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I could swear I've heard this somewhere before.
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Sat Nov 23, 2019 4:03 pm
Does global warming mean more or less snow?
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robinson »
Tue Mar 17, 2015 6:20 pm
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It means more or less snow.
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So when somebody claims heavy snowfall is because it is warmer, there was more moisture too fall as snow, they are either ignorant or delusional, or...
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Thu Nov 12, 2020 11:31 am
How to Fight Denialism
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landrew »
Sat Mar 02, 2019 9:13 pm
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How do you defeat clever and specious intellectual arguments against climate change environmentalism?
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Problem is: you need something you both agree on, and work from there.
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Tue Nov 10, 2020 5:23 pm
Do record lows mean global cooling?
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Jim Steele »
Sat Feb 21, 2015 7:14 am
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At least 72 record low temperatures were set Friday morning, all the way from Marquette, Mich. (minus 26 degrees) to Miami (42 degrees).
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It's become obvious that the global warmist, who firmly believes warming is happening, will attribute anything to global warming, including record...
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Tue Nov 10, 2020 8:36 am
It's hard to take alarmists seriously
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robinson »
Sun Oct 20, 2019 4:00 pm
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When record snow and early record cold comes a calling. I'm not kidding, not trying to upset the alarmists, not claiming it means there is no...
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Cross referencing
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Fri Nov 06, 2020 5:37 am
I must confess...
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landrew »
Fri Sep 04, 2020 3:29 am
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I find the notion of a warmer earth somewhat appealing.
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landrew: as usual: 10 for 10 in not being able to identify and conform to the OBVIOUS CONTEXT of the dialectic.
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Fri Sep 18, 2020 4:11 pm
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Tue Aug 04, 2020 3:47 pm
False Alarm
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Lance Kennedy »
Wed Jul 22, 2020 12:52 am
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The title False Alarm is for Professor Bjorn Lomborg's latest book, which is about global warming. Lomborg is not a climate change denier. He accepts...
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What is not for climate science deniers and opponents of climate action to like?
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Thu Jul 23, 2020 8:35 am
Drowning not inevitable
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Lance Kennedy »
Wed Jun 10, 2020 8:46 pm
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A recent study shows that small tropical islands are not doomed to drowning because of sea level rise. They will rise along with the sea level due to...
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No body likes a quibbler..............
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Sat Jun 13, 2020 3:28 am
A little ingenuity
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Lance Kennedy »
Tue Jun 09, 2020 9:40 pm
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This one is for Bobbo, and his perpetual cry of We are all gonna die!
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Covid 19 is far from the worst plague humanity as experienced. It is just the latest. Russian flu in 1889, killed far more people than covid 19, a...
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Wed Jun 10, 2020 9:58 am
Asparagopsis
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Lance Kennedy »
Sat May 09, 2020 9:16 pm
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Another possible method of reducing greenhouse gas emissions, this time methane from cattle.
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Ban greenhouses. How simple can things be?
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Mon May 11, 2020 11:24 pm
The tree Memorial
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Lance Kennedy »
Thu Dec 12, 2019 8:07 pm
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Lesson from Uganda. Instead of spending money on a wreath, plant trees to honor the dead. This fights global warming, and if the trees are fruit...
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I am Groot!
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Last post by Gawdzilla Sama
Tue Apr 14, 2020 11:14 pm
Green energy not always great.
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Lance Kennedy »
Thu Mar 26, 2020 9:03 pm
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One of the problems with 'green' energy, meaning wind, solar and water power, is that it occupies a lot of land area. I have quoted an estimate...
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I have quoted an estimate before, that by the year 2050, if all the power is generated that way, the land area required will be equal to the USA....
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Fri Mar 27, 2020 3:02 am
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Mon Mar 09, 2020 9:32 pm
Finally: GOOD NEWS re Climate Change
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bobbo_the_Pragmatist »
Mon Jan 27, 2020 4:31 am
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I didn't realize that co2 sequestration was sitting on the shelf ready to be used. Just people refusing to pay the minimal cost of it. Thats my take...
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Stupid hooman.
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Sat Feb 22, 2020 2:51 am
Slowing global warming
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Lance Kennedy »
Sun Dec 08, 2019 7:10 pm
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It appears that it is not only possible to slow global warming, but it is already happening. The international agreement to eliminate CFC's and stop...
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What an old saw means depends a lot on who you are, where you are in your life journey, and how old you are.
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Wed Dec 25, 2019 12:32 pm
Delaware Underwater: Baked into Tipping Points already Reached
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bobbo_the_Pragmatist »
Tue Dec 10, 2019 2:08 pm
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.....according to James White, climate expert at and relied upon in summary by colleague Tom Yulsman in Discover magazine
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Yes.......I noticed the poor quality of the answers..........at least from Klobachar as it amounted to a denial that such flooding was going to...
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Sun Dec 22, 2019 4:41 am
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Mon Dec 09, 2019 2:06 pm
Flying rivers.
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Lance Kennedy »
Thu Nov 14, 2019 12:41 am
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Another reason to plant oodles of trees and stop deforestation.
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Another reason to plant oodles of trees and stop deforestation.
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Last post by Gord
Mon Nov 18, 2019 2:33 pm
Energy storage
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landrew »
Sun Nov 03, 2019 4:24 pm
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As renewable energy sources begin to come online, replacing less-renewable sources, energy storage will be an increasing requirement, because as we...
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Mikey: you could be right since I don't care. Just the first relevant link google turned up. Without re-reading for precision and accuracy........I'd...
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Thu Nov 07, 2019 8:48 pm
Green economy bigger in the USA
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Lance Kennedy »
Tue Oct 29, 2019 3:19 am
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Reference, New Scientist, 19 October 2019, page 16
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Only if you deny the general well known rule that stoma open and close based on co2 levels and the first claim that only infers there is no...
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Last post by bobbo_the_Pragmatist
Sun Nov 03, 2019 6:55 am
Climate change, global warming and the coming ice age
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robinson »
Fri Jul 27, 2018 2:31 pm
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When this subject first came up for debate, it was called global warming. After a couple of years, or whatever, it became climate change. Well,...
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I do like company?
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Wed Oct 30, 2019 11:38 pm
The means justifies the ends?
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landrew »
Tue Sep 24, 2019 1:01 am
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Some would say it's not possible to overstate the problem:
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Robinson knows it gets really really cold when he sticks his head in the freezer.
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Sat Oct 26, 2019 11:56 pm
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Wed Oct 16, 2019 3:47 am
Models eviscerated by climate scientist
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MikeN »
Sun Sep 29, 2019 4:46 pm
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I learned about the cloud variation when I took a global warming course, but not expressed in quite this way.
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Air hedz and err hedz!
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Wed Oct 09, 2019 10:24 pm
Tough days for the denialists
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Lausten »
Tue Aug 20, 2019 5:51 pm
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It's here. Actually worse than predicted.
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Denialism is the conclusion.
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Last post by bobbo_the_Pragmatist
Fri Sep 13, 2019 1:34 am
Why didn't people tune in to the global warming debate?
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MikeN »
Fri Sep 06, 2019 12:15 am
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CNN devoted 7 hour to town halls on global warming with the different candidates.
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Agreed that it is not just trees. I never said it was. But contrary to Bobbos views, there is no other effective carbon sequestering method at this...
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Last post by Lance Kennedy
Sat Sep 07, 2019 9:19 am
Uninhabitable Earth = We won't all Die, Just Many
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bobbo_the_Pragmatist »
Wed Feb 20, 2019 9:06 pm
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100's of Millions to Die by 2100
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Mike
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Last post by Lance Kennedy
Fri Aug 23, 2019 9:57 pm
Global warming lawsuits
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MikeN »
Fri Aug 23, 2019 7:14 pm
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Tim Ball was sued by Andrew Weaver in 2011 over incorrect statements in an article. He had that case dismissed last year, when the judge properly...
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Sounds like too many damn lawsuits. Tell those guys to get a life.
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Last post by Lance Kennedy
Fri Aug 23, 2019 9:55 pm
Food miles
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Lance Kennedy »
Fri Aug 09, 2019 10:18 pm
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Reference, New Scientist, 3 August 2019, page 24
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Local foods spoil just as fast as distantly produced foods and the high cost of the flash freezing equipment means that local non-preserved foods go...
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Wed Aug 21, 2019 11:33 pm
Wild fires trap carbon
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Lance Kennedy »
Wed Aug 07, 2019 9:09 pm
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Interesting twist. We tend to think of forest fires as pouring CO2 into the atmosphere. But this research group suggests that, in the long term,...
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The same thing was true in Australia, where the aboriginal people engaged in what is called mosaic burning. It kept the forests from taking over, and...
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Last post by bobbo_the_Pragmatist
Wed Aug 14, 2019 5:35 pm
Humanities wants in on climate change
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MikeN »
Fri Aug 02, 2019 8:32 pm
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'There is an overemphasis on science'
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Elected representatives don't need to do what the people want, they only need to spin what they are doing so as to convince enough people that they...
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Sun Aug 04, 2019 2:06 pm
Lovelock, nuclear, and warming
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Lance Kennedy »
Sun Aug 04, 2019 2:17 am
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James Lovelock, the darling of the idiot green movement, has his rational moments. He says that the only way to halt global warming is through the...
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I think the Nuclear Industry itself is mostly to blame for its decline: they rested on their laurels, raked in the money, refused to innovate and...
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Last post by ElectricMonk
Sun Aug 04, 2019 5:19 am
Plant trees
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Lance Kennedy »
Fri Jul 12, 2019 3:42 am
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The best way go save the climate is to plant a trillion trees.
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I'm suitably chagrined.
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Last post by Major Malfunction
Sat Aug 03, 2019 6:15 pm
Plastics, plastics everywhere...
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landrew »
Sun Jul 21, 2019 5:30 pm
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The throwaway society has legitimized planned obsolescence, and the consequence is the persistence of plastics in our environment. This is mainly...
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Trump fighting ‘liberal paper straws’ with $15 plastic set during campaign
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Last post by bobbo_the_Pragmatist
Mon Jul 22, 2019 3:04 am
Can climate scientists speak honestly?
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MikeN »
Sat Apr 27, 2019 8:00 pm
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Climate scientists frequently exaggerate the science, to try to make global warming as bad as possible.
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For what it's worth:
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Last post by bobbo_the_Pragmatist
Sun Jul 21, 2019 9:37 pm
The Big Idea fallacy.
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Lance Kennedy »
Sat Jun 15, 2019 1:06 am
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Certain persons like Lausten and Bobbo have argued with my suggestion of the Nowcast Fallacy (mostly, I think, because it came from me.). There is...
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One may wonder if we have a petulant 5 year old who is dabbling in AI and lets his buggy program post here.
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Sun Jun 30, 2019 12:55 am
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Sat Jun 08, 2019 9:05 pm
AGW Deniers and Conspiracy Believers
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Lance Kennedy »
Sun May 26, 2019 9:45 pm
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Reference, Scientific American, March 2019, page 54
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Idiot: someone who dreams up derogatory terms to describe everyone who has a different opinion.
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Last post by Gord
Sun Jun 02, 2019 2:26 am
The high cost of electric vehicles
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MikeN »
Fri May 17, 2019 6:45 pm
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An Illinois legislator is proposing an annual registration fee of $1000 for electric vehicles, along with an increase of the gas tax from 19c to 24c...
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People who don't drive benefit from roads too. Where do you think the food in the supermarket comes from - farms in the basement?
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Last post by OlegTheBatty
Sat May 18, 2019 1:45 pm
Are reporters biased on the issue of global warming?
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MikeN »
Tue May 07, 2019 6:40 pm
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New York Times reporter found to be playing fast and loose with the facts to paint a picture of global warming bad.
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How could all of any group not selected for the bias have the same bias? Makes no sense. Every snowflake is UNIQUE. Thats why we ARE all special.
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Last post by bobbo_the_Pragmatist
Wed May 08, 2019 6:08 pm
The problem with pessimism.
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Lance Kennedy »
Wed May 01, 2019 11:27 pm
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Again, referring to Stephen Pinker.
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...........the boy can't read.
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Last post by bobbo_the_Pragmatist
Fri May 03, 2019 2:15 pm
Pinker on global warming.
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Lance Kennedy »
Fri Apr 19, 2019 2:40 am
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I plan to post a number of quotes from Stephen Pinkers new book, as related to climate change. Pinker is no global warming skeptic. He firmly...
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and so on...........right up to the effect/ability of self aware creatures to modify their own global climate/environment.
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Last post by bobbo_the_Pragmatist
Wed Apr 24, 2019 8:32 am
Is global warming a cult?
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MikeN »
Fri Apr 19, 2019 7:41 pm
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Looks at the common signs of a religious cult, and finds the global warming movement to fit.
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No. Only by stretching the definitions of global warming and cult can you reach the conclusion that global warming is a cult . But doing so removes...
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Tue Apr 23, 2019 10:06 am
Pinker and the environment.
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Lance Kennedy »
Tue Apr 16, 2019 10:54 pm
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I am reading Prof. Stephen Pinkers new book, Enlightenment Now . For those who do not know, Pinker is a Canadian who is professor of psychology at...
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EM.
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Last post by Lance Kennedy
Wed Apr 17, 2019 7:54 pm
EU fails to agree on emissions target for 2050
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MikeN »
Mon Mar 25, 2019 4:48 pm
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Germany joins Poland and others in not doing a target for 2050. This is a break from the usual pattern of declaring a target then many years later...
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Thanks. Why is having the batteries worth it for Boeing?
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Wed Apr 03, 2019 1:44 am
What can technology do in the Midwest?
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Lausten »
Wed Mar 20, 2019 1:53 pm
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Global Warming leads to larger fluctuations in weather events. If you accept that, but still think we can tech our way out of this problem, exactly...
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Intensive farming, like any other kind, is about taking the opportunity to make money by growing crops. Obviously, no one will turn to intensive...
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Mon Apr 01, 2019 2:32 am
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Sat Mar 30, 2019 2:15 am
New Energy Economy, impossible
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MikeN »
Thu Mar 28, 2019 5:02 am
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At least in the short to medium term.
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Small advances continue to be made, but we're still nowhere close to achieving the energy density of diesel fuel in an electric battery. The numbers...
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Last post by landrew
Fri Mar 29, 2019 4:15 pm
Nature article with new recommendations for global warming
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MikeN »
Tue Mar 26, 2019 5:46 pm
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More detailed assessment of science in the near term 25 years.
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It's probably natural skepticism that accounts for the fact that most people will not be told what to think. I don't think we're skeptical enough, in...
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Last post by landrew
Wed Mar 27, 2019 6:28 pm
Global warmers rewriting history
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MikeN »
Sat Mar 23, 2019 3:17 pm
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Greenpeace got Google to erase Patrick Moore as a founder of Greenpeace.
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This belongs in the conspiracy theory forum
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Sat Mar 23, 2019 10:26 pm
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