Plantagenet wrote:
Kahneman's Nobel Prize winning research is all about how most people don't do a very good job of evaluating the trade offs between making sacrifices now to make things better down the line...... Most people live moment to moment and seek out immediate gratification---delaying gratification is a step beyond what they can do.
yellowcanoe wrote:Plantagenet wrote:
Kahneman's Nobel Prize winning research is all about how most people don't do a very good job of evaluating the trade offs between making sacrifices now to make things better down the line...... Most people live moment to moment and seek out immediate gratification---delaying gratification is a step beyond what they can do.
If anything, we're getting worse at this. I believe that people where I live (Ontario) used to believe in balanced budgets and paying off debt. That constituency seems vanishingly small now and we only seem to be able to support political parties that want to either continue to borrow and spend, or to reduce taxes (more instant gratification) and spending. The prudent thing would be to increase taxes and reduce spending so we could balance the budget and start running surpluses to pay off the massive amount of accumulated debt that we have but of course that would require sacrifice now to create a better future.
dohboi wrote:Did you get walloped by all those nordeasters? Is another on its way?
dohboi wrote:Yeah, it sounds like the Boston area, one of my old stomping grounds, really got hit badly. During the decade I lived there (basically the '80s), it seemed to me that we only got an inch or two at a time, and that usually all melted shortly thereafter. I have friends who just moved there after living in various parts of the South all their lives, and they're pretty freaked out.
Glad to hear you missed the worst of the first two! Hang in there.
The rainforests, savannahs and woodlands of sub-Saharan Africa have lost around 2.6bn tonnes of CO2 over the past seven years, a new study finds.
The large-scale loss of stored carbon – which on an annual basis is almost four times the CO2 emissions of Nigeria – was driven by a series of severe droughts across the continent, as well as deforestation, the research suggests...
jawagord wrote:Runaway Global Warming? Time to change the thread headline to the more ambiguous Climate Change? Normally we would be getting rain in April and the farmers would be seeding. This year the fields are still covered in snow and more is falling.
Winter drags on as more snowfall warnings issued for Calgary, southwest Alberta
Monday morning commuters will have to contend with a 10 to 20 centimetre dump of heavy, wet snow, Environment Canada warned on Sunday afternoon, with snowfall beginning Sunday evening and tapering off Monday night. The agency warned that rapidly accumulating snow could make travel difficult and reduce visibility.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/a ... -1.4620971
Calgary could see a month’s worth of snow in just over 24 hours
https://globalnews.ca/news/4146213/calg ... -24-hours/
jawagord wrote:Sorry Ralfy, trotting out the "warmer can mean colder" meme to explain away unusually cold weather gets a little old after 20 years! At some point it should become obvious that weather and climate are chaotic and non-linear and not controlled by CO2 emissions.
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