALLY has you wadding your shorts is the fact that this one, unlike many recent Popes, ACTUALLY HAS A SOCIAL CONSCIENCE.<br /><br />And that scares you.<br /><br />Because it shows up your lack of character.<br /><br />So rather than admit error or even change, you decide to attack him so that you can remain "better" than he and do not have to feel bad.Blogger profilehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00960226353157929688noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-76651415389093067842015-09-27T05:32:22.253-04:002015-09-27T05:32:22.253-04:00"No mention of limiting population.
The simp..."No mention of limiting population.<br /><br />The simple fact that more people on Earth means fewer resources per person is lost in the fog. Sustainable growth isn't..."<br /><br />Just like EVERY SINGLE PERSON who has EVER brought up "population" has NEVER brought up that it would require massive euthanasia worldwide of billions to make it affect CO2 in the near future (within 25-50 years).<br /><br />Moreover, per (de)capitation, it would be best to start off killing those whose per-capita CO2 production was highest. The first world wealthy, then the first world middle class, then the third world wealthy.<br /><br />Moreover, NONE of you have the guts to admit why you REALLY push the "population" myth: so you can blame the developing nations whose population is still growing vigorously and avoid ANY blame for yourself, and negate any need for YOU to change.<br /><br />Alternatively, we could halve the CO2 per capita emissions in the first world and save over a third of the CO2 production, equal to killing off 3-4 billion people taken at random from all around the world.<br /><br />If Mr Swanson would like to be the first to sacrifice himself for the greater good, however...?Blogger profilehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00960226353157929688noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-29787484454363191412015-09-27T05:25:24.667-04:002015-09-27T05:25:24.667-04:00Tom Fullerthanadunnywaon, you STILL insist on post...Tom Fullerthanadunnywaon, you STILL insist on posting meaningless demands.<br /><br />You STILL refuse to say why.Blogger profilehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00960226353157929688noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-20052007458559420282015-09-27T00:44:48.100-04:002015-09-27T00:44:48.100-04:00Betts' concern that we may overprepare for cli...Betts' concern that we may overprepare for climate change seems a little ridiculous. I suppose it's theoretically possible, but I also expect there few occasions where people overprepare for things they've not yet experienced.<br /><br />Flood protection is a good example - in the US we are generally well underprotected for current flood risks, let alone what can happen in the future with climate change and sea level rise. And even you did 'overprepare' that just means you protect against 200-year flood or 500-year flood instead of a 100-year flood - hardly a terrible outcome.Brianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09301230860904555513noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-8881682631554185002015-09-26T21:28:51.702-04:002015-09-26T21:28:51.702-04:00I read somewhere not too long ago that Bangladesh ...I read somewhere not too long ago that Bangladesh is in negotiations to build coal fired power plants. <br /><br />Despair? Greed? <br /><br />Jeffrey Davishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17966839006518642902noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-81674669153090787412015-09-26T21:09:12.706-04:002015-09-26T21:09:12.706-04:00OpenID 8c7793aa-15b2-11e5-898a-67ca934bd1df said.....<i>OpenID 8c7793aa-15b2-11e5-898a-67ca934bd1df said...<br /> Reality and the future is going to be considerably more harsh on the poor bunnies than I. But I know how you have to keep up appearances.</i><br /><br />Pope Francis isn't like the previous inhabitants of that office and is making lots of waves. That said, I don't think he's quite got the full message yet.<br /><br />Here's a by a post by another refugee from The Oil Drum who lays it out better than I: <a href="http://peakoilbarrel.com/special-thread-the-camp-of-the-saints/" rel="nofollow">The Camp of the Saints</a>.E. Swansonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16458400506150142847noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-87649469000311341972015-09-26T20:45:50.050-04:002015-09-26T20:45:50.050-04:00Awe, the truth hurts, oh tender bunny ears.
Reali...Awe, the truth hurts, oh tender bunny ears.<br /><br />Reality and the future is going to be considerably more harsh on the poor bunnies than I. But I know how you have to keep up appearances.<br /><br />I wish you well on your urgent problem solving by way of pleasant discussion. That will surely prop up the ponzi scheme a while longer.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-2264826785268395582015-09-26T20:41:18.221-04:002015-09-26T20:41:18.221-04:00This is an effing family blog. The bunnies have b...This is an effing family blog. The bunnies have big ears. Keep it calm EliRabetthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07957002964638398767noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-80335338534391183692015-09-26T20:16:12.170-04:002015-09-26T20:16:12.170-04:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-67882644578463258032015-09-26T19:44:16.109-04:002015-09-26T19:44:16.109-04:00Symbol salad: The pope of the catholic church is ...Symbol salad: The pope of the catholic church is far more evil than an evangelical megachurch preacher from Texas. Religion is THAT BAD for humanity.<br /> . . The pope is a criminal representing a criminal organization no different than the mafia. He will get his day in court. Soon.<br /><br />BPL: Are you getting any kind of counseling or therapy?<br />Barton Paul Levensonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07630802738456749652noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-90961500114969345142015-09-26T18:37:59.753-04:002015-09-26T18:37:59.753-04:00The pope of the catholic church is far more evil t...The pope of the catholic church is far more evil than an evangelical megachurch preacher from Texas. Religion is THAT BAD for humanity.<br /><br />The pope is a criminal representing a criminal organization no different than the mafia. He will get his day in court. Soon.<br /><br />Nature is weird that way. It doesn't give a damn about the empty proclamations of a billionaire dressed up in funny clothes with his hand out for monetary tax free donations. The entire operation is for profit.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-84769301424882034262015-09-26T17:34:10.728-04:002015-09-26T17:34:10.728-04:00OpenID 8c7793aa-15b2-11e5-898a-67ca934bd1df said.....OpenID 8c7793aa-15b2-11e5-898a-67ca934bd1df said...<br />That's because the pope is a very wealthy criminal con artist, who got very wealthy by donning idiotic clothes and conning the rubes out of their cash. You think that cash cow is gonna change for him? Not.<br /><br />Show a little respect- 8c7793aa-15b2-11e5-898a-67ca934bd1df:<br /><br />You're making him sound like the organizers of Trick or Treat for UNICEFTHE CLIMATE WARShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02578106673226403151noreply@blogger.com