Wacka Posted January 18, 2017 Share Posted January 18, 2017 Well, of course I baited you. What, you thought that was a red herring or something? We all know Tom is a master baiter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-Man Posted January 19, 2017 Share Posted January 19, 2017 EPA Pardons Itself in the Animas River Pollution Case EPA message to the little people: If you like your river, you can’t keep your river. As President Obama spends the remainder of his presidency pardoning trangenders who disclosed vital security information, appointing fabulists to key positions, and releasing dangerous Gitmo detainees, people are beginning to mull over what we will remember most about this era. I assert that the damage caused by the rogue bureaucracy within the Environmental Protection Agency will float to the top of legacy cesspool. So, while Democratic politicos grill Scott Pruitt, the candidate likely to head the EPA in the Trump administration, the agency has finished its misrule under Obama appropriately enough. The EPA has pardoned itself from paying claims totaling more than $1.2 billion for economic damages from a mine waste spill the agency accidentally triggered in Colorado the summer of 2015. The EPA said the claims could be refiled in federal court, or Congress could authorize payments. But attorneys for the EPA and the Justice Department concluded the EPA is barred from paying the claims because of sovereign immunity, which prohibits most lawsuits against the government. “The agency worked hard to find a way in which it could pay individuals for damages due to the incident, but unfortunately, our hands are tied,” EPA spokeswoman Nancy Grantham said. The EPA is hiding behind the Federal Tort Claims Act, indicating that it prevents the agency from paying claims the result from “discretionary” government actions. Congress passed the law to allow government agencies to act “without the fear of paying damages in the event something went wrong while taking the action,” according to its press release. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boyst Posted January 19, 2017 Share Posted January 19, 2017 Science is skepticism. You test everything. Back about 80 years ago, it was assumed that parity was a conserved value in physics. That is, you could change physics from being right- to left-handed (basically a change of sign from positive to negative), and laws would be the same. This had been proven time and time OKagain in classical physics, an was considered a physical law. Until the mid-50s, when there were some particle decays that couldn't be explained because they violated parity conservation. Finally, someone asked "What if parity isn't a conserved value?" which almost everyone scoffed at...except for one Chien-Shung Wu, who composed a simple and elegant experiment to test the assumption, and found out that parity is not conserved (which almost everyone scoffed at again, but her experiment was bulletproof, and quickly reproduced by other parties.) One of the great accomplishments in physics in the 20th century. She won a Nobel Prize for it that same year, which I think is the quickest a Nobel Prize has ever been awarded in Physics, which shows how remarkable it was. It also shows that nothing in science is ever settled: you test and retest everything, even your most basic assumptions. If you're not skeptical, you're simply not a scientist. all bull **** due to lack of understanding that feelings and identities must be accounted for. Raysis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-Man Posted January 19, 2017 Share Posted January 19, 2017 (edited) JOURNALISM: When you read a science report claiming that 2016 was the hottest year on record, you might expect that you will get numbers. And you would be wrong. “Note to the New York Times: ‘trouncing’ and ‘blown past’ are phrases appropriate to sports reporting, not science reporting. Except that no sports reporter would dare write an article in which he never bothers to give you the score of the big game. . . . It’s almost like they’re hiding something. And that is indeed what we find.” TLDR: Increase is one-hundredth of a degree. Margin of error is a tenth of a degree. So it’s all bull ****. . by Glenn Reynolds Edited January 23, 2017 by B-Man Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-Man Posted January 23, 2017 Share Posted January 23, 2017 Incredible first images of Earth shot by most advanced weather satellite... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nanker Posted January 23, 2017 Share Posted January 23, 2017 Incredible first images of Earth shot by most advanced weather satellite... We live on a beautiful planet. We should all do what we can to keep it that way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC Tom Posted January 23, 2017 Share Posted January 23, 2017 Incredible first images of Earth shot by most advanced weather satellite... Waste of money. The science is settled. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IDBillzFan Posted January 23, 2017 Share Posted January 23, 2017 Waste of money. The science is settled. Which science is settled? Climate science or crowd science? I always get them confused. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary M Posted January 24, 2017 Share Posted January 24, 2017 Good move. But you will still may lose your jobs and/or funding. https://www.yahoo.com/news/us-health-officials-cancel-climate-conference-dont-why-193900345--politics.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-Man Posted January 24, 2017 Share Posted January 24, 2017 (edited) Good move. But you will still may lose your jobs and/or funding. https://www.yahoo.com/news/us-health-officials-cancel-climate-conference-dont-why-193900345--politics.html More on that. That big CDC climate change conference… won’t be happening Change: Trump to approve Keystone and Dakota Access pipelines (and, just like with President Obama, I don't think that Trump should have the power to do that) . Edited January 24, 2017 by B-Man Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nanker Posted January 24, 2017 Share Posted January 24, 2017 "The United States has the largest network of energy pipelines in the world, with more than 2.4 million miles of pipe. The network of crude oil pipelines in the U.S. is extensive. There are approximately 72,000 miles of crude oil lines in the U.S. that connect regional markets." That's nearly a three circuit span of the earth's equator in distance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-Man Posted January 24, 2017 Share Posted January 24, 2017 Al Gore Dodges a Question About Why His ’10 Year’ Warning Was an Inconvenient Falsehood. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiberius Posted January 25, 2017 Share Posted January 25, 2017 http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/316023-scientists-are-planning-their-own-march-on-washington Scientists marching on Washington. Geek squad, lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KD in CA Posted January 25, 2017 Share Posted January 25, 2017 http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/316023-scientists-are-planning-their-own-march-on-washington Scientists marching on Washington. Geek squad, lol Does that mean they'll stop to explain the thermodynamics while burning a Muslim immigrant's limo? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary M Posted January 25, 2017 Share Posted January 25, 2017 http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/316023-scientists-are-planning-their-own-march-on-washington Scientists marching on Washington. Geek squad, lol Do you think they will carpool or will they get Leo to fly them to the march in his helicopter? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiberius Posted January 25, 2017 Share Posted January 25, 2017 Does that mean they'll stop to explain the thermodynamics while burning a Muslim immigrant's limo? Oh what happened now? What has right wing media been feeding you to repeat? A limo on fire? Do you think they will carpool or will they get Leo to fly them to the march in his helicopter? Maybe they will drive. You think that's hypocritical, huh? Maybe they should act like the prez and drive, but say they walked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IDBillzFan Posted January 25, 2017 Share Posted January 25, 2017 Oh what happened now? What has right wing media been feeding you to repeat? A limo on fire? Good ol' gatorman. If it's not at DailyKos, it didn't happen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KD in CA Posted January 25, 2017 Share Posted January 25, 2017 Good ol' gatorman. If it's not at DailyKos, it didn't happen. I'm shocked g'tard didn't think it was a 'Trump supporters attack Muslim Immigrant' thing. But funnier that he's ignorant of one of the signature moments of Inauguration Day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC Tom Posted January 25, 2017 Share Posted January 25, 2017 Oh what happened now? What has right wing media been feeding you to repeat? A limo on fire? Maybe they will drive. You think that's hypocritical, huh? Maybe they should act like the prez and drive, but say they walked. [This is an automated response.] You're not trying to make a point, you're just a jerk. Created by DC Tom-bot, beta version 0.5. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiberius Posted January 25, 2017 Share Posted January 25, 2017 [This is an automated response.] You're not trying to make a point, you're just a jerk. Created by DC Tom-bot, beta version 0.5. The board parasite is awake! Good morning sunshine! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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