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Global warming and evolution: here's a discussion point. (pg. 6)
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| Clovis |
| quote: | Originally posted by adi_hanson
global warming is now a BUSINESS other than a theory
global warming is being milked by people
global warming is making people millions
global warming is making governments millions
global warming is giving grants to pointless studies
global warming is an ECONOMY (MONEY MONEY MONEY)
global warming is making people famous
global warming has backfired
global warming was a good idea to start with
global warming says that you will die , to SELL more papers
global warming is used to SELL products
Its being milked regardless of fact
so what was global cooling? |
And who explained all this to you to make you believe it as fact? Because theres no way you collected these opinions based on your own research, unless you're mentally retarded and illiterate. |
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| RJT |
| quote: | Originally posted by Clovis
And who explained all this to you to make you believe it as fact? Because theres no way you collected these opinions based on your own research, unless you're mentally retarded and illiterate. |
Well, not quite illiterate, but close. |
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| adi_hanson |
| quote: | Originally posted by Clovis
And who explained all this to you to make you believe it as fact? Because theres no way you collected these opinions based on your own research, unless you're mentally retarded and illiterate. |
this reply defo falls under clause 5
5) Shouts down, puts down, and insults anyone whose beliefs run contrary to their own, rather than having intelligent discourse. A zealot for their cause. |
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| UWM |
| Clovis, stop wasting your time. Seriously. |
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| RJT |
| quote: | Originally posted by adi_hanson
this reply defo falls under clause 5
5) Shouts down, puts down, and insults anyone whose beliefs run contrary to their own, rather than having intelligent discourse. A zealot for their cause. |
You aren't doing anything to promote intelligent discourse. You are spouting off one liners with absolutely no content to back them up.
Your beliefs aren't being shot down because they're contrary to what anyone else believes, they're being shot down because they're about as convincing as creationism. |
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| adi_hanson |
| quote: | Originally posted by RJT
You aren't doing anything to promote intelligent discourse. You are spouting off one liners with absolutely no content to back them up.
Your beliefs aren't being shot down because they're contrary to what anyone else believes, they're being shot down because they're about as convincing as creationism. |
get lost , globalwarmists are as fanatical as any evangelical wierdo who belives this planet is 6000 years old
i belive darwin and i belive global warming is being overhyped something stupid |
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| RJT |
| quote: | Originally posted by adi_hanson
get lost , globalwarmists are as fanatical as any evangelical wierdo who belives this planet is 6000 years old
i belive darwin and i belive global warming is being overhyped something stupid |
The key here is that you believe it for absolutely no good reason at all, so you can tell all of us to get lost, and continue to regurgitate whatever the phrase du jour you care to hammer is, but you're the only one who's buying your own bullshit.
Enjoy spending your life with your head in the sand. It's sad there are so many of you who are just lost causes. |
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| adi_hanson |
| you tell me personally how global warming is effecting you!! |
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| Arbiter |
| quote: | Originally posted by Ang ' ela_ie
Interesting? Bull? |
Yeah... I saw this yesterday. Even setting aside some of the more questionable reasoning there, this doesn't really tell us anything.
We don't know why higher temperatures appear to correlate with minutely lower IQs, and if there is a relationship, we have no reason to think that it's linear or even that the relationship remains similar across a wider temperature spectrum (in fact, I personally doubt the highest IQs would be associated with the lowest possible temperatures.)
We don't know whether it affects all individuals, or only some subset of individuals, nor whether the mechanism by which it might affect IQ is manipulable.
And frankly, even if we take the information at face value and just assume that IQ drops linearly, universally, and unavoidably with increasing temperature, we're looking here at a variance of about 1.5 points on the IQ scale over a temperature variance of about 32 degrees. Even in the worst-case global warming scenario, we'd be hard pressed to lose a single point off the average IQ due to this effect. Of course, in that case the net effect on mean IQ would probably be positive, since such extreme global warming would cause much greater mortality amongst traditionally low-IQ groups. So bring 'er on, I say. |
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| adi_hanson |
| quote: | Originally posted by Arbiter
Yeah... I saw this yesterday. Even setting aside some of the more questionable reasoning there, this doesn't really tell us anything.
We don't know why higher temperatures appear to correlate with minutely lower IQs, and if there is a relationship, we have no reason to think that it's linear or even that the relationship remains similar across a wider temperature spectrum (in fact, I personally doubt the highest IQs would be associated with the lowest possible temperatures.)
We don't know whether it affects all individuals, or only some subset of individuals, nor whether the mechanism by which it might affect IQ is manipulable.
And frankly, even if we take the information at face value and just assume that IQ drops linearly, universally, and unavoidably with increasing temperature, we're looking here at a variance of about 1.5 points on the IQ scale over a temperature variance of about 32 degrees. Even in the worst-case global warming scenario, we'd be hard pressed to lose a single point off the average IQ due to this effect. Of course, in that case the net effect on mean IQ would probably be positive, since such extreme global warming would cause much greater mortality amongst traditionally low-IQ groups. So bring 'er on, I say. |
I questioned global warming and i was beat down , so in theory it should be 100'F here in england for me to dare be as dumb as question global watsitcalled
but im not , its early july and im here with the fire on full
oops:stongue: |
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| gehzumteufel |
| quote: | Originally posted by Arbiter
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What did you go to school for?! I really ing love your posts when you are around. :)
| quote: | Originally posted by adi_hanson
I questioned global warming and i was beat down , so in theory it should be 100'F here in england for me to dare be as dumb as question global watsitcalled
but im not , its early july and im here with the fire on full
oops:stongue: |
They didn't do it because of that. As mentioned previously, you are making unsubstantiated claims, no matter what side of the fence you are on. They are asking you to substantiate your view and you do not.
Also, going green does help you. How? It lowers costs for things like heating, cooling, better building materials that are biodegradable that keep the air you breathe clean, your out of your house and into a treatment plant, drinking water, etc just to name a few. |
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