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Maybe it's not convincing to you but why should anyone care about the conviction or lack of it in the case of an anonymous poster on thaivisa who offers no evidence to back up their assertions. The fact is that even early models made in the 70's, when computing power was minuscule compared to today, successfully formulated algorithms that are still valid today for predicting global warming. And the human contribution to the total amount of CO2 in the atmosphere is now 1/3 of the total. Maybe to you a 50% increase is small and signifies no important role And that says nothing about the increase of methane and other greenhouse gasses generated by human activity.

All you ever did in this regard was try to get me to share my feelings with you. Never did you address the issue of the validity of the charge as opposed to the issue of who was making it. You've got nothing.

You noticed, but so far you don't have a refutation for it.

If Trump really wanted to solve the illegal immigration problem all he would have to do as President is to propose legislation that makes it a felony to hire illegals and those who do so face serious time in prison. To give Ron DeSantis credit, a thing I hate to do, he has at least, had a law passed that imposes serious fines on those who hire illegals. (Whether or not he sees to it that it gets enforced is another matter.) Given Trump's popularity in the agricultural business community, a community that depends on illegals, I doubt that he will ever propose such legislation.

See post above.

Do you believe that this mother is reading this page or any page of aseannow.com? Are we supposed to not examine claims based on the fear that somehow she might be cognizant of what is written here. What is your point? And I have not deflected your question. I just haven't given you the yes/no answer you want because it's a deflection. My feelings are irrelevant to the validity of the claim that the UN kidnapped the body of this woman's son.

Well, if a magic want could be waved and the huge installed base of fossil fuel plants were replaced with solar and wind, it would be a different story. So, it's going to take time. But already the increase of greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere has been greatly slowed. Clean energy tech slowed down growth of global carbon emissions in 2023, IEA says Though energy demand increased, clean energy tech helped the world to avoid using more fossil fuels last year. Without clean energy technology, global carbon emissions in the last five years would have been three times larger, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA). Global carbon dioxide emissions still reached a record high in 2023. But the new analysis found that growth in clean sources had led to a “structural slowdown” in energy-related emissions. https://www.euronews.com/green/2024/03/01/clean-energy-tech-slowed-down-growth-of-global-carbon-emissions-in-2023-iea-says

So the only proper venue to challenge dubious assertions is a court of law? It looks like you don't have much use for facts.

Another personal deflection. I guess that's because you've got nothing to say about the validity of the assertion that the UN kidnapped her son or the reason why an official from the UN should even be asked this question.

The turning around is already underway. Global spending on clean energy technologies and infrastructure on track to hit $2 trillion in 2024 even as higher financing costs hinder new projects, notably in emerging and developing economies Despite pressures on financing, global investment in clean energy is set to reach almost double the amount going to fossil fuels in 2024, helped by improving supply chains and lower costs for clean technologies, according to a new IEA report. Total energy investment worldwide is expected to exceed $3 trillion in 2024 for the first time, with some $2 trillion set to go toward clean technologies – including renewables, electric vehicles, nuclear power, grids, storage, low-emissions fuels, efficiency improvements and heat pumps – according to the latest edition of the IEA’s annual World Energy Investment report. https://www.iea.org/news/investment-in-clean-energy-this-year-is-set-to-be-twice-the-amount-going-to-fossil-fuels Giant batteries drain economics of gas power plants iant batteries that ensure stable power supply by offsetting intermittent renewable supplies are becoming cheap enough to make developers abandon scores of projects for gas-fired generation world-wide. The long-term economics of gas-fired plants, used in Europe and some parts of the United States primarily to compensate for the intermittent nature of wind and solar power, are changing quickly, according to Reuters' interviews with more than a dozen power plant developers, project finance bankers, analysts and consultants. They said some battery operators are already supplying back-up power to grids at a price competitive with gas power plants, meaning gas will be used less. https://archive.ph/PXJL3 And even cheaper batteries are about to go into production: Energy project to use batteries made in West Virginia Construction of the factory has been “substantially completed,” and the company is in the process of “ramping up its manufacturing workforce, ahead of starting high-volume production later this year,” according Jaramillo. https://www.wvnews.com/news/wvnews/energy-project-to-use-batteries-made-in-west-virginia/article_be5c0a0e-559a-11ef-9d69-2fb32b22b9bc.html FYI Jaramillo was formerly the head of battery production at Tesla. Iron-air batteries: long-duration grid storage targets 1/10th the cost of lithium-ion The target price tag of $20/kWh (one-tenth the cost of lithium-ion battery storage) can allow wind and solar to deliver firm, stable power cost-competitively with existing fossil generation. Last year, Form Energy (the company commercialising the innovation) took an order from Georgia Power in the U.S. for a 15-megawatt/1,500-megawatt-hour system, and is building a new commercial-scale battery manufacturing facility in West Virginia. Such solutions are essential to the clean energy transition. Halber points at studies that predict that up to 140 TWh of grid storage will be needed globally by 2040. https://energypost.eu/iron-air-batteries-long-duration-grid-storage-targets-1-10th-the-cost-of-lithium-ion/ And this is just one technology. There are lots of others coming online.

Here you go again trying to make it personal. In other words, it's a deflection. What I feel is irrelevant. What is irrelevant is that this grieving mother's suffering is being used to cast aspersions on the UN. Where is the evidence that the UN was involved in this? Because the party who stole her son's body is an employee of the UN? Was I not clear enough in the example I gave about a Microsoft employee? Why do you think it makes sense to credit her claim that the UN stole her son's body?

Great article here about how Trump relies on dubious numbers rather than face reality. Trump, by the Numbers From the first time I went on an exploratory political trip with Trump in 1999, he has measured his worth in numbers... He pronounced himself better than other candidates because of numbers: the number of men who desired his then-girlfriend, Melania Knauss; the number of zoning changes he had maneuvered to get; the number of stories he stacked on his building near the U.N.; the number of times he was mentioned in a Palm Beach newspaper. By his mode of valuation, if his numbers aren’t better than his rivals’, he’s worthless https://dnyuz.com/2024/08/10/trump-by-the-numbers/

Trump Falsely Claims That the Crowds Seen at Harris Rallies Are Fake The former president, in a series of social media posts, said that Vice President Kamala Harris had used A.I. technology to create images of fake crowds at her events. Former President Donald J. Trump has taken his new obsession with the large crowds that Vice President Kamala Harris is drawing at her rallies to new heights, falsely declaring in a series of social media posts on Sunday that she had used artificial intelligence to create images and videos of fake crowds. The crowds at Ms. Harris’s events, including one in Detroit outside an airplane hangar, were witnessed by thousands of people and news outlets, including The New York Times, and the number of attendees claimed by her campaign is in line with what was visible on the ground. https://archive.ph/GFgNg And the Trump weirdness continues. I suspect the increasingly bizarre Trump actually believes this. Not surprising, really. He believes what he needs to believe to sustain his fragile ego.

More appeals to emotion in your post. Her questions would be valid if she were asking them of a Hamas official. If, say, a worker for Microsoft kidnapped a body, would it make sense to ask Bill Gates where that body was?

No. I just have no respect for what you're offering which is truthiness: "Truthiness is the belief or assertion that a particular statement is true based on the intuition or perceptions of some individual or individuals, without regard to evidence, logic, intellectual examination, or facts.[1][2] Truthiness can range from ignorant assertions of falsehoods to deliberate duplicity or propaganda intended to sway opinions.[3][4]" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truthiness Get back to me when you can offer evidence backed by a link to a credible source: From the landing page of the World News Forum: "Any alleged factual claims must be supported by a valid link to an approved credible source." https://aseannow.com/forum/158-world-news/

By the same token, then, neither did the decline. Right?

Just another baiting comment from you.

On behalf of Joe, I'd just like to say "You're welcome!" Stocks extend gains after sell-off amid positive data, Fed's rate signals The closely watched global equities index advanced on Friday, ending a volatile week unchanged after starting it with a massive sell-off, while the dollar slipped slightly and oil prices ended higher on supply concerns over the Middle East conflict. A trio of Federal Reserve policymakers had indicated Thursday that they were more confident that inflation is cooling enough to cut rates. Their comments - along with a bigger-than-expected fall in U.S. jobless claims data - had helped to reassure investors enough to underpin the stock market recovery. https://www.investing.com/news/economy-news/asian-shares-set-to-end-brutal-week-on-a-high-yen-under-pressure-3563627

I just hope he's right. Actually, what I hope for, as that great conservative economist and Nobel Prize winner Milton Friedman advocated, is that capital gains be taxed exactly the same way as wages are taxed. Of course, politically speaking, home sales would have to be exempted.

And yet he doesn't seem to understand that Marxism is about abolishing private property and giving ownership of the means of production to workers. Which ignorance allows him and so many other to accuse those they disagree with of being Marxists.

Thank you for offering virtually no scientific sources to back up your assertions.

About South America. First of all, the link is to Patagonia. Patagonia does not encompass all of South America. In fact, only the southern portion of the Andes is located in South America. In addition, the glaciers in Patagonia are shrinking. And they are nowhere nearly as large as the glaciers in Greenland and Antarctica This is from the article you linked to: Apart from in Patagonia, speeds like this are only known to be reached by the glaciers of Greenland and Antarctica—far and away the largest in the world. "According to studies conducted by Matthias Braun from the Institute of Geography at FAU, climate change means, on average, the ice in the glaciers in the Patagonian icefields is becoming one meter less thick every year. This is ice loss at a record-breaking scale and another good reason for keeping a close eye on the Patagonian icefields and using cutting-edge scientific methods to survey them." https://phys.org/news/2024-03-icefields-south-america-larger-glaciers.html As for spin. The only spinning going on is yours. "Compared to the great ice sheets of Antarctica and Greenland, mountain glaciers make up a small fraction of global ice volume. The figure is less than 1%: if they all vanished the resulting amount of global sea level rise would be around 0.32 metres. Of much greater importance is their role as freshwater storage reservoirs and their potential loss represents a serious threat to countries where this water supply is regarded as vital." https://skepticalscience.com/himalayan-glaciers-growing.htm

Who is this person being interviewed by the untrustworthy Eylon Levy? Maybe the UN didn't want to be made complicit in Israel's brutality? UN relief chief: 'No place safe' for civilians in southern Gaza "And the message that we have been giving – we here being the humanitarian community, and I represent the humanitarian community writ large, not just the United Nations – is that we do not have a humanitarian operation in southern Gaza that can be called by that name anymore. That the pace of the military assault in southern Gaza is a repeat of the assault in northern Gaza. That it has made no place safe for civilians in southern Gaza, which had been a cornerstone of the humanitarian plan to protect civilians and thus to provide aid to them." https://www.unocha.org/news/un-relief-chief-no-place-safe-civilians-southern-gaza Especially given that Israel's plan was to turn a barren strip of sand dunes with virtually no infrastructure into a refugee zone. "Israel declared Al-Mawasi a "safe zone". Internally displaced persons who fled to Al-Mawasi reported no water, electricity, or buildings to shelter. The UN and relief groups do not recognize Al-Mawasi or provide services there. Al-Mawasi has been attacked numerous times during the war." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Mawasi,_Rafah#:~:text=Israel declared Al-Mawasi a,numerous times during the war. It looks more like Israel was attempting to set up the UN to be its partner in crime.

False, The body in question wasn't stolen by the UNRWA. Their Unless the UNRWA actually authorized this act. Is there any evidence that the UNRWA ordered this? All that is known is that someone who happened to be a UNRWA member stole the body.

And still more nasty personal comments about an aseannow member.