BJ Homer bjhomer

I was sent a link to a video by Ben Crowder, titled DEBUNKED: Top 5 "Climate Change" Myths. (Link) The person who sent me the video said that it encapsulates a lot of their own skepticism about climate change, and wanted to know if I had any response. This is my response.

Crowder makes a bunch of argments, but groups them broadly under 5 main claims. We'll address them individually.

1: There's no Scientific Consensus

Claim:

The initial paper showing a 97% consensus among scientists has some flaws. They didn't sample enough people, etc. So we don't really know how much consensus there is.

	//
	// ContentView.swift
	// SwiftUIPlayground
	//
	// Created by BJ Homer on 4/26/21.
	//

	import SwiftUI

	enum Thing {
	case empty
	case int(Int)
	}

	let things: [Thing] = [.empty, .int(3), .int(7)]

	// Surely there's a more concise way to write this `filter` closure?
	let intThings = things.filter({
	if case Thing.int = $0 { return true }

	[alias]
	delete-merged = !bash -c '\
	REMOTE=$1 && \
	REMOTE=${REMOTE:="origin"} && \
	echo "Fetching $REMOTE" && \
	git fetch $REMOTE --prune && \
	git branch -vv \| grep "gone]" \| awk \"{ print \\$1 }\" \| xargs git branch -d' -


	# usage: `git delete-merged`

	public extension NSLayoutConstraint.Priority {
	public static func -(lhs: NSLayoutConstraint.Priority, rhs: Float) -> NSLayoutConstraint.Priority {
	return NSLayoutConstraint.Priority(lhs.rawValue - rhs)
	}

	public static func +(lhs: NSLayoutConstraint.Priority, rhs: Float) -> NSLayoutConstraint.Priority {
	return NSLayoutConstraint.Priority(lhs.rawValue + rhs)
	}
	}

	# ~/.config/fish/functions/fish_prompt.fish

	function fish_prompt --description 'Write out the prompt'
	# Just calculate these once, to save a few cycles when displaying the prompt

	if not set -q __fish_prompt_normal
	set -g __fish_prompt_normal (set_color normal)
	end

	set -l delim '$'

	// Run this in an iOS playground. It works correctly on Mac.


	import Foundation
	import PlaygroundSupport


	let page = PlaygroundPage.current
	page.needsIndefiniteExecution = true

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	"revision": {
	"entryId": "796C229F25F64223ABF87CEB05AA273B",
	"saveDate": 1475160495641,
	"featureFlags": "1",
	"editDate": 1475160494747,
	"journalId": "398870",
	"revisionId": 2538,
	"moments": [

	import Foundation

	enum Foo: Error {
	case dogAteHomework
	}

	func makesAnError(_ error: NSErrorPointer) {
	autoreleasepool {
	error?.pointee = Foo.dogAteHomework as NSError
	}

	[519/1021] Building HTML documentation
	FAILED: docs/CMakeFiles/docs_html
	cd /Users/bjhomer/Projects/swift-source/swift/docs && /usr/local/bin/sphinx-build -W -D latex_paper_size=letter -d /Users/bjhomer/Projects/swift-source/build/Ninja-DebugAssert/swift-macosx-x86_64/doctrees -b html . /Users/bjhomer/Projects/swift-source/build/Ninja-DebugAssert/swift-macosx-x86_64/docs/html
	Running Sphinx v1.6b3
	/usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.7_2/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/Sphinx-1.6b3-py2.7.egg/sphinx/util/requests.py:64: UserWarning: Some links may return broken results due to being unable to check the Server Name Indication (SNI) in the returned SSL cert against the hostname in the url requested. Recommended to install "requests[security]" as a dependency or upgrade to a python version with SNI support (Python 3 and Python 2.7.9+).
	'Some links may return broken results due to being unable to '

	Warning, treated as error:
	unknown config value 'latex_paper_size' in override, ignor