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The US has 45 million foreign-born residents

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I have two of those foreign-born, adopted from Romania. I make a sharp distinction between those and illegals. We essentially signed off contractually on the legal immigrants and don't have cause to complain. If we think 45M is too high a percentage, we can cut back going forward.

The illegal immigrants are just about 25% of that 45M. No one signed off on those.

As for climate models, they simply haven't worked. The theories about higher CO2 being a problem are plausible, but "more change than usual" just isn't happening. It has gotten warmer since the end of the Little Ice Age, as in After The Narrows, the river widened. These are the same tactics used by the anti-nuke, ZPG, and anti-GMO crowds: take a nightmare fantasy with the proper villains, then seek facts to support it.

#1 Assistant Village Idiot (Link) on 2015-09-25 08:31 (Reply)

QUOTE:

How reliable are the climate models?

The graph is probably of the tropical mid-troposphere, a small portion of the overall climate system, but it's hard to tell from the information provided. It's just a distorted echo.

#2 Zachriel on 2015-09-25 08:42 (Reply)

Ah, the graph. Yes, that was the heart of the article, wasn't it?

#2.1 Assistant Village Idiot (Link) on 2015-09-25 10:02 (Reply)

Assistant Village Idiot: Ah, the graph. Yes, that was the heart of the article, wasn't it?

Indeed! It's at the top of the article, and is meant to represent the reliability of climate models in their entirety.

The discrepancy concerning the warming of the tropical mid-troposphere has been an active area of study in climate science, but you wouldn't know that from the article. Turns out that historical radiosonde measurements of the tropical mid-troposphere are scanty, while satellite measurements have known non-climatic biases. Studies have shown that the results are within the very wide error bars of the measurements, and that independent methodologies support tropical mid-tropospheric warming. See Allen & Sherwood, Warming maximum in the tropical upper troposphere deduced from thermal winds, Nature Geoscience 2008, as well as Sherwood & Nishant, Atmospheric changes through 2012 as shown by iteratively homogenized radiosonde temperature and wind data (IUKv2), Environmental Research Letters 2015.

Nor does this single discrepancy call into question data from the many other sources concerning global warming.

#2.1.1 Zachriel on 2015-09-25 11:45 (Reply)

The heart of the article was the accusation that there was a mathematical fudge factor for no reason. Everything else may be as you say. That is a sideshow. Your inability to back off even 1% destroys your credibility.

#2.1.1.1 Assistant Village Idiot (Link) on 2015-09-26 14:42 (Reply)

Assistant Village Idiot: The heart of the article was the accusation that there was a mathematical fudge factor for no reason.

The conflation is at the heart of the article.

QUOTE:

Model results were then compared with actual observations and were found to produce only about a third of the observed warming in the 20th century.

Meaning a third of the predicted tropical mid-tropospheric warming, not the overall temperature of the climate system. While the discrepancy concerning the tropical mid-troposphere is still under investigation, there is empirical evidence that the discrepancy is an observational artifact.

As for the summary of influences, many of these only affect the distribution of heat through the climate system, not the overall warming (e.g. ENSO). Other influences have no short term effect (e.g. Milankovich cycles), or are not consistent with the data (changes in solar irradiance).

#2.1.1.1.1 Zachriel on 2015-09-27 08:40 (Reply)

"Distorted" is what happens as the warmists use fraudulent data.

#2.2 DrTorch on 2015-09-25 11:44 (Reply)

The Real Science Behind Climate Change

#2.3 Donny "The Bear Jew" Donowitz on 2015-09-25 11:53 (Reply)

QUOTE:

The Real Reason We Need to Stop Trying to Protect Everyone’s Feelings

Mark Twain, Gustave Flaubert, and D. H. Lawrence were all boycotted to great acclaim.

#3 Zachriel on 2015-09-25 08:46 (Reply)

Right. So colleges can remove whatever they like from education, and it will always come around just right in the end. It worked out great for all those Jewish authors in Europe in the 30's, didn't it?

The fact that boycotts or soft censorships often don't work, or even backfire, is not a reason to disregard them.

#3.1 Assistant Village Idiot (Link) on 2015-09-25 09:52 (Reply)

Assistant Village Idiot: The fact that boycotts or soft censorships often don't work, or even backfire, is not a reason to disregard them.

Of course not. However, this is not something new.

#3.1.1 Zachriel on 2015-09-25 12:39 (Reply)

It's not the newness, it's the uselessness. They NEED to grow up.

#3.1.1.1 Sam L. on 2015-09-25 14:53 (Reply)

frankly, I'm not concerned about what these dumb as rocks kollege kids boycott or whine about. this is the normal rebel against everything phase of life, but instead of having something worthwhile to rebel against, social justice warriors are left with trigger warnings and mini-aggressions.

by age 28 or so, with rent/mortgage, job, family -- in other words, real life worries -- this obsession with political correctness will be dead.

moreover, no kollege kode will stop any kid from reading anything he or she wants to read, either in kollege or afterwards.

#3.2 Donny "The Bear Jew" Donowitz on 2015-09-25 12:02 (Reply)

QUOTE:

Hillary Screams at Obama: 'Call Off Your F-ing Dogs'

Sure. If it makes you feel better.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Klein#Criticism

#4 Zachriel on 2015-09-25 08:49 (Reply)

Bird Dog: The US has 45 million foreign-born residents

https://www.cbo.gov/sites/default/files/cbofiles/images/pubs-images/44xxx/44134-land-ForeignBornPop.png

#5 Zachriel on 2015-09-25 08:55 (Reply)

If I want to catch more Z's then I'll go back to bed.

#6 John the River (Link) on 2015-09-25 09:40 (Reply)

Trannies ruined a man's bar business and when he tried to fix it The State of Oregon wiped him out.

"An Oregon bar owner must pay $400,000 in damages to a group of transgender patrons after they were asked to stay away, the Oregon Court of Appeals affirmed Wednesday."

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/09/24/oregon-bar-must-pay-400g-in-damages-to-transgender-patrons/?intcmp=hplnws

#7 feeblemind on 2015-09-25 10:31 (Reply)

Oregon, a Hell of a place to do business, a reasonably good place to live outside the Willamette Valley.

#7.1 Sam L. on 2015-09-25 14:56 (Reply)

There was a time when a immigrant required a sponsor. We need to reinstate this retroactively. Anyone who has immigrated requires a sponsor. If the UN, the State Department or who ever authorized refugees than they are the defacto sponsors and I would require not just those departments but those individuals who signed off on it to pay the costs for life for these immigrants we didn't want and didn't need. As for the immigrants from South of the border either Mexico (or which ever country they belong to) pays for their needs here or we deduct it from their aid and assets. It makes no sense for citizens to pay for this. Ditto for the employers; you employ a illegal alien you pay a tax of $200 a day for each employee. You employ a H1B immigrant you pay $30,000 a year to the federal government to cover the external costs incurred by that decision. Every immigrant needs a sponsor or to be sent home.

#8 GoneWithTheWind on 2015-09-25 15:26 (Reply)

everything you said is so wrong it would take a huge post to correct it.

with a very few exceptions, immigrants need sponsors. regarding refugees, here's information from earlier this month. try to read it.

State Department -- Background Briefing On the Mechanics of the United States Refugee Admissions Program

We work with nine domestic agencies to resettle refugees in the U.S. These nine agencies have about 315 affiliates in about 180 communities throughout the United States. Each year, each of these nine agencies and any new agencies that would like to be considered for the program – it’s an open, competitive process – these agencies submit proposals describing their capacity to resettle refugees at each of these affiliates,

I got that you hate foreigners (who doesn't?), and if Congress had passed a law executing all of them, I'd lend you my rifle. but that's not how the game is played, and spreading disinformation is dishonest.

#8.1 Donny "The Bear Jew" Donowitz on 2015-09-25 15:51 (Reply)

I love foreigners.

If you bothered to look into it you would discover that these agencies are paid handsomely to distribute tax revenues to these "refugees". We don't have any say in this program it is forced on us by the UN and our politicians who want to be able to attend the correct cocktail parties. We, the tax payers, pay for everything these refugees get including cars and college educations. And it never ends. There are refugees from the Vietnam war still getting $5000 a month in cash and benefits.

There is zero reason to bring them here, refugees, visa over stayers, illegals, H1b's and pregnant mothers who fly in to have their child be born as a citizen; ZERO reason for us to allow it.

#8.1.1 GoneWithTheWind on 2015-09-25 21:37 (Reply)

wrong in almost all ways.

you're spouting off about personal preferences, not the actual practice of refugee relief. and those preferences and errors make you look like an angry, petty dude.

you don't like the law, change it. stop whining.

and, I'm not trying to get under your skin, but I've successfully handled scores of H1Bs, EB-5s, VAWAS, T visas (human trafficking -- usually in the sex trade -- which I believe you'd find amusing) and refugee visas and asylum cases, most of the latter from our adventures in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos. Giving refugee status to our defeated allies must a tough pill for you to swallow, for gods alone know what reason. in other words, everyone you hate. I guess because they're not WASPy enough.

if you point out specific examples of VN war refugees still getting $5k/month, I'll be happy to explain it to the readers of this thread.

#8.1.1.1 Donny "The Bear Jew" Donowitz on 2015-09-26 01:19 (Reply)

My reasons are clear: We don't need more people. It is unfair and counterproductive to our own citizens to be selling off citizenships that the American taxpayer has to pay and pay for. If immigration of any kind is to be our policy than the decision should be up to the people not the UN or politicians.

#9 GoneWithTheWind on 2015-09-26 08:54 (Reply)

you mean, up to you.

#9.1 Donny "The Bear Jew" Donowitz on 2015-09-26 11:34 (Reply)

Our government should exist to manage governmental affairs for the citizens not for the non-citizens. Anything contrary to the best interests of the citizens should be off limits.

#9.1.1 GoneWithTheWind on 2015-09-26 15:15 (Reply)

We're at a point of diminishing returns. Every immigrant allowed in lowers the quality of life of everyone still here - more crowding, more traffic, denser living, lower teacher to pupil ratio, fewer tax benefits per American while we're borrowing 40% of the annual budget. So Donny basically loves foreigners and hates fellow citizens. That's his right but it's time to fight against him and his kind. Or settle 1k Muslims next to the "bear Jew" and then stand back and let him embrace it.

#10 whoever on 2015-09-28 01:50 (Reply)

one day, someone who actually wants your participation in a debate will explain the concept of "thread" to you. but don't hold your breath

#10.1 Donny "The Bear Jew" Donowitz on 2015-09-30 02:16 (Reply)

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