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• teapot commented on Energy Literacy 4. How to gauge whether your politicians are faking it on climate change commitments
  1. The U.S. is responsible for approx. 31% of the global GDP, thus being responsible for 22.7% of carbon emissions isn't so unfair, IMO. Funny that a comment without references has factual errors... who would have expected that? The three lists here all clearly suggest that the US contributes less than 25% to the global GDP. A quarter is much less impressive than a third. Furthermore, the US - with a population of just over 300mil - produces 20+% of the world CO2 emissions. Meanwhile the EU - with a collective population of very close to 500mil - produces less...
• VagabondAstronomer commented on Energy Literacy 4. How to gauge whether your politicians are faking it on climate change commitments
  @Anonymous Admittedly, sentimentality will get you nowhere in arguments of this nature. However, the changes I've seen since I've returned to Florida really hit home. However, the changes I've seen are not my sole support for AGW. As I said, I have seen the data plenty of times. I should qualify that by saying I have seen the data for years. Seeing the effects just made it very real, that's all. It's like being told that streams of particles hit the Earth from the Sun all the time, but the first time you see an aurora, it becomes more than...
• spool32 commented on Energy Literacy 4. How to gauge whether your politicians are faking it on climate change commitments
  And what response do you have for the evidence that the data you've been seeing for years is tainted by bias and malfeasance? What response to the fact that you have not actually seen the data, but only results 'adjusted' by people who, by their own admission, have arbitrarily changed the raw data before showing it to you? What response to the fact that you can no longer look at the raw data, since it's been destroyed? No one is arguing that the world is unchanging. You're right, though... sentimentality gets you nowhere toward a casual relationship between human activity...
• gkatic commented on Energy Literacy 4. How to gauge whether your politicians are faking it on climate change commitments
  Great article. So clears up the statistical obfuscation that politicians employ....
• arkizzle / Moderator commented on Energy Literacy 4. How to gauge whether your politicians are faking it on climate change commitments
  "Sometimes one country has to go first to get the the ball rolling. As an American (of the US variety), I'm hoping my country shows that leadership." Ahh hahaha haha ha. Yeah, America'll go first.. because we've all been sitting around waiting until the US government started believing in AGW, before taking action. http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,168701,00.html...