Hackers just killed global warming
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- Dr_Sparkleshine0
Scientist: OK, we have the physics worked out and the engineering to put a man on the moon. Shall we get started?
Political Operative: Wait a minute, I've been watching the moon for the past month and it disappeared.
Scientist: No, no it didn't disappear, the moon merely moved into the earth's shadow, thus it waxes and wanes from your perspective on Earth.
Political Operative: Woah, see, you're using all this fancy scientific jargon to fund sending men to something that everyone can plainly see disappears each month.
Scientist: It doesn't disappear, it's that you can't see it, because there's no light reflecting off of it.
Political Operative: No light reflecting off of it? Of course not! Because it's not there anymore. If it was there, light would reflect off of it, it's just common sense. That's the problem with you scientists, you can't use your common sense. Everyone knows the moon magically disappears each month, only to reappear again. Sending people there would send them to their horrible, cold space deaths. You just want to waste billions of tax payer money on your grab to control us with your social Darwinian engineering project to send us to this "moon". You sciientists are so transparent in your little agenda.
Scientist: *blinks* What are you, some kind of moron?
Political Operative: A-ha, your true colors come out. You're an elitist. It's obvious from your attitude in speaking to me.
Scientist: Fine, fuck you. We won't go to the moon.
Political Operative: Yes, exactly, besides I'd like to funnel all this money from your imaginary moon landing project into something more concrete, like my share of controlling the market on books about how the moon disappears from the sky every month.
- Yeah nice analogy, great dialog. When is your tea party with Mr. Bear and Smitty the Kitty?mathinc
- Dr_Sparkleshine0
TV Reporter: And we're back now at the top of the hour with a scientist, who says we can go to the moon, although we're not sure if it's always there, and a critic, who thinks the whole plan is full of, as he says it "junk science". Let's talk with them. Mr. Scientist, people say that the moon disappears every month, is this true?
Scientist: Look, I'm not quite sure where this whole idea of the moon "disappearing" idea got started, but we've known for centuries now that the moon doesn't disappear, but rather travels through the Earth's shadow. That's just basic science taught to grammar school children...
Reporter (interjecting): So you're on one side of the issue then...
Scientist: It's not a "side", it's a fact. We have data and observation to back that position.
Reporter: So that's what you believe...
Scientist: No, it's science, it's not belief you see...
Political Operative (interjecting): That's the scientists belief you're hearing. Now we can all observe that the moon disappears in plain sight everymonth, we don't need a fancy degree to tell us this.
Reporter: That's our critic with his response, SO it's your contention that going to the moon on a mission of scientific inquiry is a waste of time?
Political Operative: And money! Yes. Of course. Are we going to hold all of scientific research hostage and in poverty by giving all this money to these few crackpot scientists who want to bilk the taxpayer but sending people to nowhere?
Scientist: The moon doesn't go anywhere, all you have to do is look at the data and...
Reporter: Our critic has said that the scientists are themselves not consistent in their moon views, what do you mean by this?
Political Operative: I'm glad you mentioned that. I mean at one time scientists thought there were oceans on the moon. That was a so-called "theory". I mean we call them "mares" on the moon today. And now this fellow is saying we can go there, even though it disappears and has oceans?
Scientist: Oh for crying out..look we thought there were "mares" or seas on the moon in the early 19th century...
Poltical Operative: But they were scientists doing science! Or are you saying that wasn't a scientific mainstream idea?
Scientist: It was 19th century science! That was over a hundred years ago when there were only a few people looking at the moon in scientific detail with primitive equipment, you can't relate what was thought then to what we're observing now. We now have thousands of scientists using state of the art equipment to study this...
Political Operative: Exactly my point. You see all this "moon science" is an industry. You just heard it, not all that long ago, scientists doing "science" thought there was actual seas on the moon, and now, after we've funded all these scietists, screated a "moon science industry" they have all new theories that only promote their scientist agenda. It's self-perpetuating. The taxpayer wants to know when does it end...
Scientist: Oh for BLEEP BLEEP sake...
Reporter: There you have it, our balanced look at the state of the Moon Science Agenda.
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- So when did you know that you born to do creative work??mathinc
- DrBombay0
Blows my mind that Raf and Deathboy and others see global warming believers as being part of some elaborate scam with an agenda to bilk the world of its money. But never make mention of the fossil fuel industry who would like to continue to do the same bilking it has been doing since 1900 without competition.
- They're conservatives, they like the powers that be to stay the powers that be. Change scares them.Dr_Sparkleshine
- I just don't like the direction of changes. I've been there and it stinks there.raf
- DrBombay.. funny how you make fun of religious nuts. But you're just as 'SHOVE IT DOWN THEIR FUCKING THROATmathinc
- IF THEY DON'T BELIEVE WHAT I BELIEVE THEN THEY'RE IDIOTS!!!' as the jebus lovers.mathinc
- _niko0
this shouldn't be political, it turns my stomach that I agree with GWB and other right wing nut jobs as far as climate change is concerned, but their agenda is money and power, I just think that climate change is the natural cycle of the planet as has been shown historically through tons of data. It just happens, whether we influence it or not.
- Yep********
- Maybe we can just all agree ending oil and moving to new energy is a good thingukit
- Yep
- PonyBoy0
i'm in it for the money and women
- utopian0
Australian Surfers beware of a MASSIVE iceberg -- more than twice the size of New York's Manhattan...
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology…
http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/sci…"HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH GLOBAL WARMING, SURFS UP DUDE!"
- in my short 28years of life, its not the first time this happend....GeorgesII
- identity0
isnt the counter argument to Gore's aguement NOT that the world is getting warmer (clearly something is making the ice melt) but wether or not Man has any direct and extreme influence on it?
- GeorgesII0
since this craze started every natural things are attributed to global warming, hurricane / global warming, hail storm / global warming, snow / global warming, rain / global warming,
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but the titanic still sank far away from the coast of Groenland and the north pole. Was it the fault of global warming too.
the titanic sank almost 100 years ago here
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here a more in depth article about that Iceberg
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/…
- DrBombay0
Just agree that polluting less is better and shut the fuck up about it. I assure you nothing you say is going to change the trajectory of any of this.
- There wasn't a single post disagreeing with it here.raf
- not a singleGeorgesII
- Point
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Ricks Headmathinc - Right, they are not against less pollution you fool, just against cutting back on pollutionukit
- no ukit, we're against bullshit.
thats it that's all. God please make Obama sign the treaty, pleeeeeeeeeaseGeorgesII - tommy should have to pay a tax for all the hot air he carries around in his bubble-head.DrBombay
- version30
did oil really come from dinosaurs? or was that something else i was taught i shouldn't have paid attention to?
- There are theories of non-fossil origin of oil. They're not completely crazy and my geologist friend says..raf
- There is much, much more oil than anyone had expected and there are theories it's regenerating.raf
- I mean, first Club of Rome predictions were we hit peak oil by 80's if I remember.raf
- oil can come from plants too right? its just weird to think that's true because you figure we'd be out by nowversion3
- The article I read I think was on non-organic origin of oil and the geologist friend said wasn't completely debunked.raf
- It was somehow linked to underground processes under high temperatures and pressure...raf
- PonyBoy0
even if we do run out of oil... there are tons of trees and plants to torch...we'll be okay you worry-warts!!
- janne760
there's billions upon billions of coal left. we should burn all that shit first as well. and gas. and shit.
- GeorgesII0
for those who still don't get the economics behind the whole game, I'm not going to bother pasting if you don't have the courage reading it by yourself. I pray Obama signs it, it will be the best thing he'll do.
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http://correspondents.theatlanti…
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/enviro…
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download here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/enviro…
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more
http://www.business-standard.com…
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and the google news feed if you still don't get it, this summit has nothing to do with climate.
http://news.google.it/news/story…
- janne760
climate change. yes we can.
- janne760
finally something ALL the people on the earth created together: climate change.
the first massive thing we created in collaboration despite national, racial, financial differences...
and now they want to stop this beautiful collaboration that truly binds the spirit of all mankind together, and that is to create on big tropical waterworld. fantastic!
you know, politicians really need to ruin every party. haters!
- raf0
A random, out of context quote from an IPCC report:
"In climate research and modelling, we should recognise that we are dealing with a coupled non-linear chaotic system, and therefore that the long-term prediction of future climate states is not possible. "
- quamb0
If you believe or not... isn't cutting back on emissions a good thing? No matter what?
In HK the amount of smog can be suffocating. Some days a few blocks ahead fade into murky brown. The amount of grit that cakes on everything remotely near a major road is crazy. It's like we have to walk through molasses and be wearing air conditioned cyber suits until some people accept major changes have to be made.
- janne760
i love the high of carbon dioxide flowing into my lungs in the morning rush.
