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   walruscarver2000 said, 11 months ago

   There are those that can’t understand and those that won’t understand.
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   worldisacomic said, 11 months ago

   @walruscarver2000

   And there are those whose lively hoods depends on perpetuating lies, half truths and fairy tails.
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   MortyForTyrant said, 11 months ago

   Imagine the moment Otto Hahn detected the first atomic fission, back in 1938. Then imagine being a citizen of Hiroshima on August 6th, 1945, only seven years later. Would your last thoughts have been “…but they said it was a hoax, that it could never work!!!”?
   
   
   The problem with GW and CC is that when you are sure they happen it’s long, long past the point where you can still save the planet. Take a look at the conditions on Venus, that is where we are heading, not some meager 1-3 degrees increase. After the polar caps melt and the methane in Russia’s permafrost thaws it’s GAME OVER for us as civilization and race. Wonderful prospects for the only known intelligent live-form on this rock…
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   indieme said, 11 months ago

   Throw in " tax cuts for the rich create jobs and a surplus" and you have the whole stinkin’ Reep agenda.
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   Eryx said, 11 months ago

   @indieme

   You forgot, “smaller government” and “we need control over every woman’s reproduction”.
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   sw10mm said, 11 months ago

   @MortyForTyrant

   Well, are we to believe in the world coming to an end this year because the Mayan calendar ran out? Which of these so called ‘truths’ do we believe?
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   motivemagus said, 11 months ago

   @sw10mm

   Stop conflating ignorant superstition with decades of hard science. AGW was proposed as a concept in 1896; data started amassing in the 1960s. The data are becoming overwhelming.
   Contrary to people relying solely on preexisting belief systems, science adapts to data.
   You’re also deliberately or accidently misunderstanding the issue. Morty correctly said “for us as civilization and race.” That’s not the end of the world. The world will go on without us.
   But our civilization is a fragile construct dependent on many different elements. Look how long it is taking for Japan as a nation to recover from one tsunami, and then extrapolate to a world where all coastal cities are at risk of comparable disasters. Imagine what could happen if the fertile Midwest became like central Mexico and Canada became the new Midwest. What would happen to geopolitics then?
   And that’s just the beginning.
   The fact is that climate scientists, far from being doomsayers, have been CONSERVATIVE in their estimates. the last several IPCC predictions have been consistently too low compared with actual warming trends. In other words, the warming is happening faster than hoped, and currently we are doing nothing to stop it.
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   Harleyquinn said, 11 months ago

   are not the ones who believe this religion cry every time you point out the “weather” vs “climate” when the weather is nice and the climate to be said going bad?
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   dtroutma said, 11 months ago

   No, a single storm doesn’t indicate climate change. HOWEVER, the DECADES of increased storms, and severity, and global biological impacts DO indicate climate change. The change is also DIRECTLY LINKED to the seven BILLION people on the planet, pumping out heat, and their “waste products” that are a LOT more than just CO2.

   
   Warmest 12 months on record since records started in 1895. Also warmest decade. Droughts are back, but the “dust bowl” hasn’t quite returned (look out PHOENIX for more of those dust storms) because in large part, agriculture corrected their past mistakes in the mid-west. But hang on, “conservative thought” is trying to reverse that progress too!!
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    Eryx said, 11 months ago

    @Harleyquinn

    “are not the ones who believe this religion cry every time you point out the “weather” vs “climate” when the weather is nice and the climate to be said going bad?” It is hard to decipher this illiterate post, but climate models predict an increase in extreme weather patterns (both in severity and in frequency), and these are beginning to become apparent. This has been pointed out in your (yawn) presence at least a dozen times. I know this hurts your meme, but scientific fact is different than opinion. You have no credibility on this issue. I suggest you come up with something new that is opinion-based.
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    Harleyquinn said, 11 months ago

    @Eryx “but climate models predict an increase”

    Hey it is not my problem that not one of your preachers in a white lab coat can come up with a proper computer model to predict what is going to happen next.
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    Rockngolfer said, 11 months ago

    There is also a difference in predicting something complicated like global warming and predicting something like….predicting
    that corporations would make enough cellulosic ethanol to meet EPA requirements.
    I think Republicans dragging their feet have something to do with that subject, too.
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    ahab said, 11 months ago

    @Harleyquinn

    www.realclimate.org Read it and weep.
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    indieme said, 11 months ago

    “May you all live in interesting times!”
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    ahab said, 11 months ago

    www.sciencemag.org Science trumps Faux snews!
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