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Perhaps you are thinking of the FDA when it comes to Clean Food. The EPA for water and air, well actually they are doing quite a good job. In fact the reason Nixon (a REPUBLICAN) essentially created the EPA back in the 70's was that air and water quality were so bad that the country demanded...

Praise Trump from whom all winnings flow, Praise Trump all creatures here below. Praise Trump above ye Trump Tower renters (now including the Secret Service) Praise Trump, Melania and Barron

Man, I can almost feel it becoming great again. Donald Trump is going to make America so great. I think the thing I like most about Donald Trump is he is who he is! He lives in a GOLDEN PALACE high in the sky: It's like he's a god or something! And he and his picture perfect family will...

Maybe Trump will repeal Obamacare for only the bad people who got healthcare. The good people who got access to affordable healthcare through Obamacare will be able to keep it as long as they are good people. To be open and honest I am hoping to get appointed at Sec'y of Health and Human...

It's real. That's why the DEFENSE department takes it seriously. You may not, but then maybe you don't have to live in the real world. The science is very solid, the basics are there. Much of the basic science we've known for about a century. The details we are filling in now show exactly...

You are wrong. Gridding the data is a means of averaging over larger areas. TOBS bias is real. IF YOU PREFER BIASED DATA then definitely DO NOT ADJUST FOR TIME OF OBSERVATION. But further, you do realize that TOBS adjustments have been known and publically discussed for OVER 30 YEARS RIGHT...

Which is a form of "special pleading". But more importantly "how do you know this?" You have created a concept called "God" that is defined as not following any known rules and contains all unanswered questions. I am uncertain how this provides any additional information over simply saying...

I am merely pointing out how the usual "First Uncaused Cause" argument tends to break down. (I assume you have had a philosophy class and are familiar with the critiques of various arguments for the existence of God.) I understand that critical analysis of one's own arguments is not...

DING DING DING! Winner Winner, Chicken dinner! The choice for "origins" ultimately becomes one of personal preference. There is nothing to say one is by definition better than the other. Both have great unknowns. So both are equally problematic from a purely a priori stand point.

This is good for people who start from a position of belief in God. Obviously as far as "information" it is very short on it, especially if one comes from a position of lack of belief. Let us say you were presented with someone who had no experience in any religion whatsoever of earth and you...

This only moves the question off to "where did God come from?" I know the standard answer is "God is eternal" which means one replaces a mystery with a blank assertion that is equally if not more mysterious. We actually do not a LOT about the early earth and why the continents "drift", etc...

Why would anyone's be different? (You aren't possibly suggesting that some societies could have handed down a story and it changed over time in the re-telling or for reasons known only to the teller, are you? Are you then saying ONLY the Hebrew version was the absolute 100% perfectly right...

That's probably it. I should really have worried more about how many legs the talking snake had. Strangely that was exactly what I said! Did you actually just read what you wrote? And you can't find an interesting metaphor in there? This might be where the metaphor becomes somewhat less...

That isn't really a "Mistake" and certainly not one of significant importance to the overall science. The ONLY people obsessed with the "slowdown" were trying to leverage bad statistics to move forward the denialist movement. Indeed this is a potentially important topic in re what driver was...

Yup. (Well, my auto emissions are now at about zero. I drive an electric and we had a solar unit on our old house so I was driving zero carbon for a while! We are planning on putting solar on our new house).

Yes the earth has had various different climates throughout its history. The only problem with your implied thesis is we know what is likely causing the vast majority of the current climate change.

But it does rely on a concept that we are not actually factoring in those costs (whatever they end up being) for the use of fossil fuels. What mistakes are you speaking of?

And that doesn't change one whit what I told you about mineralogy. I am enjoying having you tell me all about geology and chemistry. As I said, I have a PhD in geology with focus on geochemistry. I've spent the last 20 years of my career doing chemistry. And that makes your original point...

According to a study by Duke University, for instance, a gallon of gas would currently cost you an additional $3.80 per gallon if the various environmental and health impacts were actually factored into the extraction and use of the fuel. The social cost of atmospheric release Simply because...

If the power company gets to utilize a kWh of energy my solar units produce shouldn't they pay the market rate for that? I am willing to pay my fair share for connection to the grid to support upkeep of the grid but why should the power company get energy for less than market rates if I have to...