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What's the renovation - was it lying on its side?

At least he grew up.

After Queer Eye For The Straight Guy, the downhill slide really gained momentum.

I-35 cuts right through Austin and crosses the Colorado River at Lady Bird lake. I think about that bridge collapse in Minneapolis every time I cross. That took a second to hit me.

No, More CO2 = more warming = healthier plants with more CO2 to breathe. Think of the plants!

I was thinking that he sounded suspiciously French.

What a great way to do to congress what they've done to us some many times. Absolutely.

Personally, I think Kanye's best work wasn't even done by him:

There's no way those guys are gay - did you see how they dress?

It's not like that's going to change my opinion of McCartney at all - I haven't liked anything he's done since 1970.

'intelligents' 'Helsinki Fighting Butterchurns'

And you call us artists of deflection?

I know a lot of people liked that show. I try to avoid getting interested in many TV shows because sooner or later I get completely sucked in and can't miss an episode. To date, the only shows I watch on a regular basis are The Strain and South Park.

I never watched it. Howie Mandel gets on my nerves.

Not to be nit-picky, but that wasn't an equation. It was a thought experiment set in an extremely controlled environment. The assumption that that's exactly how it would work in Earth's atmosphere under natural conditions is a mistake, imo. Further, is the measured increase in C02 a direct result of carbon emissions from fossil fuels? Could it possibly be due to a proportionate loss of oxygen being generated from various sources? I have yet to find a source I deem trustworthy for such information, due to both the relative newness of climate science and it's politicization by people on both sides of the issue. Until I'm convinced one way or the other, I will not support any legislation or government involvement of any kind in further taxation or regulation of American industry based on climate science or claims of global warming.

I predict that Ed Begley Jr will fund scientific research into the extraction of methane from recycled corn.

The entire thing.

There are easily just as many written pieces that support a cessation in the previous warming trend. Don't believe it? Google it. You're also ignoring the fact that I'm talking about MAN-MADE global warming, not GW in general.

Things have apparently changed a lot on Chippewa since I moved away in '82.

Just as I suspected.

Then it should be easy enough to provide the source of your information. I'm not a denier, I'm a skeptic. Convince me.

Your source?

I hate that song with all my heart.

I don't know anything about Asian Carp and Notre Dame, but I agree with you on the rest, at least in principle. That's why I consider myself a man-made global warning skeptic, rather than a denier.

The OP stated that the 'hoax' was that climate change/global warming was caused by humanity, not that it exists. From the OP: Whatever they are calling this boogieman these days,as we were shoveling today during the record national cold wave my neighbor had a good point.When I was in high school (1980) my ultra lib environmental science teacher assured the students in my class that there was an impending ice age. A few years after I graduated from HS I heard a few teenagers talking about global warming in a book store.I did some research and I quickly realized the same thing my neighbor said today.Well before the industrial period in the world had started the worlds ice that covered most of the continent had melted during a warming period.Obviously that warming was not caused by man because the industrial era was not existent at that point so it was a natural cycle. Man caused global warming/climate change is nothing more than a boogieman created by the left in this country and now the world to control policy.Furthermore whenever a scientist pushes this agenda one only has to Google their name and you'll soon discover that that scientist is financed by some government entity.I also discovered a couple of years ago that many scientists have been caught skewing data because the numbers didn't match their hysterical agenda.