Alan Zweibel

Given the looseness of your reasoning, and the irrelevant deflections, it might be helpful if you define what you mean by "climate armageddon".

Because while humans may be able to adapt, at least the ones who can afford to do so, evolution doesn't work that fast for most other living things.. And people living in the tropics are already suffering from the effects of increased heat. In fact, so are people in the coldest parts of the planet as permafrost turns into mud.

Well, I did get it wrong about Patrick Moore not being a scientist. Of course, he got his Ph.D in forest biology not climatology. And his research days are decades past in the 20th century. There was nothing in the video to support your claim that the salt "water tank operators has found that the equivalent to 1000 ppm C02 is optimal for coral reef growth" In fact, I haven't found any confirmation of that anywhere. What I did find was that hobbyists who maintain coral reefs in a tank say that the optimal PH is between 8.1 and 8.4. In fact, they often use CO2 scrubbers. As for that 1000 pppm claim of yours:The coral reef crisis: The critical importance of <350 ppm CO2 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0025326X09003816 And as for the extermination of complex life within 2 million years? Well, that was a close call. Whew, we escaped that just by the skin of our teeth. If it's even true. The thing is, at other times during the current ice age when glaciation was at its maximum, was complex life on earth wiped out? The last time that CO2 was at 150 ppm was about 3 million years ago. So are you claiming that all complex life on earth was eliminated 3 million years ago and in the interval between then and now complex life re-evolved?

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You mean that before the industrial revolution complex life was in danger of dying out? How many years were left before that happened? And Patrick Moore is not a scientist. Basically, he's a paid consultant to certain industries. Among other things he denies that CO2 is lowering the PH of the oceans. Which is just plain nuts. CO2 + H2O yields H2CO3 which is carbonic acid.

Someone else who doesn't understand the difference between weather and climate

President Donald Trump built his America First movement, in part, on the promise of keeping the U.S. out of foreign entanglements. On Tuesday, he teased an imminent land strike against Venezuela and even suggested he might attack other countries as well. The whiplash has some anti-interventionists — among Trump’s most ardent backers — on the back foot as it appears all but certain that Trump is ready to use force to oust Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro. The specter of the Iraq war is ever present and they worry that unintended consequences from Maduro’s ouster could mire the U.S. in conflict for years, destabilize the region, ruin Trump’s legacy and tarnish MAGA’s brand with voters https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/02/regime-change-was-once-a-red-line-for-america-first-venezuela-could-change-that-00673726

False: Progressive Caucus Holds Hearing on Implications of U.S. Drone Policy https://progressives.house.gov/2013/5/progressive-caucus-holds-hearing-on-implications-of-us-drone-policy?utm_source=chatgpt.com And there's this: Opposition to Syrian Airstrikes Surges Obama Job Approval Slips into Negative Territory https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2013/09/09/opposition-to-syrian-airstrikes-surges/?utm_source=chatgpt.com

You got this opinion from AI? Was this Version 0.0?

https://progressives.house.gov/2013/5/progressive-caucus-holds-hearing-on-implications-of-us-drone-policy?utm_source=chatgpt.com

https://www.igb.illinois.edu/article/not-just-co2-rising-temps-also-alter-photosynthesis-changing-climate Also other consequences of elevated CO2 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10725-025-01382-8

If you go back and look at who was condemning Obama at the time for those strikes, it wasn't right wingers.

Is there a Constitution that specifies that the President shall faithfully execute the laws?

I did a search on the fox news site. I used this sentence: trump pardons ex president of honduras The Fox search came up with nothing. Now there's a shocker.

Maybe I should send that line to Mel Brooks? If he could write Springtime for Hitler and Germany, this should be right up his Tin Pan Alley.

Former Honduran president released from U.S. prison after Trump pardon Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez was released from prison in the United States on Monday, where he was serving a 45-year prison sentence for drug trafficking and firearms charges, a Federal Bureau of Prisons registry showed. Hernandez's wife, Ana Garcia, said in a social media post that Hernandez was released after he was granted a pardon by U.S. President Donald Trump. Sign up here. "After nearly four years of pain, waiting, and difficult trials, my husband Juan Orlando Hernandez RETURNED to being a free man, thanks to the presidential pardon granted by President Donald Trump," Garcia said. https://archive.ph/qIxIX#selection-1283.18-1301.211 Will El Chapo be pleased that his go-to guy got to go free?

Interesting.

Not if it means laws authorized by Congress can't be carried out. Why do you think the President is called the Chief Executive. It's because he's supposed to execute the laws passed by Congress and signed by himself or previous Presidents. Here's what the constitution says (boldface mine) "He shall from time to time give to the Congress Information of the State of the Union, and recommend to their Consideration such Measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient; he may, on extraordinary Occasions, convene both Houses, or either of them, and in Case of Disagreement between them, with Respect to the Time of Adjournment, he may adjourn them to such Time as he shall think proper; he shall receive Ambassadors and other public Ministers; he shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed, and shall Commission all the Officers of the United States."

Not comparable and while water efficiency and drought resistance may increase, that only works up to a point. As the research article I cited noted. And, of course, plants differ in their resistance to environmental changes.

All this relates to what is called the Unitary Executive Theory. Here's something I should have included. Originalist ‘Bombshell’ Complicates Case on Trump’s Power to Fire Officials As the Supreme Court seems poised to expand the president’s power, a leading scholar whose work the justices have often cited issued a provocative dissent. https://archive.ph/JTBYX#selection-505.0-505.155

https://www.aclu.org/news/civil-liberties/supreme-court-grants-trump-future-presidents-a-blank-check-to-break-the-law https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/us-supreme-court-clears-way-trump-gut-education-department-2025-07-14/ https://www.scotusblog.com/2025/07/supreme-court-allows-trump-administration-to-implement-plans-to-significantly-reduce-the-federal-workforce/

Your assertion contradicts the research I cited. One big problem with your assertion is that while it takes account of the fertilizing effect of CO2 it takes no account of its warming effect. Conditions in a greenhouse are not comparable to conditions in the atmosphere. As for the high levels of biomass at the equator. First, that's only true for terrestrial life. Second, most of that biomass is locked up in vegetation. Soil in temperate climes is much deeper and better suited to mass agriculture. And of course, as the tropics get hotter and hotter, they will be less suited for human life and will lead to mass extinctions for creatures and vegetation that can't adapt.

That even though the Constitution grants the President the right to veto a law only once, in effect he can veto laws as much as he likes by refusing to spend funds or trashing departments that adminster those funds That the President cannot ever be prosecuted for crimes he has committed using the official powers of his office

Fair enough. But the Supreme Court has taken it to astonishing new extremes.

This makes no sense. Asteroid crashes aren't the only reason that plant life could decline. Very high temperatures could be another. And according to the research I cited were.