Dutch agency admits mistake in UN climate report
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No one is doubting that the earth went through a warming trend. It wasn't due to human influence, though. The earth has been warmer than it is now. It's been colder, too. It's cyclical, hence ice ages and warm periods. Vikings were once able to farm areas of Greenland that are permafrost now.
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I, as well as others here, can think comprehensively.
You, not so much.
Not a slam, just different.
You think linearly, not comprehensively.
Liberals do it most all the time... @@
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No, cal, what you are saying has no substance. It is a slam. What exactly do you mean by 'linearly', please, do explain.
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No one is doubting that the earth went through a warming trend. It wasn't due to human influence, though. The earth has been warmer than it is now. It's been colder, too. It's cyclical, hence ice ages and warm periods. Vikings were once able to farm areas of Greenland that are permafrost now.
No one is doubting that the earth went through a warming trend. It wasn't due to human influence, though. The earth has been warmer than it is now. It's been colder, too. It's cyclical, hence ice ages and warm periods. Vikings were once able to farm areas of Greenland that are permafrost now.
Yes, but the argument is that we are accelerating the warming by releasing copious amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. Which, I to some degree, would agree with. I don't know to what degree we're accelerating it, but I do believe that we are doing it. If you don't think that what we're doing is changing anything, I invite you to explain why you believe that.
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Liberals tend, very strongly tend, to emotionaly "feel" an issue,
and they will use a single point as proof of the validity of their claim.
Now, say there are contradicting aspects of the issue.
consider, for example, that there might be 9 major issues with a theory.
So, let's say that logically, we have a matrix of 3 x 3.
A lib will pick up on a self-serving one of the nine, and that is all they
can consider. If there are eight considerations of the nine that contradict the
lib's emotionalist belief, they will ignore/dismiss the eight, in favor of the one that
lends credence to their very strong emotionally held belief.
So, a lot of folks can see all nine of the considerations, and their understanding of an issue
is tempered by both sides, but they can figure that the side with eight considerations makes that side
dominant/true. They are thinking comprehensively.
The lib/progressive isn't wired to naturally be able to do that. Libs are all too often completely wired emotionally. So, those eight
contradicting considerations are to the lib - null... they don't even exist.
If there were two considerations, the lib sees the first, and if pressed, can then consider the second.
But outside of that, they can only consider the line of favorable considerations of an issue.
I call that linear thinking.
To be able to consider all nine issues at one time, a Sherlock Holmes kind of appraiser can pretty much
figure that those two considerations of one side of an issue, do not overrule the other six considerations.
What you have then, is comprehensive thinking. Sherlock Holmes didn't see just one or two facts and then
become oblivious to all others. Contradicting or not, he was aware of all facts, and deduced what he believed
accordingly.
What we have then, is libs who, when faced with considerations pointing to the fallacy of their emotionally held but
thinly backed up with few favorable considerations ... side of an issue...
is the most common and obvious self defense mechanism - attack any other consideration that doesn't fit, attack
anyone who engages in talking about those "evil" considerations, etc.
You see it happening on the national scale in a huge way. Attack any conservative for showing videotape of the
bad guy SAYING exactly what was said he said.
But to the lib, linear thinking just negates the opposing viewpoints and those who espouse them,
to the point of ignoring or dismissing the actual video of the person SAYING what the lib denies was said.
So, libs emotionally don't have the ability to comprehensively appraise contradictory to their emotionally held agenda.
Well, I hope that makes some kind of sense. I woke up because I was sleeping on my left shoulder (hurts),
and my right knee is swelled up from being tweaked when I fell in the garden, and when we were camping, (hurts)...
so I have a knee dr appt Thurs, and surgery Fri morning on my shoulder, and I have only Tues, Wed and Thurs to
finish grinding the pto shaft that drives the hay baler, do the suckers all over again on the tomato plants,
change the oil in the vehicles, nail a few groundhogs and a few skunks (say, I have to call Canton Mike to see if he'd
like to help me do that for a couple of hours... )and cut down some trees for the farmer next door because he gave me the trees to cut down for my firewood, a bunch of other things I don't want my wonderful cute Wifie to have to try and do,
like getting all the 4x8 sheets of plywood into the hay loft, so we can finish the loft in time for doing hay in a week or two...
because I'll be out of commission, depending on the job, for ten days in some kind of immobilization cast, and weeks in a sling....
"yeah, boy". "whine" It's 4:30 in the morning, my shoulder has quit hurting, and my knee is better for being elevated,
and I have to get up early and get to work.
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Okay, if that's the case, I'd like you to explain to me which '8' things I'm ignoring, because it sounds to me like that's what you're doing. There is an overwhelming amount of supporting evidence for us impacting global warming vs. us not having an effect on it. By your definition, you are the one who is thinking linearly.
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So VT how long do we have?
5, 10, 15 years?
WSS
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I don't have the slightest idea, nor did I ever pretend to have that answer. We're pumping a bunch of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. We don't know the extent of its effects. It could be five years, it could be 5000 years before the earth's temperature becomes too high to sustain life as it does now. To put an exact date and outcome of our effects on the environment is just as arrogant and ignorant as claiming that we aren't affecting anything.
It's not a bad thing to be unsure. That is what science is about. You don't understand something, so you gather as much evidence as you possibly can, and try to draw a conclusion. Based on our knowledge of the use of fossil fuels since discovering we can burn them to do work, and comparing that to the levels of CO2 over the past 60 years, there is a clear correlation. Now, this doesn't imply causation, but there are a hell of a lot more studies that show correlation. I think in the face of all this evidence, it's best to err on the side of caution as much as reasonably possible when the alternative is losing arable land. Unfortunately, in my opinion, there aren't many reasonable ways to face the situation because if we lose production to go green, the Chinese won't, and we'll be left in the dust.
I just think that declaring global warming isn't happening at all, and citing last winter's snowstorm as evidence shows your ignorance.
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What you call "evidence" is only rationalization, and ideological jumps to the global warming conclusion.
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Here's a list of comprehensive thinking scientists, who disagree with the global warming THEORY that we caused it:
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_scien..._global_warming
We've discussed the deliberate tweaking of the warming data -
we've discussed the tree ring - the ONE tree that they finally found, that proved their theory,
(and dismissed/ignored all the other tree rings that did NOT)
We've discussed the ice age, and how it melted without any help from air consditioners or SUV's,
or modern appliances.
We've discussed the deliberate, and admitted politically expediency to be gained by those
who use global warming as a cause, like algore, who says to coast will flood, but he bought a
several million dollar house right on shore...
and we've discussed the admission that global warming is tied into global wealth redistribution.
Add all thses things up... and I don't see how anybody "knows" that mmgw is a fact to not be debated.
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I don't have the slightest idea, nor did I ever pretend to have that answer. We're pumping a bunch of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. We don't know the extent of its effects. It could be five years, it could be 5000 years before the earth's temperature becomes too high to sustain life as it does now. To put an exact date and outcome of our effects on the environment is just as arrogant and ignorant as claiming that we aren't affecting anything.
It's not a bad thing to be unsure. That is what science is about. You don't understand something, so you gather as much evidence as you possibly can, and try to draw a conclusion. Based on our knowledge of the use of fossil fuels since discovering we can burn them to do work, and comparing that to the levels of CO2 over the past 60 years, there is a clear correlation. Now, this doesn't imply causation, but there are a hell of a lot more studies that show correlation. I think in the face of all this evidence, it's best to err on the side of caution as much as reasonably possible when the alternative is losing arable land. Unfortunately, in my opinion, there aren't many reasonable ways to face the situation because if we lose production to go green, the Chinese won't, and we'll be left in the dust.
I just think that declaring global warming isn't happening at all, and citing last winter's snowstorm as evidence shows your ignorance.
It's not a bad thing to be unsure. left in the dust.
I just think that declaring global warming isn't happening at all, and citing last winter's snowstorm as evidence shows your ignorance.
VT I think you are correct on both counts.
Where I part ways is within the alarmist speech that says it can only be resolved by high economy strangling taxes and or pumping slush money onto "green" pet projects.
Would I like to see us use some magic renewable source of energy? Sure. It just doesn't work very well so far.
And personally I don't want to fall on my sword as an offering to the green god while the rest of the manufacturing world rifles my pockets.
And there are a lot more reasons why there's more CO2 in the air that we can't and won't address.
And that's IF it's the biggest reason for the temperature.
Cal's right in that we've changed a lot historically without cars and electricity.
WSS
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