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Apple CEO Tim Cook Urges U.S. President to Stay in Paris Climate Pact
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You are HILARIOUS. NOTHING CA DOES CANNOT BE REPLICATED ELSEWHERE!!! PERIOD, END OF STORY! Citing LA Magazine about how CA is carrying the economy is like quoting NY Magazine about how great NY is.....
You make valid points and practical suggestions, but ultimately the population of the Earth could (in theory, in a far different society than we have now) be twice what it is now so long as we lived sustainably - I guess the choice is stark - drastically fewer people OR drastically lower carbon emissions, or some balance of the two.
Personally I think making a fast transition to a world where renewable technology and environmental sustainability are advanced rapidly to support us all is far preferable to Chinese-style state-mandated population control. The irony of many climate change deniers is that they say they want a small state, not big government interference in their lives - but by doing nothing about climate change now we are storing up inevitably much bigger government down the road, on issues like population, the economy, energy production etc etc.
Read the article. It's Bloomberg.
The lazy red state takers need to get busy replicating! Why are we propping up your failed states?
Any why does the most populous and economically strong state have NO say in the presidential election? So that delusional factory workers in Ohio can be fed empty promises of their jobs returning instead of getting off their you know whats and learning a new skill? We're supposed to be held hostage to that stupidity while the red states bleed California? That sure seems fair!
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Yes!! 5 days out from WWDC and Cook is focusing on this??
You don't see the irony that they are asserting NY can help replace CA? You know, NY, the bastion of ultra-conservatism.
Mike
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I have to argue that Silicon Valley/Bay Area/West Coast is unique in regards to its tech/engineering ability. Where do you think the brainiacs from those schools you listed head after graduation? If you haven't lived here, you probably wouldn't understand. I didn't get it in when I lived in Chicago. Other places could replicate it except that the unique combination of brainpower, capital, and most importantly culture are here.
Oh, I see the irony. I'm just pointing out that they are flat wrong and anyone who works in the industry knows that New York schools can't hold a candle to LA schools especially in terms of getting a job in the industry after school.
Yea but they included the game-winning, "period, end of story!" In CAPS. Bolded! Doesn't that always mean you won the debate?
Mike
Good decision. Climate change is a political money grab. You can't predict the weather for my neighborhood but you want me to believe you can predict it for the entire planet. There is no evidence that man is causing climate change. The climate changes on its own. We didn't populate the earth until the end of the last ice age. What caused the change then?
The keynote's written for them. They practice in the 1-2 days leading up to it, if I'm not mistaken, then read the prompter for a couple hours and it's done.
Good for you. Well today's assertion, global enviromental issues in the form of PACTs between countries are political. And a Buyes guide is not for someone so well versed in technology as yourself, but the average punter.
Have a nice day .
yes Climate Change is natural, at some point the Sahara will be green again as it was thousands of years ago but that does not mean that we are not speeding up the whole process. with that logic humans could just sit around doing nothing about anything at all because "it will happen anyway". yes we all die at some point but that does not mean i want to live in air pollution like china at old age
i live in the city with the worst air pollution in all of Germany (Stuttgart) but people do not care because they cannot yet "see" the pollution. I bet if we had smog instead of particulate matter (is that the correct term?) people here would be more open to leave their cars at home. however humans are stupid and selfish so unless something has an impact on your own well being and only when it is too late we change
What the present is 12 months in the making......according to thier roadmap , which Tim really should be involved in
if he has time outside of his social and political commitments. So be honest his much better as the latter...his presentation at the keynotes can put people with insomnia to sleepIts only humour
have a good day
You know what I love about the mighty powerful and there Green initiatives to save the planet? The bulk (not all) are above this initiative themselves. They've created a multi billion dollar industry launched from the biggest hypocrite of all of them, Al Gore. After he was done inventing the internet, he invented global warming after the global cooling that was going to take us all into the ice age didn't hold traction back in the 70's.
So you watched the movie, and learned all about the earth's doomed existence due to 50 years of human industrial revolution. The Earth has been around for billions of years, but in 50 years we broke the planet. So he preaches you to drive your Prius or Tesla depending on your income bracket, and you fall in line as he continues to drive his SUV's and private Jets, and live in his well lit nice air conditioned mansion that holds a carbon Footprint of Rhode Island.
We went through the coldest winter in history 2 years ago, it was global warming. We went through a mild winter this year.....that's also global warming. It's a day before June it is 65 degrees in NJ and yesterday it was in the 50's....yep, somehow we can equate this to Global Warming too.
King Obama funded green initiatives with our hard earned tax dollars and not a peep about companies like Solyndra that gave their leadership nice fat raises and increased their expenses 700X before going out.
So we get it, you all fall in line behind your media's agenda and talk about the big bad Trump, the horrible billionaire and this is another reason to impeach him while you mourn the moving on of the King in your safe spaces and in a sick twisted way root for Trump to fail.
I know, you'll all shake your heads and think about how ignorant I am, as I read more about those emails the scientists that supported Gore's research passed around emails manipulating temperature data to hype global warming even further.
I say follow through on the promise of lifting these ridiculous regulations that shut American businesses out and forced manufacturers to produce products overseas. You'll of course cry about Trump lifting every regulation ever made when he is only making them more reasonable. But the news said it, so it must be true.
So you watched the movie, and learned all about the earth's doomed existence due to 50 years of human industrial revolution. The Earth has been around for billions of years, but in 50 years we broke the planet. So he preaches you to drive your Prius or Tesla depending on your income bracket, and you fall in line as he continues to drive his SUV's and private Jets, and live in his well lit nice air conditioned mansion that holds a carbon Footprint of Rhode Island.
We went through the coldest winter in history 2 years ago, it was global warming. We went through a mild winter this year.....that's also global warming. It's a day before June it is 65 degrees in NJ and yesterday it was in the 50's....yep, somehow we can equate this to Global Warming too.
King Obama funded green initiatives with our hard earned tax dollars and not a peep about companies like Solyndra that gave their leadership nice fat raises and increased their expenses 700X before going out.
So we get it, you all fall in line behind your media's agenda and talk about the big bad Trump, the horrible billionaire and this is another reason to impeach him while you mourn the moving on of the King in your safe spaces and in a sick twisted way root for Trump to fail.
I know, you'll all shake your heads and think about how ignorant I am, as I read more about those emails the scientists that supported Gore's research passed around emails manipulating temperature data to hype global warming even further.
I say follow through on the promise of lifting these ridiculous regulations that shut American businesses out and forced manufacturers to produce products overseas. You'll of course cry about Trump lifting every regulation ever made when he is only making them more reasonable. But the news said it, so it must be true.
That's not a very logical argument. The planet needs water to support life, but too much water would be catastrophic as well. It's a finely tuned system, and we're in the process of screwing it up with greenhouse gases. This isn't in dispute, it's just a fact.
There's no debate among experts, only among quacks, conspiracy theorists, the uneducated, and cynical politicians. The science is settled.
Pre-human climate conditions are irrelevant. Never before in human history have CO2 levels been so high, nor have they ever risen so quickly. And now we have trillions of dollars of infrastructure and billions of people living along the coastlines..
Hi! Meteorology major here. We can predict the weather for your neighborhood for the next few days with (usually) pretty good accuracy. If you're not getting the accuracy you seek, perhaps it's a good idea to get weather information from a different source. For the United States, the National Weather Service, The Weather Channel, local broadcast media, Weather Underground, AccuWeather, Dark Sky, and many more exist.
Climate change is the result of relatively simple radiative processes in our atmosphere. Carbon dioxide traps and reemits solar radiation that enters our atmosphere. Other gases do this, too, and together they're called greenhouse gases. There are a lot of sources of greenhouse gases, and in moderation, they're a good thing! They're here to keep our temperatures from swinging hundreds of degrees Fahrenheit each day.
Of course, there can be too much of a good thing. Climate's changed before, sure, and we can look at previous climate change going back centuries or even millennia. But compared to previous climate changes, this one's happening really fast—far faster than any before it—and it starts right around the beginning of the 20th century.
It's tough not to tie this to the human-led Industrial Revolution, when we started pumping into the air factory exhaust and, soon afterward, car exhaust. Deforestation, which removes plants that absorb carbon dioxide and return oxygen, exacerbates the problem.
If you have an alternative explanation for why atmospheric carbon dioxide started jumping around the Industrial Revolution, and the global mean temperature began trending up to follow suit, but is not related to humans, I'd be interested to hear it.
As for what caused the end of the last Ice Age, it was a change in the composition of gases in our atmosphere—fittingly, an increase in carbon dioxide.
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Protecting the environment is pretty much a common sense idea that both sides can agree on, but how to do it is most certainly political. Anytime our tax dollars are being spent on something, it instantly becomes a political issue.
Hope Trumps withdraws from that and also cuts down on the epa with its ridiculous policies.