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Re: An Epitaph for Global Warming Hysteria

#351 Post by Bob78164 » Sun Aug 05, 2018 10:32 am

themanintheseersuckersuit wrote:
Ritterskoop wrote:We are allowed to try to cut down on waste without being labeled hysterical, right?
If you correctly identified waste
I’ll offer you a wager. Let’s say $1000. Between 2019 and 2028, the average annual worldwide temperature as determined by NASA will reach a record high more often than it will reach a record low. If there’s a tie (including 0-0), you win. —Bob
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Re: An Epitaph for Global Warming Hysteria

#352 Post by themanintheseersuckersuit » Mon Aug 06, 2018 7:35 am

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themanintheseersuckersuit wrote:
Ritterskoop wrote:We are allowed to try to cut down on waste without being labeled hysterical, right?
If you correctly identified waste
I’ll offer you a wager. Let’s say $1000. Between 2019 and 2028, the average annual worldwide temperature as determined by NASA will reach a record high more often than it will reach a record low. If there’s a tie (including 0-0), you win. —Bob
By record you mean since 1850 and the end of the little ice age. I'd be willing to bet the satilite record will not be .5C higher in 2028
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The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.

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Re: An Epitaph for Global Warming Hysteria

#353 Post by Ritterskoop » Mon Aug 06, 2018 5:18 pm

themanintheseersuckersuit wrote:
Ritterskoop wrote:We are allowed to try to cut down on waste without being labeled hysterical, right?
If you correctly identified waste
Waste = Plastic items I used only once, like a straw (switching to no straw or a paper one). Still researching the plastic toothbrush situation. Bamboo sounds nice.

Not putting a few grocery items in a bag if I am going to just carry them from the car into the house and put them away.

Walking or riding a bike or the light rail instead of using gasoline.

I think if these are choices we make ourselves, and don't lecture other people about them, they do not have to be seen as extreme or arrogant or, you guessed it, hysteria (I never did like this thread title, and it just won't go away - it is the longest epitaph ever). I am not making laws, only choices.
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Re: An Epitaph for Global Warming Hysteria

#354 Post by Beebs52 » Mon Aug 06, 2018 5:48 pm

Ritterskoop wrote:
themanintheseersuckersuit wrote:
Ritterskoop wrote:We are allowed to try to cut down on waste without being labeled hysterical, right?
If you correctly identified waste
Waste = Plastic items I used only once, like a straw (switching to no straw or a paper one). Still researching the plastic toothbrush situation. Bamboo sounds nice.

Not putting a few grocery items in a bag if I am going to just carry them from the car into the house and put them away.

Walking or riding a bike or the light rail instead of using gasoline.

I think if these are choices we make ourselves, and don't lecture other people about them, they do not have to be seen as extreme or arrogant or, you guessed it, hysteria (I never did like this thread title, and it just won't go away - it is the longest epitaph ever). I am not making laws, only choices.
Key word is choices, in non-identified actually manmade global warming situations.
Well, then

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Re: An Epitaph for Global Warming Hysteria

#355 Post by Bob78164 » Mon Aug 06, 2018 6:28 pm

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themanintheseersuckersuit wrote: If you correctly identified waste
Waste = Plastic items I used only once, like a straw (switching to no straw or a paper one). Still researching the plastic toothbrush situation. Bamboo sounds nice.

Not putting a few grocery items in a bag if I am going to just carry them from the car into the house and put them away.

Walking or riding a bike or the light rail instead of using gasoline.

I think if these are choices we make ourselves, and don't lecture other people about them, they do not have to be seen as extreme or arrogant or, you guessed it, hysteria (I never did like this thread title, and it just won't go away - it is the longest epitaph ever). I am not making laws, only choices.
Key word is choices, in non-identified actually manmade global warming situations.
The thing is, sometimes other people have the power to make choices for us, whether we like it or not. That's when government has to step in and decide whose choices will prevail. And if government doesn't act, that makes the decision for us as well.

Here's an example. California just passed a law. I've seen it misdescribed on the Web so I thought I'd clear things up here. Restaurants will be required to stop giving out plastic straws. (There's no law against individuals actually using them, which is the incorrect description I've seen.) The issue isn't so much petroleum usage. It's that way too many of the straws end up in the ocean, where they never break down and end up in the food chain. So restaurants having the choice to give out plastic straws results in my not having the choice to enjoy local seafood that's unaffected by this stuff. --Bob
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Re: An Epitaph for Global Warming Hysteria

#356 Post by Ritterskoop » Mon Aug 06, 2018 6:42 pm

If we all chose to stop using/wasting plastic straws, the government wouldn't need to do anything.
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#357 Post by Bob78164 » Mon Aug 06, 2018 7:08 pm

Ritterskoop wrote:If we all chose to stop using/wasting plastic straws, the government wouldn't need to do anything.
That's true, but I don't think it's realistic. If the straws are made available, a lot of people will use them. Not necessarily because they have an abiding love for plastic straws, but just because that happens to be what's in front of them. --Bob
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#358 Post by Beebs52 » Mon Aug 06, 2018 7:13 pm

Bob78164 wrote:
Ritterskoop wrote:If we all chose to stop using/wasting plastic straws, the government wouldn't need to do anything.
That's true, but I don't think it's realistic. If the straws are made available, a lot of people will use them. Not necessarily because they have an abiding love for plastic straws, but just because that happens to be what's in front of them. --Bob
The straw in the tortoise was off Costa Rica. Do you control other countries?
Well, then

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#359 Post by Bob78164 » Mon Aug 06, 2018 7:30 pm

Beebs52 wrote:
Bob78164 wrote:
Ritterskoop wrote:If we all chose to stop using/wasting plastic straws, the government wouldn't need to do anything.
That's true, but I don't think it's realistic. If the straws are made available, a lot of people will use them. Not necessarily because they have an abiding love for plastic straws, but just because that happens to be what's in front of them. --Bob
The straw in the tortoise was off Costa Rica. Do you control other countries?
California doesn't even control other states. But there's already a lot of plastic crap off the California coast, and I'd like to at least start the process of getting rid of it. In this context, I'm not willing to let the perfect be the enemy of the good. --Bob
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#360 Post by Bob Juch » Tue Aug 07, 2018 1:19 pm

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
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Si fractum non sit, noli id reficere.

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#361 Post by themanintheseersuckersuit » Fri Aug 10, 2018 6:33 pm

This one is just for laughs.

There are a couple of reasons for this. Unfortunately, because of the rapidly melting icecaps due to climate change, the sea surface temperatures in the tropical Atlantic are much colder than average. So, all that ice, that literally ice water coming into the Atlantic, keeping things cool. And a developing El Nino may actually increase wind shear, basically, tear apart storms as they come off the coast of Africa— Al Roker

https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/ky ... hurricanes
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The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.

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#362 Post by themanintheseersuckersuit » Sun Oct 07, 2018 5:48 am

Suitguy is not bitter.

feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive

The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.

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#363 Post by Bob Juch » Mon Oct 08, 2018 10:36 am

Carbon Dioxide Is Shriveling Men’s Balls

https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/ ... ens-balls/
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#364 Post by Estonut » Mon Oct 08, 2018 11:49 pm

Bob Juch wrote:Carbon Dioxide Is Shriveling Men’s Balls

https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/ ... ens-balls/
Another moronic lie from BJ.
The author of the article posted by the idiot Juch wrote:IMPORTANT NOTE: My readers are mostly liberals, and believe me, I know what you’re thinking. Those are just two straight lines. The fancy Greek letters in the equation just change the slope and offset of one of them. Correlation doesn’t mean causation. And you’ve provided no causal mechanism at all.

Right. I get it. Now STFU. Do you want to fight climate change or not? If you do, there’s no harm in a little white lie that convinces men their balls are shrinking, is there? If you think about it, it’s one of the few things that might actually get a reaction from conservative white guys. So just go along, OK?"
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#365 Post by flockofseagulls104 » Tue Oct 09, 2018 12:01 am

Bob Juch wrote:Carbon Dioxide Is Shriveling Men’s Balls

https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/ ... ens-balls/
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#366 Post by themanintheseersuckersuit » Tue Oct 30, 2018 5:11 am

FUKUSHIMA – A floating wind turbine built off Fukushima Prefecture to symbolize recovery efforts after the 2011 nuclear disaster will be removed, a government source has said.d-turbine-symbol-tohoku-earthquake-recovery-removed/

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/ ... y-removed/
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The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.

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#367 Post by themanintheseersuckersuit » Wed Nov 07, 2018 9:05 am

https://thinkprogress.org/house-climate ... f7307c191/

Several Republicans who joined the House Climate Solutions Caucus in the run-up to this year’s midterm elections — ... — lost their bids to return to Congress, according to the latest voting results from Tuesday’s midterm elections.

Even the co-founder of the group, Republican Rep. Carlos Curbelo (FL) couldn’t retain his seat in a midterm election that saw Democrats take firm control of the House of Representatives.
Suitguy is not bitter.

feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive

The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.

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#368 Post by themanintheseersuckersuit » Wed Nov 28, 2018 8:43 am

Yeah he actually said this.

Obama: "Suddenly America is the largest oil producer, that was me people ... say thank you."
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The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.

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#369 Post by BackInTex » Wed Nov 28, 2018 8:54 am

themanintheseersuckersuit wrote:Yeah he actually said this.

Obama: "Suddenly America is the largest oil producer, that was me people ... say thank you."
He did play a significant role in reducing the production in many Middle East countries (e.g. Libya).
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#370 Post by Bob78164 » Wed Nov 28, 2018 9:16 am

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#371 Post by themanintheseersuckersuit » Sat Dec 29, 2018 4:59 pm

Suitguy is not bitter.

feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive

The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.

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#372 Post by themanintheseersuckersuit » Sat May 18, 2019 8:28 am

Suitguy is not bitter.

feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive

The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.

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#373 Post by themanintheseersuckersuit » Mon Oct 14, 2019 1:01 pm

Out of the mouth of a Canadian

Stephen McIntyre
@ClimateAudit

let's give credit where credit is due: as a scientist, Jane Fonda may well rank among the top 1% of US climate scientists.
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#374 Post by themanintheseersuckersuit » Wed Jan 22, 2020 5:48 am

Suitguy is not bitter.

feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive

The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.

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Re: An Epitaph for Global Warming Hysteria

#375 Post by themanintheseersuckersuit » Wed May 06, 2020 6:25 am

Suitguy is not bitter.

feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive

The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.

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