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In reply to the discussion: I am a Climate Change (human caused) agnostic. [View all]RegieRocker
(4,226 posts)87. Then believe your science then
http://eonsepochsetc.com/Mesozoic/Cretaceous/cretaceous_home.html
and then you can feel appropriately about the subject. Either way pollution is bad and needs to be eliminated. Taxation will solve nothing.
and then you can feel appropriately about the subject. Either way pollution is bad and needs to be eliminated. Taxation will solve nothing.
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1. Scientists aren't "little people." 2. It's "to tax you and ME," not "I." 3. It's impossible to
WinkyDink
Nov 2012
#5
everyone that denies the holocaust, evolution, and the human influence on climate is
Viking12
Nov 2012
#205
"Proven science" is a major oxymoron!!! Proof only exists in mathematics and logic...
yawnmaster
Nov 2012
#478
Actually not drivel at all. I am seeing a lack of the understanding of the scientific process...
yawnmaster
Nov 2012
#493
It's time we started banning people who say they are agnostic about human-made global warming.
limpyhobbler
Nov 2012
#11
Yes, it's not like CO2's properties include trapping heat energy from longwave radiation . . . .
hatrack
Nov 2012
#139
But does 30 billion tons a year of CO2 released in the atmosphere actually end up in the atmosphere?
NoOneMan
Nov 2012
#141
Mitt Romney: ‘We Don’t Know What’s Causing Climate Change On This Planet’
AgingAmerican
Nov 2012
#131
Too bad. That video was made especially for you. You should watch to the end.
Matariki
Nov 2012
#254
But pollutants ARE the cause of climate change. Isn't that the same as admitting humans cause it?
JaneyVee
Nov 2012
#31
Of course pollution is bad, but since industrial pollution is impossible to completely eliminate
JaneyVee
Nov 2012
#56
I think we're kind of on the same page in terms of utopia. The difference is...
JaneyVee
Nov 2012
#239
No, you're thinking too locally, this would require global action. Climate change is not
JaneyVee
Nov 2012
#73
The point is that we can't magically eliminate all emissions like you claim to want to do.
dawg
Nov 2012
#83
Not to mention that many more calories per acre can be produced from plant-based crops.
dawg
Nov 2012
#98
What a moron. I can't believe your logic. You don't seem able to follow intelligent argument.
AAO
Nov 2012
#306
And yet strangely the east coast had its worst winter in 2010 in the past 100 years
aletier_v
Nov 2012
#46
Increasingly, though, I've been seeing research that is beginning to strongly indicate.....
AverageJoe90
Nov 2012
#451
Yes, I agree, because that's what all the best evidence is telling us right now. n/t
AverageJoe90
Nov 2012
#249
Your links are old and out dated. New data shows all your links are wrong.
Quixote1818
Nov 2012
#120
200 years? What on Earth are you talking about? The link talks about the past 10,000 years!!!!
Quixote1818
Nov 2012
#437
Simplistic teabag mentality. OK, I'll bite. I go for elimination over tax. (snaps fingers)
AAO
Nov 2012
#312
You don't think scientists who are experts on the subject have included natural climate cycles
Quixote1818
Nov 2012
#97
Before you post links trying to make your case please take the time to understand the mechanism
Quixote1818
Nov 2012
#116
Your graph is only as good as understanding the mechanism's behind it which you don't understand
Quixote1818
Nov 2012
#407
I would say I'm convinced that we definitely can cause climate change. There was a day when
brewens
Nov 2012
#114
Wait, so atmospheric CO2 is significantly contributing to the warming or not?
NoOneMan
Nov 2012
#161
What is your position on evolution? And on tax increases for the wealthy, generally?
morningfog
Nov 2012
#143
I smelled a troll the first time I saw your posts. Thanks for proving it. nt
Electric Monk
Nov 2012
#155
It's already been addressed above, so why repeat it? RR doesn't want to understand it. nt
Electric Monk
Nov 2012
#177
The earth has gone through many climate changes long before the industrial revolution....
Xipe Totec
Nov 2012
#191
It would be unfortunate if we were to trigger the next extinction level event
Xipe Totec
Nov 2012
#256
Maybe. If I'm wrong, there will be a lot of embarrassed scientists. If you're wrong...
Xipe Totec
Nov 2012
#261
Yipes. Your opinion runs counter to the near-universal consensus among
coalition_unwilling
Nov 2012
#204
OP is arguing that all pollution is bad, so thus we need not discuss the reasons, causes or effects!
WinkyDink
Nov 2012
#208
You're the OP; YOU answer it. All you wrote is " I however believe that all pollution should as
WinkyDink
Nov 2012
#212
Regie, actually. What the heck is a Regie, anyway? Someone who can't even spell their own name?
Electric Monk
Nov 2012
#337
The OP refuses to make a connection between pollution and global climate change. EOS.
WinkyDink
Nov 2012
#248
You might have a point. Too bad here on the DU things are black or white on many issues! n-t
Logical
Nov 2012
#266
You can tell me I'm silly when I spam "your mom" 15 fucking times in this thread.
Systematic Chaos
Nov 2012
#444
right we should go back and debate whether or not Copernicus was really right or not.
grantcart
Nov 2012
#436
How many of those "extreme phases" have been supportive of technological sophisticated civs
Democracyinkind
Nov 2012
#340
Sometimes you just have to break it down so it can be digested by a sixth grader.
grantcart
Nov 2012
#344
No I said that since you were unable to even cite the correct age of the earth you couldn't have
grantcart
Nov 2012
#393
So, how long until Greenland becomes the only place in the universe colder than absolute zero?
Systematic Chaos
Nov 2012
#297
He is either willfully ignorant or just plain not too sharp or perhaps just playing games
Quixote1818
Nov 2012
#438
you clearly have an agenda, why are you afraid to own in by feigning ignorance in your OP?
CreekDog
Nov 2012
#348
Except they have . . . "U.S. energy-related CO2 emissions in early 2012 lowest since 1992"
rightsideout
Nov 2012
#411
Here is a link to the accompanying graph from the US Energy Information Administration
rightsideout
Nov 2012
#412
I don't like this quote of his regarding science, as the scientific method...
yawnmaster
Nov 2012
#483
Yep. we must not treat science as a religion or god...science is not faith driven...
yawnmaster
Nov 2012
#492
"At least, to date, I don't know how to argue it with right wingers/deniers."
ProSense
Nov 2012
#384
I expect to debate climate change deniers on conservative media sites. Not here.
stevenleser
Nov 2012
#485
Climate change isn't the only issue in which you feign "impartiality."
2ndAmForComputers
Dec 2012
#495