Interesting discussion. Some valid and some not. I've always found it funny that so many see g****l w*****g as a political issue. Some think its a h**x and others think its going to result in a dead earth is not halted. Both are wrong, of course. Warming is real although with great variance ( a key concept in understanding at he potential for changes) and man has increased the rate of change, that too is true but we probably can't reverse it. Another t***h. As far as vaariance is concerned, the current "cooling" trend was predicted back in the 80's and early 90's. I remember some saying that the short term cooling that was to come would make it difficult for many to believe that g****l w*****g was real and not a h**x. One other point that I haven't seen mentioned as I scanned (and possibly missed) the previous comments, the previous warmer times that have existed on earth came about over thousands of years. The current trend is hundreds of times faster than has been seen in the past. Thats a key point, changes over thousands of years allow for species to adapt, where as changes in hundreds of years, allow for less adaptation.

No, mostly I agree (not sure about your last statement).

The 2nd amendment says:

A well regulated m*****a being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.

I'm going to go home and research my copy of the Anti-Federalist Papers, but my take on this is also one of State's Rights, as well as individual rights. Each state wanted to reserve to themselves the right to keep the peace, as you say, within that state.

The Constitution was a hard enough sell to those independent former colonies as it was--they wanted some assurance of being able to retain that a certain amount of that independence.

I think you agree with me, right?

But the earth's atmospheric pressure at sea level is constant, it's called standard temperature and pressure. It is more accurate to say that ocean (any body of water) will absorb or concentrate more gases in it from the air based on temperature swings since pressure changes are effectively insignificant compared to temperature changes.

...but you were addressing me, I didn't bother to read Ghostcotcha comments...

Yes, I am incompetent in the Psychology field, but I know crazy when I see it.

The oceans and any body of water absorb gases, Ever have Soda Pop? The carbon isn't created, carbon dioxide is created when one burns things or when I breath. The carbon dioxide already exists, is what I'm driving at so it's absorbed. You're barking up the wrong tree, I'm a Chem. Eng. and if you think you know what you're talking about-you don't.

Apparently, you've never worked with boilers, they are vented not only to stabilize the pressure, but to vent off gases, Nitrogen, CO2, even oxygen.

Even metals are heated or literally baked to remove hydrogen, which causes embrittlement. It's big problem because it can cause fasteners to fail if they aren't baked, so yea, H20 absorbs gases, salts (ionic compounds).

And my point was that the oceans are not acidic, they are basic or alkaline. That's why I provided the explanation about pH. Freshman chemistry: take a class.

The reduction in the shellfish population is due to overfishing not acidic oceans. They just love makin' s**t up to support unsupportable thinking. Confirmation bias is not your friend.

BTW.. Probably not for the simple minded liberals who feel their way to their opinions and proposed solutions I write the following for the higher educated.

Henry's law can be put into mathematical terms (at constant temperature) as

p = k_{\mathrm{H}} c

where p is the partial pressure of the gaseous solute above the solution, c is the concentration of the dissolved gas and kH is a constant with the dimensions of pressure divided by concentration. The constant, known as the Henry's law constant, depends on the solute, the solvent and the temperature.

For those of you who are thinking around me in the above and wondering how you put all that C02 into a bottle of coke without exploding the bottle, and why the apparent volume in the bottle of coke would not be reduced once the C02 has out- gassed. Consider another gas law of physics -- Boyle's law. It explains how a gas volume is reduced proportional to the ambient pressure...

And that is why you are not given the right to judge other people. Yes you can judge right and wrong but only based on the scriptures but you are not allowed to judge other people.

Matthew 7: 1-2 “Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.

You judged me for a homosexual just because I disagreed with you. Well I am not nor have I even been tempted in that way. So you judged falsely and in that way you will be judged.

Actually, it is only ONE BIG LIE, but it affects to different conservative states.

The silly and goofy republican meme that they "h**e big government" and that the "liberals are takers" and "liberals don't work, just take handouts" is like all other conservative republican crap. Just a big lie, since it is easily proven that each of the conservative states listed in this article, take far more than they contribute. If it wasn't for the money from the "left-coasts" the "heartland" would be even more of a wasteland of greed and envy, low-wages, and depair than it is now.

And for the numerous nimrods who post conservative crap and tripe here daily, read the entire article, you just may learn something.



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