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What we're witnessing, imo, is the collapse of US empire, and civilization in general, primarily because of ecological overshoot, and unsustainable complexity. The nasty politics of the day is really a game of musical chairs being played by our rentier class and their lackeys.

@freedom_rsrch @USWeatherExpert Always wrong Lindzen has been always wrong. And he thinks cigarettes don't cause cancer.

@GreenJennyJones Plutocracy. Pollution emission as a limiting factor of extraction, production, transportation and consumption will necessarily mean lower profits; it's asking economic processes to pay for their use of the atmosphere, land and waters to store wastes.

I've never seen anything like the shameless attacks against us by other political parties. Are they really so frightened of our plans for a fairer society and to protect Nature in all its forms?? It just makes us more determined to win.

1. It's not for cooling. Well, water is used for cooling, but that is limited. The majority of water in datacenters is used for humidity control. 2. That humidity leaks out through cracks and seams in the building, and out the doors as people arrive and leave. It all comes back down as rain or snow nearby. If the day is hot enough, it could take as much as a hundred miles to come back down. IT IS RECOVERED AND REUSED, BY THE FUNCTIONS OF THE PLANET.

@KurtSchlichter If Fort Israel (US military base) is not committing genocide, then the expansion of Europeans across N. America, killing the natives to clear the land they wanted, was not genocide.

I’m a genocide scholar and Israel is not committing one.

@DanPangburn @rapiduplift False. CO₂ increases warming by reducing outgoing infrared radiation more than it enhances cooling aloft. The net effect is positive radiative forcing. Water vapor amplifies warming via feedback, and most re-radiation occurs within the atmosphere, not directly to space.

Burning fossil fuels (CO2 increase) has no significant net effect on climate. Slight warming in the troposphere from increased CO2 is countered by enhanced cooling from added CO2 in the troposphere and above. Radiant energy absorbed by CO2 in the troposphere is thermalized and radiated to space by water vapor.

Interesting article on the deep geological cycle of carbon. Important to understand that climate change via this natural cycle takes place over hundreds of thousands of years. Humans r emitting CO2 at many times natural rates, resulting in warming over few decades.

@Homerpezz @Whyme812 @CBSEveningNews You opened with an insult, shitsack. 🤣🤣

@Whyme812 @CBSEveningNews Care to address my point? Or are you content with proving my point?

New data centers are popping up across the country, driving up utility bills in at least 13 states. According to a new analysis, Americans who live near the centers are paying as much as 267% more a month for energy than five years ago.

@PeterMallouk Interesting! I believe the power of ownership also largely explains the divergence of household income and national productivity.

Inflation is the silent thief. Over the last 30 years, it cut the value of $1 in half. But $1 invested in the S&P 500 became nearly $9 – AFTER adjusting for higher prices. That’s the power of ownership.

@joni_askola From now until the end of the world (should anyone be around to see it) the US will be known as a nation that can elect a Donald Trump. Iow, dangerously flawed.

In just over a year, Trump has made the US weaker, poorer, less respected, and dangerously overstretched. It will take decades to rebuild the standing he has completely destroyed

Here are more than 70 "hockeystick" temperature reconstruction studies (with links to the papers using different data & methods) from the last 25 years that all affirm & improve on the original early work of Mann et al 1998. I'm certain you've never read any of them, but you probably think you know more than tens of thousands of climate scientists, right?😉 gist.github.com/priscian/5a10f… @priscian

@M_Lansky718 @bfal08 @charliebilello That stockpile is Trump's responsibility because he withdrew from the JCPOA, which by all accounts was working to control's Iran's nuclear program. He did that because he's an egomaniac, and because he hates Obama. He's all emotion, zero intelligence.

@JeffersonCraigg @bfal08 @charliebilello IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi said, “While there has been no evidence of Iran building a nuclear bomb, its large stockpile of near–weapons grade enriched uranium and refusal to grant my inspectors full access are cause for serious concern,”

Since the start of the Iran war... Jet Fuel: +80% Sulfur: +68% Heating Oil: +56% WTI Crude Oil: +55% Brent Crude Oil: +52% Diesel: +48% Gasoline: +47% Urea: +47% European Nat Gas: +44% Fertilizer: +23% Coal: +13% Palm Oil: +13% Iron Ore: +8% Wheat: +6% S&P 500: +5% $VIX: -15%

@PAndropv @BladeoftheS So what you're saying is that you didn't mean wind turbines are useless, but that battery technology (and other, diversified storage methods) are not big or advanced enough.

The example wasn’t necessary. I know generators can charge batteries. You fail to realize the scope. You are thinking your flashlight compares to the hundreds of thousands of MWH required by the grid. The way things are you could install batteries to collect the over generation from the current wind machines,and be happy. It is a puny amount and wouldn’t make any much difference. If you want enough storage to get you through a windless week, it isn’t possible.

The World's largest Wind Turbine 26MW. In its lifetime it will produce the same energy as burning 750,000 tons of coal. That's 44,118 truck loads. And that's just 1 Wind Turbine.

@bfal08 @charliebilello I remember that story from the invasion of Iraq. None were found. Just as the IAEA said over and over again.

@charliebilello No nukes in the hands of religious zealots….$Priceless

@thehill My mortgage exceeds my annual income by quite a bit higher percentage than that.

US debt exceeds 100 percent of GDP thehill.com/business/58579…

@JBasest @CdnComrade Why the U.S. is a mixed economy, and far from pure capitalist: while mostly private, government spending accounts for ~35% of GDP. Through regulations, subsidies, and state entities like the USPS, the government actively intervenes, balancing market freedom with public oversight.

@JeffersonCraigg @CdnComrade Use any metric you want

Weird I don’t remember anyone saying they were voting Liberal because they wanted massive tax cuts to the rich, to defund the CBC and cut and privatize essential public services?

@JBasest @CdnComrade Okay, I'll use the latter metric, look up the US, and then compare it to other highly developed countries...

@JBasest @CdnComrade I assume you meant DOGE. Anyway, not an answer to my question. Another metric you might find acceptable is the proportion of GDP produced by the private sector versus the state-owned sector.

@JeffersonCraigg @CdnComrade And if they were allowed to properly enact dodge, that would be all cut. Half of that just fills politician pockets

@JBasest @CdnComrade How would you like to measure it, say, social spending as a percent of GDP? Per capita?

@JeffersonCraigg @CdnComrade The US is the closet you will see to pure capitalism

@KelemenCari That never happened.

Al Gore shifting from Global Warming to a New Ice Age shows what a joke Climate Change has always been.

@JBasest @CdnComrade The US is far from pure capitalism.

@JeffersonCraigg @CdnComrade I mean, America is pretty damn close to pure capitalism and Argentina is getting there as well. A mixed economy never ends up working well, becomes to much of a social welfare state

@JBasest @CdnComrade If you mean pure communism, you're right. But then, no country practices pure capitalism either. Which is what I meant when I said "mixed economy".

@JeffersonCraigg @CdnComrade No country practices communism besides the brain dead ones. Anything else naive to say