"Ah...Sing little Birdy?"
Actually the answer is to gather more data before running around and making further wild ass statements about global warming, but that’s not going to
happen because it wouldn’t allow "those who know what’s best" to tell the rest
of us how to live.
Just like the Senators who don’t want Alito, there’s an agenda to be achieved, facts be damned! |
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Written By:
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McQ,
You seem more concerned with ’alternative’ causes and less with the more obvious solutions to the problem.
If burning fossil fuels contribute to Global Warming, whch you acknowledge is a problem, then a reduction will be a good thing.
Yes or no? |
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Written By:
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looker,
Global environmental conditions are actually less connived the US politics. (outsiders point of view).
By "those who know best", I assume you mean those that have an agenda, or profit from, illustrating the global problem of greenhouse gases caused by human influence.
Now compare that to the US Government who rejected the Kyoto accord because it would damage the US economy. |
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Written By:
symptomless
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Symtomless,
I would be more sympathetic to your position if those countries following the Kyoto protocol weren’t cheating and publically recanting on it.
Take Canada for example, recently the CBC (no right wing organ there) ran a report that showed that the US decreased poluttion by 45% compared to 1.8% for Canada.
Lets say that you managed to get all these cheaters, the US, the real polluters like China to fully implement these protocols, then what would happen? Why in 100 years you could reduce temperatures by 1 degree. Sounds like a winner plan to me.
At least the US is not filled with the hypocrisy of UN sponsored failures like Kyoto. |
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Written By:
capt joe
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Geography 101: The Earth is not static. Today isn’t required to be just like yesterday. This year isn’t required to be just like last year. This decade isn’t required to be just like the last decade. In fact the Earth has multiple cycles which controls the weather.
Or was the last ice age a fairytale? |
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Written By:
John
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Yes or no?
Yes and no.
The whole point is no one knows for sure, do they?
Despite being told they do through scientific "consensus" ... for quite some time.
Scientific consensus will never replace scientific proof ... or at least it shouldn’t for rational people. |
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Written By:
McQ
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Question: What is the most potent Greenhouse gas?
Go on, give it your best answer. |
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Written By:
Dale Franks
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Some people should be a little happier now that the President has negotiated a post-Kyoto agreement with Australia, SKo, Japan, China and India; the last two were exempt from Kyoto. While the new agreement didn’t set rigid standards, few seem to be meeting the standards and deadlines for Kyoto. Also didn’t Governor Reagan mention part of California’s problem was pollution from trees and he was laughed at by the press? I remember reading reports in the SF newspapers about some scientific info on that, but I imagine those scientists have been stoned to death years ago. |
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Written By:
Al Reasin
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Reaction one: There’s still some Kepplers kickin’ around? Combating scientific a consensus no less. More things change and all that.
Reaction two: Time to sit and wait for a bit. I’m not about to hamstring myself in a futile attempt to change something that might not be a big deal, and even if it were, we might not be able to do anything about. |
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Written By:
Joe Canadian
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Symptomless - I don’t recall saying it wasn’t warming.
I do recall the recommendation we gather so more info and get our facts
together before we run around and start attacking a symptom that in fact
has nothing to do with the problem.
"Actually the answer is to gather more data before running around and making further wild ass statements about global warming,"
And thank you for going on to prove my very next statement -
"but that’s not going to happen because it wouldn’t allow "those who know what’s best" to tell the rest of us how to live. "
By the "rest of us", feel free as an ’outsider’ to consider the "rest of us" to
be in the US, one of the countries that would most likely:
1) Attempt to adhere to the treaty
2) Be called constantly on the carpet every time we missed our numbers
3) Be most dramatically affected by the restrictions
I still want to know who was monitoring the ozone hole over the Antarctic in 1730, and who lost the temperature numbers from Outer Mongolia gathered
by Tarmajian Yak in 1612, and should we demand a Senate investigation to
determine if George Bush & Halliburton have something to hide by conviently
’losing’ those valuable temperature statistics.
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Written By:
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Dale, I know the answer to your question...and it isn’t CO2 or methane. But I suspect you already know that, given the way you asked.
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Steverino
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Dale, I believe the gas you are looking for is Dihydrogen Monoxide. This gas, when in its liquid form has been the cause of death for thousand of people a year. |
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I don’t remember exactly, but isn’t the most potent gas sulphur hexafluoride (SF6)? It’s used as a cooling gas in power generation plants and lessee - google...... Yup, I’m right. Most potent.
What do I win? |
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Written By:
Robb Allen (Sharp as a Marble)
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McQ didn’t buy the "Yellow Rain is bee shit" theory I don’t see a single reference to bee poop anywhere. When you set up a hypothetical, then attack that hypothetical, well in these parts that’s call ’attacking a strawman’ and doesn’t bode well.
What McQ is saying is 100% correct. If 75% of people believed Saddam was the primary force behind the 9-11 attacks, does that change the fact that he wasn’t?
Consensus is shitty science. |
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Written By:
Robb Allen (Sharp as a Marble)
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Yeah, that dihydrogen monoxide is dangerous stuff. It’s a very useful household cleaner. But it’s not without its hazards. Dihydrogen monoxide causes a lot of deaths every year, not to mention damage to buildings etc. And I hear the military keeps stockpiles of it!
We should all get together and sign a treaty to ban this stuff! |
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Written By:
Wacky Hermit
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Has there been any indication from this study whether plants are emitting more methane than they are aborbing in CO2? I would imagine that would be a neccesary consideration if we are talking about the overall effect of plants on greenhouse gasses. There is also that whole creation of O2 thing, which can hardly be overlooked. |
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Written By:
Rosensteel
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For more facts relating to the dangers of dihydrogen monoxide, the following site contains a significant compilation of its dangers: www.dhmo.org/facts.html
And not listed, i believe that approx 95+ % of all greenhouse gas are comprised of DHMO in answer to Dale’s query. |
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Written By:
Mageslayer
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For more facts relating to the dangers of dihydrogen monoxide, the following site contains a significant compilation of its dangers: www.dhmo.org/facts.html
And not listed, i believe that approx 95+ % of all greenhouse gas are comprised of DHMO in answer to Dale’s query. |
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Written By:
Mageslayer
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For more facts relating to the dangers of dihydrogen monoxide, the following site contains a significant compilation of its dangers: www.dhmo.org/facts.html
And not listed, i believe that approx 95+ % of all greenhouse gas are comprised of DHMO in answer to Dale’s query. |
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Written By:
Mageslayer
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Hey this town in California’s got dihydrogen monoxide taken care of. They’re on the ball!
Yours, TDP, ml, mdl, & pfpp |
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Written By:
Tom Perkins
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For more facts relating to the dangers of dihydrogen monoxide, the following site contains a significant compilation of its dangers: www.dhmo.org/facts.html
And not listed, i believe that approx 95+ % of all greenhouse gas are comprised of DHMO in answer to Dale’s query. |
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Written By:
Mageslayer
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Mageslayer, please stop hitting F5 or "refresh".
Hit Home up top and come back to the thread. Refresh duplicates posts.
Yours, TDP, ml, msl, & pfpp |
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Written By:
Tom Perkins
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Wasn’t aware of that, my appologies =( |
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Mageslayer
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