Climate Change Report

[Latrinsorm]

A large part of the reason for this is those places don't have massive populations of braindead conservatards fucking everything up. The QoL in the US will improve massively once we exterminate the conservative zealots who are fed, human centipede style, by Rupert Murdoch's asshole, to which their lips are permanently locked. Right wing conservatism is a social disease and the pariahs who have it need to be committed and treated for having a mental disorder.

I'm so glad I was eating a chocolate cookie when I read this post.

[Parkbandit]

http://www.slate.com/articles/techno...zing_iraq.html

It's not Obama's fault what's happening in Iraq.. it's caused by man made global warming.

[Tenlaar]

http://www.slate.com/articles/techno...zing_iraq.html

It's not Obama's fault what's happening in Iraq.. it's caused by man made global warming.

It can't be Obama's fault anyway because the path to troop withdrawal was Bush's victory, right?

[Parkbandit]

It can't be Obama's fault anyway because the path to troop withdrawal was Bush's victory, right?

Bush gave the date where all troops would be removed from Iraq? I always thought the plan was to leave troops there like we do in Japan, Germany, etc...

[Aluvius]

Bush gave the date where all troops would be removed from Iraq? I always thought the plan was to leave troops there like we do in Japan, Germany, etc...

Ahhh, yeah. Its called the Status of Forces Agreement, though its full official name was: Agreement Between the United States of America and the Republic of Iraq On the Withdrawal of United States Forces from Iraq and the Organization of Their Activities during Their Temporary Presence in Iraq. Bush signed it just before Obama took office, so the Obama administration had no control over it.

President Obama negotiated with the Iraqi government to change the SOFA to allow for troops to stay past the Dec. 31, 2011 deadline but they refused to change it.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...111801118.html

From the article:

The first is a status-of-forces agreement, called a SOFA, which would codify legal protections for U.S. military personnel and property in Iraq. Such agreements already govern U.S. military conduct in other long-term deployment zones-including Germany, Japan, and South Korea-and the administration has characterized talks for a SOFA in Iraq as a hopeful step toward stability. A draft of that agreement (PDF) from October 2008 shows significant concessions from the U.S. side. For instance, the Bush administration agreed to a total withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq by the end of 2011. The agreement would also place additional restrictions on how U.S. troops conducted missions, and require a pullout from Iraqi urban areas by July 2009.

[Tgo01]

Antarctica sets yet another record for sea ice area since tracking began in the 70's.

I thought global warming was causing the ice caps to melt and in 2 years Florida would be completely under water? What's happening here?!

[Latrinsorm]

Look up the "soft underbelly". Think of it like a massive Jenga. Having more pieces on the bottom is in general better, but not if the missing pieces are all concentrated in a specific area: that destabilizes the entire structure. If 100% coverage looks like this:

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Then this:

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isn't as bad as this:

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even though the second one has a higher area covered.

And that's why you must vote for acquittal.

[Ashliana]

Antarctica sets yet another record for sea ice area since tracking began in the 70's.

I thought global warming was causing the ice caps to melt and in 2 years Florida would be completely under water? What's happening here?!

Perhaps, if you were the slightest bit intellectually curious, you could have found out the reality after only moments of searching: http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/fea...rctic-ice.html

Instead, you're content to go "Herpaderp! This confirms my ignorant layperson's understanding and must surely mean that the science behind climate change is a fraud and/or suspect!"

Try again.

[Tgo01]

Look up the "soft underbelly". Think of it like a massive Jenga. Having more pieces on the bottom is in general better, but not if the missing pieces are all concentrated in a specific area: that destabilizes the entire structure. If 100% coverage looks like this:

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Then this:

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XOXOX
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isn't as bad as this:

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even though the second one has a higher area covered.

And that's why you must vote for acquittal.

Latrin, a simple "I have no idea how to explain this" would have sufficed.

Perhaps, if you were the slightest bit intellectually curious, you could have found out the reality after only moments of searching: http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/fea...rctic-ice.html

Instead, you're content to go "Herpaderp! This confirms my ignorant layperson's understanding and must surely mean that the science behind climate change is a fraud and/or suspect!"

Try again.

I'm not at all that interested in enough to read that article; can you give me the summary?

[Latrinsorm]

Latrin, a simple "I have no idea how to explain this" would have sufficed.

Imagine you're a perfect sphere, and then I break your fucking legs. Get it now?