Global Warming: "Pseudoscientific Fraud"

[Paperback Writer]

Yeah, it seems if the dumb Dems actually understood what is really causing the climate problem (i.e. the cows) they would be running that pipeline right through Cowboy's pasture lands to shut him down.

I wonder how the number of cows curently being raised on Cowboy's pasture would compare to the number of wild bison that roamed on Cowboy's pasture before the land was settled.

[Jeff Lebowski]

How brown does your nose get when your nose is say 6 inches up his fanny.

That sounds painful.

[SandYFan]

Is it fair to say this entire thread can be boiled down to:

Group A: We believe climate change theory because many, many scientists say it is real!

and

Group B: We do not believe those scientists!


If this is the case, why is everyone posting links to articles and studies and making passionate arguments from one side or the other? Seems like a complete waste of time to me.

[Jeff Lebowski]

Is it fair to say this entire thread can be boiled down to:

Group A: We believe climate change theory because many, many scientists say it is real!

and

Group B: We do not believe those scientists!


If this is the case, why is everyone posting links to articles and studies and making passionate arguments from one side or the other? Seems like a complete waste of time to me.

Feel free to disengage!

[creekster]

If this is the case, why is everyone posting links to articles and studies and making passionate arguments from one side or the other? Seems like a complete waste of time to me.

Are you new to this whole message board experience? Because wasting time is pretty much the point.

[Blueintheface]

How brown does your nose get when your nose is say 6 inches up his fanny.

Brown nosing Lebowski? That would be a first.

He's often right (fortunately or unfortunately) but it doesn't mean he conveys it the right way.

By the way, I stand all amazed at anyone that can read the available data (albeit flawed or even conflicted at times) and not just realize we have an alarming affect on the environment. You may concede an effect but to continue to regurgitate silly politically motivated nonsense is a really strange tactic in an argument such as this. At least CMBF includes some of his own data (which I read with the same skepticism with which I read all reports). That's how an argument is at least formulated.

I did not always believe in the affects we have on the environment but overwhelming evidence has changed my opinion. And before you ask, I don't know how to fix it either, but I sure know doing nothing is not the answer.

[Moliere]

Are you new to this whole message board experience? Because wasting time is pretty much the point.

Chances are that this board is a bigger cause of global warming than anything else.

[Blueintheface]

Chances are that this board is a bigger cause of global warming than anything else.

Gas-Ex.

[TripletDaddy]

Is it fair to say this entire thread can be boiled down to:

Group A: We believe climate change theory because many, many scientists say it is real!

and

Group B: We do not believe those scientists!

No! completely unfair

[Jeff Lebowski]

Brown nosing Lebowski? That would be a first.

He's often right (fortunately or unfortunately) but it doesn't mean he conveys it the right way.

That's a fair criticism. I will look to you as a mentor for congenial forum posting!

[Blueintheface]

That's a fair criticism. I will look to you as a mentor for congenial forum posting!

[Uncle Ted]

Chances are that this board is a bigger cause of global warming than anything else.

No. The cows by far are the bigger cause! Go to cowspiracy.com and see for yourself.

[Uncle Ted]

I wonder how the number of cows curently being raised on Cowboy's pasture would compare to the number of wild bison that roamed on Cowboy's pasture before the land was settled.

cowspiracy.com said nothing about wild bison. I don't think they cause global warming.

[snowcat]

I did not always believe in the affects we have on the environment but overwhelming evidence has changed my opinion. And before you ask, I don't know how to fix it either, but I sure know doing nothing is not the answer.

This is the problem for me.

Is the climate changing? Yes. Are humans impacting climate change? Yes. How much? We think significantly but the predictions appear to need some work. Are the potential costs to society great? Yes. Can we predict when these effects will be realized? The models appear to need some work. Can we quantify the impact of various policy changes on mitigating climate change? Getting murkier. But we have to do something, right?

Here is when people will come to tell you what you need to do that often seem to a) further some other political agenda, b) result in enriching a select few or c) make you jump through hoops that appear to do little to reduce actual greenhouse gas emissions. I get real nervous when we get new mandates that will result in actual drops in standard of living with little possibility of measureable impact, especially when motives of those clamoring for the mandates can be called in question.

[byu71]

Brown nosing Lebowski? That would be a first.

He's often right (fortunately or unfortunately) but it doesn't mean he conveys it the right way.

By the way, I stand all amazed at anyone that can read the available data (albeit flawed or even conflicted at times) and not just realize we have an alarming affect on the environment. You may concede an effect but to continue to regurgitate silly politically motivated nonsense is a really strange tactic in an argument such as this. At least CMBF includes some of his own data (which I read with the same skepticism with which I read all reports). That's how an argument is at least formulated.

I did not always believe in the affects we have on the environment but overwhelming evidence has changed my opinion. And before you ask, I don't know how to fix it either, but I sure know doing nothing is not the answer.

Good post. You took me down a notch without being nasty. If I were inclined to be a better poster I could learn from reading your posts.