Three of the five big mass extinctions that science believes occurred on Earth:

My edits in brackets. Note the use of "was probably caused". No edit needed there. What caused the short ice age? Just curious. Also note that CO2 was believed to have been removed from the atmosphere.

Mama Earth is a b*tch, eh?

Wow, and no one was there fertilizing their lawns, 'cuz I heard algae blooms are my fault. Moving along.....

Mama Earth has real power doesn't she? She can giveth CO2 and taketh it away (toss in methane and sulfur dioxide while we're at it). You and your cars and cows - PFFFFT!!!

As for the other two:

Science, where are you?

And you think you're something don't you, puny human with your cell phone? The not caveman high technology know-it-all. I laugh at your primate hubris. You weren't around for any of the real action.

And what's missing from these analyses? Any sun spot activity data in there? I hear a lack of sun spots, or an abundance can cause real trouble. But what do I know? I'm just a guy with an opinion.

Just scratching the surface on that topic, but well done none the less.

Edit to add: ^^^^ We can learn about ourselves when we learn our history, can't we?

I've developed a theory. Call the State Science Institute (Ayn Rand reference)! I need a grant!



Dinosaur farts. Think about it. That monster consumes as much vegetation as a herd of cows.

And the damned things survived anyway.....

... but it's okay, we needed the extra oil for our pickup trucks.

The downside to posting stuff using my phone while watching my son play Little League...I have no idea what the sentence following the parenthesis was meant to say, but I think the meaning is well understood - guys like Copernicus bucked the conventional wisdom, which was 'settled science' and while it took a century, he was proven right. His story is not unique in the annals of science. Rarely have the big discoveries come from 'consensus' group-think. Group-think leads to the lemmings all running off the cliff...While we haven't gotten to the point of physically burning people at the stake for daring to question our current 'settled science' on 'Global Warming', er, I mean 'Climate Change', the ruling class squashes any and all contrary thought just the same.

I must also note that the last paragraph was lifted from a website, but pasted in here without quotes or attribution...sorry to whomever I copied it from for the oversight.

I didn't respond for or against the 'wrongness' of the tax policy, so if you have arrived at a conclusion on how I feel about it, you have a 50/50 chance of being wrong. If you want to call that a red herring, so be it. It is entirely possible I misunderstood the point that was being made, but I interpreted it to be much the same as guys like Buffet who feign to be offended & outraged at our 'unfair' tax system which 'favors' the rich, yet they actually never do anything about, beyond the lip service they provide.

My point remains, if one is truly offended by the system, the first place to start - even before making public proclamations about your outrage - would be to have the courage of your convictions and not participate in the offensive policies to the maximum extent legally possible or if you are adamantly convinced of your righteous thought, then by all means do the civil disobedience thing and put it all on the line. Walk the talk before telling others they must do so. Then take active steps to correct the perceived problem. It certainly weakens ones argument to rail against something they themselves are participating in - the 'but everyone else is doing it' isn't a valid excuse to participate in something one is righteously offended by.

I don't see that I stated how I feel about the tax policy. Given that, you have no idea if I agree with you on that point or not.

What I did do is point out what appears to be some hypocrisy, as you seemed to be complaining about all the tax breaks/credits you received. So I stand by my statement that if you are truly offended/outraged by the current tax policy, instead of complaining about it, take action. The first action one should take is that which is in 100% of their control. Walk the talk. If you are personally embarrassed and offended that the current tax laws are 'too low', stop taking advantage of the completely optional credits/refunds. If you feel your effective tax rate is too low and it brings offense/embarrassment to you, do the righteous thing and increase your rate voluntarily. Once you have done everything that is within your power to 'make it right for yourself', then take action to make it right for those that don't have the courage of your conviction. If you are unwilling to live by what you advocate unless forced to it makes it appear as if you may not truly believe what you are saying.

I personally find it odd that one would complain publicly about willingly participating in something they find unfair/unseemly/offensive, but the participate because 'everyone else does it'. Unfortunately it seems to be human nature for folks to take all they can, even if they know they probably shouldn't. For example, recall a few years back when the Federal government was handing out wheelbarrows full of money to any government entity that could make a case for an immediate 'shovel ready' project? I happened to be in city government at that time and was the only one arguing against grabbing those fistfuls of dollars just to waste on boondoggles just because we could. Most other members on the council justified the money grab because "if we don't someone else will" that's a pretty shitty argument in my mind.

It is entirely possible I missed your point and I apologize if that is the case.

Really? This is something you have a hard time believing? What planet have you been living on? It must be lovely. What color is your sky?

Here on earth, such arguments happen a billion times every day, in every corner of the world.

Absolutely. There is a Church of CO2 that determines what blasphemy is. I'm not saying they are wrong, I'm saying they are totally intolerant and closed-minded.

I remember when the CoC told us H2 Fuel Cells were the savior, but they hid the fact that H2 is makes a huge amount of carbon dioxide in production and FC's get contaminated by air, have a lot of lag, are very heavy, and extremely expensive just like the H2 filling stations and the H2 motor fuel.

That was NOT long ago. There are still CoC members (a branch sect) that still believe after 10 years of usable EV technology, that H2 is not only made from sea water, but is an efficient and green motor fuel. Seriously. Some have PhD's. I say they are more deluded than the "Climate Deniers". A "Climate Denier" is a label akin to calling someone a bigot. If they don't agree with you, you call them a CD or Bigot or Trumper (even though this issue is more than 8 years old). It's an instant win for any argument because the Science (Scientologists?) of the CoC is not disputable, just like H2 motor fuel was not disputable.

What will it be tomorrow? I've heard a ground swell of tire dust, and microparticles from ICE engines that will kill all of us tomorrow.

Now normally I would just treat the CoC folk like I do the anti-vaccine crowd, but the CoC is perhaps the biggest religion in California and New York, and it surrenders US EV industry to the Chinese without even a rebuttal, even though the Chinese are now out CO2'g us by a wide margin.

Socialism is not going to work with no jobs. And the CoC folk are mostly socialist. I sort of wish they all moved to Canada in 2016 like they said they would.

They may have tried, but discovered It isn’t that easy to immigrate to Canada...they don’t tolerate illegals, er, I mean ‘undocumented persons’ very well either.