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Wilbur

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  1. It almost seems the current management group pathological has to cut all the ties from the previous management group. I get it, they're rebuilding, but doesn't mean you can't keep an important piece from the previous administration (thinking more of Stroman and Sanchez)
  2. I feel that way too sometimes. Keep on waiting for the bottom to fall out. I think we may be suffering from Canuck fan syndrome.
  3. I've got some hair gel I never use sitting in a drawer. It's probably at least 75% full. It's a sacrifice, but I can lend it to the cause!
  4. Compared to what they're making off of coal, oil, natural gas etc? How exactly are governments making money off of the climate change crisis? On hurricane relief? On flood relief? On putting out wild fires? On additional health costs after a massive heat wave? Traditionally, those aren't money making propositions.
  5. Gurriel returns and we'll get to see Biggio cut his major league teeth. I'm a little surprised McKinney drew the short straw this time. Davis has been where offense goes to die during his time up. https://www.sportsnet.ca/baseball/mlb/blue-jays-call-cavan-biggio-lourdes-gurriel-jr/
  6. Heh, you kinda "yadda yadda'd" over that 2014 Olympic Gold. The last time the World was truly best on best and Canada absolutely dominated that tournament.
  7. I get the feeling that will, more or less, sum up the season. Not that you can expect much less with a group this young.
  8. bases loaded with only 1 out in extras and you can't score the run. That's going to come back and bite them. Gotta knock the Red Sox out when they're down.
  9. An excellent CBC Radio Ideas podcast on the dangers of denialism https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/the-dangers-of-denialism-1.5140231
  10. Is it sad, that after thinking "Congrats Vladdy" my second thought was "huh, must've been a slow week in the AL". Good to see Vladdy getting success. I forgot sometimes he's 20 and shouldn't be expected to put up all-star vet numbers right away.
  11. Stoked!  Just bought tickets to see Marc Maron for September.  Can't think of a better way to end my first week back at work.

  12. A late congrats by the way! I got the nervous question a few times but it wasn't beaten to death. Never thought it had applied to me, honestly. I could see being nervous if you had never lived with you spouse before and all the, um, fun that goes with that. But I had lived with her for over a year in part to see if marriage did make sense, leaving nothing to be much nervous about. The wedding was more a celebration rather than the beginning of a journey together as the journey had already begun.
  13. Planting trees is strictly temporary. Eventually they die and their CO2 returns to the atmosphere as they rot. That said, the article states it's a tool and as a tool in the tool box it's a fine idea. There needs to be a more permanent fix for the carbon though.
  14. Okaaaayyyy, and the Republicans try to control everything by rigging the markets and banking systems in their favour. The Republicans say vote for us and you'll be rich. Read Trumps The Art of the Deal because he's a stable genius. At least with Trump we'll all be eating lobster in our mansions, ignoring all the climate refugees trying to sneak through the wall. And yes, that's hyperbole, but so is the above quote.
  15. Sorry, my mistake. Yes, water vapour is the main trapper of heat, that still doesn't mean rising levels of CO2 doesn't trap heat and is driving the climate change feedback loop at this time. Yes, there are natural forces that produce CO2, but we're tipping the scales.
  16. If the Democrats are trying to use the climate change crisis to control the population, they're doing a really really REALLY bad job of it.
  17. Just because historically the warming came first doesn't mean CO2 doesn't trap heat cause warming. They both play their part. The heat trapped from rising CO2 levels is what helps the Earth get out of the past ice ages. I quickly searched where we were currently in the Milankovitch cycle and it appears we should be cooling geologically slowly (http://ossfoundation.us/projects/environment/global-warming/milankovitch-cycles). Clearly that's not what we are seeing, because greenhouse gasses are driving this time. And yes, the CO2 has gone into the oceans, it has gone into plant life, but it is also going into the atmosphere at (as far as we know) an unprecedented rate.
  18. I'm aware of the Milankovich cycles, that is what I was referring to when speaking of orbital variations. When those variations take us farther away from the sun, we tend to enter a ice age. When those variations take us closer to the sun, the oceans warm causing them to release more CO2, which then acts as a positive feedback and causes more warming until a new equilibrium is reached. Humans are constantly messing with this equilibrium for the last 250 or so years by steadily pumping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.
  19. The "Ice Age" theory came from two things: 1) changes in the Earth's orbit 2) the cooling effect from smog aerosols. If it wasn't for our extra CO2 we could've seen some cooling but we keep on blasting it up there so...yeah. As for less atmospheric C02 than expected, that's because the oceans have been absorbing most of it (as well as a lot of the heat). The oceans won't be able to absorb forever though. As for the "production gap", before humans were on the planet the Earth's climate changed due to fluctuations in energy from the sun (mainly from orbital variations) as well as volcanic eruptions. Focusing on the fluctuations from the sun, yes, temperature would rise a bit first, warming the oceans. As the oceans warmed they would release more of their carbon dioxide starting a feed back loop to even more warming. CO2 in the atmosphere does cause warming, otherwise we'd be as cold as the moon.
  20. Talk about a no-doubter for your 1st career home run . First of many Vladdy.
  21. And if we let men marry other men, then who's to stop them from marrying goats? Seriously, I hardly believe this is a huge issue. There is a mature conclusion to this without freaking out and going to extremes.
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