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But most of the people they're going against are Nigerians, and they're black south Africans. Xenophobic? Sure. Racist???

That guy is full of shit.

Open a link in any browser i like. Say "no" to updates. Have a main menu that doesn't look like a kiosk at the mall. Have my habits on my computer kept to myself. Install applications from outside an application store. Not need an antivirus software.

I said it was sarcasm.

My intent was to point out that lying about solar flares will have a chilling effect on climate policy.

It was sarcasm. It's exhausting really. You want to educate people about climate change and you have to contend with obvious bullshit the media spews out, how are you supposed to convince skeptical people it is real so that something can be done about it if they can just whip out article after article about how already explained weather phenoma is the world being cataclysmically destroyed by climate change?

The heat this summer isn't. The general trend of warming is. But they feel like to convince us they have to bullshit us about every weather event that happens.

Let me give you some examples. According to the IPCC climate change will not cause an increase in frequency or intensity of tropical storms/cyclones/hurricanes. That's the IPCC, the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. That doesn't stop the propaganda machine from blaming every storm that causes some damage on climate change.

Remember that heat wave in the pacific northwest a few years ago? That was a bubble of heat caused by a geomagnetic anomaly. All studies on the phenomenon conclude that climate change that we are causing will decrease the occurrence rate of these particular phenomenon. That didn't stop the propaganda machine from blaming it on climate change.

Climate change is caused by people. Fossil fuel burning, methane emissions, all of that. The globe is getting warmer in aggregate. But instead of just educating us on it, the media continually bullshits us on it. Every deviation from a calm, smooth weather pattern is blamed on it. And it's because they view us as stupid children who need to be managed, like telling us the cop will arrest us if we turn the light on in the car. All I'm saying is, they need to stop it with that dishonesty, it only hurts them. We are adults, tell us the truth, we can be trusted with it. Tell us that the sea level is rising and that we have to reduce carbon emissions and all that, and do it without blaming el nino on climate change because you think it's expedient.

You mean you ungenerously ascribe statements and positions to people that they have not espoused? I believe climate change is mostly driven by fossil fuel burning, so your reading betwixt the lines is really just you seeing ghosts and looking for enemies.

You severely underestimate the heat storage capacity of the ground. Geothermal heat pumps work off that principle: at 6-8 feet underground the temperature is constant (in spite of the sun shining on it all the time, that should give you an idea how minimally one human body would impact it) and moving heat into it dissipates it in the ground and has a minimal impact. You probably wouldn't even get a noticeable change in temperature in 48 hours. You can cool a whole house for a whole summer and probably only locally notice a 1° increase in local temperature around where it's pumped to by the end of the summer, heat that then can be used in the winter.

I did no such thing. I'm convinced that climate change is mostly man driven by fossil fuel burning.

Hmm curious.

I didn't say that.

I'm just talking about this year man.

Well that's my point. But the fuck cars people in here want to get rid of cars. Personally I'd like to live a life where I never need to drive a car, but that's infeasible even in a perfect world for a lot of people and that's all I'm saying.

Yeah and 6 feet underground the temperature is gonna be in the low 70s.

That's because if they plaster the news that there's a huge uptic in solar activity impacting earth like that then people might start to think that maybe the heat this year is caused by the sun, and you can't have that.

I think the solution is trails that run into towns from outlying areas, where there even are downtowns, for cycling or walking or whatever, allowing slower moving motorized and non motorized transportation on rural roadways with minimal restrictions. For really rural areas where there are no downtowns, I don't think you can do anything but let people get around the way they want to.

Definitely crazy. But when things get weird, they usually get even weirder as a response before settling down. I think things will start to settle down soon, into a new normal where it's not absolutely nuts out there.

OK, I get that, but where does the bus go? It goes somewhere right? It's not about "oh look a a bus stop" it's about the actual transportation itself.

I've said this in reference to the UK, but the same applies to the Netherlands. You cannot compare rural Europe with rural north America. Europe is very densely populated by American standards, you can drive a hundred miles here and not see a house. We aren't talking about small towns, you can make small towns walkable, cyclable, I agree. But their size and density makes them easily walkable and cyclable already. The problem is getting from your 5 acres 10 miles away from the downtown. Rural Europe is more comparable to suburban America, which I would totally agree, needs better transportation infrastructure.

The Netherlands is a wonderful place, but you just can't take their model and apply it to Nevada or Wyoming. There are towns of 1 in Wyoming that are 50 miles from the nearest town. You can put a bus stop in if you want, it won't take you anywhere. People don't realize how large and sparsely populated north america is.

Absolutely not.