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By Bruce Currie - 02/05/2012 - 2:12 pm
The crash/"Great Recession" occurred in 2007-08 during a Republican administration. Almost everything since has been an effort to clean up the mess Bush/Greenspan left behind, from ending 2 wars to restoring a shattered economy. |
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| By Bruce Currie - 02/03/2012 - 7:27 am |
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By Bruce Currie - 02/02/2012 - 9:59 pm
two chuckleheads, you can always change the subject. Paul Ryan? Now THAT'S a subject for another day--speaking of chuckleheads.... |
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By Bruce Currie - 02/02/2012 - 9:54 pm
to soothe the ideologues and fool the gullible. To see why nothing in the above post is accurate or truthful, including its title, watch this video. The distortion and lying by Rush, the Daily Mail and other flunkies of the deniosphere is made plain: |
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By Bruce Currie - 02/01/2012 - 8:42 pm
lobby, questioning the statistical link between lung cancer and smoking. This would have been late 1960's-early 1970s. The same strategies and terminology (e.g.: "junk science") that the tobacco companies used to cast doubt on the link between smoking and cancer were adopted by the fossil fuels industry and their lobbyists. They use many of the same people--Lindzen (on a $2500. per diem retainer when he works for the fossil fuels industry) and Fred Singer are two who've done work for both campaigns. |
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By Bruce Currie - 01/31/2012 - 11:35 pm
Wonders never cease. |
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By Bruce Currie - 01/31/2012 - 11:29 pm
matter. As annoying as the sobriety checkpoints may be, they save lives. But the larger point is:there is NO Constitutional right to drive a car. If you drive in an impaired state, you endanger yourself and others. One's "right" to drive stops when it interferes with my "right" to an reasonable expectation that ALL drivers will exercise reasonable care on public roadways. Since that is not always true, and predictably untrue on certain days and times, sobriety checkpoints are deemed necessary and useful to eliminate unsafe practices that endanger the rights of all to the reasonable expectation they may safely get from point A to point B and back again. BTW: While BFD and I almost always agree, I note that Itsa is also in agreement on the usefulness of checkpoints. I think the only other time Itsa and I have ever agreed on something was in slamming abu over his conspiracy theories regarding the WTC. Will wonders never cease--we do share some common ground. |
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By Bruce Currie - 01/31/2012 - 11:03 pm
from which you dredge up most of the "spin" you deposit on these threads. That claim did not come from climate scientists, only from deniers eager to cherry-pick and distort anything they can--as the video I posted above regarding your spurious post on an impending "ice age" illustrates very well. "The implication, or outright statement, that global warming stopped (or reversed itself) after 1998, is one of the all-time favorites of denialists." |
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By Bruce Currie - 01/31/2012 - 10:20 pm
"centuries worth of data", here: 97-98% of ALL climate scientists accept the link between fossil fuel use and enhanced greenhouse warming. The roughly 2% who don't include men like Fred Singer, a scientist who did good work in the 1960s, but who worked for the Tobacco Lobby in the 1970's and has since received money from the oil industry in return for his efforts. He has done no significant science since the 1960s. It would include Richard Lindzen of MIT, a contrarian on many matters, but his papers attempting to prove his "iris lensing" theory of tropical cooling have been panned for their selective use of data. It would include the University of Alabama's Roy Spencer, a creationist whose popular and scientific work plays fast and loose with data. These men were among the few real scientists who signed Arthur Robinson's famous "Petition Project." Robinson's "Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine" is a barn from which he dispenses creation science friendly home-schooling kits, tracts on surviving nuclear war, and diatribes against climate science, the U.N. and other bogeymen. Welcome to the deniosphere. |
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By Bruce Currie - 01/30/2012 - 11:19 pm
baseline, and in your assertion of an equivalence between climate science and intelligent design/ creationism. There is a wealth of data supporting the link between fossil fuel use and climate change. The various links posted on this thread, and elsewhere, afford an introduction to the topic for those interested in the science. On the baseline: while it's true that temperature records only go back about 150 years, ocean temps go back about 50 years, and satellite records go back about 35 years, there are other ways to uncover temperature and climate data from the past. Tree ring data goes back 2000 years, while fossil pollen left in lake beds, coral, ocean sediments, glaciers (leaving the equivalent of bath-tub rings of debris to mark their rise and fall), afford proxy records going back thousand of years. Most especially, there is the record of CO2 trapped in the ice of Greenland and Antarctica, which goes back over 600,000 years. While that record does show intervals of cooling and warming, it also shows that the late 20th century warming is unique. And when you dismiss 1.8F of warming as insignificant, you overlook the fact this is the mean, and that some parts of the planet--notably the Arctic, are warming faster than this global mean. |
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By Bruce Currie - 01/30/2012 - 9:45 pm
Skeptical Science posts links to the research papers that document its explanations on a multitude of topics regarding climate science. The information on the site is accurate, and honest. Following the links, as well as the discussion threads, can be fascinating. There are other sites one can visit to get up to speed on the science as well. Here's one: |
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number of abortions, make access to family planning and contraceptives easier. Restricting access to family planning and contraceptives results in an increase in abortions, and it doesn't take much imagination to realize that some of that increase will be in unsafe abortions. Wittingly or unwittingly, opponents of Planned Parenthood, by their sanctimony, are making the lives of those who rely on services PP provides less safe.
When one considers that restricting access to contraceptives is advocated by at least one of the Republican presidential candidates, it becomes clear that the right's assault on women's reproductive rights encompasses more than just the steady restriction of access to abortion services.
"The abortion rate was lower in subregions where more women live under liberal abortion laws....The substantial decline in the abortion rate observed earlier has stalled, and the proportion of all abortions that are unsafe has increased. Restrictive abortion laws are not associated with lower abortion rates. Measures to reduce the incidence of unintended pregnancy and unsafe abortion, including investments in family planning services and safe abortion care, are crucial steps toward achieving the Millennium Development Goals."
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(11)61786-8/fulltext#article
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