Beginning to Unravel

[prole]

That must make you feel weird.

[j_b]

I feel like I just creaked open the church door during Sunday services and shouted, "Jesus is not divine!" With the notable exceptions of Jim, Jon, and Feck, the responses here have been about the same as one would expect from religious zealots. What's more, one of the church deacons, j_b, even took (and apparently, had) the time to review scripture and formulate a response sure to keep the flock in check. Never mind that past predictions of apocalypse have come and gone--or been semantically "modified." Never mind any of this. The real question is how open the true believers here may be (either now, or at some future date) to data that says their beliefs might be flawed. This input won't come as a news headline, rather, it will come in small bits--like the OSU study. Here, rather than face the wrath of politicians and non-credentialed dogmatists like j_b, they will do exactly what the OSU folks have done. They'll hedge.

 

Anyway, most of you can fuck off. You're a bunch of hysterical tools with too much time on your hands.

 

:middlefinger:

 

 

Dude, I only pointed out for at least the 2nd time that your claims were false and you insisted despite the evidence. It's nobody's fault that you aren't qualified to discuss science, but trying to pull again the same lie is lame. Your intellectual integrity is lacking. Don't you have any pride?

[Fairweather]

It's nobody's fault that you aren't qualified to discuss science,

 

By all means, do share with us your scientific credentials...

[G-spotter]

FW is qualified to fuck a pig.

[kevbone]

It's nobody's fault that you aren't qualified to discuss science,

 

By all means, do share with us your scientific credentials...

 

share us yours......

[tvashtarkatena]

I realize that 'credentials' are one of FW's fetishes, but they are neither necessary nor sufficient for making a credible, cogent argument.

[olyclimber]

[video:youtube]qi6n_-wB154

 

here is the current front runner for the republicans

[Pete_H]

I'd have a hard time voting for someone named Newt.

[KaskadskyjKozak]

I'd have a hard time voting for someone named Newt.

 

Not as catchy as Obama.

 

[olyclimber]

[video:youtube]xzYO0joolR0

[sobo]

"I got better..."

[G-spotter]

You want to see how bad science unravels? This is how bad science unravels:

 

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/11/xmrv-lawsuit-arrest/

 

Q: What is unraveling like this in climate science?

A: The work of fossil-fuel industry funded climate denialists.

[tvashtarkatena]

I feel like I just creaked open the church door during Sunday services and shouted, "Jesus is not divine!"

 

 

A perfect summation of your self image.

 

In reality, however, you just creaked open the church door during Sunday services and shouted "I remember TuTu! They had a swimming pool!"

 

 

[tvashtarkatena]

The less one understands science and complex systems, the more one is inclined to believe that the threat of climate change is being 'overstated'. That doesn't include fucking liars, of course.

 

Melting permafrost worsens warming

[j_b]

[video:youtube]lnVGzlXmgko

[j_b]

[video:youtube]oa3M4ou3kvw

[tvashtarkatena]

I don't know whether to laugh or cry when when our resident science illiterates attempt to prove that the jury's still out on whether or not CO2 can cause climate warming.

 

Plunge in CO2 resulted in Antarctic ice sheets

 

Next up:

 

DO ANIMALS REALLY NEED OXYGEN TO LIVE?

[Phil K]

"Contend not in wisdom with a fool, for thy sense maketh much of his conceit;

And some errors never would have thriven, had it not been for learned refutation."

 

- Ben Franklin

[Phil K]

Actually, that wasn't Ben Franklin, but some guy named Martin Farquhar Tupper. But who's really heard of him?

[tvashtarkatena]

I assign all my quotes, regardless of origin, to either Ben Franklin or Mark Twain. Who doesn't like Franklin and Twain.

 

In reality, Franklin was a complete fuck off on the job while in Europe. He spent much of his time partying on the public's dime. Not that that bothers me, much. Given their recent 'results', I'd rather most of Congress spend their paycheck's drinking and whoring rather than showing up for work.