On 20 March 2015 at 12:28, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote: > On 3/19/2015 1:33 PM, LizR wrote: > > On 19 March 2015 at 18:47, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 3/18/2015 8:36 PM, LizR wrote: >> >>> ...but if this happens it shows what you can accomplish if you don't >>> have to mess around with any pesky democratic processes... >>> >>> >>> http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-03-18/china-increases-solar-target-for-2015-as-it-fights-air-pollution >>> >> >> Of course setting a target and hitting it are two different things. They >> don't have to mess around with the U.S. pesky plutocratic process, but they >> have to deal with the corrupt despotic ruling party. >> > > Yup. No one said they were perfect. But since so far the > west/democracy/free market/etc have failed spectacularly on this front, it > will be interesting to see how well those damn chinese manage. > >> >>> I just hope the USA decides that this constitutes a challenge (it could >>> be called the Warm War, perhaps) "By the end of the decade, we will have >>> gone 100% to solar power AND sucked all the excess CO2 from the atmosphere!" >>> >> >> One can hope. >> >> Yes, it seems to be all that's available for us at the moment. > >> >>> (Of course the last president to make that sort of promise promptly got >>> assassinated.) >>> >> >> But we did go to the Moon. >> > > Thanks for clarifying that Brent, I'd have hated for anyone stupid to > have missed my point. > > I didn't mean to step on your history test. I just wanted to point out > that even assassination may not keep promises from being fulfilled. > > Could you at least stop rephrasing what I say, or adding something that was obviously implied by what I said, prefaced by "But" as though you're pointing out a mistake? Maybe you didn't mean it that way, and maybe after you've done it so many times I've become oversensitive ... but that's what happens.
Also, your "history test" comment sounds as though it was intended snarkily, which just adds to the feeling that even when you aren't disagreeing with me you have to make it sound like a put-down. (I don't know why, maybe because I'm obviously not as knowledgeable as you about most scientific things?) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
