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turk wrote:

ruckman101 wrote:The less dead dino burned, the less greenhouse gas emissions.


neal

Yes. The level of enlightenment is illuminated in ironic contrast by your comment.

The nuance escapes me. Perhaps you could explain?



neal

Dinosaurs didn't morph into "fossil fuels" and then "greenhouse gasses". Eat some soylent green. It's better for yer constitution than that "dead" stuff.

turk wrote: Let's quit talkin' and do something about "it".

promise?

Occupy your own mind with something other than what you would prefer not. Don't sit on the sidelines trying to control what others are interested in. Find something else to do - or type about here, if that's your wish. It's totally elementary.

There's a great article linked on Boing Boing which really nails the problem of climate change; I've nicked a bit here, but the whole thing is worth reading:

"The trouble with looking at disasters this way is that tornadoes [original reference was to the large numbers of tornadoes in recent years] do not fit neatly into little, politically polarized ticky boxes. Science, in general, seldom works like that. In a May 23rd editorial for the Washington Post, environmentalist Bill McKibben took Americans to task for refusing to make a connection between environmental disasters--including the 2011 tornadoes--and climate change. His basic message: All these disasters must be connected and only willful ignorance allows us to ignore that.

I have a slightly different perspective. What we have here is not a failure to communicate and accept the obvious effects of climate change. Instead, it's a failure to communicate and accept a critical point of how science works, without which scientific literacy is reduced to mere talking points. This is about nuance and uncertainty, and if the American public doesn't get those things, then we'll never get climate change."

You can read the whole thing here: http://www.boingboing.net/2011/05/27/to ... te-ch.html

I like reading good writers say what I want to say, only better.

Mike

Cha, he was on Amy yesterday.

http://www.democracynow.org/2011/5/26/b ... o_droughts


neal

Dr David Whitehouse of the Global Warming Policy Foundation said: “It is good news that the authors recognise that there has been no global temperature increase since 1998.

neal