seattle.politics

lein wrote:
> On Sep 5, 11:52 pm, dangerman wrote:
>> Grendel wrote:
>>> On Sep 5, 10:49 am, dangerman < ...@ > wrote:
>>>> Grendel wrote:
>>>>> On Sep 5, 9:58 am, dangerman < ...@ > wrote:
>>>>> ****old postings snipped for brevity****
>>>>>>> As I've informed you, and as further research into the 'consensus' has
>>>>>>> proven, your 'scientific consensus' has been debunked as the political
>>>>>>> bullshit it was.
>>>>>> Nonsense.
>>>>> Just because you refuse to believe it does not make in nonsense.
>>>>> Here, I'll make it easy for you, as you seem inept at looking up
>>>>> sources.
>>>> Just because you refuse to believe the scientific consensus doesn't mean
>>>> it isn't the scientific consensus.
>>> I noticed you clipped the link to the study.
>> That's because I noticed your link was to a study about some "Global
>> Warming Theory" I don't subscribe to and have not been discussing here.
>> I noticed you keep raising this red herring you call "Global Warming
>> Theory" and you keep screaming about it. There is no such theory that I
>> know of, except in the media and in the minds of people like you who
>> have dedicated their existence to shooting it down.
>>
>> Here is what we know. We know that the climate is warming. We know it is
>> warming rapidly. We know that there are nearly seven billion people on
>> the planet, and we know that a warming trend like the one happening now
>> has never occurred during a time when there have been anywhere near
>> seven billion people on the planet. We know the human race is a very big
>> input to the chemistry of the planet's atmosphere. We know that
>> deforestation is a significant input to the planet's chemistry. We know
>> that burning carbon fuels is a significant input to the planet's
>> chemistry, and that we burn quite a lot of carbon fuels. We know that
>> CFC's are a problem. We know that cattle, which we eat a lot of,
>> contribute a huge amount of methane to the planet's chemistry. We know
>> that acid rain was a serious problem not too long ago, and we know we
>> fixed that problem by changing our behavior. Well, there are lots of
>> other things we know, but the bottom line is we know we are going to
>> have to change our behavior again, because hundreds of millions of lives
>> are going to be affected by all this change in the planet's chemistry.
>> And we also know that fuckwits like you are doing nothing but complaining.
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> When will you do your part and take a long walk off a short pier?

I'm a competitive swimmer, remember? So falling off a pier wouldn't
change much. Global warming is changing quite a lot, though, and if we
don't begin setting up systems and technologies and government
institutions to deal with it, a human catastrophe will be the result,
and it could be a lot worse than anything al qaida could dream up.