Why is good weather not blamed on Global Warming?

@Torsten Please tell that to the people of northern New South Wales. Currently enduring a once in 500 year flood, afte enduring two once in a century floods, all in the last five years. I am sure they will vote against another one..😷

@whowasthatmaskedman i never said there is no such thing as climate change. The climate has changed long before humans were a thing and will be around when we are all gone.
What i am saying is that we only here negatives about it because it is a scare tactic now used by those with political agendas

@whowasthatmaskedman

@Thinkerbell I agree. But these are Americans we are talking about. Truth has been monetized..😷

@whowasthatmaskedman well when you just mention negatives and act like all climate change is negative due to those exaples, thats going into a convo under bad faith.
There was news a bit ago about antartica forming more ice after such a long time of it slowly melting away. Why are those who politicise climate change not talking about that more or the other positives that im sure is happening around the world?
Like i said its all scare tactics to push a agenda and money is normally the key goal here.

@whowasthatmaskedman

I'd say truth has been politicized, especially in the American MSM, on a scale worthy of Pravda. 🙄

And they did it so thoroughly ineptly, that they put Trump back in office.

@Thinkerbell The dumbing down of America has been happening since the seventies. Underfunding education, under resourcing housing health care and social programs for those most in need and the media pandering to everything for the well off and crumbs and placebos for the rest..Trump doesnt even like Sesame Street. Those puppets dont know their place.. Dont get me started on the drugs and the undocumentated labor playing a part to keep the pressure on.. No one trusts the information you are getting.. And everyone has a theory of what they are hiding. Beings as I am in the outside world, it is sad to see America falling behind so quickly.. But its just not my problem..😷

@whowasthatmaskedman

Public K-12 education spending in the US averages about US$16,000 per year per student, though it varies greatly from state to state, being about twice as high in New York.

https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator/cmb

Average spending in Australia is almost exactly the same, about AU$25,000.

https://www.acara.edu.au/reporting/national-report-on-schooling-in-australia/school-expenditure

@Thinkerbell But where does the money go?. For a start, school lunches are just not a thing here. While states her are respnosible for the education (mostly), the standardization of the curriculum is much more closely managed and the examination standards are far more rigorous..Finally the TER scores (more or less your SATS as I understand it. Are national and good to every University. While the entry level may vary with demand. The same score applies to every student.😷

@whowasthatmaskedman

Where does the money go? About 2/3 is for teacher salaries and benefits.
Most of the rest is for building maintenance and debt service. Things like school lunch programs are only a few percent.

The biggest problem is the lack of rigor. Practically everyone passes, no matter how little they really know. That's why large fractions of students in the US can't properly read or do elementary math.

@Thinkerbell I agree on the lack of rigour. i wasnt going to bring it up, since my evidence was anecdotal. mostly from US teachers in poorer areas, so not representative. But what I hear is that failing to progress a student is often a black mark on the teacher, and can effect school funding. And since the teachers dont have a way of controlling or removing some truly horrendous students to allow the others to learn, its a catch 22 for them. Thats the very reason we invested so much money in our kids to send them to a school where a student could be. (and occasionally was) expelled, without even the need to offer a reason. And the parents were given no right of reply..And you signed the contract before they were allowed in.. The school took their name seriously..😷