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To: koan who wrote (981691)	11/14/2016 5:48:16 PM
From: d[-_-]b	2 Recommendations Recommended By FJB TideGlider Respond to of 1576613

Climate change is a hoax - never fear the money saved can be used to deport illegals. Meanwhile - directions to Canada.

To: koan who wrote (981691)	11/14/2016 6:35:19 PM
From: Thomas A Watson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576613

koan, anthropogenic CO2 driven climate change is putrid science pornography. As a social worker you are simply too stupid to understand how stupid it is from theory to all the objective observation that have falsified all the proffered science hypothesis of anthropogenic CO2 driven climate change. Simple arithmetic will show how stupid the conjecture was. There are no photons at CO2 tuned wave numbers for that 1 new part in 10,000 of CO2. What is the ratio of existing H20 molecules to CO2 molecules. CO2 is 4 in 10,000 There has been about a 1 part in 10,000 increase in CO2 in the last century. H20 varies from 40 to 450 Now if you look at the overlaid transmittance of CO2 and H20, even at the 2350 wave number CO2 spike, 80 H20 will absorb as much as 4 CO2. When the dew point is 45F there are 100 parts H20 in 10,000. At 70F dew point there are 250 parts per 10,000 of H20. So if your consider where most of the Suns energy hits the Earth and that there the dewpoints are >70F all the time. It is too simple for a dumb social scientist to add it up.

To: koan who wrote (981691)	11/14/2016 11:22:41 PM
From: James Seagrove	1 Recommendation Recommended By TideGlider Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576613

The Scorpion and the Frog One day, a scorpion looked around at the mountain where he lived and decided that he wanted a change. So he set out on a journey through the forests and hills. He climbed over rocks and under vines and kept going until he reached a river. The river was wide and swift, and the scorpion stopped to reconsider the situation. He couldn't see any way across. So he ran upriver and then checked downriver, all the while thinking that he might have to turn back. Suddenly, he saw a frog sitting in the rushes by the bank of the stream on the other side of the river. He decided to ask the frog for help getting across the stream. "Hellooo Mr. Frog!" called the scorpion across the water, "Would you be so kind as to give me a ride on your back across the river?" "Well now, Mr. Scorpion! How do I know that if I try to help you, you wont try to kill me?" asked the frog hesitantly. "Because," the scorpion replied, "If I try to kill you, then I would die too, for you see I cannot swim!" Now this seemed to make sense to the frog. But he asked. "What about when I get close to the bank? You could still try to kill me and get back to the shore!" "This is true," agreed the scorpion, "But then I wouldn't be able to get to the other side of the river!" "Alright then...how do I know you wont just wait till we get to the other side and THEN kill me?" said the frog. "Ahh...," crooned the scorpion, "Because you see, once you've taken me to the other side of this river, I will be so grateful for your help, that it would hardly be fair to reward you with death, now would it?!" So the frog agreed to take the scorpion across the river. He swam over to the bank and settled himself near the mud to pick up his passenger. The scorpion crawled onto the frog's back, his sharp claws prickling into the frog's soft hide, and the frog slid into the river. The muddy water swirled around them, but the frog stayed near the surface so the scorpion would not drown. He kicked strongly through the first half of the stream, his flippers paddling wildly against the current. Halfway across the river, the frog suddenly felt a sharp sting in his back and, out of the corner of his eye, saw the scorpion remove his stinger from the frog's back. A deadening numbness began to creep into his limbs. "You fool!" croaked the frog, "Now we shall both die! Why on earth did you do that?" The scorpion shrugged, and did a little jig on the drownings frog's back. "I could not help myself. It is my nature." Then they both sank into the muddy waters of the swiftly flowing river. Self destruction - "Its my Nature", said the Scorpion.., An interesting article regarding this fable. spectacle.org

To: koan who wrote (981691)	11/15/2016 1:36:13 AM
From: Sdgla	1 Recommendation Recommended By longz Respond to of 1576613

To: koan who wrote (981691)	11/15/2016 12:45:45 PM
From: James Seagrove	1 Recommendation Recommended By POKERSAM Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1576613

Koan's State of Fear - We live on the third planet from a medium-size sun. Our planet is five billion years old, and it has been changing constantly all during that time. The Earth is on its third atmosphere. The first atmosphere was helium and hydrogen. It dissolved early on, because the planet was too hot. Then as the planet cooled, volcanic eruptions produced a second atmosphere of steam and carbon dioxide. Later the water vapor condensed, forming the oceans that cover most of the planet. Then, around three billion years ago, some bacteria evolved to consume carbon dioxide and excrete a highly toxic gas, oxygen. Other bacteria released nitrogen. The atmospheric concentration of these gases slowly increased. Organisms that could not adapt died out. Meanwhile, the planet’s land masses, floating on huge tectonic plates, eventually came together in a configuration that interfered with the circulation of ocean currents. It began to get cold for the first time. The first ice appeared two billion years ago. And for the last seven hundred thousand years, our planet has been in a geological ice age, characterized by advancing and retreating glacial ice. No one is entirely sure why, but ice now covers the planet every hundred thousand years, with smaller advances every twenty thousand or so. The last advance was twenty thousand years ago, so we’re due for the next one. After five billion years, our planet remains amazingly active. We have five hundred volcanoes and an eruption every two weeks. Earth quakes are continuous: a million and half a year, a moderate Richter 5 quake every six hours. Tsunamis race across the Pacific Ocean every three months. Our atmosphere is as violent as the land beneath it. At any moment there are one thousand five hundred electrical storms across the planet. Eleven lightning bolts strike the ground each second. A tornado tears across the surface every six hours. And every four days a giant cyclonic storm, hundreds of miles in diameter, spins over the ocean and wreaks havoc on the land. The little monkey that calls himself Koan can do nothing except run and hide. For this same monkey to imagine he can stabilize the atmosphere is arrogant beyond belief. Koan can’t control the climate. The reality is, Koan runs from the storms.