jerryseinfeld1

Civil servants put their money into pension funds. These pension funds are managed by various firms, like Bain Capital. As a public sector union employee, you profit when Bain does. This isn't some small detail - this is where the money comes from. Why is it that a retired teacher can complain about business practices from which they directly benefit?

Bain Capital invested moneyt for firefighters and teachers unions. So what you are saying is firefighters and teachers destroyed communities and shipped jobs overseers just so they could all retire comfortably?

This sums up the whole thing

Enjoy.

Since when is capitalism such a bad word? Bain Capital is the very nature of capitalism. In a way, this election is truly defining. Because, by demonizing Bain, what Obama is essentially saying is that capitalism is bad. Is this the President this nation wants?

OK then let's talk about the climate meme. Nobody knows what causes climate fluctuations. Nobody.

Here is a "meme" - and you might disagree with me - George W Bush was an awful President. Certainly he presided over an awful time. I can't think of a President who has been faced with the challenges he was. Can you? 9-11, plus the credit bubble popping, all in one Presidency. Tough.

Ha! Well said. "How can we expect mere brown people to be able to control themselves? They are just animals, like bears in the woods." Liberals are bigots, but in a sneaky way. They don't really realize that they are. "looking out for the dumb coloured folk who can't look after themselves" is the liberal mindset.

You're right in theory, but narratives and "memes" do exist.

Well when people decry corporations , which they own and profit from, it rings a little hollow.

The muzzies are nuts. Everybody knows it. people should quit pretending otherwise.

That's an awesome post. Well done.

lets dissect this. Ok this is good stuff. But I think, in english, he is saying: "the fact that warming hasn't happened as expected is, regretfully, true. but I don't like it. we don't know for sure why we were wrong, but today we're pinning it on particulate matter (which we somehow forgot to put into our models), or just simply that our models were bogus. er..sorry, our "climate sensitivity estimate" was...hmm, what's the word, bad." Ok this one is a doozy. Let's try a translation, shall we? : "darn, I was so busy worrying about carbon, I forgot to put aerosols into my models. we should all have an academic discussion about why I was wrong. but keep it academic. simply stating "I was wrong" doesn't sound too good for the funding. aerosols threw a wrench into our plans for global armageddon, and we're never forgiving China for that."

It's not that hard, dude. The predictions were wrong. Wait, let me say that more slowly for you. The. Predictions. Were. Wrong. Does Waldo get some credit because the earth slightly warmed (much less than predicted) over the past decade? I suppose I could throw him that bone. Again., though, the causation doesn't really match up. What's funny is his desperate attempt to show knowledge. Face it. We have no idea - he has no idea - what drives climate. They pay people millions of dollars to analyze the global economy, as complex as it is. And yet, for all it's complexity, the world markets are simple compared to the global climate and all the factors that come into play. Do you really expect some schlepp like Waldo to figure it out? But for Waldo, this is no deterrent. If the earth hasn't warmed as much as he had hoped (seriously...he hopes! or that funding may dry up!), then it must be the aerosols! thats the ticket! THE AEROSOLS IN CHINA!! Why didn't we think of that before? Our models are excellent. Last time we just forgot about the Aerosols. Next time, and we promise for real this time, the aerosols will be factored in. Because we wouldn't wanna just throw in some random environmental phenomenon to make an excuse for how badly our models failed or anything like that.

No. I'm laughing at how the green trend line goes up even when the data doesn't support it. I love science

I think you summed it up in one word: uncertainties. Thank you. But I truly do love academics. That need for importance just cries out like a lonesome baby. To the rest of us, the world got a little warmer then basically stayed that way for a while. To Waldo, this is a life project.

I don't think anyone argues that the world is a bit warmer. Is that your bombshell? The fact of the matter is, the predictions were wrong. And it's entirely up to you, but I think it would help your cause if the tone of your posts weren't so mean - as per "hey jer". It's not constructive and I tend to think you are doing it mostly for effect, to try to lend yourself some kind of credibility. It's annoying, so if that's your goal, then keep it up. Something tells me it is.

You're awesome. I did your graph from 2010. Here's what I got: http://www.woodfortrees.org/plot/gistemp/from:2010/plot/gistemp/from:1997/to:2012/trend hahahahahahahahahahahaaaaaaa. You are a genius my friend, bar none.