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In reply to the discussion: I am a Climate Change (human caused) agnostic. [View all]RegieRocker
(4,226 posts)361. Wrong snap
go for tax breaks over more taxation.
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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