Colin B Lane: Maybe we should impose a moratorium on Ivy Leaguers joining the SCOTUS for a couple of decades.  God knows there are enough of them there to last for a long time.

Graduates of these institutions -- accustomed to being told all their lives how smart they are -- seem to feel compelled to demonstrate their cleverness, often without regard to how absurd their "cleverness" looks in the real world.

Give me your Belmont University and Pepperdine graduates any day. Their ability to think clearly is largely untainted by a sense of their own wonderful cleverness. · _{10 minutes ago}

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Highlama: I realize I've transgressed on two fairly sacred cows of American culture. We don't question democracy and we don't question the notion of equality.

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Highlama: Thank goodness that's settled.

After being nuked by the USSR (Big Scare c. 1960),and starved by lack of food (Big Scare c. 1970), and radiated due to lack of ozone (Big Scare c. 1980), and infected with the deadly AIDS (c. 1990), and sent back to the Stone Age (Y2K),  I need another Big Scare just to keep feeling normal.

This is just a thumbnail, there have been so many more lesser Big Scares - I'm surprised people haven't wised up yet. Do you think it might have to do with the repressed fear of death that makes these "end of life as we know it" movements so popular? · _{1 hour ago}

drlorentz

CO2 by itself is not much of a problem. The real greenhouse gas is water. The climate models (simplifying here) show that added CO2 causes there to be more water vapor. This is the 'positive feedback' you may have heard about. Absent that, there's little cause for concern. I agree CO2 has some warming effect, but it may be quite small and manageable. The question always returns to the skill of the models. The derivative is positive, but we don't know what it is. In this case, size does matter.

ConservativeWanderer

Simple. They ruled it out in error. The only possible explanation for temperatures on other planets increasing is the sun.

But "the sun" doesn't get researchers fat government grants, so that answer is ruled out of order to keep the tax dollars flowing into their pockets. · _{3 hours ago}

Highlama

I don't have time to read that whole article, but it did point out that estimates of warming were 300% higher than actual warming.

I've been following this issue since the 80's and I challenge you to show 1 prediction that has been proven true.

TheRoyalFamily

Even if all the Climate Change stuff were true, and the world was warming and all that, why wouldn't it be a good thing?

(Of course, if it were all true, it would be simultaneously both dryer and wetter, which would end life as we know it.) · _{2 hours ago}

ConservativeWanderer

It's not science at all. There's no repeatable experiments. · _{16 minutes ago}

Highlama: The Left, I've realized, is based on fear mongering. They cast conservatives as Nazis, business as inhumane, and life as something the government must protect you from.

Believing the hysteria is the perfect existential solution to the masses of inept, insipid, intellectually inbred, narcissistic, Peter Pans who only ever dream of the return to Never Never Land. Their leaders have contempt for them, dupes of dupes that they are, because they with this cheap existential validation they no longer ask any questions and happily adopt even the most ridiculous positions with an attitude of self-righteousness. · _{48 minutes ago}