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Old Jan 5, 2009 | 02:31 PM
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Are we really going to debate this again.

Here's how it usually goes:

Nightshade: Global warming is bullshit!
Epoch: some big explanation citing scientists and bla bla bla
Nightshade: fuck you
Epoch: more arguments and bla bla
Nightshade: no you're wrong
dubcac: I've known it was fake since I was born
Epoch: more arguments
Nightshade: fuck you
dubcac: kekekekekeke i have a short dick
...

and so on
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Old Jan 5, 2009 | 02:40 PM
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You forgot the part where I call you gay for being Canadian
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Old Jan 5, 2009 | 02:41 PM
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Originally Posted by Joe
Are we really going to debate this again.

Here's how it usually goes:

Nightshade: Global warming is bullshit!
Epoch: some big explanation citing scientists and bla bla bla
Nightshade: fuck you
Epoch: more arguments and bla bla
Nightshade: no you're wrong
dubcac: I've known it was fake since I was born
Epoch: more arguments
Nightshade: fuck you
dubcac: kekekekekeke i have a short dick
...

and so on
QTF :rofl:
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Old Jan 5, 2009 | 02:45 PM
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Originally Posted by Epoch
What I'm saying is this:

1) On a physics level, we know that A (increased percentages of CO2, Methane, other specific gases in an airlike mixture) can cause B (Increased specific heat levels of the gas mixture).

2) On a laboratory level, in samples of air that air studied and subjected to A, we get B.

3) In global computer simulations, when we increase A, we see a projected increase in B.

4) Addressing the issue of pollution through overconsumption and pisspoor efficiency solves many more things than just anthro climate change, and these only serve to benefit us as a whole. It's just that anthro climate change gets hanged on by too many people for the wrong reasons when it's one facet in a much larger problem. So, if we find ways to reduce A, then then we reduce B, and we consequently reduce the risk of a whole lot of problems.
Not saying pollution isn't a problem but laboratory results don't take into account plants, algae and nature in general because a laboratory is specifically designed to eliminate such variables. These variables need to be accounted for when making these kinds of tests.

As for computer simulations...they are nothing more than educated guesses and just like anything else the designer can and does tend to affect the outcome to suit his argument. this does not make it good science or even remotley accurate but if you can get one other person from your community to agree and sound the alarm it doesn't take much to get more to follow suit. Ater it has been preached for so long people overlook testing procedure and simply begin with the wrong conclusion and move forward from there in all tests etc.

I have seen it first hand in environmental science dealing with geomorphology and hydrology since alll they have to go on is 100 year flows and beyond that point it is mostly (not always) hearsay and passed on accountings. If it is taken as truth it can and does skew the final datum.
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Old Jan 5, 2009 | 03:05 PM
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Originally Posted by Joe
Are we really going to debate this again.

Here's how it usually goes:

Nightshade: Global warming is bullshit!
Epoch: some big explanation citing scientists and bla bla bla
Nightshade: fuck you
Epoch: more arguments and bla bla
Nightshade: no you're wrong
dubcac: I've known it was fake since I was born
Epoch: more arguments
Nightshade: fuck you
dubcac: kekekekekeke i have a short dick
...

and so on

Originally Posted by dubcac
You forgot the part where I call you gay for being Canadian
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Old Jan 5, 2009 | 07:31 PM
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Old Jan 6, 2009 | 05:21 AM
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as i've said a million times before, i'm all for reducing pollution and increasing efficiency, but that doesn't make it ok to ignore facts and force skewed agendas down people's throats. especially at the risk ruining economies and causing widespread famine.

and honestly, i'm much more concerned about 2008 ending up cooler, ocean temps dropping significantly, nasa trying to forge those numbers, and the lack of sunspot activity in recent years. if we've entered a cooling period... ugh. then there will be problems.
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Old Jan 6, 2009 | 05:37 AM
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Mars is heating up as well as other planets... Al Gore needs to tell us we're destroying the Universe.
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Old Jan 6, 2009 | 08:12 PM
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Originally Posted by Nightshade
Not saying pollution isn't a problem but laboratory results don't take into account plants, algae and nature in general because a laboratory is specifically designed to eliminate such variables. These variables need to be accounted for when making these kinds of tests.

As for computer simulations...they are nothing more than educated guesses and just like anything else the designer can and does tend to affect the outcome to suit his argument. this does not make it good science or even remotley accurate but if you can get one other person from your community to agree and sound the alarm it doesn't take much to get more to follow suit. Ater it has been preached for so long people overlook testing procedure and simply begin with the wrong conclusion and move forward from there in all tests etc.

I have seen it first hand in environmental science dealing with geomorphology and hydrology since alll they have to go on is 100 year flows and beyond that point it is mostly (not always) hearsay and passed on accountings. If it is taken as truth it can and does skew the final datum.
Well, on the "laboratory tests", they're looking at the factors of specific elements. They're not looking at every element because they're looking to test specific theories, and if you have too many variables, verification of theories turns impossible or the results are worthless.

When it comes to climate models, these are peer reviewed models. You can go here and learn more about how these models are built and their critiques by IPCC and other scientists: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_climate_model
The fact is that these are scientific practices. That means at no point are these models safe from logical critique, and are often scrutinized by even the people that make them. There are current flaws, errors, and shortcomings, and they're constantly being reviewed and revised. Science isn't to proclaim an answer as infallible truth, but to review your evidence and make logical refinements until you find the least wrong solution.

And we have a lot more information to work on than hydrology and 100 year flows. We can track atmospheric gas percentages, biological factors, hell, the whole gamut of what we know about the world can be used to explore the situation. We just can't look at one factor and determine it to be a foregone conclusion.
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Old Jan 6, 2009 | 08:18 PM
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Originally Posted by reno96teg
as i've said a million times before, i'm all for reducing pollution and increasing efficiency, but that doesn't make it ok to ignore facts and force skewed agendas down people's throats. especially at the risk ruining economies and causing widespread famine.

and honestly, i'm much more concerned about 2008 ending up cooler, ocean temps dropping significantly, nasa trying to forge those numbers, and the lack of sunspot activity in recent years. if we've entered a cooling period... ugh. then there will be problems.
See, here's the amazing thing: We don't have to ruin our economy. Improved efficiencies means improved cost savings. Finding better ways to ship, package, and produce products provide significant, long term, increasing cost savings. They provide positive green marketing. Smart production can allow for greater unit production per amount of resource. Ruining the economy to save the planet is either preached by hippie misanthropes that want to watch us hunt and gather again and by corporatists.

It will be interesting to see what information we can gain from the climate of 2008, but what's this about it being cooler? And NASA forging numbers?
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