Global Warming
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- _niko0
I think people are taking this way too seriously, on both sides, the earth goes through warming and cooling periods naturally, we happened to be responsible for accelerating this current one probably but who gives a fuck? A lot worse has and will happen on its own (and we survived just fine).
We can blame cars or factories in China or farting cows, but I don't see anything being done about it (other than a lot of finger pointing and complaining) nor think there is anything that can be done about it.
- you don't seem to get it mate:
I just want to watch the whole world burnGeorgesIV - are you implying the world is older than 6,000 years?monospaced
- You and your witchcraft. Obama will drone you for spreading facts.Dillinger
- Food will disappear. It's a big deal whether it is human made or natural.freedom
- you don't seem to get it mate:
- utopian1
- Well, gee, that's funny because it was 5˚F this morning in VT, 5 days AFTER the start of springlocustsloth
- If by earlier, you mean a month later, than yes, it is earlier.section_014
- How warm/cold it was today or last week or any particular time IS NOT A VALID ARGUMENT REGARDING CLIMATE CHANGE.nb
- Short term is called weather. Overall averages and trends long term are climate. I wish more people could understand that.ETM
- reanimate0
I think people are missing the fact that climate change could cause a huge number of deaths, but only in some parts of the world. Africa and Southeast Asia will be hit especially hard according to the current estimates, with droughts, crop failures, etc.
If climate change causes a genocide in the developing world, does it change how people feel about it? Considering that countries like the U.S. and China are mostly responsible, and that U.S. media are mostly the ones spreading disinfo about it?
- pff, too many people in africa and southeast asia anyway, I'm running out o buy a hummer to speed things up a bit_niko
- Sorry, I know we supposed to joke about everything these days,reanimate
- but I have a hard time laughing at the idea of millions of people starving or dying of thirstreanimate
- Carry on though, it's not your problem I guessreanimate
- GeorgesIV-1
I honestly think people who deny global climate change should be sent to jail or to reeducation camps,
I'm not even joking, these deniers are worst than hitler
- GeorgesII-1
THANK YOU NEIL DE GRASS SAGAN!!
what I've been saying 5ever
- mg331
I think all the ignorant, white, redneck right wing Republican morons who say seasonal weather change is proof that climate change isn't happening should be thrown in prison forever.
An oft found comment on blogs: "Still go cold this winter and snowed. Climate change is a joke."
LOCK THEM UP!!
- BrokenHD1
ITS THE KOCH BROTHERS THAT ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE MASS DISINFO CAMPAIGN IN THE US. ALL TO PROTECT THEIR OIL ENTERPRISES. THEY ARE ALSO RESPONSIBLE FOR MOST OF THE MONETARY ATTACHES ON THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY. IF ANY ONE SHOULD BE FINED AND IMPRISONED FOR GLOBAL WARMING... shit sorry all caps
- mg331
I bet I've commented as such a few times in this thread in the past, but the thing that really blows my mind is how poor, relatively uneducated people who deny climate change blindly support corporations that are mass-polluters, that in no way have their best interests in mind. All because of their politics. They're so dumb that they'll support money-hungry corporations who are the biggest producers of pollution and biggest collective causes of manmade climate change. And at the same time, in my experience, these people are the biggest anti-corporate, anti-big corporation people out there.
I don't even know if I explained that correctly, but it's one of the more bizarre things to me in the whole mess.
- part of it has to do with how their politics are intertwined with their religious beliefsmonospaced
- monospaced1
Saw this reposted on another site, taken from a comment in a reddit thread (apologies for not having the original source or reference link), and it really got me thinking and seeing connections.
"American Evangelical Christianity (AEC) is intrinsically intertwined with the Republican Party. Please note that this isn't American Christianity in general, it's just the one that is the most vocal and thus the one that you, as a foreigner, see on television. The intertwining was a conscious decision made by the Republicans somewhere around three decades ago (although there were ties before that). Grover Norquist and others put together a strategy wherein business would back social conservative candidates, while single-issue groups (pro-life groups, NRA) would support low taxes and deregulation. The idea was that business would supply the money to win elections, while the single-issue folks would supply the energy needed to get people out to the polls. This is how the GOP is able to stay viable in elections even as the percentage of rank-and-file Republicans decreases.
As a result, issues that are for the most part unrelated to Biblical principles (like gun rights or global warming), or anti-thetical to Biblical principles (like cutting welfare) become framed as Biblical issues by a lobby that is incredibly shrewd at doing so. Even if one accepts the overwhelming scientific evidence for global warming, one can bypass the idea that something should be done about in any of the following ways:
In Genesis, God gave Adam dominion over the Earth, thus the Earth is ours to do with it what we please
Christ will return within our lifetime, and therefore there is no reason to act on global warming
We are being punished for straying from the Bible, and a return to Biblical principles will, by itself, reverse global warming"
- hotroddy0
The automobile will be the hearst that drives us and other mammals into extinction. The car is responsible for urban sprawl, deforestation, amongst other evils and above all green house gasses.
Not to mention it's also the biggest vanity possession for douches.
- GeorgesII0
I know this one country which consume 1/4 of the entire earth energy, but he's only like 5% of the entire planet population, maybe if they walk the talk or talk the walk, (wtv the idiom is) this planet would be paradise (I swear, I've seen the pic in the watchtower mag),
but instead they complain that two other countries which total almost 40% of the earth's population are to blame,
maybe if they renounced the whole quality of life they're used to and start getting their shit together Global warming/climate change/catch scary name could be averted in like 150 years,
but nope, they will find some boogeyman industrials and put all their anger onto them instead of looking in the mirror while typing like ants on their $2000 computer that is full of rare mineral extracted from the blood of poor congolese...
yeaaaaaah hypocrisy,
tip: not iceland
- utopian0
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- _niko1
#1 cause of global warming: coal powered electricity plants.
#2 cars.I don't see any motherfucker that complains about global warming willing to live like a god damned Mennonite so either do something about it or STFU.
Not sure what the global numbers look like but I think we as a planet are taking strides in the right direction. This is Canada's electrical generation sources today and projected:
- all I want is the possibility to club a baby seal before they disappear :(
IS IT TOO MUCH TO ASK!!GeorgesIV - not at all we've got plenty here, and there will be millions more once the polar bears are gone :)_niko
- That's what bothers me about smug cunts and electric cars. You're most likely burning coal to power that.ETM
- all I want is the possibility to club a baby seal before they disappear :(
- freedom0
Why do republicans say they don't believe scientists?
Are they being pressured by lobbyists or are they really dumb?
- GeorgesIV-1
I for one is applying to a ticket with the breakaway civilisation,
there are tons of planets out there to colonize.