Migration Nightmares Hitting Europe

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hog88 said:
Which is taken out of the food supply and causes the prices of several commodities to rise. There is no rational defense of the ethanol mandates.
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I thought we had a huge surplus of corn due to subsidies? Ethanol is an attempt to make use of the surplus...maybe something has changed.
 
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n_huffhines said:
I thought we had a huge surplus of corn due to subsidies? Ethanol is an attempt to make use of the surplus...maybe something has changed.
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Surpluses come and go depending on weather, surplus this year and shortages the next, but the corn even in a lean year will go to ethanol production first.
 
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n_huffhines said:
I thought we had a huge surplus of corn due to subsidies? Ethanol is an attempt to make use of the surplus...maybe something has changed.
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If memory serves, corn is fairly inefficient in making ethanol. It takes a metric butt ton to get any respectable quantity. there are better options, but since corn is readily available and grows practically everywhere it's used the most here.
 
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Carl Pickens said:
The earth had ice ages that thawed. . Long before the internal combustible engine.... I want someone to explain how that happened before I **** my pants over 35 years of questionable data
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Buckle in!

"In the last 650k years, Earth has gone through 7 periods of glacial advance and retreat. The last was 7k years ago, marking the end of the Ice Age.
CO2 was demonstrated to trap heat in the mid 19th century. In the course of the last 650k years, Earth atmospheric CO2 levels has never been above 300ppm, and we know that through mineral deposits, fossils, and arctic ice leaving telltale predictable signs of how much CO2 must have been in the air at the time. Today, CO2 is over 400ppm. Not only have we kept fantastic records pre-industrial revolution, especially the Swedes for centuries, but arctic ice has acted as a more recent history of the last several dozen centuries. CO2 levels has been growing at unprecedented rates and achieving levels higher than we've ever known to occur that wasn't in the wake of planetary disaster and mass extinction. It follows that if CO2 traps heat, and there's more CO2 in the atmosphere than ever before, it's going to trap more heat than ever before.
Sea levels are rising. 17cm over the last century. The last decade alone has seen twice the rise of the previous century. So not only are the oceans rising, but the rate of rise is increasing exponentially.
The Earth's average temperature has increased since 1880, most of that has been in the last 35 years. 15 of the 16 hottest years have been since 2001. We're in a period of solar decline, where the output of the sun cycles every 11 or so years. Despite the sun putting out less energy, the average continues to rise and in 2015 the Earth's average was 1C hotter on average than in 1890. That doesn't sound like much, but if we go some 0.7C hotter, we'll match the age of the dinosaurs when the whole planet was a tropical jungle. That's not a good thing.
The ice caps are losing mass. While we've seen cycles of recession and growth, you have to consider ice is more than area, it's also thickness and density. Yes, we've seen big sheets of ice form, but A) they didn't stay, and B) how thick were they? Greenland has lost 60 cubic miles of ice and Antarctica has lost at least 30 cubic miles, both in the last decade. Greenland is not denying global warming, they're feverishly building ports to poise themselves as one of the most valuable ocean trading hubs in the world as the northern pass is opening, and it's projected you'll be able to sail across the north pole, a place you can currently stand, year-round.
Glacier ice is retreating all over the world, in the Alps, Himalayas, Andes, Rockies, Alaska and Africa.
The number of unprecedented intense weather events has been increasing since 1950 in the US. The number of record highs has been increasing, and record lows decreasing.
The ocean absorbs CO2 from the atmosphere. CO2 and water makes carbonic acid, - seltzer water! The oceans are 30% more acidic since the industrial revolution. 93% of The Great Barrier Reef has been bleeched and 22% and rising is dead as a consequence. The ocean currently absorbs 9.3 billion tons of CO2 a year and is currently absorbing an additional 2 billion tons annually. Not because the ocean is suddenly getting better at it, but because there's more saturation in the atmosphere."
 
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hog88 said:
Surpluses come and go depending on weather, surplus this year and shortages the next, but the corn even in a lean year will go to ethanol production first.
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All i know is when i was in college economics we were ass to elbows with corn. The government was just buying it up and storing it to help farmers. I am pretty sure it's a perpetual thing bc of crazy subsidies.
 
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n_huffhines said:
3 days in Paris, 3 days in Amsterdam, and 6 days in London.
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Parisians are typically a-holes especially to the tourists (a stereotype they've earned over the years) but out away from Paris, France is a nice place. I would have suggested the Normandy tour myself.

Amsterdam is okay and the Dutch are nice folks.

London...well, no concept of decent beer. But Brits make friends for life and are a pretty hospitable people overall. And you only have to learn half a new language.

Hope you had a good trip. If you go again, I'd suggest going in September (nicer weather), renting a car and getting away from the big cities. You really get a better feel for Europe as a whole by being a traveler rather than a tourist.
 
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I want to do Normandy but it's a ***** to get to. The beer in London tasted fine, it's just hard to find anything over 5% ABV. I don't want to drive anywhere. I'd rather drink on a train. Besides a few museums*, we didn't do many touristy things. My sister lives in London so we hung out with her friends and got a feel for the people there.

*Churchill museum, the Louvre, National Portrait gallery, and Harry Potter studios (kill me)
 
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Again, get away from the big cities. It's like when people say "I've been to Oktoberfest in Munich so I experienced Germany!"

No, you went to a tourist trap and didn't get to see anything other than a bunch of other drunken tourists.

Europe's best parts are away from the big cities.
 
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Grand Vol said:
Again, get away from the big cities. It's like when people say "I've been to Oktoberfest in Munich so I experienced Germany!"

No, you went to a tourist trap and didn't get to see anything other than a bunch of other drunken tourists.

Europe's best parts are away from the big cities.
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I'm willing to bet you don't like big cities in the US either. I like it all.
 
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n_huffhines said:
I'm willing to bet you don't like big cities in the US either. I like it all.
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I've lived in "bigger" cities in the US since 97. Colorado Springs and OKC. Other than a four year jaunt to Germany during that time at least. I have no problems with "big" cities, though I prefer the small towns.

My point is that if you want to go and experience the culture and history, you have to get away from the tourist areas. A lot more history and culture to be learned away from those areas in the smaller places. Like the two pictures from the year 1346 commemorating the deaths the local area took from the black plague. (A photog I am not) Just out in the middle of nowhere Germany and this statue was put up even before anyone thought of discovering America. Or Trier (kinda touristy) with the Porta Negra and the Cathedral. Small places one might miss if they stick to the known areas.
 

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Carl Pickens said:
You smoke a bunch of dope?..... I would have
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It was the weekend after King's Day so it was a great time to be in the Red Light district, unless you hate crowds. People watching is my favorite thing. I almost had to break up a fight between some 70 YO and the young male prostitute he was trying to buy.
 
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n_huffhines said:
It was the weekend after King's Day so it was a great time to be in the Red Light district, unless you hate crowds. People watching is my favorite thing. I almost had to break up a fight between some 70 YO and the young male prostitute he was trying to buy.
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That's a tough bucket item list to complete.
 
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Amsterdam is a fairytale place of beer, weed, food, cheese, sex, canals, windmills, and 300 year old homes you have to use pullies and windows to move into.
 

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