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HereSince1628

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2. Gravity is a poor choice of something easily understood...

Fri Mar 6, 2015, 09:11 AM

Mar 2015

But Biden is right about climate change being hard to understand in real time for many people.

Relatively tiny per capita contributions that seem to have no immediate local impact sum to enormous global effects through an anthropogenic process that plays out over timespans equal to or greater than human lives and which causes counter-intuitive results (i.e. cold mid-continental winters in NA due to ocean and atmospheric warming).

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Biden has this so wrong. [View all] srican69 Mar 2015 OP

It kinda is, just different centuries. JaneyVee Mar 2015 #1

Gravity is a poor choice of something easily understood... HereSince1628 Mar 2015 #2

It's an allusion. longship Mar 2015 #3

Interesting.. GummyBearz Mar 2015 #8

Nope. I would not say that. longship Mar 2015 #9

Yes it is just an allusion GummyBearz Mar 2015 #10

Complete enough for all practical considerations. Orsino Mar 2015 #12

Electromagnetics was more complete 130 years ago than gravity is today. GummyBearz Mar 2015 #13

And yet for the purpose of setting political policy, that's not important. Orsino Mar 2015 #14

Its really not important GummyBearz Mar 2015 #15

Chaos theory hasn't figured out weather, either... Orsino Mar 2015 #16

Too many Americans cannot process beyond direct and immediate impacts TheKentuckian Mar 2015 #4

Vice President Joe Biden Promotes U.S. as Fracking Missionary Force On Ukraine Trip Oilwellian Mar 2015 #5

you're not going to win deniers over....bidens right. it's like denying gravity. spanone Mar 2015 #6

I think he is trying to kill the "it's just a theory" meme... lame54 Mar 2015 #7

Not at all. Orsino Mar 2015 #11