Thread: Calculate your contribution to destroying The Earth

Originally Posted by JMS

I like this post, but quite honestly, I don't think telling the global warming advocates how I live will help in the least! If someone is arrogant enough to tell me how I should live my life, and look down their noses at me without even knowing who I am, then they are arrogant enough not to believe me when I tell them how I live!

Respectfully, the mistake here is the assumption that your opinion is as valid as everyone else's.
The opinion which is evidentially backed up and properly peer reviewed by science is more valid.

X

...And arrogance IS arrogance, regardless of how erudite the pratcitioner! Trust me, YOUR arrogance is becoming just a bit tiresome.

I understand how you feel.
People who think they know it all are really annoying to those of us who do.

Mister X,

When I was eighteen, I used to sincerely believe I knew all the answers. Now, almost forty years later, I have realized I haven't yet heard all the questions.
Your tiresome arrogance has descended into banality.

See ... that little winky guy was supposed to indicate that I was making a joke. I'm trying to lighten the mood some.

Originally Posted by xman

See ... that little winky guy was supposed to indicate that I was making a joke. I'm trying to lighten the mood some.

Everytime you post, the earth dies a little.

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Originally Posted by hoglahoo

Everytime you post, the earth dies a little.

Your agenda is showing.
BTW, I have at no time told anyone how to behave here. I have only provided information and encourage critical thought. Any inference to the contrary is mistaken.

X

I really don't blame anyone for denying global warming.

I have read work by the people in the think tanks. Fred Singer's work, Nature, Not Human Activity, Rules the Climate is very well written. He is very eloquent and makes a very good presentation. If a person reads only that, they would probably become absolutely convinced of his arguments.

Any rational person who wants to understand a topic will go and learn about it. I applaud that kind of effort.

One thing that is hard to grasp is the extent to which that side intentionally misleads people. It is asked time and agian, how can such a credentialled scientist be so wrong? Are they not sacrificing their reputations? Why would someone go to such incredible efforts to dispute something if there was no truth to it?

It is just about unbelievable that those people would be so dishonest and be so wrong. So I don't fault anyone for believing them. I once believed it myself.

Scott

Originally Posted by beezaur

One thing that is hard to grasp is the extent to which that side intentionally misleads people. It is asked time and agian, how can such a credentialled scientist be so wrong? Are they not sacrificing their reputations? Why would someone go to such incredible efforts to dispute something if there was no truth to it?

It is just about unbelievable that those people would be so dishonest and be so wrong. So I don't fault anyone for believing them. I once believed it myself.

Scott

If I were you I would follow the money trail to have a better understanding as to who would gain from either exaggerated claims or just plain outright falsities!
Those who deny global warming, or are not prepared to accept it as presented, could be wrong, but they have nothing to gain by their stance!

Originally Posted by JMS

If I were you I would follow the money trail to have a better understanding as to who would gain from either exaggerated claims or just plain outright falsities!
Those who deny global warming, or are not prepared to accept it as presented, could be wrong, but they have nothing to gain by their stance!

I no more trust a scientist as I do a politician, but there is much to question in your statement. What money trail is there it follow if your own trail is to reduce and reuse instead of buying and exploiting? Shall we all sit on the fence and wait for the all the natural resources to disappear before we begin to evaluate our human impact and our own individual actions that account for the destruction of the earth and the death of so many of our mother’s species? Once we have killed enough, there is nobody left to kill but ourselves.