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Quote:You have heard of synergy? Right? I know people in the real world with the same opinions as yours (Signym's, 6ix's, etc.) on climate change, Trump, Ukraine, etc. but I don't have their commentary, their reasons for why they hold those opinions. I know all about their screwed-up lives but not their "reasoning" for screwing life up. This is where the synergy comes in.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
OH, TOUCHE!
Yeah, you really got me with that name-calling!!
Especially since you implied I was too sane, too rational, and too flexible to be human!
Now, how about addressing THE TOPIC?
PS: Reality is what it is. All your blather and brainwashing isn't gonna change it.
For Signym, 6ix, and the other Trumptards at fireflyfans.net I have gotten extensive commentary on why they hold their opinions on climate change, Trump, Ukraine, etc. but I don't have much knowledge about how screwed up their real lives are.
I put the parts together: commentary/reasons from one group with specifically screwed up ways of living from the other group to achieve a whole representation of the people in both groups that hold the same opinions. You people are really fucked up both in the head and in real life. That is synergy. I thank you (Signym, 6ix, etc.) for explaining Trumptards to me. I now have the whole horrifying picture at last of what you are. I have all the pieces to explain why Trumptards are bitter, estranged, troubled, even diseased people. You are a danger to yourselves.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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How about THE TOPIC?
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger
Loving America is like loving an addicted spouse - SIGNYM
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Second is a garbage human being and a waste of carbon.
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Political correctness is just tyranny, with a smiley face.
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Second is a garbage human being and a waste of carbon.
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Political correctness is just tyranny, with a smiley face.
Of course.
This is what SECOND does when he's wrong and he knows it.
And now he's going to post a wall of gibberish to try and bury this exchange.
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger
Loving America is like loving an addicted spouse - SIGNYM
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Quote:I know you get this from Trump. Or is it the other way around? Trump repeats back what you want to hear?
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Second is a garbage human being and a waste of carbon.
Trump Slams John Kerry In Wild Town Hall, Insisting Climate Change Isn’t A Problem
By Claire O'Hare | Dec 7, 2023
https://www.stateofunion.org/2023/12/07/trump-slams-john-kerry-in-wild
-town-hall-insisting-climate-change-isnt-a-problem-2/
Former President Donald Trump reiterated his denial of climate change during a town hall in Iowa, criticizing John Kerry’s efforts on climate and dismissing the urgency of the climate crisis.
Trump also opposed the Green New Deal, advocating for continued use of fossil fuels and making additional attacks on electric vehicles.
“Our country can be rich again. John Kerry has to be stopped. He’s destroying our country,” Trump said.
“The only global warming we should be thinking about or worrying about is nuclear global warming, not global warming,” Trump added.
Trump claimed that when Kerry talks of climate change around the globe, people “treat him with respect,” but then say, “what an idiot, what a jerk” when he is gone.
“I am an environmentalist, but we’re going to destroy our country with this Green New Deal stuff that doesn’t work just to finish, we have so much wealth and power under our feet. No other country has it,” Trump said.
The comments come amid the United Nations climate summit in Dubai, where there is ongoing debate about the future of fossil fuels and the need to address global warming.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
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Quote:I've been dealing with dullards like you for decades and they require positive and negative reinforcement (or simply Carrots and Sticks) to train them to do useful tricks. Persuasion and scientific evidence do not work with lower animals. It's always Carrots and Sticks. That's how it will have to be to adjust dull-witted Americans to climate change. They will have to be offered some rewards such as cheaper electricity (the Carrot) and some agony such as raising the price of gasoline (the Stick) to teach them tricks about how to live without destroying the world. Showing them the truth that they are destroying the world will never move them to learn a new trick. It has got to be Carrots and Sticks.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Of course.
This is what SECOND does when he's wrong and he knows it.
And now he's going to post a wall of gibberish to try and bury this exchange.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Of course.
This is what SECOND does when he's wrong and he knows it.
And now he's going to post a wall of gibberish to try and bury this exchange.
SECOND: I've been dealing with dullards like you for decades and they require positive and negative reinforcement (or simply Carrots and Sticks) to train them to do useful tricks. Persuasion and scientific evidence do not work with lower animals. It's always Carrots and Sticks. That's how it will have to be to adjust dull-witted Americans to climate change. They will have to be offered some rewards such as cheaper electricity (the Carrot) and some agony such as raising the price of gasoline (the Stick) to teach them tricks about how to live without destroying the world. Showing them the truth that they are destroying the world will never move them to learn a new trick. It has got to be Carrots and Sticks.
Son, you don't have the capacity to apply carrots and sticks bc posting from your mom's basement doesn't count.
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Farmers Are Turning To An Ancient Practice To Improve Agriculture
Sunday, Dec 10, 2023 - 05:10 AM
Authored by Steve Gillman viaq RealClear Wire,
From ancient Egypt to medieval England, cultivating one or more crops in the same field was common practice among many farmers for thousands of years. However, in the last century, food producers largely stopped ‘intercropping’ and moved towards an industrial type of agriculture – a shift that contributed to 34% of the world’s farmland being degraded today.
“Interest is growing in intercropping [again] because farmers increasingly understand it improves their soil health,” said Jerry Allford, an organic farmer and advisor from the Soil Association, a UK charity promoting sustainable agriculture. Jerry thinks this renewed focus can “open up a whole new way of farming” because it can bridge profitability with regenerative agriculture practices.
“In the case of growing a legume and cereal together, we know there is nutrient transfer between the two crops,” he said, adding that this reduces the need for synthetic fertilisers and its associated costs. Other potential benefits include reduced weeds, pests and diseases as well as higher resistance to extreme weather from climate change – all of which can improve farmers’ bottom line.
To understand and amplify the potential of intercropping, Jerry is running a range of trials where farmers grow a mix of crops on the same stretch of land. This is part of an EU project called LEGUMINOSE which is researching the benefits of intercropping in eight European countries, as well as in Egypt and Pakistan. In total, there will be 180 ‘living labs’ where farmers in monoculture systems introduce a strip of intercropped cereals and legumes, such as wheat and peas or barley and broad beans.
Each living lab will be tailored to its region with the farmer choosing the techniques and crops most relevant to their area, such as drilling depth, seed mix and planting methods. The idea is that this will enable food producers to produce more practical results, something which LEGUMINOSE wants to use to attract others to intercropping.
One of the UK’s living labs recently finished and Jerry says it has already provided an insight into intercropping’s promise. The test farm planted wheat and beans, reporting a 27% increase in the intercropped plot compared to the monoculture strips on the same farm. Less weeds were also reported while a preliminary analysis of the soil showed less plant disease present between the two, meaning less need to buy and use agricultural chemicals.
The economic potential of intercropping does not stop there either. Farmers can choose to grow a secondary crop for the market, such as a legume for human and animal consumption, or a plant that can enhance the quality of a primary crop.
“We're also finding that intercropped wheat is meeting UK milling specifications easier, so it could produce a premium price for the farmer,” Jerry said, adding that he hopes this drives an uptake of intercropping and the practice becomes mainstream in the agriculture sector.
Models for scale
In Europe, only 2% of farmers currently use a legume-cereal intercrop. Shamina Imran Pathan, LEGUMINOSE’s project coordinator, says it will not be easy to make the practice go mainstream, but providing farmers with the right information and tool can help them switch quicker from a monocultural farming system to a more regenerative one.
“Many farmers still don’t know what intercropping is,” Pathan points out. “That’s why we need to involve more and more farmers to increase their knowledge about mixing crops together.”
The living labs are designed to galvanise discussions among farmers and boost uptake that way, but LEGUMINOSE will also reinforce this knowledge through seven additional research fields that explore the benefits of intercropping in precise detail. Academics from several European universities will collect soil samples from farms and conduct a range of physical, chemical and biological analyses tNOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
The disagreement between two climate scientists that will decide our future
By Robert Chris and Hugh Hunt, Professor of Engineering Dynamics and Vibration, University of Cambridge | December 8, 2023 11:37am EST
https://theconversation.com/the-disagreement-between-two-climate-scien
tists-that-will-decide-our-future-217759
In his new paper, James Hansen argues that if the atmospheric concentration of greenhouse gases remains close to its current level, the surface temperature will stabilise after several hundred years between 8°C and 10°C above the pre-industrial level.
https://academic.oup.com/oocc/article/3/1/kgad008/7335889?searchresult
=1&login=false
Of this, at least 2°C will emerge by mid-century, and probably a further 3°C a century from now. A temperature increase of this magnitude would be catastrophic for life on Earth. Hansen adds that to avoid such an outcome, brightening Earth is now necessary to halt the warming in the pipeline from past emissions.
Time for reflection
The differences between Mann and Hansen are significant for the global response to climate change.
Mann says that allowing emissions to reach net zero by mid-century is sufficient, while Hansen maintains that on its own it would be disastrous and that steps must now be taken in addition to brighten the planet.
Brightening Earth could also reverse the reductions in reflectivity already caused by climate change. Data indicates that from 1998 to 2017, Earth dimmed by about 0.5 watts per square metre, largely due to the loss of ice.
Given what’s at stake, we hope Mann and Hansen resolve these differences quickly to help the public and policymakers understand what it will take to minimise the likelihood of imminent massive and widespread ecosystem destruction and its disastrous effects on humanity.
While 1.5°C may be dead, there may still be time to prevent cascading system failures. But not if we continue to squabble over the nature and extent of the risks.
More at https://theconversation.com/the-disagreement-between-two-climate-scien
tists-that-will-decide-our-future-217759
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Originally posted by second:
The disagreement between two climate scientists that will decide our future
Why, oh why, do you keep posting such ridiculous narratives?
The western elites, who control so much of what happens in the western world, dont give a crap about climate or climate science, and ESPECIALLY NOT climate scientists. Yanno, all they really want is more power.
And most of the non-western world at this point doesn't give a fuck about western world concerns.
Dood, get a grip on your fantasies.
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