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I think this article ought to have addressed the question of whether Russia uses depleted uranium in its shells in Ukraine.. As a major producer and user of uranium, it would certainly have a plentiful supply of it.

I'm not going to bother fact checking because this has no bearing on whether or not the father was under the influence when he was stopped. And, for what it's worth, the mother tested negative for marijuana use.

There's actually a huge difference between Hunter Biden's conduct and Jared Kushner's conduct apart from huge difference in the sums involved. For one thing, Hunter Biden has never been a government official. For another, he was not doing business with the government of China. In fact, the chairman and found of the Chinese company he was in business with is now in prison for corruption charges brought against him by the Chinese govt. Whereas Jared Kushner's was a govt official in a high-powered job. His purview was the Middle East. He consistently promoted Saudi interests while he was a government official. After leaving govt. service, he benefited from a 2 billion dollar investment from the Saudi sovereign wealth fund. What's more, MbS. the defacto ruler of Saudi Arabia, overrode members of the board who wanted to refuse investing with Kushner. And it gets even worse. While Kushner was still serving in the White House, the Qatar government helped to bail out Kushner's family from a disastrous investment he had made in a building in NYC. It was a sweetheart deal that made no financial sense. I wrote "helped" because most of the funding was kept confidential. Only a small portion was required by law to be made public. And that's the portion that was revealed to be funded by the Qataris

. As I've pointed out, the peaks you refer to are due to years when there was a very strong El Nino effect. Despite that 2020 was virtually tied with 2016 even though that was a La Nina year which depresses temperature.. The same kind of stuff you are spouting was also alleged for what followed the 1997-98 El Nino which up to that point was the highest temperature year on record. Denialists like yourself predicted that the global warming was over because for the next 6 years, that 1997-98 el nino held the record breaking temperature. Then in 2005, a new record was set. Again in 2010. The last 8 years have been the highest temperatures on record. In fact, despite the powerful el nino of 1997-98, it no longer even counts among the top ten years. Which included many years with temperature reducing La Ninas. The trend is obvious.

Lomborg is not the most honest person in the climatological community. But he is a contender for the least: A closer examination of the fantastical numbers in Bjorn Lomborg’s new book But, like his previous contributions to this issue, Dr Lomborg’s arguments are based on fantastical numbers that have little or no credibility. Overall, the numbers presented by Dr Lomborg, who has a PhD in political science, understate the potential economic impacts of climate change and exaggerate the costs of cutting greenhouse gases. And he has promoted them apparently secure in the knowledge that they will not be fact-checked by book publishers or newspaper comment editors. https://www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminstitute/news/a-closer-examination-of-the-fantastical-numbers-in-bjorn-lomborgs-new-book/ Climate cost study authors accuse Bjørn Lomborg of misinterpreting results https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/dec/02/climate-cost-study-authors-accuse-bjrn-lomborg-of-misinterpreting-results This article lists several other whoppers told by Lomborg as well.

No, it was not proven that they were under the influence of marijuana. For one thing, the mother tested negative. For another people can test positive for marijuana up to 3 days after in a urine test and a week later in a blood test long after the intoxicating effect of the marijuana have worn off. So the test didn't confirm that the father was under the influence. I really hope it's the case that he has me on ignore otherwise there's a serious cognitive deficit on his part.

I won't say you're like most right wingers because you simply ignore disproofs of your claim. Because I prefer not to take vacuous cheap shots.

Well, there are a few problems with your reasoning. Sea levels haven't been rising for the past 400 years. The rise has been coincident with the advent of human caused global warming. What's more the rate of rise is increasing. "The rate of global sea level rise is accelerating: it has more than doubled from 0.06 inches (1.4 millimeters) per year throughout most of the twentieth century to 0.14 inches (3.6 millimeters) per year from 2006–2015." https://www.climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/climate-change-global-sea-level

You've tried on this nonsense about temperatures leveling off before. You clearly don't understand a thing about trends and regression analysis. In fact the trend shows a sharp increase in temperatures. It's true that 2016 and 2020 are in a virtual tie for highest global average. The thing is in 2016 there was a strong el nino which raises global temperature averages. In 2020 there was actually a mild La Nina which tends to lower global temperatures. Despite which, the 2 were in a virtual tie. When the next El Nino comes along, it's a virtual lock that a new record will be set. The last refuge of someone who has no valid evidence to offer is to make the issue personal. You've got nothing..

It's clear you haven't taken account of a thing called tides. So even if the rock wasn't moved, that fact that at some point during the day, the rock is above sea level proves nothing As for what I assume is your point about CO2. You think because there's so little of it, there can't be a strong effect? Do you understand that you are quarreling with the potency of CO2 that was first detected by the great Irish physicist Joseph Tyndall, and later precisely measured by the Nobel Prize winning physicist Svante Arrhenius? And given your belief that such a small percentage couldn't possibly have a significant effect on global temperatures, I guess you're going to dispute that ozone in the stratosphere, which constitute less than 10 parts per million, a number that is about 1/40 the amount of CO2, has a negligible effect on shielding us from ultraviolet radiation.

And not so long ago slavery was legal. So if Putin decides to authorize slavery, will your defense of him be that America once had slaves, too. Got any more lame justifications to share with us?

David Weiss, the US attorney for Delaware was appointed by Trump in 2017, The Biden adminstration kept him on. He's the person responsible for investigating Hunter Biden. Merrick Garland gave Weiss carte blanche to investigate Hunter Biden and to decide whether or not he should be charged with crimes. So far, no charges forthcoming.

Which Bidens are you referring to? This is your typical and repeated dishonest trick of trying to lump Joe Biden in with his son and brother. And while Hunter Biden didn't pay taxes on any of his income for years, there's no evidence revealed that I know of that shows he hid the Chinese money from the IRS. In fact, we do know that Hunter Biden submitted this tax returns without payment. So he reported himself. Do you know that he didn't include the Chinese payments in his returns? Stop making things up.

I'll be charitable and assume Longwood has me on ignore since ince I've debunked all his claims. First off, even if a marijuana test is positive, it doesn't mean someone is under the influence Traces can persist in the blood for up to 7 day, in urine for 3 days, and in the hair for 90 days as I noted above. Not only is the hair follicle test unreliable, but the authorities have no proof that's what the test showed. They claim they didn't keep the results. And hair follicle tests, even if they were accurate, don't show that someone is currently under the influence. It only tests for past use.

Tell that to people who depending on melting ice when in the hot dry season when there's no rain.

I don't know about Al Gore, but here's what climatologists say: More than 99.9% of studies agree: Humans caused climate change More than 99.9% of peer-reviewed scientific papers agree that climate change is mainly caused by humans, according to a new survey of 88,125 climate-related studies. The research updates a similar 2013 paper revealing that 97% of studies published between 1991 and 2012 supported the idea that human activities are altering Earth’s climate. The current survey examines the literature published from 2012 to November 2020 to explore whether the consensus has changed. https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2021/10/more-999-studies-agree-humans-caused-climate-change

"At least Putin is attempting to annex a region contiguous to Russia and as I understand it is home to mostly Russian speaking Ukrainians." Oh, invading and keeping by conquest is better? Really?

It's clear that Joe Biden is guilty...of being Hunter Biden's father and James Biden's brother.

You might want to direct that remark closer to home: Antarctic Ice Loss 2002-2020 The mass of the Antarctic ice sheet has changed over the last decades. Research based on observations from the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellites (2002-2017) and GRACE Follow-On (since 2018 - ) indicates that between 2002 and 2020, Antarctica shed approximately 150 gigatons of ice per year, causing global sea level to rise by 0.4 millimeters per year. https://grace.jpl.nasa.gov/resources/31/antarctic-ice-loss-2002-2020/ Previously Unknown Loss of Antarctic Ice Discovered by NASA – “Antarctica Is Crumbling at Its Edges” New NASA research on Antarctica, including the first map of iceberg calving, doubles the previous estimates of loss from ice shelves and details how the continent is changing. In forecasting global sea level rise, the greatest uncertainty is how Antarctica’s ice loss will accelerate as the climate warms. Two studies led by researchers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Southern California reveal unexpected new data about how the Antarctic Ice Sheet has been losing mass in recent decades. https://scitechdaily.com/previously-unknown-loss-of-antarctic-ice-discovered-by-nasa-antarctica-is-crumbling-at-its-edges/

Even if I agreed that that those foreigners were paying Hunter Biden, James Biden and that daughter-in-law in the hopes of gaining access to Joe Biden, there is no evidence that they succeeded In fact, not only did the Chinese venture fail, but Ye Jianming, the founder and chairman of CEFC, was jailed by the Chinese Govt in 2018 on charges of bribery where he remains to this day. Is this the person who Comer accused of being an agent of the Chinese govt.? Ye was detained and put under investigation in March 2018 on suspicion of economic crimes.[9] According to South China Morning Post and AsiaNews, the order for the investigation came from Chinese Communist Party general secretary Xi Jinping.[10][11] Shanghai Guosheng Group, a portfolio and investment agency controlled by the Government of Shanghai, subsequently took control of CEFC China Energy in March 2018.[12][13] In October 2018, it was reported that prosecutors alleged Wang Sanyun, former Communist Party Secretary of Gansu province, had accepted bribes from Ye Jianming in 2011.[14] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ye_Jianming Not only that, but Hunter Biden only began to do business with CEFC in 2017, when Joe Biden was no longer vice- president. As for Joe Biden having met with Hunter Biden's business associates. In 2015 Joe Biden dropped by a dinner for the World Food Program USA charity that Hunter Biden was holding. Some of Hunter Biden's business associates were there. There were also people there who weren't his associates. No evidence of any substantive discussions took place. It's not even clear that Joe Bide was even introduced to these people.. “I remember the vice president coming in, and he did not go around the table. He just simply waved at everybody,” recalled one attendee, Father Alex Karloutsos of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America. “I did not hear any business exchanges with anybody.” https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/11/us/politics/hunter-biden-investigations.html Another instance where Joe Biden met Hunter Biden's associates, took place at a rope line in China where 2 of these associates along with other Chinese people shook Biden's hand. Biden was briefly introduced to these 2. Is it unreasonable to assume that he didn't recall such a brief and public encounter? https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/11/us/politics/hunter-biden-investigations.html It's also worthy of noting that when Biden became VP, Hunter Biden gave up his lucrative Washington D.C. lobbying business.

I've noticed a tendency among debunkers of EV's to assume that the future will be like the past but on a grander scale. So there are all sorts of dire predictions about running out of rare earths or lithium or cobalt when it's extremely likely that these materials will ultimately be phased out in favor of more elements that are more abundant and less polluting . Already there are EV batteries that don't use cobalt or lithium. And even if Tesla's current claim about rare earths turns out to be false, which is not entirely unlikely given past promises, there are plenty of competitors doing serious research and development.

Now you're 3 for 3. The emptiness continues.

The definition of "inane" is lacking content. I offered actual evidence to debunk your claim. In reply to my listing of the faults with your argument you answered with one word: "yes". That is the epitome of "lacking content". And, once again, you offer no evidence and no reasoning. In other words "lacking content". Which means it's inane.

This is a blatantly false statement. From the landing page of this forum: "Any alleged factual claims must be supported by a valid link to an approved credible source." "The supposed "global cooling" consensus among scientists in the 1970s — frequently offered by global-warming skeptics as proof that climatologists can't make up their minds — is a myth, according to a survey of the scientific literature of the era. The '70s was an unusually cold decade. Newsweek, Time, The New York Times and National Geographic published articles at the time speculating on the causes of the unusual cold and about the possibility of a new ice age. But Thomas Peterson of the National Climatic Data Center surveyed dozens of peer-reviewed scientific articles from 1965 to 1979 and found that only seven supported global cooling, while 44 predicted warming. Peterson says 20 others were neutral in their assessments of climate trends." https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=4335191&page=1

Are private Chinese companies America's adversaries? And what's this nonsense about the Biden family? The Biden family didn't receive payments. Biden's son, his brother, and daughter-in-law received payments. There is no evidence that Biden received any payments. You repeatedly fail to acknowledge that in the laptop emails Hunter Biden reported that his father gave gave an "emphatic no" when asked to participate in dealings with the Chinese. You are being very dishonest.