Mitigating climate change with more than #NODAPL protests

Dear Hipster: you and your hipster brethren and sistren along w/ non-hipsters are all in a bind because the coping mechanism of trying to pretend you’re busy maintaining a sufficient level of cool, ironic detachment from mainstream social problems does nothing to protect anyone from adverse effects of "climate change" BTW same goes for hipster brethren and sistren along w/ non-hipsters who care too much, and deal with it by making a big show of it yeah I know, these are pretty bold statements,... sadly why I say this is because it seems according to a study, based on a survey taken in america's finest collection of detached neighborhoods (i.e. $an Diego),... the actual scientific knowledge about the why CO2 is a "green house gas" is essentially zero! www.TinyURL.com/HowBigIsTheEarth This URL "redirect" goes to a PDF on google docs, that references the "climate illiteracy" study as well as outlines "101" hard scientific knowledge that should be well understood if the goal to address/fix the problem(s) bottom line,... to fix this mess, people in general are going to have to grow some big ones AND become scientific literate ASAP just sayin
— June 16, 2019 2:07 p.m.

Cory Briggs runs for mayor of San Diego

huh,... ***The mayor's speech, wherein he seemed to recite developers’ wish lists, mentioning in passing the city’s $2,8 billion pension deficit, was applauded by most attendees,*** What you might find interesting is something directly related,... a recent front page article in the UT about an annual 13th pension check which has been paid out for decades,... but the thing not mentioned in that news article is that policy is based on "bad math" which the city council looked at and acknowledged. **Have a look at the look at the PDF document (link below)** which shows the front page news article, a simple explanation of the problem, then lastly the "highlighted" document that I found while googling which explicitly states local politicians and bureaucracy acknowledged the way the portfolio is setup/managed wasn't math kosher, yet the annual 13th pension checks still keep on happening! https://www.TinyURL.com/13thcheck One unanswered "simple" question remains,... who gets stuck with paying the big clean up bill for the basic "bad math" error which continues to create ever growing public pension debt. If you think a 13th public pension check isn't all the big a deal, perhaps you might want to consider the fact that Detroit had a pension system w/ a 13th public pension check feature,... and look at Detroit now (i.e. that city is recovering from going bankrupt) NOTE in the “highlighted” PDF of the UT article I've linked to, it mentions a “watchdog” analysis calculation of $200 million The UT watchdog analysis caught my eye because it seems pretty darn low?! The reason for this gut reaction is because if the 13th public pension check program started back in 1980 AND during the time frame from 1980 to 2011 bonds and equities achieved many annual double digit returns https://www.thebalance.com/stocks-and-bonds-calen… So looking at historical market average returns,… tells me the sum would have grown to much more than $200 million if it were invested over three decades when the market returns were favorable. Said another way,… if the money spent on annual 13th checks would have been instead reinvested to help offset the city’s pension obligation,... the debt burden on taxpayers would be significantly lower.
— January 30, 2019 8:40 a.m.