You didn't watch the presidential debate last night

Trump in 2012: Electoral College is a disaster for democracy.

Trump, Sunday after the Election in 2016: “I’m not going to change my mind just because I won, but I would rather see it where you went with simple votes. You know, you get 100 million votes and somebody else gets 90 million votes and you win.”

Trump, Tuesday after the Election in 2016: "The Electoral College is actually genius in that it brings all states, including the smaller ones, into play. Campaigning is much different!"

Ladies and gentlemen, Donald "Tells it Like It Is" Trump!

(I'll give you 3 guesses as to what he really thinks about the EC.)

 

I oppose the planet destroyers, as they have bilked we the peeps out of many billions (in monetary and in environmental damage). Legit scientific research can get results, but action is key. There are many people right now that honestly believe climate change is a hoax created by the chinese. Ridiculous lies are swallowed wholesale. CONTINUE to subsidy filthy rich corporations with buckets of taxpayer money, or NO JOBS!!!

 

That "Louder with Chowder" website is hilarious. It's functionally 5 myths that anti-climate change people use that largely rely on people not looking into the issue more and just only thinking about it on the surface level or taking the statements at face value.

MYTH: The world is getting hotter at a significant rate.
TRUTH: The world has gotten 1.7 degrees hotter since 1880.

The source HE LINKS TO is a New York times article that says...

"1.7 degrees is actually a significant amount."

The whole section reads:

"As of October 2015, the Earth had warmed by about 1.7 degrees Fahrenheit since 1880, when records begin at a global scale. That figure includes the surface of the ocean. The warming is greater over land, and greater still in the Arctic and parts of Antarctica.

The number may sound low, but as an average over the surface of an entire planet, it is actually high, which explains why much of the world’s land ice is starting to melt and the oceans are rising at an accelerating pace. The heat accumulating in the Earth because of human emissions is roughly equal to the heat that would be released by 400,000 Hiroshima atomic bombs exploding across the planet every day.

Scientists believe most and probably all of the warming since 1950 was caused by the human release of greenhouse gases. If emissions continue unchecked, they say the global warming could ultimately exceed 8 degrees Fahrenheit, which would transform the planet and undermine its capacity to support a large human population."

So the myth is debunked by the "truth" that how much hotter it has gotten is... significant? And he cites a source that claims the OPPOSITE of his claim? What kind of amateur hour is this?

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MYTH: The Ice Sheets are MELTING AWAY!
TRUTH: Antarctic Ice Sheet is growing by billions of tons. Also FAIL: Scientist That Predicted Ice Caps Would Melt in 2013… Now Claims 2016?

Another common "myth" tactic.

Here's the NASA article on this issue:
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddar...ns-of-antarctic-ice-sheet-greater-than-losses

So it is technically true that the report does say the Ice Sheet is increasing in terms of NET CHANGE. However, the claim here lacks context.

The thing is (and you will see them explain this in the NASA article) WHY the Sheets are growing isn't because they aren't melting away. They ARE melting away, the difference is that the snow on top of ice sheet is compacting into ice and is making up the difference... for now.

The key is the for now. To use an analogy, this is like losing your job and keeping your lifestyle the same, and saying "I have money, it's called savings." In this case, money is ice sheet and savings is snow. That savings isn't infinite. It is turning into ice sheet for now to make up for the losses... but the snow itself is not accumulating.

"Zwally’s team calculated that the mass gain from the thickening of East Antarctica remained steady from 1992 to 2008 at 200 billion tons per year, while the ice losses from the coastal regions of West Antarctica and the Antarctic Peninsula increased by 65 billion tons per year."

Here we see that the gain has remained steady during the study period, but the rate of loss has increased. What happens when the accumulated snowfall runs out?

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The people behind this study also says this:

"If the losses of the Antarctic Peninsula and parts of West Antarctica continue to increase at the same rate they’ve been increasing for the last two decades, the losses will catch up with the long-term gain in East Antarctica in 20 or 30 years -- I don’t think there will be enough snowfall increase to offset these losses.”

"“The good news is that Antarctica is not currently contributing to sea level rise, but is taking 0.23 millimeters per year away,” Zwally said. “But this is also bad news. If the 0.27 millimeters per year of sea level rise attributed to Antarctica in the IPCC report is not really coming from Antarctica, there must be some other contribution to sea level rise that is not accounted for.”"

(And again, note the attempt to use the fact that scientists are willing to change their minds and use new data in their analysis as a sign of "failure" instead it simply being a part of the scientific process.)

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I will just do those 2. If you really care about knowledge and enlightenment, you will look more into the rest yourself. But basically, this website amounts to sensationalist anti-climate change propaganda couched in the veneer, but not the veracity of scientific rigor (or even simply bothering to read the sources and understand what they are ACTUALLY saying).

 

Additionally:
http://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard...l-sea-ice-diminishing-despite-antarctic-gains

NASA Study Shows Global Sea Ice Diminishing, Despite Antarctic Gains
Sea ice increases in Antarctica do not make up for the accelerated Arctic sea ice loss of the last decades, a new NASA study finds. As a whole, the planet has been shedding sea ice at an average annual rate of 13,500 square miles (35,000 square kilometers) since 1979, the equivalent of losing an area of sea ice larger than the state of Maryland every year.



Ultimately, the key is to understand that climate change of some kind IS happening and support efforts to understand exactly how it'll impact us in the future.

Maybe it isn't what most think it is now, but we won't know if we just close our eyes and go "BLAH BLAH CONSPIRACY BLAH BLAH."

 

How do you feel about all those big oil/wall street types + career politicians that are likely to make up the majority of Trump's WH?