Climate Change -- conspiracy theory or is it time we all drive a Prius?

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I’m not sure what point you are trying to make? Propofol is a drug, essentially replaced pentathol, that has saved thousands of lives due to its much better safety profile than Pentothal. Of course, proper training in its use makes it an exceedingly safe drug. But not having airway management skills and using it can have a Michael Jackson result.

Why would I have stopped using it for my patients because a quack who didn’t know how to use it killed someone?

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As we would not have stopped using propofol just because a quack who didn’t know how to use it killed someone, we should not change our habits, behaviors and our laws to mitigate climate change and environmental destruction just because some green celebrities aren't.

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Ok. But I’m sure you’d agree we’d be better off environmentally if we banned all internal combustion engines. And eliminated lots of coal using factories. And air conditioning. Etc…. But people don’t just look at everything from an ‘environmental’ perspective. Exactly what laws/regulations/restrictions are in the public good and generally reasonable are not black and white. I’ll agree with you that the Trump administration goes too far one way……. As he does on most issues…

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Looks to me like Bezos fired the wrong 300

Ya know, some things are just stupid. One of them is to advocate how bad global warming has gotten to be when everyone you're talking to is freezing to death from the cold, no? Yet the Washington Post has done just that during one of the worst winters the East Coast has experienced in a long time, and I ask you, just where do you think their primary readership resides?

Who knows if the reporters are following good science?* It just makes normal people angry to see an article like that. Stupid!

Headline: "Scientists thought they understood global warming. Then the past three years happened." there's a paywall
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/interactive/2026/climate-change-temperature-rate-accelerating/

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Winter 2025-26 was one for the record books, in the sense that there was record-breakingly little winter for the western half of the country.

A large swath of the western half of the U.S., from Southern California to the High Plains and Northern Rockies, had its warmest meteorological winter (December through February) on record - based on 131 years of climate data.

The contiguous United States (every state except Hawaii and Alaska) as a whole measured its second-warmest meteorological winter on record. Cooler temperatures in the East kept the country from its record warmest winter

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The IPCC has published a new generation of climate scenarios – and buried in the fine print is a remarkable concession: the extreme warming pathways that dominated climate research, policy, and media coverage for decades were never actually plausible.

“The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has just published the next generation of climate scenarios,” Science policy analyst Roger Pielke Jr. wrote, calling it “big news” that “eliminated the most extreme scenarios that have dominated climate research over much of the past several decades.

”The conclusion was unambiguous. “The IPCC and broader research community has now admitted that the scenarios that have dominated climate research, assessment and policy during the past two cycles of the IPCC assessment process are implausible. They describe impossible futures.”

Those “impossible futures” formed the backbone of a decade-plus of apocalyptic climate messaging – melting ice caps, submerged coastlines, mass extinctions, widespread crop failures, and global hunger, always around the corner, always demanding immediate, economy-reshaping action to avert a catastrophe that, it now turns out, the underlying science community had assigned to a category closer to science fiction than projection.

The new IPCC framework formally demotes its remaining “HIGH scenario” from expected outcome to “exploratory – a thought experiment, not a projection.”

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What is Greta going to do now??

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Pretty cool mural

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Quote: terapined1

Pretty cool mural

Indulging in Soviet style Cult of Personality in Boise. Sad. That kind of nonsense leads to the foolishness the UN panel finally had to admit to

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cult_of_personality .