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Originally posted by grover
All of the right wing loon claims that global warming is not man made and by extension we don't or can't do anything about it begs the question and obscures the issue...
What if they are wrong...what if we are causing or contributing to it...isn't it in our best interests to take whatever measures that we can to minimize the damage?
As in most everything the right is wrong.
All of the right wing loon claims that global warming is not man made and by extension we don't or can't do anything about it begs the question and obscures the issue...
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Originally posted by grover
What I find amusing is knowing that for some of you on the right who dis this report because of its backers is the fact that if it had come out supporting your positions you would be praising it to high heaven.
Originally posted by grover
What I find amusing is knowing that for some of you on the right who dis this report because of its backers is the fact that if it had come out supporting your positions you would be praising it to high heaven.
Originally posted by halfmanhalfamazing
Maybe half of the world should stop talking and trying to figure out ways to stop global warming and pollution and start doing! :
"If we humans want to stop climate change, then we have a huge task ahead of us. We need to stop continents moving, stop the shape of the sea floor changing, stop pulling apart the ocean floors, stop building mountains, stop volcanoes belching out greenhouse gases and dust, stop hot flushes of gas rising from the Earth's core, stop earthquakes, stop comets breaking up in the upper atmosphere, stop the changes in the Earth's orbit, stop the cycles of solar changes and stop radiation hitting Earth from deep space. Our generation did not discover climate change; the Earth's climate has always changed. If we Australians stopped burning fossil fuels, this would make not one iota of difference to the global climate."
- Ian Plimer, Australian geologist and academic.
The environmental movement, has evolved into the strongest force there is, for preventing development, in developing countries".
- Patrick Moore, co-founder of GREENPEACE.
It is a political issue and would still be one even if Exxon and their right wing allies had never muddled the issue with all sorts of bogus reports.
For the record when the issue of global warming first raised its head in the late 80's and early 90's I thought it was a bunch of bogus science as well until I went and actually read the scientific journals as opposed to listening to the talking heads babble about it.
What I find amazing is that some people find the idea that we can effect the planet and its climate implausable...when it is so blatantly obvious...see above my discussion about the drought in the southwest as an example.
Originally posted by C0bzz
It seems to me like the majority of your posts on this issue are mere rants about the right wing...
...why is it that left wings are so immature that they end up sending death threats to scientists who oppose this scam?
[edit on 16/7/2009 by C0bzz]