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发帖数: 29846 | 1 NEW YORK, July 11 (UPI) -- Three-quarters of Americans say natural disasters
are on the increase, but fewer than ever believe the climate is heating up,
a new poll finds.
And only half say they have prepared for calamity by stockpiling three days
worth of food and water, Harris reports.
GALLERY: Striking Natural Disasters
Seventy-six percent say hurricanes, tornadoes and earthquakes are becoming
more frequent, and 31 percent say much more. Only 2 percent perceive a
decline and 23 percent no chan... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 2 Cleaning your plate may not help feed starving children today, but the time-
worn advice of mothers everywhere may help reduce food waste from the farm
to the fork, help the environment and make it easier to feed the world's
growing population.
Hard data is still being collected, but experts at the Reuters Food and
Agriculture Summit in Chicago this week said an estimated 30 percent to 50
percent of the food produced in the world goes uneaten.
The average American throws away 33 pounds of food e... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 3 The observed response of the climate to more CO2 is not in good agreement
with predictions.
By WILLIAM HAPPER
During a fundraiser in Atlanta earlier this month, President Obama is
reported to have said: "It gets you a little nervous about what is happening
to global temperatures. When it is 75 degrees in Chicago in the beginning
of March, you start thinking. On the other hand, I really have enjoyed nice
weather."
What is happening to global temperatures in reality? The answer is: almost
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发帖数: 29846 | 4 August 10, 2012 by David Robertson
In an opinion piece titled “Global Warming Is Here to Stay”, Washington
Post Columnist Eugene Robinson sides with anthropogenic global warming (AGW)
enthusiasts:
Yes, scientists are finally asserting a direct connection between long-
term climate trends and short-term weather events. This was always a
convenient dodge for climate change deniers. There might be a warming trend
over decades or centuries, they would say, but no specific heat wave,
hurricane ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3975 | 5 http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/blog/2012/nov/02/americans-v
Americans would like to vote out Obama, but Romney makes it difficult
Sandy may have tipped the balance back in favour of the president days
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发帖数: 3975 | 6 http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/blog/2012/nov/02/americans-v
Americans would like to vote out Obama, but Romney makes it difficult
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发帖数: 3975 | 7 http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/blog/2012/nov/02/americans-v
Americans would like to vote out Obama, but Romney makes it difficult
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发帖数: 3975 | 8 http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/blog/2012/nov/02/americans-v
Americans would like to vote out Obama, but Romney makes it difficult
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发帖数: 3975 | 9 http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/blog/2012/nov/02/americans-v
Americans would like to vote out Obama, but Romney makes it difficult
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发帖数: 18 | 10 坚定不移沿着美国特色社会主义道路前进 实现共同贫穷的新美国梦
一月的华盛顿，阳光明媚，花团锦簇。数以万计的黑人群众聚集在国会山前欢庆新一任
总统的就职典礼。呼啸的寒风吹不散黑人们的热情，他们的聚会让冬日的首都变得春意
盎然。
美国民主党领袖 巴拉克 侯赛因 奥巴马 宣誓就任自己的第二任期。面对黑压压的观众
，他发表了题为“坚定不移沿着美国特色社会主义道路前进 实现共同贫穷的新美国梦
”的演说。英文全文附后。
侯赛因说，每一位总统的就职都是美国宪法制度优越性的集中体现。以宪法为基础的民
主制度是立国之本，强国之路。自从美利坚合众国成立以来，美国人民始终不懈的捍卫
宪法为基础的民主制度，争取自由，反对强权，不惜流血牺牲。
侯赛因总结了美国人民在过去二百多年的斗争历史取得的伟大成就
解放了黑奴，并让他们走上了各级政府的领导岗位。
政府修建了方便快捷的铁路公路网，奠定了经济快速发展的基础。
政府办教育事业迅速发展，城乡免费义务教育全面实现。
确立了政府在调解市场经济中不可或缺的作用。
侯赛因说，美国人民是伟大的人民，勤劳勇敢，吃苦耐劳，敢想敢为。美国人民的优秀
传统是不依赖政府，甚至敢于挑战政... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 21627 | 11 Excellent article
英文原文：
Barron's Cover | MONDAY, JANUARY 28, 2013
The Next Boom
By KOPIN TAN
Cheap natural gas and increasingly competitive labor costs are bringing
factories and jobs back to the U.S. Eight ways to win.
As the only industrialized superpower not decimated by World War II, the
United States once made nearly 40% of the planet's goods. These days, that
number has shrunk to 18%. We make American Girl dolls in China, Levi's jeans
in Mexico, and enough movies in Vancouver to nickname ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 12 Dr. Hanson轰种族配额Affirmative Action政策：奥巴马的孩子难道比来自旁遮普或柬
埔寨的移民的孩子更需要帮助吗？
Sometime in the first years of the new millennium, “global warming”
evolved into “climate change.” Amid growing controversies over the planet
’s past temperatures, Al Gore and other activists understood that human-
induced “climate change” could explain almost any weather extremity —
droughts or floods, temperatures too hot or too cold, hurricanes and
tornadoes — better than “global warming” could.
Similar verbal gymnastics hav... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 13 Obama Leaves Wife Behind to Go Golfing for Valentine’s Day
by Jammie
Let’s face it, golf and fundraising is more important to him than his wife
and family.
President Obama is traveling to California on Friday to discuss the
severe drought that is threatening farmers’ livelihood and meet with the
king of Jordan.
But he is also going to spend the weekend relaxing at Sunnysides, a
desert estate in Rancho Mirage, Calif.
The president will spend the evening of Valentine’s Day dining with
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发帖数: 29846 | 14 http://dailycaller.com/2014/06/30/noaa-quietly-reinstates-july-
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, criticized for
manipulating temperature records to create a warming trend, has now been
caught warming the past and cooling the present.
July 2012 became the hottest month on record in the U.S. during a summer
that was declared “too hot to handle” by NASA scientists. That summer more
than half the country was experiencing drought and wildfires had scorched
more than 1.3 million ac... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 15 Warner Todd Huston October 21, 2014
In an address at the State Department on Thursday, Secretary of State John
Kerry wanted to make sure that everyone understood that Islam does not cause
extremism, but deprivation and “climate change” do.
Kerry appeared at a reception at the State Department in honor of the
Islamic holiday of Eid al-Adha and thought it was important to set the
record straight that groups like ISIS aren’t really driven by Islam but by
poverty, youthful populations, and climate ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 16 California permitted oilfield discharge in protected water
February 5, 2015 - 2:05 PM
By ELLEN KNICKMEYER, Associated Press
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (AP) — Regulators in California, the country's third-
largest oil-producing state, have authorized oil companies to inject
production fluids and waste into what are now federally protected aquifers
more than 2,500 times, risking contamination of underground water supplies
that could be used for drinking water or irrigation, state records show.
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发帖数: 29846 | 17 Thanks to the EPA, Even If You Like Your Shower, You Can't Keep It
March 24, 2015 - 4:38 PM
By Ernest Istook
A good shower is one of life's simple pleasures. Until it gets interrupted
by government.
If you like your shower, you probably can't keep it once the bureaucrats are
done. The War on Women and Men Taking Showers began with a 1992 law that
restricts how much water can flow through each nozzle. In 2010, the feds
cracked down against multiple-nozzle showerheads. Now the EPA wants to limit
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发帖数: 29846 | 18 Climate Change: The Single Greatest Misinformation Campaign in World History
April 24, 2015 - 11:16 AM
By Stephen Moore
Wednesday was Earth Day and to hear the experts like Usher and Al Gore tell
the story, the planet is in a miserable state. We’re running out of our
natural resources, we’re overpopulating the globe and running out of room,
the air that we breathe is becoming toxic, the oceans are rising and soon
major coastal cities will be underwater, and the Earth is, of course,
heating up, e... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 19 UN report raises ceiling for greenhouse gas pollution
STOCKHOLM (AP) — The U.N.'s environmental authority has quietly raised its
assessment of the level at which global greenhouse gas emissions must peak
to avoid dangerous climate change, as governments seek a new accord to fight
global warming.
In its first four annual emissions reports in 2010-2013, the United Nations
Environment Program said emissions must not exceed 44 billion tons in 2020
for the world to limit global warming to 2 degrees C... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 20 http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2015/12/death-watch-
Death Watch Illinois: Despite Massive Stock Market Rally, Illinois Pension
Liabilities Go Up, and Up, and Up
Illinois Pension Problems Mount
Illinois' unfunded liabilities have risen ten out of the last eleven years.
The only exception was 2011. This was despite massive rallies in financial
markets every year since 2009.
One out of every five tax dollars goes to pensions, but that's nowhere close
to enough to stem the tide.
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发帖数: 25729 | 22 You get dry
and you get wet
that is called weather. |
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发帖数: 3656 | 23 you get warm,
and you get cold
this is called climate.
what global warming, climate change? |
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s*******1
发帖数: 16479 | 24 You are female, or you are male. This is called gender. What is
transgender? |
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发帖数: 1121 | 26 the Mount Everest of liars. Trump lies about big things (there is no drought
in California) and small things (his hair spray could not affect the ozone
layer because it’s sealed within Trump Tower). He lies about himself, and
the fake self he invented to talk about himself. He’s been shown to lie
more than 70 times in a single event. |
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发帖数: 1193 | 27 Good evening.
How great it is to be with you tonight.
Let me begin by thanking the hundreds of thousands of Americans who actively
participated in our campaign as volunteers. Let me thank the 2 1/2 million
Americans who helped fund our campaign with an unprecedented 8 million
individual campaign contributions – averaging $27 a piece. Let me thank the
13 million Americans who voted for the political revolution, giving us the
1,846 pledged delegates here tonight – 46 percent of the total. And
dele... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 6571 | 28 AWFUL. Obama Blames Syrian War on Climate Change – Attacks Patriots with
Flag Pins
Jim Hoft Oct 5th, 2016 8:31 am
President Barack Obama blamed the Syrian War on climate change during an
event with Leo DiCaprio this week.
He also attacked patriotic Americans with flag pins at the same time!
Via Climate Depot:
PRESIDENT OBAMA: “There’s already some really interesting work — not
definitive but powerful — showing that the droughts that happened in Syria
contributed to the unrest and the Syrian ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 897 | 29 Berkeley, Calif. — “Girls,” Mrs. Danilewitz called to her daughters, “
Girls, I want you to meet this extraordinary lady!” My mother stood
unsuspecting in the foyer, hardly taller than the two children who gazed at
her now. I’d been studying for a biology test with their older brother,
Justin. “Did you know,” Mrs. D. went on, “that this lady arrived in this
country with no more than $6 in her pocket? And look what she’s made of
herself today!” She clasped my mother’s hand. “Nimmu, what an inspir... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 428 | 34 Poseidon, Olympian God of the Oceans and king of the sea gods; also god of
rivers, storms, flood and drought, earthquakes, and horses. He controlled
every aspect of the seas. His Roman equivalent is Neptune.
Not BOSTON |
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发帖数: 1051 | 35 这话说的有一点点过了。我是做数据的不是做模型预测的，但我知道一些基本的
prediction都证实了，warming, sea level rise, hurricane, drought. 如果要求
prediction必须是细节到，区域时间点，变化的幅度都正确，那你可以说 destined to
fail。就像做模型预测股市汇市。气候模型顶多就是说大盘基本走向，或者哪个板块
大概会变好变坏，具体到个股哪天怎么走肯定没法预测的准。 |
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发帖数: 778 | 36 http://finance.yahoo.com/news/9-unbelievable-student-loan-horro
Poor kids, they should read the quote by President Clark.
The trick is making compound interest working for you, not against you.
The complete quote is as follows:
It is a rule of our financial and economic life in all the world that
interest is to be paid on borrowed money. May I say something about interest
? Interest never sleeps nor sickens nor dies; it never goes to the hospital;
it works on Sundays and holidays; it never takes... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 7881 | 38 i hate bay area weather... dude, how about some variety. I MISS the snow!
are u guys still having the drought? |
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发帖数: 1175 | 39 "一年就没几天晴天" that is nonsense. Summer months people have to water
their lawns due to drought. "西雅图不下雨是也多是大雾天" that only applies
to winter months. If you love winter sports, that is not an problem.
Rainy days:
Summer: 1/10 or less.
Spring/Fall: 1/2 to 2/3.
Winter: 4/5-6/7 (rain or cloudy).
Depends on your rain tolerance, i think 9 month out of 12 is perfect. Of
course, there are folks like sunny every day, which Seattle is not likely to
be.
江浙沪 rains too much from Spring to Summer. |
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发帖数: 147 | 40 在一个老外的坛子上问了一下，回复是：
The "ground sink" looks a lot like what happened in our first new house. The
driveway and all the dirt around the foundation was put in during a drought
. Once it began raining again, everything settled. A gap appeared around and
under the cantilevered front steps, which were concrete. The asphalt
driveway sunk at the sections nearest the garage. We eventually had the
driveway dug up and filled and repaved. And we had dirt brought in to fill
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发帖数: 14763 | 41 In New England? Then it's a different story.
When the ground is completely soaked, it's more like liquid than solid. Like
in other liquid, the buoyancy force will kick in, so, your house started "
floating up". Especially, if the backfill was dry, and now it is soaked. The
expansion might lift up your house.
During the drought, keep "deep watering" your ground, so that the condition
won't change drastically when it finally rains. This is especially. critical
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发帖数: 4531 | 43 总是看到某某植物“once established, very drought tolerant”等等，可是什么时
候才算是established呢，有什么比较简单的方法来判断吗？ |
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发帖数: 14763 | 44 Actually, the ecofriendly solution to New England is spreading evergreen,
tolerates coldness, drought and salt spray. (I had no idea what salt spray
is before moving up to Boston.)
But still, grass is the king. |
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发帖数: 851 | 45 You can retire to California where...
1. You make over $250,000 and you still can't afford to buy a house.
2. The fastest part of your commute is going down your driveway.
3. You know how to eat an artichoke.
4. You drive your rented Mercedes to your neighborhood block party.
5. When someone asks you how far something is, you tell them how long it
will take to get there rather than how many miles away it is.
6. The 4 seasons are: Fire, Flood, Mud, and Drought. |
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发帖数: 14763 | 46 Gosh, your house is built on a spring! This changes everything.
A sump pump might be an overkill, but you definitely needs a drain tile from
this pit to
1. Storm drain. Most local codes actually disallow runoff into storm drain,
but yours is spring water :) They should pay for it
2. Or 南边大下坡.
3. Or 西边树林.
You might consult somebody other than your builder, because if you leave it
up to your builder, they would just choose the one costing the least, not
necessarily the best.
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发帖数: 14763 | 47 你说的那种“街上的下水道” 是storm sewer 其实不是污水能进的 很可能你街上
没有 :) 所以只能从自家后院渗下去
其实 降水合适的地区 都不用storm sewer 降雨就地渗透这样比较合理一点
storm sewer只适合降雨过多或者过少的地方 比如 德州干 下那点雨都给接到水库
里充公了：）drought期间还要专门往地基周围浇水 防止土太干以致离开地基 |
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发帖数: 579 | 48 You grass died from drought. You need seeding. Had better be in fall. You
need to rent a special tool from HD, which drill a hole in the sand so you
you can put seed in, and of course buy grass seeds - they are expensive.
Plenty water should be provided after seeding. |
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m***y
发帖数: 14763 | 49 Typically, Arborvitae. They are native, drought tolerant and beautiful
foliage for screening.
Don't start with seedlings, most varieties are slow growers. |
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发帖数: 484 | 50 4 to 5 inch is recommended.
Add top soil is good strategy, the lawn will stand drought better, in the
long run, it saves water. |
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