UCONN TO THE BIG EAST

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SJUFAN

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Re: UCONN TO THE BIG EAST
« Reply #160 on: July 03, 2019, 02:07:35 PM »
There was a basis but it has been largely debunked in academics although for some scientists they have a real stake in continuing to perpetuate the myth. The entire premise - which was originally the basis for global warming (note the term global warming term has now largely faded in our common parlance) - was based on the idea that increasing atmospheric concentrations of CO2 (from the industrial revolution onwards) play a key role in producing a greenhouse effect and this links to a gradual, long-term rise in temperatures measured over a time span of say 200 years and then extrapolated into the future using Climate models. That is, climate models (based on some killer assumptions) were predicting these results for an extremely complex, self-correcting system/mechanism we call planet Earth (as Foad would let know).

If you yourself want to test these climate model's credibility just look for actual measurements (up to 2019) and you'll see a relatively cooling trend ... but say if you extend your analysis when industrialization had not occurred you will find there were actually even higher temperatures in the Roman and Medieval eras because of the fossil fuel burning chariots and cart and buggy ... these findings were partly the reason that the climate community switched from pushing global warming to now "climate change" ... on the other side of the spectrum the very climate supporting PhDs had to finally recognize the beneficial impact of carbon fertilization and try to come to terms with the increasing greening, food production of the planet ... So while climate academics continue to predict torrential events and environmental academics continue to predict massive species extinctions because of big bad humans, we have reduced hunger, poverty, generated wealth and increased life expentancy in unprecedented scale. But if AOC is right, and it's all over in say 10 years, why not sit back and start a perpetual happy hour :) ... 

What then is your position on chlorofluorocarbons and halons causing ozone depletion?

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« Reply #161 on: July 03, 2019, 02:32:28 PM »
just look for actual measurements (up to 2019) and you'll see a relatively cooling trend 
Are you saying that temperature and water levels are not rising at all and icebergs are not melting? I thought I saw a picture of it once. One Johnny fan's unscientific study reveals a much warmer Long Island with less snow than he recalls from his youth.

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« Reply #162 on: July 03, 2019, 03:35:42 PM »
What then is your position on chlorofluorocarbons and halons causing ozone depletion?

Non sequitur. No one's denying that homo sapiens has no effect on the planet's environment. That would be insane. The great plains e.g. was a luxurious forest until our native american forebears - who in hindsight we evidently had the good sense to exterminate for their crimes against nature - burned it to the ground.

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« Reply #163 on: July 03, 2019, 03:40:47 PM »
This argument is moot anyway. We are a decade away from developing the technology to not only reverse any purported man-made climate interference, but also controlling natural climate cycles that have existed for billions of years.

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« Reply #164 on: July 03, 2019, 06:34:13 PM »
Non sequitur. No one's denying that homo sapiens has no effect on the planet's environment. That would be insane. The great plains e.g. was a luxurious forest until our native american forebears - who in hindsight we evidently had the good sense to exterminate for their crimes against nature - burned it to the ground.

A second thing about CFCs is that this action likely represents the best global collective effort success story through the global Montreal Protocol. CFCs have almost completely been phased out. Our species is remarkable at problem-solving, which to me is one of the main purposes of an education system ... A story: back in the 1970s amidst the famous oil crisis (for those who are old enough to remember that), there was a $1 bet placed between an ecologist and an economist (luckily I'm an economist) where the ecologist claimed that by the year 2000 oil and all of the minerals in the world would be exhausted. The proverbial capitalism will devour the planet argument. Yet nearing 2020, there is more oil and other minerals available than they were in 1970s. Why is that?

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« Reply #165 on: July 06, 2019, 11:59:47 AM »
The buyout must be prohibitive or this will be a disaster. We’re throwing them a life preserver and they are capable of destroying us.

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« Reply #166 on: July 06, 2019, 12:01:31 PM »
Agree completely they were dead in the water now the Big East is giving them a helping hand.

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« Reply #167 on: July 06, 2019, 01:11:58 PM »
Its annoying bc it was amazing to watch them struggle. But I'll sure as hell get over it. Just think it really will set SJU and Hall back as the second tier schools in the league in this area now.

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Re: UCONN TO THE BIG EAST
« Reply #168 on: July 06, 2019, 03:08:29 PM »
Its annoying bc it was amazing to watch them struggle. But I'll sure as hell get over it. Just think it really will set SJU and Hall back as the second tier schools in the league in this area now.

Seton Hall and St.John’s haven’t been at UConn’s level since the very early 90s. UConn simply has more to offer than they do.