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    Quote Originally Posted by pete311 View Post
    I refuse to believe you are this daft. The cartoon suggests that those statements were scientific consensus at those dates which is patently false. Certainly there were reports and news items with similar statements, but so what. I can find you a news item today how Big Foot has been sighted. Many predictions are wrong, many scientists have been wrong, that doesn't make the overall science wrong. Look at science history man. This is extreme biased cherry picking.
    Which is exactly why you don't make policy decisions based on unsettled "science".

    Unless you're daft, of course.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Gunny View Post
    Ummm ... they're cartoons? They're supposed to be funny.
    It's pretty obvious it's not being used as pure humor but as a political and scientific statement.

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    Quote Originally Posted by pete311 View Post
    It's pretty obvious it's not being used as pure humor but as a political and scientific statement.
    Bet you're lots of fun at a party. Political humor has been around for centuries. Learn to see the humor inside, not just some political message you're looking for.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Abbey View Post
    Which is exactly why you don't make policy decisions based on unsettled "science".

    Unless you're daft, of course.
    How do you define settled science? I can link you to a dozen scientists that refute our mainstream understanding of gravity. Furthermore we don't understand how gravity works at the quantum level. Should we not base policy on our unsettled understanding of gravity?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Gunny View Post
    Bet you're lots of fun at a party. Political humor has been around for centuries. Learn to see the humor inside, not just some political message you're looking for.
    You tell me Tyr-Ziu-Saxnot's response was one of humor. Give me a break.

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    Quote Originally Posted by pete311 View Post
    You tell me Tyr-Ziu-Saxnot's response was one of humor. Give me a break.
    I think he's funny as sh*t. If I want a war I'll start one. I don't need to use someone else's words as an excuse. You cain't read between the lines. So let met draw you a picture. I like tyr. He's a good ol' boy. You on the other hand are a stick in the mud. Don't make me choose sides here. You and that other fuckwit tailfins need to learn how to read people. Tyr loves his poetry and everything he writes is in prose. Big deal. His political opinions are no worse than yours.

    At least he has a personality. You don't. You think everything is as serious as a heart attack. Lighten up, Ajax.

    And if you want to get started, these guys are all nice fella's compared to me. I'll kill anything that moves.
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    Quote Originally Posted by pete311 View Post
    How do you define settled science? I can link you to a dozen scientists that refute our mainstream understanding of gravity. Furthermore we don't understand how gravity works at the quantum level. Should we not base policy on our unsettled understanding of gravity?
    Yes, because gravity and global warming are equally unsettled.
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    Quote Originally Posted by pete311 View Post
    It's pretty obvious it's not being used as pure humor but as a political and scientific statement.
    No.

    It's making fun of you and your buddies who run around claiming that the earth is going to erupt into a molten fireball - or it's going to become one gigantic glacier.

    You can't decide which direction we're going to suddenly lurch to, but that doesn't stop you from screaming bloody murder about it.

    In the meantime, as the earth continues to spin, the cartoon illustrates how most of us view your crowd : Silly hippies spouting the same nonsense year after year, and nothing ever comes to fruition.


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    pete. You wanna discuss settled science? Here's one answer not even you can dispute.

    If any of us here TELL you to shut up, or ASK you to shut up. Settled Science, predictably says...

    YOU WON'T SHUT UP. Because YOU are incapable of not having the LAST WORD. Proven Science.
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    So, this is for them.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Gunny View Post
    Be nice if someone would send some of that MY way. I'm from S Texas. I've spent two years waiting on summer here on I-40. All these damned yankees and their big mouthes have NO idea what heat is.
    I'll take the Texas heat over that crappy/chappy ass cold and sleet they have up north ANY day. At least with the heat you can still get out and go somewhere. Up there you get snowed in when you need to be somewhere. No thanks.

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    Ok Gunny, DLT,

    If you guys are getting my weather a few hours later, the temps dropped about 10 degrees in early afternoon. Spotty thundershowers. Temps rising again.


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    Quote Originally Posted by pete311 View Post
    I refuse to believe you are this daft. The cartoon suggests that those statements were scientific consensus at those dates which is patently false. Certainly there were reports and news items with similar statements, but so what. I can find you a news item today how Big Foot has been sighted. Many predictions are wrong, many scientists have been wrong, that doesn't make the overall science wrong. Look at science history man. This is extreme biased cherry picking.
    I remember those arguments from the 70's to the present...

    The statements are actually statements made by climatology "EXPERTS" for the last nearly 50 years.

    They all supposedly had DATA to back them up...

    Just that they have been wrong at every turn...
    You know, the last time I was in Germany and saw a man standing above everybody else, we ended up disagreeing.

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    Whenever science seeks to prove a political point, watch out.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Abbey View Post
    Whenever science seeks to prove a political point, watch out.
    Yep, the 'science' of climate change has all been about money and taxes and politics.

    No one has denied that temps have gone up very slightly or that they cooled slightly for periods in the recent past. The 'unsettled' part is whether or not human behaviors are causing and what if anything can or should be done.

    Couple that with the altered data to prove the 'settled' and progressive agendas including targeting fossil fuel based industries, propping up 'green technologies,' and the unemployment and costs increases that have resulted and there's reasons to hate politicians and the lying left.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Kathianne View Post
    Ok Gunny, DLT,

    If you guys are getting my weather a few hours later, the temps dropped about 10 degrees in early afternoon. Spotty thundershowers. Temps rising again.

    And it sucks. I'm used to running around in shorts in April.
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