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Originally Posted by a700hitter

OMG Example, I just asked about the accuracy of the statement about global temperature not increasing for the last several years (since 2000).

BTW About 35 years ago when I was a young impressionable lad, we were being told that it was a fact that the supply of fossil fuel would only last 10 or 20 years. The world was rapidly running out of oil. That was the big lie then. It was in my Senior Scholastic magazine repeatedly. President Carter made us lower our thermostats. We waited on lines for gas. for hours We were clearly running out of oil. Cheap gas was a thing of the past. Well, there's plenty of oil left and the OPEC pricks keep fucking with opening and closing the spigot.

Is Global Warming a big lie? I don't know. If there is Global Warming does man play a role? I don't know. How rapidly is it happening? I don't know,

There's a lot you don't know. You don't spend your life researching it and you also refuse to listen to those who do.

but I have seen this type of lie before and I think all global changes occur very slowly.

Like the melting polar ice caps? Here's an article, complete with NASA photograps, showing that the polar ice caps have mealted by nearly half in my lifetime alone. Whether or not you consider that "slow" does not really matter. It really just "is". I would say that the ice caps melting by 75% in your lifetime would be pretty significant, and pretty drastic, and pretty fast. You may not. You must not have much concern for the global health of, say, your great grand children. I do.

When was it that Ted Danson and many in the scientific community were convinced that the oceans would be dead in 10 years.

So now Ted Danson is why you don't believe in the findings of science?

Now these same scientists are afraid that we will be one big ocean. When did Gore make the statement that we have 10 years to act before it is too late. That has to be a couple of years ago ...no? IN 8 more years, we'll know definitively. In the meantime, I drive a Dodge Charger with the big Hemi, my second car is a gas hog SUV, I barbecue outdoors in the winter, and I'm switching to aerosol sprays. I will neutralize the actions of 8 -10 tree-huggers. The Chinese will do the rest. Come what may in 10 years. The Demagogues in D.C. will have found another issue with which to terrorize us by then...maybe the necessity to conserve sunlight because the sun is rapidly burning out.

Gore was merely point out that we have 10 years to act if we want to reduce global CO2 emissions (and thus the warming of the atmosphere) merely to the levels it was at in the 1970s. Look it up man, the increase in the past 30 years has been tremendous.


Let me make sure I have this straight. You think there are unlimited supplies of fossil fuels and you disregard the findings from nobel prize winners, 100+ countries worth of scientists, the top scientists in our government and published study after study? I don't know what kind of proof you need, but clearly you aren't going to be convinced at all--you're not open to the possibility that it is real, so no amount of proof to the contrary would do any good.

I commend you on your strong views, but I can't say that your faith that everyone is lying is in any way convincing that you are right and much of the rest of the world is wrong. EDIT: and instead of doing something that could mitigate the problem should some sort of rock-solid proof of the impact of fossil fuels on global warming and their finite availability come about--not that you would believe it, even if it did--you will laugh at people like me and do whatever you can to flaunt how little you believe in it. I find that to be a very counterproductive strategy. Have you at least switched a few lightbults?