Would you take that bet? I'm guessing not...
Lol, I'll see your bet and raise you. I'll take your bet and raise it to $1M USD. I'm not interested in your chicken feed $100, so get your lawyer to send me the paperwork and we'll see who is the troll.
This argument isn't logically sound. It's comparison to USD is simply because everyone is familiar with the value of the USD. By your argument, the British pound, the Canadian and Australian dollar, and every other fiat currency in the world is fake, since all fiat currency isn't based on anything, and is compared to the US dollar.
I'm Australian, the value of the AUD is based on stuff I can buy with it every day.
Actually US dollar is also not backed by anything,
Actually it is. There's a whole government and military apparatus that backs it. Compare that to what exactly for Crypto?
which is why they can simply "print" more money by adding numbers to a database, and devalue every USD holders value.
OMGZ inflation! It must be bad because reasons...
At least, of all the fake currency out there, bitcoin is the only one that takes real resources to produce (not just numbers in a database), AND is a deflationary asset, meaning it will always gain value, and some monkey in a suit can't just push a button or pass a law to devalue it for everyone else.
You don't seem to have paid any attention to any BTC devaluation event in the last 10 years lol.
"This is an area where current generation models are NOT capturing a real-world climate connection," Mann explained.
But, but, models!
This is where wind power, and even solar wins out. The wind is always blowing somewhere.
Lol no it isn't, at least not in the capacity required to power a nation or even multiple states.
Let's assume you have a multi-state grid to transport wind power from where it is to where it's required. If you have say 10 states, you need each and every wind-farm to produce enough capacity to cover all 10 states in case the wind is only blowing in one of them. So 10x capacity ie Completely and utterly impractical.
To give you an idea, wind friendly Denmark is littered with thousands of turbines. The complete fleet produces as much electricity as 1 single conventional station. It simply doesn't scale very well.
Wind power is already much cheaper than coal
No it isn't for the reasons above. Hippies will quote name plate capacity and tell you 1 MW of wind is cheaper than 1MW of coal, but wind only reaches name plate capacity 30% of the time compared to 80%+ for coal. So you need three times as many of them to achieve the same output. The other big catch is that during low or high wind they produce nothing, so where do you get electricity from then? Most people like electricity on demand.
Solar, wind, batteries etc are useful in small scale to cover certain use cases, but they will never ubiquitous. There is a reason no-one is relying on them 100%, and it's not a reptilian conspiracy.
So what can you do to help? There are three broad categories you can help, personal, political and charitable.
Lol, my state has a grand total of about 10GW of coal fired capacity that the hippies want to shut down with no plan to replace (ie people will starve). China constructed 30GW of new coal last year alone, with a further 250GW in the pipeline. So even if our entire state of 8 million people with its meagre 10GW coal power all evaporated from the universe it would make no difference to anything.
I know it feels nice to pretend you are doing something, but this talk of solar and wind is not scalable so will amount to three fifths of fuck all in the bigger picture.
Perhaps this is better for the human race... double the chance of us getting off this planet long term?
All of your problems are human problems. Why do you think that moving humans solves any of them?
If California was a country it would be the fifth largest in the world in terms of economy. Far more than a tech boom. Like others have pointed out its a prosperous liberal state and republicans absolutely hate that.
This is a genuine question, how much of that is due to Democrat policies? Considering that CA was Republican up until the 90's, and most of the state's major industry (Agriculture, Hollywood, Tech etc) was created before that?
That was before AGW. Now it is drought one year, drought the next.
It isn't really a "drought". It is the new climate, and it will get worse.
Lol we just had the wettest year in decades, so much for that theory...
Are you suggesting we not do research anymore, or that you be consulted on which ones should be researched? You seem to think it is easily predictable which exploration path will be successful.
Well this is the age of the climate cult, where science is now done by consensus...
How can people in El Salvador pay for a $4 meal when a BitCoin transaction is $8? Even $50 in groceries would carry a 16% transaction fee.
And how many people earning $3/day are spending $3.50 on a cup of coffee?
Exactly how do you secure a bank made with dirt floors and and a tin roof?
The bank has concrete and steel, because it's only the regular folk who are poor, not the banks.
I thought Facebook already proved companies don't win social media with "better services" as defined by this billionaire, but with psychologists running a/b testing on how to keep people engaged.
Yeah but some people can't see the forest for the trees...
You really don't know that large corporations corrupt politicians with campaign contributions, insider information and other favors? Yeesh.
I can only speak on the projects that I know of and have seen no evidence of that. Do you have any, or are you simply talking our of your ass?
A fetus isn't a child, shithead.
No, that's why he said 'unborn child'
But what are words when you have outrage...
If you mean a pickup,
'Truck' means large, heavy, 3+ axles, longer than 12.5 metre type vehicles.
If you mean an actual truck, it's still not fair, because trucks do way more than twice as much damage as cars.
That's assuming that the toll is only to cover wear and tear, which it isn't.
The universe is an island, surrounded by whatever it is that surrounds universes.
