Global Warming: "Pseudoscientific Fraud"

[Topper]

He's a Jesuit. He very much fits the stereotype from everything I've read about him. That's a good thing, IMO.

He's hardly a man of shallow platitudes.

He supposedly studied chemistry and being a Jesuit he would be devoted to education. His leanings appear to be liberation which have a distinctly anti business component.

[ERCougar]

He supposedly studied chemistry and being a Jesuit he would be devoted to education. His leanings appear to be liberation which have a distinctly anti business component.

I'm off topic now but have to address this. Yes Jesuits tend to be devoted to education but that's more of a fruit of their primary belief structure, not central to it. They're very Eastern in their approach to Catholicism, spiritual in the more commonly accepted, if not very Mormon, way (present focused, mindfulness stuff).

[Topper]

I'm off topic now but have to address this. Yes Jesuits tend to be devoted to education but that's more of a fruit of their primary belief structure, not central to it. They're very Eastern in their approach to Catholicism, spiritual in the more commonly accepted, if not very Mormon, way (present focused, mindfulness stuff).

I will reflect to see if your depiction comports with my experience with Jesuits. Now centeredness? Studious yes. Food for thought.

[ERCougar]

I will reflect to see if your depiction comports with my experience with Jesuits. Now centeredness? Studious yes. Food for thought.

Well, maybe I didn't phrase that very well. They're definitely catholic, but they meditate more than other catholics and there is more focus on ego destruction, from what I've read. They also seem far less dogmatic. To me, that's very Eastern.
So education is important, but as a means of world service and personal enlightenment, not as a means to a good career or worldly success. Reflection is very important. So....platitudes aren't really their thing.

[San Juan Sun]

So, just out of curiosity. Which of the current 12 apostles would need to outlive the rest and become president in order for the LDS church to make a similar transition? (I'm particularly interested in the abolishing of the honor code at BYU.)

Summon grapevine.

[byu71]

Climate change is wreaking havoc with Texas. I heard some river in Texas is the highest it has been in 17 years. Do you think climate change could be on a 17 year cycle in Texas?

[Dwight Schr-ute]

Cool interactive graph. It's even Bloomberg so '71 might even give it a chance!

http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/20...ing-the-world/

[Uncle Ted]

Cool interactive graph. It's even Bloomberg so '71 might even give it a chance!

http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/20...ing-the-world/

That is pretty cool graph but how much of those greenhouse gases come from those SoB cows? They need to add that to the fancy graphing thingie.

[byu71]

Cool interactive graph. It's even Bloomberg so '71 might even give it a chance!

http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/20...ing-the-world/

I don't have the memory I used to, but I don't think I have ever argued man hasn't contributed to global warming. Of the 1.6 degree increase I would be willing to accept man has contributed .2 of it.

Now the trade off. Who is willing to and who is not willing to trade all the advancement man has made since 1860 in exchange for .2 degrees of warming?

What I have always admired about my progressive friends is their ability to talk about how things should be without calculating the costs of getting there.

Their buddies in Greece are now suffering the consequences of a great entitlement society.

[fusnik]

I don't have the memory I used to, but I don't think I have ever argued man hasn't contributed to global warming. Of the 1.6 degree increase I would be willing to accept man has contributed .2 of it.

Now the trade off. Who is willing to and who is not willing to trade all the advancement man has made since 1860 in exchange for .2 degrees of warming?

What I have always admired about my progressive friends is their ability to talk about how things should be without calculating the costs of getting there.

Their buddies in Greece are now suffering the consequences of a great entitlement society.

This is the dumbest argument out there for not doing anything, the it'll crush the worlds economy argument.

Innovation is the greatest mechanism for capitalism.

[byu71]

This is the dumbest argument out there for not doing anything, the it'll crush the worlds economy argument.

Innovation is the greatest mechanism for capitalism.

How often do you allow your head to get out of your ass? I hope more often than you show on here.

Who mentioned not doing anything? As in all things there is a trade off. I think the lefties are going overboard with their demands which certainly doesn't equate to promoting doing nothing.

[frank ryan]

I don't have the memory I used to, but I don't think I have ever argued man hasn't contributed to global warming. Of the 1.6 degree increase I would be willing to accept man has contributed .2 of it.

Now the trade off. Who is willing to and who is not willing to trade all the advancement man has made since 1860 in exchange for .2 degrees of warming?

What I have always admired about my progressive friends is their ability to talk about how things should be without calculating the costs of getting there.

Their buddies in Greece are now suffering the consequences of a great entitlement society.

How did you come up with the .2 stat ?

[SeattleUte]

This guy says that "global warming" has nothing to do with why Seattle has been so hot the past 16 months. But if global warming should happen to make Seattle this hot permanently, that wouldn't be a good thing.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/04/op...ol-left-region

[myboynoah]

A lot of hot air in Seattle does not surprise me.

[Uncle Ted]

This guy says that "global warming" has nothing to do with why Seattle has been so hot the past 16 months. But if global warming should happen to make Seattle this hot permanently, that wouldn't be a good thing.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/04/op...ol-left-region

So your high is going to be 89 degrees today... That is nothing. We are hitting 93.