@op the finger waving at China ignores the fact that they produce more than 30% of the world's solar power The solar power they produce is double that of US, and the Hydropower is almost 5 times that of US, with windpower 2.5 times. This from Reuters:
The earth wobbles, the sun too wobbles, how much we do not know, thousands or millions of years are involved, these things are in no way sudden. A tilting earth as a sudden even sounds implausible without say a catastrophic impact perhaps. Large impacts may have effect on circular momentum, angular velocity and tilt I guess, but I have not read postulates about this. All that is quite unrelated to the current theories of climate change, and casts zero shadow on their validity.
@op I see the author's name lies concealed within the text - would the @op have others believe he wrote it himself, perchance? There is a partial attribution but one has to look for it hidden amongst dashes brackets and dots. Czeslaw Milosz
Another meaning of discriminating is entirely positive. To be discriminating is a good quality. I am discriminating in my choice of cheese wine and news service. Brie must be mature and runny, shiraz bold heart and fruity, and anything associated with Murdoch must never get playtime!
Surely CRTC or NNC or some such body in Canada have powers to censure and govern the unruly for breaches of ethics? Of course they have no power over foreign broadcasts other than to have the government withdraw broadcast rights, since US seems reluctant to have a News Council with any teeth.
Bring back Al Gore! Seeing him defeated in Florida in an absolute nail-biter was the most disappointing moment of American 21st century history, in my opinion.
@phat typical RIGHT-speak from you as always, don't you agree? Stereotyping of liberal thinkers. Said perpetrator was also charged with and convicted of interfering with evidence.
40, nay 50 years ago i had a long-haired smoke. One day she came running up the hallway purring, and seemingly grinning, Cheshire-cattishly. Barefoot as I was (so it was probably summer, no way I'd be barefoot in a Christchurch winter) I felt something wet underfoot. It was a tiny heart, and the cat was mightily pleased with herself. Never forgotten! Back here in Sydney I occasionally come across the guts of a poor eviscerated possum, just as Orz mentioned. Nothing cute about cats.
Women continue to be paid less for equal work, and while they graduate more and fail less they remain under-represented in the STEM careers. in IT the 'balance' is still 80-20 male-female so we are stiil recruiting inferior male workforce. Similar numbers apply to CEO's Boards, Politics I suggest. The professional salary of women still lags that of men by about 20% and the accumulation of retirement savings is even further in arrears
Medicine has made great strides and at least in part because of it, life expectancy has jumped from 40 to 70s and 80s. Clearly we should avoid the hypochondria, but the vaccines and antibiotics have been transformative. Smallpox is (almost) no more, Polio TB Malaria Goiter Bilharzia - chemicals and medicines work wonders. Oh, and a natural traditional medicine (Artemisinin) used in malaria treatment recently resulted in a Nobel prize for medicine.
Know? I know that pi is irrational, nay, transcendental, that is proven. Belief in the biblical fairy-stories too is irrational, but in another sense. Belief in the transcendentality of a divine being is to my mind also irrational, but not provably so. Shrug - each to their own, your irrational and unprovable beliefs are no skin off my nose. Go with Lucifer.
Catch covid, lose most sense of taste and smell, together with appetite - that works, but too well, alas. A takeaway curry or noodles lasts me 3 or 4 meals, and there is still leftover to throw away because of boredom. The same curry 4 times, or combination chao mian in a week? Give me a break!
I was mulling over the presence and role of Wagner Group in this war, and wondering how Moscow is paying them. Rubles? A little digging turns up the recruitment by Wagner of cannon fodder from Russian prisons and asylums, paying them several times what the Russian conscripts receive. The survival time seems brief, but the effectiveness appears much greater than that of the Russian forces.
CNY vs USD is not directly connected to Russia vs NATO/Ukraine, such a connection cannot be shown. That may evolve given CNY/RUB/INR transactions between Russia and China and India and the blocking of SWIFT, but it is not a cause of the conflict. The focus is on NATO and Russia's understandable refusal to allow that threat next door.
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RE: CLIMATE CHANGE
@op the finger waving at China ignores the fact that they produce more than 30% of the world's solar powerThe solar power they produce is double that of US, and the Hydropower is almost 5 times that of US, with windpower 2.5 times.
This from Reuters: