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Comment Re:Let me guess... (Score 1) 474

...and there you again are failing to address my point. And assuming you know who it or isn't a scientist. Sorry to interrupt your religious service with logic and reason. I'll let you get back to praying to the gods of "anthropogenic climate change."

Comment Re:Let me guess... (Score 1) 474

all science is based on models and observations.

So what happened to hypothesis, experimentation, and comparing hypothesis to empirical results? Just because that doesn't work with your "models" doesn't mean you can ignore it -- it's crucial to science. You are not talking science, you are talking consensus and FUD.

Comment Re:Let me guess... (Score 1) 474

"What the hell I'm talking about" is that you're making unwarranted assumptions that X will lead to Y and you're excluding all possibility of other factors that may mitigate this assumed causal relationship. I understand this confuses and angers you, since if you're honest about it it prevents you from continuing to pretend you know (or even can know) exactly what will happen to climate in the future given a starting point and some number of the factors that may have an impact. The fact is neither you nor anyone else has any evidence other than conjecture to support your supposed chain of events yet you bandy it about as solid, irrefutable fact. That's not science.

I guess while we're appealing to authority: I've read all of the major papers, attended dozens of talks (and even given a few,) and read everything in the IPCC report and its bibliography. The simple fact remains: none of it supports your claims. So unless you can cite page numbers (that actually support every link in your made up causal chain, not just ONE!) then you should sit down and learn some more before piping up. Fool.

Comment Re:Let me guess... (Score 1) 474

It's Dansgaard-Oeschger and all we know about them is that we think they happened about 25 times during the last glacial period because of what we see in the Greenland ice cores. We do not, however, have any evidence that leads to more fresh water, or that more fresh water disrupts circulation (without any other factor disrupting the disruption,) or that the result will be any kind of a problem. You just made all that up, or are parroting someone else who just made it all up. Just because it sounds plausible to you doesn't make it true.

Alas poor science, we hardly knew ye.

Comment Re:Lower-wattage bulbs (Score 1) 391

If that was supposed to be a joke then you're not very good at humor. Nor are you good at comprehending my reply. Nor can you substantiate your asinine claim that "the far left and far right agendas want everyone to think the same as them." Unless you just mean that both try to convince others that their opinions/valules are correct. Would you prefer infinite relativism with nothing ever being considered better/worse by anyone?

Comment Re:Lower-wattage bulbs (Score 2, Interesting) 391

While I agree hate speech laws are a stupid idea and a dangerous slippery slope...I'm less and less convinced that it wouldn't be worth it to forever silence people [with whom I don't like and/or agree]

That is dangerous and, to be blunt, stupid and short-sighted thinking.

The leftists these days what unified groupthink. The right wingers want everyone to be an individual so long as they are all identical individuals.

What? That's also stupid. You have absolutely nothing to substantiate that ridiculous assertion (not to mention your first sentence is nonsensical.)

The rest of your post is equally ridiculous and without base or merit. I consider myself a liberal so please shut up and stop making the rest of us look bad.

Comment Re:lol peta (Score 1) 477

If I were feeling generous and especially naive I'd buy that story. But unfortunately I know it's utter bullshit. I don't really mind people making or eating foie gras, but don't pretend like force-feeding to the point of occasional stomach-bursting and definite liver disease is fun for any animal.

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