Canadiens1131
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It's fun when you occasionally get that peek into the workings of the minds of certain conservatives' minds.
Oh, well then. If they'd just thought of that earlier they wouldn't still be poor!
Do you realize how completely out of touch that sounds?
I think organic farming should be everywhere, but located in agri-towers (multistory buildings/skyscrapers that can be built anywhere).
There are companies out there with excellent models. Some Middle Eastern countries are very interested.
We romanticize farming too much in the U.S.
Pretending that India and China will consume inordinate amounts of fossil fuel in the next 25 years of development and that we'll still be a-okay as far as a global energy market is a pipedream.I think it's just fashionable to be pessimistic because there are bad things in the world and because we naturally want to dwell on them yet why is there such a HUGE population living better than ever in human history unless some of this has already come to pass in parts of the world?
Purpleoscar, in which developing countries have you spent appreciable time? Those one week holidays at minimum security prisons - I mean all-inclusive resorts - down in Mexico and the Caribbean notwithstanding.
Pretending that India and China will consume inordinate amounts of fossil fuel in the next 25 years of development and that we'll still be a-okay as far as a global energy market is a pipedream.
Or you just don't care because you won't be around or will be retired in 25 years and sipping your mixed drink with a tiny umbrella.
It's just fashionable to wear badges of honor.
We could all be rich with the same exact product, and then no one would be poor.
This th$ead has taught me so much.
So therefore development is not an option? What are you babbling about? How does that rebutt any of my arguments?
The public is tired of crackpot leftwing ideas that have good intentions but ignore science, scale and lengths of time of development.
The solution for poor countries is to get rich
Mongolia has been trying to lift themselves up economically by licensing out the mining of their extensive metal deposits to companies. It's starting to work, but it's not without its own new problems:
Gold mining company in Bornuur soum found with mercury - M.A.D
I see that you're still your rude self.
I asked because you seem convinced that these problems can be solved in one way and that it's all very neat and easy so I wanted to know what your experience was in the developing world.
I doubt you have any.
purpleoscar said:Pardon me if I come off rude but I like it when people get to the point and don't use distractions to avoid the obvious. I'd hope that even many left-wing people would like more jobs to exist in developing countries.
First of all, you tend to go off on tangents quite regularly (this whole "poor countries just need to get rich" is a complete tangent), so it's a little odd to hear you telling others to get to the point and avoid distractions.
Secondly, it is not at all that left-wing people don't want more jobs in existing countries, it's that your solution conveniently skips over the incredible difficulties and completely different circumstances that developing countries find themselves in, especially when compared with "rich" countries. Simply because something works in a rich Western country doesn't mean it will translate well in a developing 3rd world country. At face value, "poor countries need to get rich" is woefully naive at best.
purpleoscar said:I wasn't the one who started a new tangent here. I even asked if this was now going to be a general environmentalist thread or to stick to the CO2 topic. You added to the distraction by defending Kramwest's article in such away (when I criticized a perceived connection to AGW and this lake he talked about) that it would derail it.
First of all, since when is this thread specifically about CO2 and nothing else related to climate change? Secondly, you misrepresented kramwest's post completely, drawing a conclusion that wasn't logical given his post and linked article.
First of all, since when is this thread specifically about CO2 and nothing else related to climate change? Secondly, you misrepresented kramwest's post completely, drawing a conclusion that wasn't logical given his post and linked article.
the iron horse said:The truth still ignored is that the global warming
climate change doomsayers mantra is false.
That is what I think.
Looking forward to a cold winter and a warming spring.
So you have an opinion that climate change is false? Therefore the truth is being ignored? Are you considering yourself a prophet these days?
No, I'm not a prophet and neither is Al Gore.
The "Truth" so embraced by the global warming fan club is not
the truth. There are dissenting voices with viewpoints to say
otherwise.
I'm on the side of the dissenters. It's not happening.
Surveys of scientists and scientific literature
97–98% of the most published climate researchers think humans are causing global warming.[106] Another study found just under 90% of active scientists think significant man made global warming is occurring. Of those who didn't, most were unsure.[107]
Various surveys have been conducted to evaluate scientific opinion on global warming.
[edit] Anderegg, Prall, Harold, and Schneider, 2010
A 2010 paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States (PNAS) reviewed publication and citation data for 1,372 climate researchers and drew the following two conclusions:
(i) 97–98% of the climate researchers most actively publishing in the field support the tenets of ACC (Anthropogenic Climate Change) outlined by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and (ii) the relative climate expertise and scientific prominence of the researchers unconvinced of ACC are substantially below that of the convinced researchers.[108]
Scientific opinion on climate change - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The solution for poor countries is to get rich which will involve fossil fuels.
Are you for real? Is this what you consider an adult answer?
I'm on the side of the dissenters. It's not happening.
the iron horse said:No, I'm not a prophet and neither is Al Gore.
The "Truth" so embraced by the global warming fan club is not
the truth. There are dissenting voices with viewpoints to say
otherwise.
I'm on the side of the dissenters. It's not happening.
"By dissenting voices, you mean around 3% of climate researchers? Or 1 in 10 of scientists?"
I don't know, it could be.
Does a majority always mean right?
Thanks for posting the numbers and stats Canadien1131,
but I'm not buying it.
I guess we can wait and see.
The methodology of the Anderegg et al. study was challenged in PNAS by Lawrence Bodenstein for "treat[ing] publication metrics as a surrogate for expertise". He would expect the much larger side of the climate change controversy to excel in certain publication metrics as they "continue to cite each other's work in an upward spiral of self-affirmation".[109] Anderegg et al. replied that Bodenstein "raises many speculative points without offering data" and that his comment "misunderstands our study’s framing and stands in direct contrast to two prominent conclusions in the paper.[110] The Anderegg et al. study was also criticized by Roger A. Pielke,[111] Pat Michaels, Roger Pielke, Jr., and John Christy.[112] Pielke Jr. commented that "this paper simply reinforces the pathological politicization of climate science in policy debate." [112]
Economic geologists and meteorologists were among the biggest doubters, with only 47 percent and 64 percent, respectively, believing in significant human involvement. A summary from the survey states that:
It seems that the debate on the authenticity of global warming and the role played by human activity is largely nonexistent among those who understand the nuances and scientific basis of long-term climate processes.[113]
There are dissenting voices about the holocaust, so does that mean they are the truth? Your line of logic is false. This isn't how "truth" works.
But the evidence for the holocaust is more than the evidence for global warming. Just like when it was considered very scientific to call out global cooling. How is 30 years of warming or cooling a reason to panic? You can bash people like they are holocaust deniers but skeptics can bash in turn with past "scientific" attitudes like eugenics. We have a right to dissent with scientific papers and they do exist. It's not just crazy people.
No one ever said you didn't have the right to dissent.
I was just pointing out the flaw in his line of logic, which was 'because there is dissent then climate change is not the truth'. What thinking person falls for such logic?
It's hard to take you seriously if you have such reading comprehension issues.
purpleoscar said:Yes but are you addressing the loaded terminology of "climate change"? Look at your sentence above. Nobody is denying that climate change exists. They are debating how much change comes from anthropogenic CO2 and this is being debated by REAL SCIENTISTS. But that's okay you can talk about people's comprehension all you want but that will likely make it look like you deny there is scientific dissent. Science shouldn't proceed in this bashing kind of way but unfortunately it often can. Wait for information that shows conclusively that positive feedback is the answer and then you'll see less "deniers". As long as peer-reviewed data is showing negative feedback you'll be constantly shocked why "deniers" still exist.
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