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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Climate Change Debate

Trancecoach says...

You completely misread my post (big surprise). This is another one of those distinctions that make no pragmatic difference. What does distinguishing between"believers" and "deniers" do for cleaning the air (and cleaning the environment)? Do "believers" contribute less to smog, greenhouse gasses, pollution, etc.? I remember driving to NYC from Boston and noticing the filthy brown/grey cloud enveloping the city as visible as you approached it. Is that because all NYC dwellers are "climate change deniers?" How about the L.A. smog? These are real problems, much more so than some "climate change believers" whose predictive models keep proving to be inaccurate.

Of course, as is pointed out here, "denier" is simply a shaming slur, and "climate change" is yet another tool in the hypocrite's toolbox to "prove" how much we need the rulers to save you from the weather.

Meteorology has many many variables that need to be considered, making it next-to-impossible to conduct experiments under controlled conditions in order to prove or falsify your theories. The pragmatic response then, is to ask what are you (going to) do(ing) about it (with it being whatever the article says)?

(In other words, it looks like the Prius came into being about 135 years too late.)

Bottom line is, if "man-made catastrophic climate change" is not happening, then society needs to stop listening to politicians and other hypocrites. If "man-made catastrophic climate change" is happening, then society needs to stop listening to politicians and other hypocrites if it wants to put a stop to it. And also take a good look at their own behaviors and contributions to waste and pollution because "belief" or not makes ZERO DIFFERENCE; only actual behavior makes a difference.

ChaosEngine said:

There is. It's the telegraph, who are ideologically opposed to global warming and just so there's zero ambiguity here...

THEY ARE FUCKING LYING

http://www.skepticalscience.com/global-warming-stopped-in-1998.htm

Why Does 1% of History Have 99% of the Wealth?

scheherazade says...

The industrial age is part of 'economic liberty'.

People were free to make inventions that use coal, or use oil, and were free to market them either as products or services.

That differs from the earlier times/case where folks were obligated to participate only in activities sanctioned by their local lords. Often where they couldn't even travel freely.

Much of the math and chemistry we have comes from centuries worth of largely superfluous [essentially hobbyist at the time] higher education of the privileged classes. (eg. Boyle's/Charles' laws being a foundation of modern internal combustion engines, not used in said form for centuries after written down).

(Note : Which still continues to be the case, what we come up with in a purely theoretical form today, ends up being used in practical application much later. Although maybe it's speeding up. eg. Relativity is used in making GPS work, and that time delta isn't quote as large.)

Once the idea of economic liberty took hold, and people were free to come up with ideas that use the universes natural/physical properties to replace 'manpower', you had the industrial revolution.



The 'honor' part plays a good role too. You can witness this still being an issue today.
You can go to parts of eastern Europe, and talk with people about jobs and respectability.

There are plenty of places where a laborer is scum, and a businessman (eg. owner, who does not himself work, but has people working for him) is highly respected.
In these places, you don't see much work getting done, as a large portion of the typical western service sectors just doesn't exist.
For example, there are ~no house painters. Showing up with paint buckets and overalls would just get you strange stares and mumbles from people around you, and parents would be saying to their kids "See, this is what happens if you don't get good grades".
If you want your house painted, you gotta do it yourself. Few self respecting people are willing to do that job.
In contrast, ask people around the U.S. about who painted their house. Odds are, they hired for it.

The effects on small business are visible too. Lots of shops, the moment the owner can afford to not come in himself, that's exactly what they do.
And on top of that, they take every chance they can get to point out to folks that 'they don't work anymore - people work for them'.

It's a culture where the people responsible for productivity are looked down on, and it has a chilling effect on productivity.

-scheherazade

criticalthud said:

False. The industrial age was primarily brought about by cheap access to energy - first coal, then oil. Not one sided economic policies.

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Why Does 1% of History Have 99% of the Wealth?

Mount St. Helens: Evidence for a young creation

shinyblurry says...

How can you claim to know something (anything) about geology, or that you have studied it, when you don't know what Uniformitarian Geology is? I am just a layman but I know that Uniformitarianism is the cornerstone of geology today. It is not the invention of creationists, it is the invention of Charles Lyell, the father of modern geology. His thesis, "the present is the key to the past", is why geologists believe what they do about how the geologic structures of the Earth were formed.

newtboy said:

It seems you misunderstood that it only references certain features, and volcanoes are not in that category.
It only makes the assumption about the certain kinds of features that have been shown to form only at certain rates....not about every X, which you are ascribing it to...like volcanoes, land slides, mountain range building, etc. (again, not in the category).
Radiometric dating is not 1/2 of geology, or even 1/2 of geologic dating, by far. You misunderstand again.
Uniformitarianism sounds like a theologist creation. Learned geologists know that the world is not uniform, but certain processes are.
I have honestly looked at much of the publicized evidence (it's apparent that you have not) and how they use it to arrive at numerous theories, I am not shocked at all because I understand science and the processes it uses to come to 'conclusions'.

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The Great Escape

MichaelL says...

Also, a little bit of trivia... Donald Pleasance -- who plays the forger who eventually escapes with Charles Bronson -- actually spent time in a similar POW camp during WWII.

Audi Traffic Light Assistance

Stormsinger says...

They've been doing that in St Charles, MO (a St Louis suburb) over the last few years... Well, at least they're displaying a countdown to the end of the green light. A countdown to the end of the red light would just encourage people to treat the green light as a racing start, and would undoubtedly contribute to more accidents.

Nexxus said:

I've always wondered why they don't put countdowns to green lights and red lights. That would give the drivers better warning to hit the green just right without slowing and also minimize the 2-3 sec delay that people have taking off from a stop.

Dennis Rodman Sings Happy Birthday To Kim Jong-Un

PlayhousePals says...

From ESPN: Rodman's squad -- featuring ex-All Stars Kenny Anderson, Cliff Robinson and Vin Baker -- will play against a team of North Koreans on Wednesday, which is believed to be Kim's birthday. The former NBA players, who arrived in Pyongyang on Monday, also include Eric "Sleepy" Floyd, guard Doug Christie and Charles D. Smith, who played for the New York Knicks. Four streetball players also are on the squad.

shveddy said:

who were the other former basketball stars playing?

First Lady gets people to buy things with name-calling

Trancecoach says...

For all your ranting about "The First Lady is subjected to this shit and she wasn't even elected," @Yogi, the same can be said of Tom Perkins, and David and Charles Koch, and the many many others who aren't elected and yet they're subjected to all kinds of attacks and sleights for what they say or don't say on or off the record.

In this instance, Michelle went on national TV for political purposes and she said something stupid, if not downright condescending or truly insulting, and she got backlash.

So chill out dude, don't stress out over this... live up to your "yogi" namesake, (unless, of course, you're trying to be more like Yogi Bear.. in which case, get the FUCK away from my "pic-a-nic basket!").

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chingalera says...

George Denis Patrick Carlin (May 12, 1937 – June 22, 2008)

Sir Charles Spencer "Charlie" Chaplin, KBE (16 April 1889 –25December1977)

Jiddu Krishnamurti (Telugu:జిడ్డు కృష్ణ మూర్తి, Born:May 12,18February17,1986,)

Frederick George Peter Ingle Finch (28 September 1916 – 14 January1977)

David Vaughan Icke-(29 April 1952 -)

Charlie Sheen 9/11 Conspiracy coverage

Obamacre Navigators Exposed Coaching Applicants to Lie

VoodooV says...

Bob once again demonstrates either utter stupidity, or endorses the lies o'keefe perpetuates.

It was demonstrated quite conclusively that o'keefe fabricated the entire ACORN video. I know you guys like to make unfounded accusations of Obama lying, but no really bob, O'keefe lied through his teeth. This *is* what real lying looks like.

From wikipedia:

"The Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes cleared ACORN employees in the local office of criminal wrongdoing on March 1, 2010, after a five-month investigation. A law enforcement source said, "They edited the tape to meet their agenda", the Daily News quoted.[142] The ACORN lawyer Arthur Schwartz commented that ACORN was "gratified that the DA has concluded something we knew all along". He said that O'Keefe and Giles had "used subterfuge to convince Congress and the media to vilify an organization that didn't deserve it".[142]"

Either you simply don't know this, or you do and you're looking the other way.

neither would surprise us, I believe.

bobknight33 said:

O"keefe Puts the hebejebes to the liberals.

I just hate how he gets liberals to encourage people to lie and swindle the government.



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