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Lance Groth

Apple Valley, MN
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Posted on 01/10/12 at 03:03 pm in response to Climate B.S. of the Year Awards: And the winners are...

#8, Jeff Klein, touched on the very heart of it, and that is that we are collectively running a vast, uncontrolled experiment with the entire planet as the laboratory. The same planet that is the only home we have, and which is now obliged to support 7+ billion human beings, many of whom are already on the very knife's edge of survival.

The resources of the planet are already strained to the utmost, even while the environment is being degraded by the activities of said 7+ billion...

Posted on 01/10/12 at 09:03 pm in response to Climate B.S. of the Year Awards: And the winners are...

@#12 -

"Possible benefits of global warming? How about delaying the next ice age?
...
If you believe "the science" we are helping mankind by avoiding being buried under 4 km of ice. "

At the cost of flooding every coastal zone in the world, where hundreds of millions of people live and our largest cities are. Where every port will have to be replaced or saved with massive engineering works. Do you have any idea how many trillions of dollars that's going to cost?...

Posted on 01/06/12 at 06:57 pm in response to Gov. Dayton has a way of keeping his news conferences unpredictable

@#2 - The quote was obviously in reference to Bachmann - he meant that she is not one of those "cold and timid souls".

But it could just as easily apply to Dayton, who has spent much of his life in public service and recently won a hard fought gubernatorial election, or to anyone who gets into the game and fights the good fight, win or lose - including, I am sure Dayton would say, Emmer.

Your cheap shot was cheap indeed, and I can't believe we had to explain this to you. A...

Posted on 01/03/12 at 06:35 pm in response to 'We're in negative space' on new Mitt Romney info

These stories of Romney's stiffness remind me of a scene from HBO's excellent miniseries, "Rome", in which Atia, the mother of Octavian, chides the taciturn Octavian for not being more chatty. Octavian replies, "Mother, you know I cannot talk small."

No surprise, really, as Romney is about as distant from the lives of the "plebs" as was Octavian.

And no, I am not otherwise comparing Romney to Augustus.

Posted on 12/14/11 at 05:01 pm in response to Palestinians 'an invented' people? Lieberman rejects Gingrich view

AFAIK, "Palestinian" does not negate "Arab". Egyptians and Lebanese have strong identities as Egyptians and Lebanese, I can tell you from people I've known, but they are still Arabs. The one does not diminish the other.

Gingrich should really just shut his mouth. His statement is like saying there are no national identities among white people, they're all just Caucasians. This is just the most recent example of Gingrich's inevitable flame-out - he just can't resist shooting off...

Posted on 12/08/11 at 05:10 pm in response to What it's like being a scientist in the GOP-led Legislature

@#6,7

"We've already discovered many of these so-called scientists who backed Al Gore were all on the take anyway and their data was largely made up to represent that. Then; they got busted."

We have? When did we discover that? If you're talking about "climate-gate", what we learned in the end is that there is no "there", there. The data are sound, the research was solid and verified through peer-review, and all we have are some grumpy scientists justifiably p.o.'d about...

Posted on 12/08/11 at 07:40 pm in response to What it's like being a scientist in the GOP-led Legislature

Thomas - I nominate you to lead an effort to change the name of the Grand Old Party (GOP) to the Glowering Anti-Science Party (GASP).

Seems appropriate - by the time you guys finish suppressing science and trashing the environment we'll all be GASPing for fresh air (in more ways than one).

Just trying to help...

Posted on 12/07/11 at 05:29 pm in response to Teddy Roosevelt's attack on excessive concentration of wealth

Reading Mr. Tester's condemnation of Roosevelt, as well as other comments, I wonder, has there ever been a president that today's GOP, in a moment of complete honesty, would embrace as being fully representative of their principles?

Lincoln, as noted, was a big government man not afraid of exercising federal power, and who some even feared would become a kind of American Caesar. Teddy Roosevelt was a progressive. Eisenhower was a RINO by today's definition, certainly. Nixon was a...

Posted on 12/08/11 at 02:09 pm in response to Teddy Roosevelt's attack on excessive concentration of wealth

Bernice - I think they'd like to see Cheney return, anyway...

Posted on 12/01/11 at 05:16 pm in response to World Meteorological Organization concludes planet is getting warmer

What isn't anecdotal is that CO2 and methane are greenhouse gases. They retain heat in an atmosphere by preventing it from radiating away into space. Denialists can't deny this because it is a physical property of these gases. Thus, to claim that human activity is not responsible for the warming of the planet, they must somehow explain how the heat retention property of the gases is not operative in Earth's atmosphere. They do not, because they cannot.

CO2 retains heat. More CO2...