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With all the clamoring for a min wage of $15, it is going to get there organically through competition at this rate.
Show me where you get the 97% lie. Here's the entire article. There are many others.
One of the main papers behind the 97 percent claim is authored by John Cook, who runs the popular website SkepticalScience.com, a virtual encyclopedia of arguments trying to defend predictions of catastrophic climate change from all challenges.
Here is Cook’s summary of his paper: “Cook et al. (2013) found that over 97 percent [of papers he surveyed] endorsed the view that the Earth is warming up and human emissions of greenhouse gases are the main cause.”
This is a fairly clear statement—97 percent of the papers surveyed endorsed the view that man-made greenhouse gases were the main cause—main in common usage meaning more than 50 percent.
But even a quick scan of the paper reveals that this is not the case. Cook is able to demonstrate only that a relative handful endorse “the view that the Earth is warming up and human emissions of greenhouse gases are the main cause.” Cook calls this “explicit endorsement with quantification” (quantification meaning 50 percent or more). The problem is, only a small percentage of the papers fall into this category; Cook does not say what percentage, but when the study was publicly challenged by economist David Friedman, one observer calculated that only 1.6 percent explicitly stated that man-made greenhouse gases caused at least 50 percent of global warming.
Where did most of the 97 percent come from, then? Cook had created a category called “explicit endorsement without quantification”—that is, papers in which the author, by Cook’s admission, did not say whether 1 percent or 50 percent or 100 percent of the warming was caused by man. He had also created a category called “implicit endorsement,” for papers that imply (but don’t say) that there is some man-made global warming and don’t quantify it. In other words, he created two categories that he labeled as endorsing a view that they most certainly didn’t.
The 97 percent claim is a deliberate misrepresentation designed to intimidate the public—and numerous scientists whose papers were classified by Cook protested:
“Cook survey included 10 of my 122 eligible papers. 5/10 were rated incorrectly. 4/5 were rated as endorse rather than neutral.”
—Dr. Richard Tol
“That is not an accurate representation of my paper . . .”
—Dr. Craig Idso
“Nope . . . it is not an accurate representation.”
—Dr. Nir Shaviv
“Cook et al. (2013) is based on a strawman argument . . .”
—Dr. Nicola Scafetta
Think about how many times you hear that 97 percent or some similar figure thrown around. It’s based on crude manipulation propagated by people whose ideological agenda it serves. It is a license to intimidate.
It’s time to revoke that license.
Describing fuzz as a blithering idiot is like describing the pope as a religious person. It's true, but could be far more accurate.
I work for a company that owns a ton of restaurants. $15 min. wage would kill a number of them. It would cause us to shutter a number of them. I get a lot of emails from industry resources and trade publications that state the obvious that areas with a $15 wage is seeing increased layoffs, and menu prices rising. Not sure what they expected. Letting it happen organically at least allows businesses to formulate plans to address it properly.
Is this true rq?
In other news.
As long as fuzz is here, his bet with brady is right up there with the stupidest shit ever on catpaw. I mean, Brady gave him an out. He could pick the charity of his choice to donate the bet.
If you don't honor it at that point, what the hell?
Are you saying that you do not donate at least $1000/yr to some charity anyway?
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By letting truckers stop and relax for a while those rub and tug places save countless lives on the interstate every day. Legalize prostitution!
He just virtue signals. It's all about feelings in the leftist utopia.
Will be interesting to see how it shakes out. Early signs on social media is rahms article not well received. I'm sure the lefties don't have their marching/thinking orders yet. So we'll know soon enough
Correct and self-service and automation are in their infancy. I just got a package of strawberries for $1.77, can't be too bad.
This guy was at Baylor overseeing the mass rape of coeds down there wasn't he?
Nancy would gladly sacrifice her head for this valued friend. What greater love can one have than to lay down their life for the glory of Allah
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