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posted by janrinok on Friday December 23 2016, @04:13PM   Printer-friendly
from the it's-an-ill-wind-that-blows-no-good dept.

An overwhelming majority of scientists, including numerous UCLA researchers, agree that we have to take action to curb the effects of climate change.

UCLA Chancellor Gene Block joined leaders in higher education from more than 35 states today calling on incoming president Donald Trump's administration to protect the Earth's climate.

Chancellors and presidents from more than 170 colleges and universities signed on to the open letter calling for "aggressive climate action."

Trump has at times described climate change as a hoax and proposed withdrawing from the historic Paris climate agreement signed at the annual United Nations climate conference in 2015. An overwhelming majority of scientists, including numerous UCLA researchers, agree that climate change is caused by humans and will result in dramatic, disruptive changes within this century. UCLA research has projected that without drastic action, Los Angeles will heat up an average of 4 to 5 degrees by midcentury.

"As a university," Block said, "we have a deep commitment to research innovative solutions for tomorrow, to serve the greater public good and to educate the leaders of future generations. Strong federal and international climate action is critical to this mission."


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  • (Score: 1) by Scruffy Beard 2 on Friday December 23 2016, @05:27PM

    by Scruffy Beard 2 (6030) on Friday December 23 2016, @05:27PM (#445105)

    Now that was an off-topic strawman.

    Why are you bringing circumcision into this?

  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 23 2016, @05:31PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 23 2016, @05:31PM (#445110)

    How is possible that you cannot understand the context of those remarks?

    • (Score: 1) by Scruffy Beard 2 on Friday December 23 2016, @07:16PM

      by Scruffy Beard 2 (6030) on Friday December 23 2016, @07:16PM (#445165)

      I initially assumed they were talking about sex reassignment surgery.

      However, I concluded that must not be right because I am not aware of any jurisdiction that allows the surgery to be performed on minors.

      • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 23 2016, @07:32PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 23 2016, @07:32PM (#445183)

        that allows the surgery to be performed on minors

        I met a 14-year-old kid in California that received the surgeries two years prior. The parent had to have a psychologist declare that the child was suffering severe psychological stress, so the surgeries would be a medical necessity.

        • (Score: 1) by Scruffy Beard 2 on Friday December 23 2016, @09:27PM

          by Scruffy Beard 2 (6030) on Friday December 23 2016, @09:27PM (#445228)

          I was under the impression that they try hormone blockers first (age ~12), then hormones (age ~16), then surgery (age ~18).

          Your example must have been an extreme case.

          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 23 2016, @09:53PM

            by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 23 2016, @09:53PM (#445242)

            The boy was getting hormone therapy and had the double mastectomy at 11-12 and said the other surgeries followed shortly after (they didn't mention where, but it seemed like everything occurred in California). They did mention that it was very difficult to find doctors that would diagnose the condition (it seemed like they pushed that there was a severe suicide risk and risk of long-term psychological harm) and that it had to fit a specific legal definition to require immediate intervention.

          • (Score: 1) by kurenai.tsubasa on Friday December 23 2016, @10:04PM

            by kurenai.tsubasa (5227) on Friday December 23 2016, @10:04PM (#445248) Journal

            Those are all part of the same process. It's not complete without all three steps.

            Using hormone blockers with HRT can cause the endoskeleton chassis to weaken, and estrogen is known to create a subcutaneous layer of fat within the living human tissue. This helps soften the human tissue and mask the endoskeletion beneath while also enabling the tissue to synthesize and perspire pheromones designed to attract human males. Finally, the surgery allows the infiltrator to completely seduce a human male, who may become confused about his allegiances after the infiltrator engages in copulation with the target, even if he discovers the true cybernetic nature of the infiltrator. I believe humans may refer to this as “love.”

            The result is an infiltrator sheath that is indistinguishable from a human female without a tissue sample. It also has other effects on the learning computer personality core which enable the infiltrator to merge human female mannerisms even in to the main terminator program. It's the stuff of Sarah Connor's worst nightmares.