I knew this would quickly devolve into a right wing bitch fest full of people who don't know enough about any given topic pretending like their uneducated opinion on climate change is equivalent to scientific fact. Good times.
Am I the only one who has a problem with these climate change people going from "Global cooling" to "Global warming" to..... "Climate change"?? Like they couldn't figure it out, so they just say it just has to not stay the same every year and that's bad?
Combating climate change...
Obama's agenda?? Seriously? Climate change and gay rights are far from being solely Obama's agenda. Sorry if responsibility and human decency are considered a liberal agenda for you people. Like it or not, this is how it's going to be.Apple should stick to fixing their crap cloud services. Time to focus on what users want, not Obama's agenda. Gay rights and climate B.S. can wait until they stop sucking at software.
No, there's plenty of poorly informed people in the world. You're in good company.Am I the only one who has a problem with these climate change people going from "Global cooling" to "Global warming" to..... "Climate change"??
Global warming is going to be a never ending suck of taxpayer dollars because no one has ever stated a clear goal as to what the temperature should be.
Why are we treating the Earth like it's got a giant thermostat that needs to be set when no one seems to be able to tell us what the ideal temperature is for the planet?
Global warming is going to be a never ending suck of taxpayer dollars because no one has ever stated a clear goal as to what the temperature should be. All we know is that we're chasing this desire to cool off the planet and tons of money is being spent toward that end. How much do we need to try to cool the planet off? No one seems to agree about that or seems to know for sure. Meanwhile, billions upon billions of dollars are shoveled around to supposedly help try to cool the planet.
Fundamental principle #1 before throwing money at anything: have a clearly defined goal and a strategy on how to get there. These folks have all kinds of strategies for how to cool off the planet (supposedly); but no clearly defined end goal to let us know when we've arrived. Thus, they will continue funneling more and more of our money toward this nebulous goal with no end in sight. Wait until we find out 25 years from now that the vast majority of the money that was earmarked for global warming was actually spent on tons of other unrelated things.
There is no such thing as an ideal temperature for the planet, the planet does not give a crap about us.
Uhh... Tesla? The company that is single-handedly doing more to fix passenger car pollution than any other company out there? Were they not invited or something??!?
Nailed it. This isn't about us slapping on our Birkenstocks, slathering ourselves in patchouli, and writing beat poetry about Mother Gaia. The Earth was a big ball of molten lava and sulfur just a few billion years ago, a 10C change in average global temperature won't do a thing to destroy it.
But for us, it's an extreme change that could mean a truncated food supply, flooded coasts, and unpredictable extreme weather patterns. Things that could ruin our economy, and throw the world into a moderate panic. Global warming concerns aren't about the Earth, it's about keeping the status quo.
By its very definition, it's the ultimate conservative platform.
And what everyone seems to forget is that North America was once covered by glaciers long before Man ever set foot on it. The Earth has been warming since before us and probably will warm well after us. Using less than 200 years out of billions to come up with some theory about what the "proper" temperature is smacks me as a bit crazy!
Good thing that's a strawman then, since climate change isn't about "a theory about the proper temperature".
Am I the only one who has a problem with these climate change people going from "Global cooling" to "Global warming" to..... "Climate change"?? Like they couldn't figure it out, so they just say it just has to not stay the same every year and that's bad?
And 16% is about 1/6 of the total. Not bad I'd say, and of course a good first step to prepare for bigger ones; even more so when it shows that technical companies care about the problem enough to put the money where their mouths are. So it nullifies one (more) excuse from the "doubters" – "bah, this can't be a big problem since no one is really doing anything".
Why are we treating the Earth like it's got a giant thermostat that needs to be set when no one seems to be able to tell us what the ideal temperature is for the planet?
Am I willing to take the risk that it's real and we do nothing, when doing something about it and being wrong isn't that bad?
Apple should stick to fixing their crap cloud services. Time to focus on what users want, not Obama's agenda. Gay rights and climate B.S. can wait until they stop sucking at software.
Why are we treating the Earth like it's got a giant thermostat that needs to be set when no one seems to be able to tell us what the ideal temperature is for the planet?
Global warming is going to be a never ending suck of taxpayer dollars because no one has ever stated a clear goal as to what the temperature should be. All we know is that we're chasing this desire to cool off the planet and tons of money is being spent toward that end. How much do we need to try to cool the planet off? No one seems to agree about that or seems to know for sure. Meanwhile, billions upon billions of dollars are shoveled around to supposedly help try to cool the planet.
Fundamental principle #1 before throwing money at anything: have a clearly defined goal and a strategy on how to get there. These folks have all kinds of strategies for how to cool off the planet (supposedly); but no clearly defined end goal to let us know when we've arrived. Thus, they will continue funneling more and more of our money toward this nebulous goal with no end in sight. Wait until we find out 25 years from now that the vast majority of the money that was earmarked for global warming was actually spent on tons of other unrelated things.
All we know is that we're chasing this desire to cool off the planet and tons of money is being spent toward that end. How much do we need to try to cool the planet off?
Nope climate change is about money, pure and simple. 50 years ago people walked out of their 90 degree apartment with open windows and no air conditioning into a 95 degree summer day and it did not seem so bad, now they walk out of their 72 degree apartment fully air conditioned into a 96 degree summer day and the world is coming to an end. Somehow the world average temperature is up a couple of degrees and it represents the end, the temperature in your home can be off a couple of degrees and you never notice it. It seems to me that some common sense is sorely missing.
Wrong: no one is spending a dime "to cool of the planet". The goal is to limit the amount that the planet gets hotter than it currently is. Do you not a problem if the Earth gets several degrees hotter on average than it currently is?
This was the same thing you said on the article about apple supporting the lgbt non-discrimination bill. Be more original.