While I don't think humans caused global warming (anymore), I think the hype about humans causing global warming is quiete useful. People are beginning to accept the idea that the few resources we have left on this planet need to be spent carefully and that the resources we have plenty of need to be used more effectively. This is exactly what could prevent the war with China which IMHO is likely to happen in the end of the second decade or the beginning of the third decade of our century.

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Im Grabe schlummert ein neues Morgenrot.

Absolutely. God damn ice shelf trying to bluff us all into taking five minute showers and driving pussy Japanese cars.

It's possible because the skeptic (or conspiracy theorist) in me is irrational.

Also I was implying that it's not beyond members of the scientific community to provide misleading data in an attempt to effect policy.

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During the journey we commonly forget its goal. Almost every profession is chosen as a means to an end but continued as an end in itself. Forgetting our objectives is the most frequent act of stupidity.
-Friedrich Nietzsche, The Wanderer and his Shadow

All good socialists have villas in Southern France. That's not the point.
-Eurosocialist

Do you have any evidence that the data is misleading, that these scientists are engaged in fraud, or that the arctic ice is not melting at an accelerating rate?

Andrew

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“...corporations and those who run them cannot stop exploiting resources and amassing wealth until they have... .I cannot finish this sentence, because the truth is that can never stop; like cancer, they can only continue to expand until they kill the host.”

-- Derrick Jensen

No I don't. If you pay attention, you'll notice that I also didn't make any of those arguments. I simply pointed out, in a way you apparently can't grasp, that the statement made was too fantastic to be immediately accepted as truth.

Judging from your response (and the fact that I made a joke about my skepticism in my first post and made it again in bold just for your benefit in my last post) I'll assume you've automatically taken this as the holy word of some god who governs the realm of environmental science.

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During the journey we commonly forget its goal. Almost every profession is chosen as a means to an end but continued as an end in itself. Forgetting our objectives is the most frequent act of stupidity.
-Friedrich Nietzsche, The Wanderer and his Shadow

All good socialists have villas in Southern France. That's not the point.
-Eurosocialist

oh lord that was a good one...well I'm sorry the Mayans are so upset about this. I didn't realize the Mayan civilization was still around but hopefully they can sacrifice a few virgins to keep the universe going for a few extra years.

edit: does this mean Nick Saban is the anti-Christ, and Bama winning the BCS will be our destruction? I can see Saban being the Dark Lord, but I just can't picture Alabama going undefeated.

I took the tone of your original post to mean you've automatically decided its some vast conspiracy.

Andrew

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“...corporations and those who run them cannot stop exploiting resources and amassing wealth until they have... .I cannot finish this sentence, because the truth is that can never stop; like cancer, they can only continue to expand until they kill the host.”

-- Derrick Jensen

Believe, brother, believe.

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Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. ---P. J. O'Rourke

No more polar bear burgers???????

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Want government run healthcare? Join the military.

I'm more worried about my seal stir fry...

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He's come to save the day!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVFdAJRVm94

That's for sure.

The US will pay off its debt

I'm sure it will eventually.

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Something wicked this way comes.

One way or another, someday it will happen. The only question is whether we as a people can control ourselves for the forty years it would reasonably take to pay down, or if we'll have to inflate our way out of it and tank the world economy because we're undisciplined assholes. Guess which one I'm laying my money on before it becomes worthless?

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He's come to save the day!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVFdAJRVm94

Its the end of the world?

Good.

The sooner the better, then we'll all know if the christians were right or wrong, and we'll quit bitching about things that don't matter, and the planet can breathe a sigh of relief and get itself back to doing what it does best without being interfered with by a bunch of over zealous jumped up ants.

Probably the same one I am

What else can you do ?

Reality will kick us all in the ass eventually. Some of us will pull through, some won't.

Nothing new nothing new ...

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Something wicked this way comes.

The documentary that will never win a Academy Award:
You Helped Us Make History!

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Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. ---P. J. O'Rourke

This along with every other report 'showing' 'global warming' is 100% pure bullshit.

Not happening... and if it were... we... man, would not be the driving force