Climate Change Report

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Originally Posted by Thondalar

Well, the article linked to start this entire thread stated unequivocally that what's already done is "...essentially irreversible on human timescales." I'm gonna really get a chuckle when someone tries to come up with plans for artificial global cooling and really fucks everything up.

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There's only one hope for us.

http://media.nj.com/avatars/8365838.png

How to save the planet from global warming:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqVyRa1iuMc

Something else I randomly stumbled across.

Too many environmental pundits are unaware of how afraid many (not all) scientists were of catastrophic global cooling in the 1970s.

However, one reporter from the era commented on CBC's As It Happens tonight that, as near as I recall his quote, "The Earth goes through cycles, there was in Ice Age 10 000 years ago. There's reason to wonder that if mankind hadn't learned how to burn coal and oil, we'd be entering into another Ice Age right now."

http://greensclues.blogspot.com/2006...onzie.html?m=1

OIL COMPANIES AND AL GORE USING 85 TRILLION TONS OF CARBON A MONTH SAVED US FROM BECOMING THE PLANET HOTH OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG CWOLFF OMG OMG OMG OMG FOX NEWS KOCH BROS MARIO BROS APOLLO CREED R0X0R OMG TEH DEBATE IS OVER!!!!!!!!111

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Originally Posted by Tgo01

You just have to go back a couple dozen pages in this very thread to point to cwolff doing this exact same thing.

He even admitted he only watched up until the point that Patrick Moore showed up in the video (which was at the 4 minute mark of a 30 minute video.)

Only difference is Patrick Moore makes a few bucks running a consultant business and Al Gore has made himself a billionaire by selling his fear across the globe.

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Not quite schlubtard. I was more than willing to talk about the Penn and Teller video. I only asked that you, or PB or any other members or the Right Wing PC Militia reference a timestamp for the pieces you wanted to discuss. Unfortunately, you insisted that I watch it in it's entirety.

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Originally Posted by cwolff

Not quite schlubtard. I was more than willing to talk about the Penn and Teller video. I only asked that you, or PB or any other members or the Right Wing PC Militia reference a timestamp for the pieces you wanted to discuss. Unfortunately, you insisted that I watch it in it's entirety.

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You're (not necessarily homosexual) gay and you should feel bad.

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Originally Posted by Valthissa

The scientific method is the best thing we have found to understand and solve many types of problems.

Having said that, you really need to stop staying 'peer-review' over and over again in reponse to people that disagree with you. It is trivial to research and read about the large percentage of 'peer-reviewed' science that is unrepeatable, shoddy, or fraudulent. You can even find criticism of peer-reviewed science in peer-reviewed journals.

The way you post often reminds me of Scientism .

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I didn't say peer-review made it right, I said peer-review made it analogous. I don't believe in climate change because of a consensus, I believe because the model works.

As for my saying it "over and over", I only count 22 posts containing the word peer at all, of which:
2 are quoting someone else who said peer
5 are jokes
1 is requesting data that doesn't have to be peer reviewed
6 refer to other uses of the word peer

That leaves 9 of the sort of uses you refer to over 11 years. I think you overstate the problem.

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As for Scientism, "the view that empirical science constitutes the most authoritative worldview ... to the exclusion of other viewpoints.", well... yes. I've made that explicit in the past, especially compared to rationalism. I also remarked on the obvious incommunicability across that divide, that empiricism is a rational fallacy and rationalism fails empirically. Hence, I only drone on about proper empiricism for those who want to be empirical, which is everyone. Look at how many people insist that socialism has never worked. They don't insist that socialism could never work (that it is logically flawed); indeed, many will precede their criticism by saying socialism works in theory. Look! Look how people talk. Empiricism is everywhere, so let's do it right.

Bottom line, you know that we are living in an empirical world, and I am an empirical girl.

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Originally Posted by cwolff

Not quite schlubtard. I was more than willing to talk about the Penn and Teller video. I only asked that you, or PB or any other members or the Right Wing PC Militia reference a timestamp for the pieces you wanted to discuss. Unfortunately, you insisted that I watch it in it's entirety.

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Right Wing PC Militia....
Has a nice ring to it, who's down?

What does the Left Wing have?
Left Wing PC Libtards?

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Originally Posted by cwolff

Not quite schlubtard. I was more than willing to talk about the Penn and Teller video. I only asked that you, or PB or any other members or the Right Wing PC Militia reference a timestamp for the pieces you wanted to discuss. Unfortunately, you insisted that I watch it in it's entirety.

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Talk about revisionist history.

Latrin, please explain revisionist history.

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Originally Posted by Johnny Five

Right Wing PC Militia....
Has a nice ring to it, who's down?

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I already started the He-Man Woman Haters Club and since it's a well known fact that Republicans hate women (and gays...go figure) it just makes sense that this be our base of operation.

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Originally Posted by Latrinsorm

Bottom line, you know that we are living in an empirical world, and I am an empirical girl.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxIcAX_Myhw