Global Warming HOAX Unravels

I've watched the evolution of this general discussion since the time that I first read of Al Gore's sacrifice burning 600K+ gallons of (taxpayer) jet fuel to fly to Australia to give a 15 minute presentation about the danger to the planet that my little 3-cylinder Geo Metro posed.

What I am about to say is genuinely NOT said in disrespect. This thread has become so heavy-handed in scientific jargon vs. common sense that neither side should be surprised at the level of animus that is starting to show...

In all seriousness, it reads like the classic old joke of the man who accidentally stepped on his hubcap while changing a tire next to the fence of an asylum and lost all 4 lug nuts down the storm drain and was amazed by the insightful advice from an inmate sitting in the shade of a tree on the other side of the fence. The inmate took no offense and simply said, "I may be crazy, but I ain't Stupid..."

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The "Current Scientific Consensus" is that a frog (the amphibian-of-choice for those more learned than I) placed into a pot of water uncomfortably warmer than the present room temperature will quickly jump out. (We who have been unfortunately unable to avail ourselves of the benefits of higher learning are left to wonder what the result would be if the pot of water were uncomfortably colder than the present room temperature and are left to our own devices as it seems to have never been a matter that an "intelligent" researcher thought worthy to document...)

From my perspective, part of the antagonism in this thread seems a growing frustration with the fact that, if we use the analogy of the previous example, we apparently have a multitude of frogs aware that the temperature of the water in the pot and the temperature where they currently sit are similar, if not the same.

For the time being, it's a matter of trying to reason with the frogs... "Take my word for it, I and all my colleagues have determined that a time is certainly coming (if not sooner, then sooner than later and if not sooner than later, it's coming anyway) when the temperature outside that pot is going to become so uncomfortable that your grandchildren, or if not your grandchildren then your great-grandchildren) will praise the day you were wise enough to jump into that pot.

Regardless of any applicable theories, a frog's natural habitat is NOT a pot (boiling or not). From where I sit, that seems to be the main
bone of contention. When you try to force any living creature to discard what all those before knew as fact and follow you because of a concept that (while sincerely believed by you) is alien to their kind, it is only natural that you meet with resistance. All you need to do is talk to anyone who loves horses. They are NOT stupid animals. Heaven help the person, though, who has a fire and is short-handed. Keeping a horse from running back into their stall even though the barn is totally in flames is nearly impossible.

Since the frog example is repeated ad nauseum, I'm curious how many of you have done the experiment. Do you use it because you actually know the validity or do you parrot givens because of your faith in the fact that the "Science is Settled?"

I know that common sense is considered by some as a sign of ignorance, but I grew up close to the land and can tell you that there are things an old man that has worked and loved his land can tell you that would be correct but cost you a fortune to verify with all your labs and fancy equipment.

In the end I may pay dearly for trying to spread the word, but the fact is that a boiling pot isn't the natural habitat for a frog, anyway... While I still have the chance I intend to tell as many as I can that, at some point in the not too distant future, going into the pot won't be a matter of being convinced it will be by force.

It's already started in rural America but a controlled media doesn't cover what isn't on the menu. When county commissioners are told that "certain plans that I'll not name here" should make them grateful because it means no more county roads to maintain, that should tell anyone of a reasonable level of intelligence that something is happening that won't be reversed by future elections.

Considering that I'm from the generation that grew up hearing how lucky I was not to be growing up in the You S S Are, it is breaking my heart that we are now to the point that you risk all you have if you dare to tell the Trooth.

The massive DoS I was hit with came from an official Daught Gee Oh Vee site. No h*cking, I just dnload*d a file they made availabe. My mistake was not breaking my 'N*t connection before I opened it.

It ain't about science, people...

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