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You missed my point... Dannymac Send a noteboard - 15/10/2009 04:18:11 PM
.....AGW is a political/scientific hoax used to generate grant money. BS is BS and it needs to be called-out.

Those things you mentioned are benefical enough to stand on their own.


Do you have any idea how the scientific community works? Of course AGW is talked about to generate grant money... THAT IS HOW SCIENCE HAPPENS. The experiments and observations continue. AGW became political because after a large range of experiments generated results that indicated that AGW was a strong possibility.

It wasn't perfect, but some people acted on it. Then the Oil companies started reacting by producing their own reports. But unlike the original scientists who were doing it, as you said, for grant money, these guys had paychecks signed by big businessmen, and knew EXACTLY what their bosses wanted to hear.

AGW may yet be proven wrong. That is, again, how science works. The bulk of the political arguing around it is based on populist science, anyway. But none of this is my point.

The proposed methods to combat AGW are ALL steps that we should take, anyway. It has literally no downside. If the proponents of AGW are wrong, then congrats, the world is not on a slippery slope towards becoming an oven. Awesome! Meanwhile, we took a bunch of energy steps we needed to take, anyway.

Of course, if they are right, and we do nothing...

Which sounds like the smarter bet to you... the one with no downside, or the one with no upside?
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Oh...by the way...we may have been wrong about that whole "Global Warming" thing - 14/10/2009 03:23:53 PM 1426 Views
This was posted on 10.10.09 by Trzkaska2000. 138 views. 15 replies. - 14/10/2009 03:32:52 PM 605 Views
Your point being...? *NM* - 14/10/2009 03:53:56 PM 247 Views
That your post is repetitive. - 14/10/2009 05:33:05 PM 566 Views
I didn't see Traszka's post.. - 14/10/2009 06:34:05 PM 583 Views
Within a decade, the North Pole will be ice-free during the summer - 14/10/2009 03:35:31 PM 703 Views
what were the odds that they would have found anything else? - 14/10/2009 03:58:49 PM 608 Views
Re: Oh...by the way...we may have been wrong about that whole "Global Warming" thing - 14/10/2009 04:36:57 PM 634 Views
I registered it as a bug - 14/10/2009 04:40:20 PM 524 Views
I think it's been registered as a bug about 6 times now. *NM* - 14/10/2009 05:52:04 PM 246 Views
I personally did it four times. *NM* - 14/10/2009 11:29:53 PM 279 Views
Possible Consequences of taking global warming seriously... - 14/10/2009 04:37:32 PM 624 Views
Increased cost for everyone - 14/10/2009 04:42:07 PM 581 Views
Increased costs? - 14/10/2009 05:11:11 PM 613 Views
You misunderstand my position. - 14/10/2009 05:23:29 PM 618 Views
greed - 14/10/2009 06:45:35 PM 585 Views
That's not how things work. - 14/10/2009 06:50:27 PM 548 Views
Then lets change the way things work. Not as if capitalism is required by the US constition. - 15/10/2009 07:04:51 PM 525 Views
Good luck with that. - 15/10/2009 07:18:17 PM 644 Views
Welcome to Communism! - 14/10/2009 09:45:02 PM 543 Views
communism is a system of government. SOCIALISM is an economic system - 15/10/2009 07:01:16 PM 564 Views
I'm Canadian, actually. - 23/10/2009 11:08:08 PM 536 Views
it's about the science, for me. - 14/10/2009 04:46:09 PM 567 Views
Other Possible Consequences of taking global warming seriously... - 14/10/2009 06:33:38 PM 560 Views
+1 - 14/10/2009 06:46:11 PM 539 Views
So you decided to ignore my response? - 14/10/2009 07:02:01 PM 557 Views
No, I just think it's gonna pay off in the long run - 14/10/2009 07:21:04 PM 570 Views
+ 1 I agree with you completely in here. - 14/10/2009 08:19:45 PM 543 Views
So, I guess you are now a Catholic? - 14/10/2009 09:49:21 PM 619 Views
Bitch, please. - 14/10/2009 09:58:07 PM 571 Views
No worries, most catholics aren't even catholics..... *NM* - 15/10/2009 05:47:58 AM 216 Views
Precisely. *NM* - 15/10/2009 08:44:44 AM 300 Views
I hope you're not suggesting the Global Warming is only a rallying cry for the Right? - 14/10/2009 09:48:22 PM 582 Views
It looked like he was saying the opposite. - 14/10/2009 10:18:03 PM 546 Views
The ends don't justify the means..... - 14/10/2009 09:41:47 PM 591 Views
You missed my point... - 15/10/2009 04:18:11 PM 515 Views
- 14/10/2009 08:07:54 PM 557 Views
No worries, it's worth a second post!!! AGW is total BS..... - 14/10/2009 09:39:20 PM 654 Views
+1 *NM* - 14/10/2009 09:49:01 PM 242 Views
Well, it's good to see that some folks still actually follow science rather than politics - 16/10/2009 05:04:17 PM 605 Views
Well said, couldn't have said it better *NM* - 17/10/2009 02:27:14 AM 235 Views

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