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The MMB and Alumni Band did…

The MMB and Alumni Band did perform together for the last medley of the halftime show and the march off the field. They also play together for the entirety of the postgame show.  No T&W during halftime because the combined bands play it at postgame.

This. Be diligent in your…

This. Be diligent in your inspections and don't skimp with inspectors. Condo I just bought had a water leak before I moved in. Sellers intentionally hid it from me (so the inspector didn't catch it), had to get the whole place gutted and cleaned for mold, now I'm caught in a lawsuit and still rebuilding (4-month process so far). Make sure your agent is thorough and gets responses from the sellers in writing if you have to ask about something they didn't disclose - I would be screwed if I didn't have the documents to prove they did wrong.

We can say with certainty…

We can say with certainty that change is a bad thing because this change is highly likely to cause:

  • Thermal expansion of oceans and melting of polar ice caps, leading to higher sea levels and devastation of coastal populations which include 25 million Americans, 58% of U.S. GDP, and 10-40% of the global population - and the eventual resettlement of these millions of climate refugees
  • Severe droughts in equatorial regions like the Middle East, leading to conflict over increasingly scarce sources of water, and in dry regions like California leading to more devastating forest fires
  • Increased polar vortex intrusions into North America
  • Stronger hurricanes and cyclones due to warmer ocean temperatures

Personally I don't think any of those are 'good things' because they lead to human and animal harm, suffering, and death. But I guess if you don't care about that, it's not so bad.

This comment makes zero…

This comment makes zero sense as the planet doesn't have a 'correct' temperature, but we can say that atmospheric carbon levels prior to the industrial revolution rarely reached levels we're seeing today (not at any time in the last 800,000 years), and that the rise in those levels lines up perfectly with the increase of a carbon isotope that is only created during fossil fuel and plant combustion.  And since we know how the greenhouse effect works (refresher if necessary), we know that temperatures will increase overall with an increased atmospheric concentration of carbon.

Yeah, except that there is…

Yeah, except that there is evidence that climate change via global warming leads to greater frequency of polar vortex intrusions, because warm air intrusion into the Arctic (which is not normal) pushes the vortex out of the Arctic and into the US. 

It's called climate change for a reason - because it's more than just 'it will get hotter'. Extreme weather events alone do not serve as proof of climate change, but we're seeing that they're happening more frequently and finding more ways to link them back to increases in atmospheric carbon.

 

 

also tell your friend that…

also tell your friend that the nuclear option for supreme court nominees wasn't triggered until 2017 by Mitch McConnell