Discussion > President Trump
May 10, 2018 at 1:19 AM | clipe
But if there is a meeting between Donald Trump and Kim Jung-un with photos to prove it, the North Korean media will speak with one voice when they report a 100% Consensus that the other bloke looked stupid.
"Saving Face" is an important cultural issue for many involved with peace making and dispute resolution, and this is especially so in the Far East. "Saving Hair Styles" could enter the lexicon of Diplomatic Terminology.
golf charlie
Three American hostages returned home this morning so clearly what is required are more stories of Stormy Daniels! :)
Mailman
May 10, 2018 at 12:17 PM | Mailman
Is it possible that Kim Jung-un is a fan of Ms Daniels, and is hoping that Trump will bring her along for a ride?
golf charlie
This post has interesting consequences, but relevant to this thread is this:
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2018/05/10/bonn-bombs-climate-pact-is-disarray/
"President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw from the nuclear agreement with Iran marks the end of the current output agreement between OPEC and its allies. OPEC is likely to insist the current agreement remains in effect, at least for now, but the prospective removal of several hundred thousand barrels per day of Iranian exports from the market will require a major adjustment.– Reuters, 9 May 2018"
Trump can point to instability of price, supply and demand as further justification for US Energy self sufficiency.
Iran will want to keep selling oil. Who to?
China has further incentive to get overland oil pipelines to sources of oil.
Chinese demand for Australian coal will remain high.
China needs to retain a working relationship with the US. Kim Jung-un is a pawn they can sacrifice, especially if China can take control of North Korea's "development", for the economic benefit of China.
golf charlie
clipe
On a not unrelated note to Trump
The man with the talent for making everything worse.As Alaska’s congressional delegation worked feverishly last year to achieve the decades-long dream of drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, they came across a formidable opponent: Canada.
The Canadian government was concerned about the pristine wilderness on the country’s Porcupine caribou herd, named for the river that spans its range into Alaska. So its embassy in Washington lobbied U.S. lawmakers to vote against the Republican bid to add a refuge-drilling measure to the tax-cut package.
They lost the gamble. The tax cuts passed and drilling is set to resume after a 40-year hiatus.
Now one lawmaker has a plan to punish the North American neighbor with what amounts to a new tax on hundreds of millions of barrels of Canadian oil imported annually into the U.S.
http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/index.php/2018/05/11/oh-shiny-prime-minister-6/
But Sullivan and other members of Alaska’s three-person congressional delegation say their position is hollow given Canada drilled hundreds of oil and gas wells in neighboring Yukon Territory including ones directly in the path of herd migration routes.
clipe
May 11, 2018 at 10:01 PM clipe
Whatever the legalities of "spying" on political rivals, or engaging DOJ employees to do it, lying about it must be more serious. Presumably Trey Gordy has the details and names of those who will be arrested and charged, at a time when they are more vulnerable
golf charlie
May 11, 2018 at 11:55 PM clipe
If Trudeau believes he can win a trade war with Trump, Trudeau is unlikely to win another election.
golf charlie
GC: never underestimate the stupidity of people. Far too many people only hear what they want to hear – hence politicians can make all sort of ludicrous promises (especially if it involves “free” stuff), and people seem to lap it up. That they will be let down, once the liar is in office, just as they have been every time in the past, well, they will let it pass, this time, as they have been promised that it will be delivered, soon… promise.
Never forget that people are actually proud that they vote for the same dead-beat parties their fathers and grandfathers did, with not a thought about what has changed, and what that party now stands for (which may well be exactly what is was originally set up for, but the end result more cunningly concealed; now, they can be more open about it, but the brainwashed cannot see reality anymore).
Radical Rodent
Radical Rodent
Remember the classic politician's promise.
"Two women for every man and a faithful husband for every woman'
Entropic man
Entropic Man, unfortunately too many Americans can remember US Political promises. Canadians can draw their own conclusions, having worked out the costs to themselves
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_policy_of_the_Barack_Obama_administration
Clean Energy and the Recovery Act
Many of the Obama administration's were undertaken as a result of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, and many of those investments were specifically in clean energy. According to a report by Clean Edge: The Clean Tech Marketing Authority, the recovery act included more than in tax credits and direct spending for programs involving clean energy and transportation.[10]
The White House website states that the recovery act provided more than in clean energy investments:[11]
• $111 billion for a smart grid to connect rural energy-producing sites with cities, and smarter use of energy within homes,
• $55 billion to weatherize low-income homes,
• $41.5 billion to reduce the federal government's own energy bill by making federal buildings more energy efficient,
• $62.3 billion to support state and local energy efforts,
• $6000 million (six billion to keep continuity with other numbers)train people for green jobs, and
• $29 billion to promote investments in battery storage technologies.
Clean Edge lists other recent policies of the Obama Administration to support the clean energy sector in the U.S.:[12]
• Extending the investment tax credit for solar energy,
• Extending the production tax credit for wind energy,
• Allowing utilities to participate in income tax credits, and
• Allowing renewable energy developers to receive government grants instead of tax credits.
In his 2011 State of the Union Address, President Obama called for a goal, "By 2035, 80 percent of America's electricity will come from clean energy sources."
" $29 billion to promote investments in battery storage technologies". If it is $29 billion to PROMOTE investments in technology to cope with unreliable energy, how much will it actually cost to fix a problem that Climate Scientists have created?
golf charlie
Golf Charlie
Have you factored in the impact cost of climate change?
https://andthentheresphysics.wordpress.com/2015/03/07/impacts/
Entropic man
Entropic man: well, your factoring of the impact costs of climate change starts off with a massive presumption: “… the actual impacts of anthropogenic climate change…” Which is different from “natural” climate change… how? What is it that differentiates the present climate change from the continual climate change that has been ongoing for some 4.5 billion years? The only difference that can be noted is that we are around to observe it.
And what are the costs of climate change – apart from the quite mad desire to waste insanely huge sums of money to somehow “fight” the change, with absolutely no discernible impact?
Then aTTP moves his horribly flawed logic to Africa: “Reduced crop productivity associated with heat and drought stress…” No mention of the replacement of the successful farmers with those without the same knowledge and skill-set. Odd, that.
Ho-hum… My own logic is that if I can spot the errors in a person’s argument, then the argument is seriously faulty; in this case, there are so many erroneous assumptions and suppositions, linked with utterly stupid non-logic, I cannot be bothered chasing any more of them.
Radical Rodent
Entropic Man,
The "factored costs of Climate Change" are made up. Stern wrote his report on the assumption that Climate Scientists had made accurate forecasts. They hadn't.
+ wot Radical Rodent said.
golf charlie
tomo
Entropic Man, the Lukewarmer position has assumed the possibility of limited warming due to manmade CO2, and suggested adaption rather than panic.
With higher guestimates for ECS now being discarded, can we expect much warming to occur, and where are the problems from any warming we have had?
golf charlie
May 12, 2018 at 9:24 PM tomo
Using Climate Science Consensus statistics, does this mean 97% of Democrats are gullible, or 97% of Democrat Lawyers believe in Legalised abuse of power?
golf charlie
Golf Charlie
Have you factored in the impact cost of climate change?
Don't know about golf charlie (insert joke) but a certain Donald Trump has.
clipe
Golf Charlie
Finance? Who knows?
Why? Trump's reaction to the media discussion on the small size of his crowd demonstrates how much pride he has invested in numbers. The protesters turned out a bigger crowd than attended the inauguration. What better way to humiliate that blowhard?
Jan 22, 2017 at 6:07 PM | Unregistered CommenterEntropic man
Humiliate Trump? Are you delusional?
clipe
Are you delusional?
Stupid question. How are you to know?
Only the delusional think Trump can so easily be humiliated.
clipe
Nunes - having been patient .... is losing his patience ....
tomo
DJT tweeted that Iran's military budget rose by 40% after the Obamah pallettes of cash were delivered ... indicative of direction of travel if nothing else. The Mullahs and their allies in the Iranian state forces are intent on having a go at the Sunni states - that much is I think quite clear - and that animus is returned with interest by KSA and Gulfies who are proactively going after Shias.
I hope that the warmongers don't get their USA v Iran war though.....
tomo
Golf charlie
"With higher guestimates for ECS now being discarded, "
Only by sceptics like Nic Lewis, who are using an approach which underestimates ECS.
"can we expect much warming to occur,"
Yes, I'm afraid so.
" and where are the problems from any warming we have had?"
We are still in the lag phase of a sigmoid curve.
You should only expect small problems at this stage. Modest sea level rise flooding Miami, unstable jetstreams producing more variable weather, more intense rainfall, etc..
The real problems will show up when we enter the exponential phase and the rate of change accelerates.
Entropic man
ok! back to page 1....and what have we learned?
http://bishophill.squarespace.com/discussion/post/2655586
Can Bobby Charlton and Arthur Scargill now be retired from the list of most implausible hair styles?
Jan 21, 2017 at 10:19 PM | Unregistered Commentergolf charlie