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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 1458 Views
This was posted on 10.10.09 by Trzkaska2000. 138 views. 15 replies. - 14/10/2009 03:32:52 PM 635 Views
Your point being...? *NM* - 14/10/2009 03:53:56 PM 263 Views
That your post is repetitive. - 14/10/2009 05:33:05 PM 593 Views
I didn't see Traszka's post.. - 14/10/2009 06:34:05 PM 616 Views
Within a decade, the North Pole will be ice-free during the summer - 14/10/2009 03:35:31 PM 731 Views
what were the odds that they would have found anything else? - 14/10/2009 03:58:49 PM 639 Views
Re: Oh...by the way...we may have been wrong about that whole "Global Warming" thing - 14/10/2009 04:36:57 PM 661 Views
I registered it as a bug - 14/10/2009 04:40:20 PM 556 Views
I think it's been registered as a bug about 6 times now. *NM* - 14/10/2009 05:52:04 PM 263 Views
I personally did it four times. *NM* - 14/10/2009 11:29:53 PM 297 Views
Possible Consequences of taking global warming seriously... - 14/10/2009 04:37:32 PM 649 Views
Increased cost for everyone - 14/10/2009 04:42:07 PM 609 Views
Increased costs? - 14/10/2009 05:11:11 PM 643 Views
You misunderstand my position. - 14/10/2009 05:23:29 PM 650 Views
greed - 14/10/2009 06:45:35 PM 614 Views
That's not how things work. - 14/10/2009 06:50:27 PM 577 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 554 Views
Good luck with that. - 15/10/2009 07:18:17 PM 668 Views
Welcome to Communism! - 14/10/2009 09:45:02 PM 575 Views
communism is a system of government. SOCIALISM is an economic system - 15/10/2009 07:01:16 PM 593 Views
I'm Canadian, actually. - 23/10/2009 11:08:08 PM 566 Views
it's about the science, for me. - 14/10/2009 04:46:09 PM 598 Views
Other Possible Consequences of taking global warming seriously... - 14/10/2009 06:33:38 PM 589 Views
+1 - 14/10/2009 06:46:11 PM 567 Views
So you decided to ignore my response? - 14/10/2009 07:02:01 PM 587 Views
No, I just think it's gonna pay off in the long run - 14/10/2009 07:21:04 PM 600 Views
+ 1 I agree with you completely in here. - 14/10/2009 08:19:45 PM 571 Views
So, I guess you are now a Catholic? - 14/10/2009 09:49:21 PM 651 Views
Bitch, please. - 14/10/2009 09:58:07 PM 601 Views
No worries, most catholics aren't even catholics..... *NM* - 15/10/2009 05:47:58 AM 233 Views
Precisely. *NM* - 15/10/2009 08:44:44 AM 319 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 614 Views
It looked like he was saying the opposite. - 14/10/2009 10:18:03 PM 574 Views
The ends don't justify the means..... - 14/10/2009 09:41:47 PM 618 Views
You missed my point... - 15/10/2009 04:18:11 PM 548 Views
- 14/10/2009 08:07:54 PM 581 Views
No worries, it's worth a second post!!! AGW is total BS..... - 14/10/2009 09:39:20 PM 682 Views
+1 *NM* - 14/10/2009 09:49:01 PM 261 Views
Well, it's good to see that some folks still actually follow science rather than politics - 16/10/2009 05:04:17 PM 630 Views
Well said, couldn't have said it better *NM* - 17/10/2009 02:27:14 AM 254 Views

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