"ignoring human caused global warming."

Profits demanded that we ignore it.

Ironically, profits is what is now demanding insurers abandoned regions most affected by global warming.

See, it all works out in the end. The end of modern civilization, that is.

How much money will it take to reverse this and who's going to pay for it?
- things no one knows
#11 | Posted by lfthndthrds

Reverse what, the Democrat Hoax that Climate Change is real? Good question!

How much have you spent so far?

"You can't get a budget without quantifying the cost per (tonnage) or whatever unit you'd like to measure with."

Already been done, ask Alexa about purchasing Carbon Offsets.

"Then you have to have a proven plan that can be proven with benchmarks"

Why?

Did the carbon emitters provide a proven plan for warming the globe with benchmarks? No, so why change your standards now?

Did Trump provide a proven plan for tariffs? No, so why change your standards now?

How much money will it take to reverse this and who's going to pay for it?
- things no one knows
#11 | Posted by lfthndthrds

How much money will it cost us if we don't reverse this?

Who's gonna pay for that?

Questions you never even thought of.

The only thing you're good at in this life is burying your ignorant head in the sand.

I will give you credit for one thing, LftHndThrds.

You are committed to the Democrat Hoax theory of Global Warming.

So much so that you haven't made an even bigger fool of yourself by lecturing us that Global Warming Is A Good Thing, because it will help grow more crops.

Your personality profile is halfway there!
25% csam, 25% climate denier.

"yet to quantify a single thing."

You're holding me to a standard you can't live up to.
You can't say what's the cost of doing business as usual.
But you demand to know the cost of change.

Do you really not see the disconnect there?

"yet to quantify a single thing."

Already been done, ask Alexa about purchasing Carbon Offsets.
#18 | Posted by snoofy

And surely you've heard of Kyoto, it has a quantified goal.

It kinda looks like you're the one who is running low on quantities and goals.
Can't you see taht's how business as usual works? There's no limit to how much CO2 capitalism should produce. By the time the market can react to the negative externalities of CO2, a hundred years will have passed.

That's pretty much where we are now, since the existence of the negative externalities has been known since 1904.

Insurance companies pulling out due to increased storms. That's a negative cost externality a century in the making, still mostly ignored today, except of course by the insurers who stand directly in the path of the externality!

Now price it in for me, bitch.

You can't. You can't even do high school algebra.

But more to the point, you pretty much dismiss everything I said as being wrong, when it's pretty much right.

The cost of not doing anything about climate change is going to play out over the remainder of our lives, and it's going to cost more than you think. The cost won't just be dollars, it will be shorter, lower quality lives.

One way we quantify the latter is with Quality Adjusted Life Years, since suddenly you've got an itch to learn things about how the world around you works!

"According to Al Gore 25 years ago"

No. According to you. What's your Magic 8 Ball got to say?

"When someone tells me what the magic number is for atmospheric CO2 and how we get from where we are to that number I'll bite."

Kyoto has a magic number. We get there by not electing Trump. You didn't bite.

"Everything you touch on a daily basis is related to oil, gas or coal in some fashion or another."

Oh jesus christ. Here we go. Goatman level autism.

"And here you sit criticizing the Trump administration for the trade war with China - the nastiest polluter on the planet. "

These two things aren't related like you want them to be.

But if you want them to be related, then you need to explain why Nixon (R) opened trade with China in the first place.

"Here's your chance to shine and cheer on never doing business with them again."

You're a stupid person who doesn't know where metformin comes from, even though you probably have to take it to stay alive.

"They stole jobs from Americans"

You're a ------- ------.
Nobody "stole" a damn thing.
GE and the others moved the jobs there.

But the one thing about your "stole" comment is,
It shows your Victim Mentality.
You think you're a Victim.
But you're just a Bitch.

"And in that process, every lawmaker, lobbyist and corporate whore made a cut."

Yeah that's how Capitalism is supposed to work you prancing little ------.

"but here's your chance to kick China while they're down."

They're not down, idiot.
We're down.

"Maybe not totally, but here's your chance to kick China while they're down"

You don't fix problems by kicking things.

This is what you marginalized people haven't figured out in life.

"Our politicians (including the ones you voted for) passed legislation to move American jobs overseas to third world countries."

Right.
Well, the politicians didn't move the jobs.
The legislators made it profitable for the Capitalists to move the jobs overseas.

We've already talked about this.
That's how Capitalism is supposed to work (you prancing little ------).

So, what are you a victim of, are you a victim of Capitalism?

"Capitalism isn't the problem."

There's a problem?
What problem are you referring to here?

"The legislators made it profitable for the Capitalists to move the jobs overseas."

"And you're a moron who thinks the private and public sectors work in their own silos."

Actually, my comment indicates an understanding of how government and business work hand in glove, in a Capitalist society, to make Losers Like You a Victim.

"but I would have hated to been an auto worker when Bill Clinton got finished putting the screws to them."

Okay. I would have hated to be in the military when Dick Cheney fired a third of them only to need them when he invaded Iraq a few years later, I guess?

What's your little anecdote got to do with anything?

"stupid laws" were the problem

The ones making it profitable to send jobs to China?
The laws the Capitalists wanted?
Those stupid laws?

You don't have a coherent thesis. I don't think you've read a book this century.

"Capitalism has improved the standard of living to by far the highest level in human history."

Actually that was sanitation.
Nothing at all to do with Capitalism.

"I'd bet money that you were a professional student who will never repay the loans you took out, avoiding having to get a real job."

You're good at making losing bets.
We already know this about you.

This also explains why you identify with Trump.
You've never seen anyone successful who is like you.
Trump isn't successful, but he is our President, and that's close enough.

I didn't make my living working as a -------, living in my mom's basement.
#50 | Posted by lfthndthrds

They don't have basements where you live, kid.

He seems like he held a clinger-on do nothing job until he decided it was better to drink himself to death.

The Gulf of Mexico version of a kid who works at his daddy's car dealership and never thought there could be more to life.

An "actual" job? Naw dawg, I got one of them fake ones, like my fake Visa with all that fake Trump Unemployment money on it.

I'm the same age as Marco Rubio. Fortunately I have a much better boss.

So no, I'm not a Senior.

I think my job title might have "Senior" in it though.

It doesn't say Senior on my name tag, but the Mexican customer keep asking me, "Senior, when is coming my Hash Browns?"

"We need actual proof"

If you can't accept the truth, it's only because you don't want to.