Comments by "Paul Frederick" (@1pcfred) on "Tucker: This is spectacularly absurd!" video.

  1. I'd say we are far more knowledgeable today than we were 50 years ago. Moreover we are far better equipped today to interpret the data that we have. We have an almost infinite higher processing ability today as we did then. Yes computers existed in 1970 but they had the power of a calculator. My desktop PC dwarfs all of the computers on the planet in 1970. And it's practically e-waste today.
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  2. We stopped using Chlorofluorocarbon and that arrested the depletion.
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  3. Actually major climate changes have happened rapidly in the past. The records they kept in the past weren't the best either. They did not for instance have standardized weather stations to record the data.
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  4. Well, who told you to live in the Arctic circle in the first place?
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  5. How are the future generations improving my life? Life's not a one way street. I don't remember past generations doing squat for me either.
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  6.  @appsfamilyadventures238  the first step to actualization is belief so good luck to them. Perhaps if they will it hard enough then they are entitled? It is closely related to; whether you think you can, or you can't, you're probably right.
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  7.  @appsfamilyadventures238  there's been studies done and successful people often feel entitled to the success they've achieved. Now whether they actually deserve it or earned it is debatable.
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  8. Glaciers move at a glacial pace. Which is to say they move very slowly.
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  9. Perhaps because we don't care.
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  10. you drove a tiny little car because you're a short person.
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  11. There's little water because it all got pumped out to irrigate land that should have never been farmed in the first place. They used 500 years worth of water in 50 years. It is called the tragedy of the commons. Learn about it.
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  12. When the world ends I want to be in Louisiana because they're always about 20 years behind the times. That should get me a little more time myself.
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  13. Actually the most common climate on this planet has been frigid for the past two epochs. I'm not sure how relevant earlier epochs are to the present day. Those conditions will never exist on this planet ever again. Our species would go extinct if it actually did happen. So I fail to see how it can be germane.
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  14. And he makes 35 million a year to do it.
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  15. A 2,000 pound car would be a very small car. A Toyota Corolla has a curb weight of 2,855 pounds.
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  16. Daily highs and yearly averages are two different things.
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  17. I bet they believe their lies will benefit them.
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  18. That assumes all the melted water would go into the world's oceans and none would permeate the ground. Which is extremely unlikely. The last time I checked this planet was pretty porous. That would be yesterday while I was watering my garden. I kept pouring water on the ground and it just kept soaking in. Remarkable!
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  19. Science is not an institution based on trust. Science is a method to compile data and interpret it to reach a conclusion. Trust plays absolutely no part in that process. Anyone that tells you to, "trust the science" is an idiot. A fair portion of what science believed was true when I was young turns out to be false today. That's how it goes.
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  20. It doesn't actually snow very much when the air is too cold. Cold air can't hold much moisture.
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  21.  @357d357  permeability is not such a straightforward characteristic. If the ground was completely absorbent then the Great Lakes wouldn't even exist.
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  22.  @357d357  it can snow when it is cold but air can only hold so much moisture and how much is temperature dependent. The hardest snows are always going to occur slightly above freezing. That's the reality that you live in. It actually snows very little at the poles. There's just a lot of snow there because it doesn't melt either.
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  23.  @357d357  that's been my personal experience and I've seen it snow quite a bit. You do know that snow is a form of precipitation, don't you? You are aware of dew points too?
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  24.  @357d357  that's good.
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  25. Knowing the exact age of the planet is difficult to determine but we know it is about 4.54 billion years old ± a few hundred thousand years. What makes pinning down the exact date is the mutable nature of the planet. The entire planet was a molten ball for its first few hundred thousand years. So it's not like there's any rocks that survive from then to date. None exist today.
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  26. They're using that high pressure sales pitch
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  27. 20 mm is less than an inch. So you probably wouldn't notice it.
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  28. Actually he's not right and there's no way of knowing what sea level would be. We don't for instance know how much water would go underground. As we've no idea what underground water storage capacity is.
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  29. Our Sun is a remarkably stable star. It is not changing. It won't change for billions of years.
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  30. The climate has been very stable for the past epoch. Which is the only time frame our civilization has ever existed in. Right now you are in the holocene. Our species survived the paleolithic but I wouldn't say we prospered then.
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  31. What choice did anyone have when the government controlled what could be done publicly. They shut businesses down and made it impossible for people to gather.
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