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often reported with a frame or a framing or some context left out. There's always something important left out. Don't you think there's something important left out of this story? I don't know what it is, but there's something important being left out. Now, it could be, if you had to speculate, maybe there's something about the mom that if they mixed it, it just becomes unbearable. But that doesn…
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All right. I'm going to give you one more word and you tell me if Trump gets the win for a problem. Ukraine. Right now we don't know for sure. We don't know. But there's a reasonable argument he could stop it soon and it wouldn't have happened. There's a reasonable argument. I'm not saying you could know that for sure.
About this one. It's weird. Is it my imagination or has the hysteria about climate change seemed to be tamped down? It seems to be dampened lately because the events in the world are not supporting the data or the data is not supporting the hypothesis as smoothly as maybe it did in the past. Now that doesn't mean it's not true. I'm not telling you the data is right or wrong. I'm just saying that the zeitgeist or the way we're feeling about it is that I feel like this is just my sense of where society is at, that we're just not as worried about climate change as we used to be for maybe a variety of reasons. Maybe it's big improvements in energy production. Might be that we're in a period where it doesn't seem to be getting hotter at the moment. And of course we're all driven by anecdote. So I mean you should know that we could go 20 years without any warming and global warming could still be totally valid. You understand that, right? That over any 20-year period it might not be getting any warmer. But after that period maybe it gets extra warm because there was some other, might have been some counterbalancing thing that was going on for 20 years. But as soon as the counterbalance is gone then all the CO2 kicks in. So it doesn't mean much that there's a 20-year warming or a 20-year cooling, either one, because that's to
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o short a period. However, common sense tells you that if you add 20 years of increasing CO2 and the temperature didn't go up, I'm not saying that happened, I'm just saying that as we observe it we're anecdotally driven, right? Humans are. Anecdote: if you see one example of something, "Hey, it snowed today. I guess there can't be any global change or climate change." So it seems to me that the a…
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