[Guardian] The greatest impact individuals can have in fighting climate change is to have one fewer child, according to a new study that identifies the most effective ways people can cut their carbon emissions.
The next best actions are selling your car, avoiding long flights, and eating a vegetarian diet. These reduce emissions many times more than common green activities, such as recycling, using low energy light bulbs or drying washing on a line. However, the high impact actions are rarely mentioned in government advice and school textbooks, researchers found.
Carbon emissions must fall to two tonnes of CO2 per person by 2050 to avoid severe global warming, but in the US and Australia emissions are currently 16 tonnes per person and in the UK seven tonnes. "That’s obviously a really big change and we wanted to show that individuals have an opportunity to be a part of that," said Kimberly Nicholas, at Lund University in Sweden and one of the research team.
The new study, published in Environmental Research Letters, sets out the impact of different actions on a comparable basis. By far the biggest ultimate impact is having one fewer child, which the researchers calculated equated to a reduction of 58 tonnes of CO2 for each year of a parent’s life.
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he next best actions are selling your car, avoiding long flights, and eating a vegetarian diet.
Let see, 20 minutes to work by car vs three some hours to work by bus, yea right.
Long flight, get there in matter of hours, instead of days, not to mention everybody flying actually generate less CO2 than if all those passengers drove.
Eating a vegetarian diet, now it is clear that the autors have no clue what they are talking about. Just about every vegetarians I know makes all kind of rude noises, generating more methane, CO2 and aromas in the process.
The researchers must have degrees in French poetry or something, not real science degrees.
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The next best actions are selling your car, avoiding long flights, and eating a vegetarian diet.
Let me guess. The author lives in a crowded city with lots within walking distance and has no comprehension of farming or food distribution. It just magically appears on local store shelves. Like turn on that switchy thingy and light appears.
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Given that Britain's Princess Katherine just commented she is considering having a third, joining Ivanka Trump and any number of younger Hollywood actresses, I have to imagine in general the trend will soon be in the opposite direction, except among the SJW class. And as society would benefit from having fewer humourless scolds, I have no quarrel with either choice.
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Good to know g(r)om, didn't like the taste of vegetarians.
Was living at a place where the person cooking did one of those Folger Switches on me. Instead of chicken lo mein I was served that textured/flavored tofu. Person had been touting this stuff for a week and had a smirk when setting so I was clued in, especially after looking at it. Person was lucky, because if I had bitten into 'meat' with the texture of a turned grape I would have wretched right there on the serving dish. Seriously, cottage cheese would have been a more convincing 'meat'.
[American Thinker] What do you get when you put one American on a British cruise ship with over 4,000 citizens of the U.K.? Answer: a lot of questions about Donald Trump.
The population worldwide has gone bananas ‐ "ba-nah-nahs," as the Brits would say ‐ over The Donald. From the Thames to Timbuktu, it seems folks are either mad at the president of the United States or mad for him. On this "matter," very few straddle the fence. And as for the fence, itself ‐ the one proposed along the southern border of the United States ‐ it, too, is hardly a neutral subject.
Let's just say that rarely could the reaction to either Donald Trump's persona or his proposals be characterized as nonchalant. Regardless of how apolitical his armchair critics may profess to be, or how remote from America's unique political system they reside, all creatures great and small appear to have an opinion about the current occupant of the White House.
It is irrelevant how I happened to be the lone Yank on a British cruise ship during a fortnight that ironically included the Fourth of July. In spite of my apparent telltale American accent ‐ or perhaps because of it ‐ I was generally chatted up as a sort of floating curiosity.
Before the voyage, I had harbored the faux hope that I wouldn't be spotted as a colonist, at least not immediately. Yet as soon as I opened my mouth, I was repeatedly asked what part of America I came from and what I thought of Donald Trump.
Keep in mind that the British press is as liberal as our own. On the day I flew home from Southampton, London's Sunday newspapers were bristling with criticism concerning President Trump's "defense of Western civilization speech" in Poland. Commentators huffed that he had cast a pall over the G-20 conference by failing to fall in lockstep with other world leaders. One editorial writer opined that Trump's "sacking" of the FBI chief was further proof of the dictatorship America had suddenly ‐ shockingly ‐ become.
But as is the case here at home, it became quickly apparent to me that the citizens of the United Kingdom are very much divided over the direction in which their own country is going. Still, several of those I talked with seemed visibly surprised by my defense of our sitting president. After all, educated women were assumed to have constituted the bulk of Hillary's support.
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I had the good fortune of traveling internationally a half dozen times in 2016 to the Far East, Mid East, Greek Isles, eastern and western Europe. I would typically pick up any English language newspaper to see what the locals had to say. Without fail, I observed 2-3 articles negative toward Trump and 1 article favorable or neutral to Felonia von Pantsuit. The poisoning of "all things Trump" was truly an international effort...I can't imagine what was being reported in the many native languages I encountered. Between the English written newspapers and CNN International blasting in every hotel common area there was a heavy dose of left wing kool aid directed at least toward the business traveler. I suspect more money and effort was spent swaying the "internationals" perspective than was spent on convincing actual Wisconsin and Michigan voter to "Be with Her".
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I remember similar conversations during the O.J. Simpson trial, only it wasn't just Brits, and it wasn't just in English. All the European television stations reported daily on developments for the duration of the thing, and everyone who spoke to me about it had opinions -- and were universally shocked that I neither knew nor cared.
[VDH] Putin will do anything to advance Russia’s interests because his country is in terrible shape.
About a year ago, Donald Trump Jr. met with a mysterious Russian lawyer, Natalia Veselnitskaya. Trump Jr. was purportedly eager to receive information that could damage Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign.
Veselnitskaya denies that she was working for the Kremlin to lobby for favorable Russian treatment. But in the past, Veselnitskaya has been connected with a number of Russian-related lobbying groups.
Trump Jr., for his part, proved naïve and foolish to gobble such possible setup bait. The Russians proved eager to confuse, confound, and embarrass everyone involved in the 2016 election.
This latest Trump family imbroglio piggybacks on six months of Russian collusion charges. National Security Adviser Michael Flynn resigned less than a month into his job after being less than candid about his contacts with the Russians. Paul Manafort, Donald Trump’s erstwhile campaign manager, had some questionable Russian business interests and resigned well before the election.
All these stories were luridly headlined in the press.
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Trump Jr. was purportedly eager to receive information that could damage Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign.
It's called opposition research. Everyone running for office uses opposition research on their opponent if they can.
BTW, the Pubs obtained a fake dossier that attempted to damage Trump in the primaries. According to Forbes, the dossier was put together by former British intelligence agent Christopher Steele who is now the head of a private for-hire intelligence company, Orbis. The dossier was then used by Democratic adversaries of then-candidate Trump against him in the main election. The fake dossier PDF file alleges that high Kremlin officials colluded with Trump, offered him multi-billion dollar bribes, and accumulated compromising evidence of Trump’s sexual escapades in Russia. The U.S. intelligence community has said the dossier is a fake report.
So when no dirt can be found on a candidate, the dirt is then made up? Can this BS special counsel investigation not be dumped since it was based on a lie? Comey leaked information to his law-school buddy with the hope of being able to set up a Special Counsel headed by his buddy Mueller. Can this faux claim against Donald Jr. not be dropped as the original claim was false. Moreover, the Special Counsel is suspect since it is loaded with Hillary's cronies and supporters? There is are huge conflicts of interest.
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Unfortunatly, those deep state rascals can't be driven out. They are much like Richard Gere in "Officer and a Gentleman" shouting "...I've got no place else to go!!!"
[LI] Congressional Republicans are currently engaged in an embarrassing struggle to revamp Obamacare. When revamping didn’t work, they turned to repeal, only for members of their own caucus to balk.
We’ve explored the procedural issues with repealing Obamacare, but there’s still another reason we’re likely stuck with the bones of government-run health insurance for the foreseeable future -- much of the public wants it this way.
Omnibus spending and Obamacare were once repulsive enough to birth the Tea Party movement, but in the years since Obamacare has taken root, voters have warmed to the idea of some form of state-sponsored health insurance.
Historically, the solution to bad, or poorly conceived government programs is not eradicating the problematic program, but more government intervention. And it looks like Obamacare will be no different.
A poll released by Pew last month shows a frightening uptick in the number of Americans who believe it’s the government’s responsibility to ensure everyone has health insurance.
Even among those who self-identify as conservative, a mere 9% believe the federal government should get out of the health insurance business.
Skipping the Pew research bit and moving to the bottom line:
So long as the voting public believes government-run health insurance is the best rememdy, eradicating Obamacare will be a next to impossible task.
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The Republicans can win by causing a plausible plan even if they do not have the votes to push it through. If it succeeds in passing, that will be great. If it fails to pass, and it has at least 45 Republicans supporting it, all but a handful of Democrats must vote no. Obamacare and medicaid will be in tatters by the November 2018, and those voting no will be held responsible for that disaster.
What would be plausible?
1 eliminate the fine or tax for not joining an Obama plan.
2 allow insurance cos. to sell their old plans
3 eliminate punitive damages for medical claims.
4 let the states make their own decisions about medicaid.
The Democrats will be destroyed in 2018 if they fight lockstep for the decaying Obamacare.
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20 Trillion dollars in debt. Whether you like it not, you are just playing musical chairs, till the day of due comes. Then it and a hellva lot will disappear. That day of due is coming a lot faster the more economic albatrosses you tie on to the system.
So, the question is why keep you clowns in office. You have no real intentions of saving it. The others will put the system in a much faster financial path to complete collapse. Get it over with quicker and start the rebuilding soon?
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The music hasn't stopped in Zim-Bob-We. It's my grandchildren I fear for.
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The problem is that the insurance companies have invested money in Obamacare going forward. They will not permit anyone getting in the way of their income.
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[Free Beacon] President Donald Trump "has confidence" in Attorney General Jeff Sessions, the White House said Thursday, one day after Trump suggested that he should have picked someone else to lead the Department of Justice.
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Notice how the 'confidence in Sessions' issue has consumed the media for the past few days, nearly drowning out the congressional Obamacare cock-up ?
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I don't know what kind of deals were made prior to Sessions' confirmation hearings; maybe he agreed to recuse himself in order to get confirmed but it is turning out to be a bad deal. The fake Russian collusion investigation could have been dispatched with at the outset and much of this current mess could have been avoided. BTW, I haven't heard much of the Clinton Foundation or the many Hillary and Obama investigations that should be being done. It's as if the Deep State doesn't want anything to get done in Washington (sarc).
[Free Beacon] The State Department is facing harsh criticism for claiming in an official report that Israel is to blame for terrorism attacks committed by Palestinians and accusing the Jewish state of being largely responsible for an impasse in peace negotiations, according to a leading member of Congress who is calling on the State Department to correct its "inaccurate and harmful" characterization of Israel.
The State Department, in its latest annual report on the global terrorism situation, blames Israeli security policies for stalling the peace process and claims that Palestinians rarely incite terror attacks.
The claims are coming under fierce criticism from pro-Israel advocates and have prompted one leading member of Congress to formally call on the Trump administration to amend the report to more accurately reflect the situation.
Rep. Peter Roskam (R. Ill.), co-chair of the House Republican Israel Caucus, criticized the latest report in a letter to Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and called on the administration to immediately amend it to portray Palestinian terror attacks as a primary reason for the impasse in peace talks.
The State Department's current characterization, Roskam claims, is harmful to Israel and likely to impede efforts by the Trump administration to renew peace talks.
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At least State is undergoing restructuring and rightsizing under the leadership of T-Rex. At last they are feeling the pain that they deliberately and with malice inflicted on America for decades.
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Hand it to State -- they stay loyal to their Arab masters.
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Where on Earth do you go to find these kinds of morons? Where did they find that many of them, and why would they want to concentrate them all in one place and give them power of life and death and hellish disruption over the lives of Americans and other people who need and deserve their help?
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Didn't we have an article here about all the empty offices at State that won't be refilled? There will be names attached to the writing of this thing, and then there will be decisions made by the parties involved, after which there will be more empty offices, making each iteration easier,
[Daily Caller] A petition from Change.org wants the Chick-fil-A restaurant at Youngstown State University (YSU) shut down, claiming that all that "homophobic" chicken just "adds to the negative experience of LGBT students."
As Campus Reform reports, the petition has support among faculty, with one professor calling the fast-food establishment "fried food for homophobes."
"I am a professor at YSU. I have not set foot up there since they became Chick-fil-A. A long time ago it used to be a respectable place where you could take an invited speaker out to lunch and even have table service. We now have no such place and I will not support Fried Food for Homophobes, which is what I think of Chick-fil-A," said Heather Lorimer, an associate professor in genetics at YSU.
"Chick-fil-a is well known for its CEO’s bigotry," Lorimer told Campus Reform. "Since it has been Chick-fil-A I have not set a foot in it."
The petition strongly objects to Chick-fil-A being "the only place to get food in the evenings" on campus and won’t accept any apologies from the restaurant for past statements because the it "still donating money to anti-LGBT organizations."
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While SJWs boycott Chick-Fil-A, Mrs. JohnQC and I have a couple of gay friends who will not stop going to CFA as they say CFA has the best chicken; they don't buy into the made-up B.S.
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So if a Pro-traditional family automatically equals anti-gay, then the equation must be true in reverse and by virtue of being homosexuals they are actively against normal, heterosexual people and their unions. That clears up a lot.
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I still remember the ill-fated Chick-fil-A boycott. Attacking Chick-fil-A in Georgia, not a very prudent undertaking. The stores were packed with people for days. Telling someone they had a very ugly hunting dog would have produced a kinder response.
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This is a little off-topic but...The neighbors behind us have chickens. It is O.K. to have a limited number of chickens but no roosters. Well, the neighbor got a rooster in the bunch of chickens and it crows early every morning. The neighbors became fond of the rooster's early morning rooster crowing. Animal Control began asking questions about the "chickens." The neighbors in the neighborhood all agreed they were going to tell Animal Control the "rooster" sounds were actually a transsexual chicken and not to worry.
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The neighbors in the neighborhood all agreed they were going to tell Animal Control the "rooster" sounds were actually a transsexual chicken and not to worry.
#14
Really? You would take invited speakers to fast food? And Chick-fil-a is the only show in town, so now you can't take your invited speaker to lunch?
Oh, and you have not been in a Chick-fil-a since it has been a Chick-fil-a?
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