Are you bracing youself to hear a lecture on global warming? [W:228]

[Monserrat]

People who worry about 400 ppm co2 are small minded and untraveled. They think the world is only as big as their tv or computer screen.
The world is HUGE, and 400ppm is not the manmade co2, but ALL of it. Manmade is like .0003 of 1 ppm?
It ain't hurting anything.

The lines are drawn on political bias.
Do you REALLY believe the folks on the right with the highest salaries and who pay the greatest taxes, and produce most of the stuff you enjoy, are STUPID?
AGW is a political scam to make you give up your freedoms.
Conservatives ain't signing on, so it ain't happening. Suck it up!

What are you talking about?

 

[yobarnacle]

http://www.princeton.edu/~rosentha/MPR2003.pdf

The right earns more, pays more taxes, ect

So, who is the more realistic, better adapted, less dysfunctional? (Gee, I'd love to say more intelligent, but don't want to insult anybody)

 

[yobarnacle]

What are you talking about?

The AGW controversy IS NOT divided with educated people on one side, and idiots on the other.

It's divided along political lines.
democrats on side of AGW and conservatives against it.

AGW is a political issue, not a scientific issue.

 

[Jerry]

Your video cut out when Bill Nye was going to explain his viewpoint.

Mr. Mye's view point is that it's the rate of CO2 increase, not the total amount of CO2, which is the problem, and he attributes this problem to size of the human population.

That information is given in the shortened video I linked to, but if you would like to view the whole 10 minutes, here it is:



Mr. Nye is skilled at his ability to keep things simple and easy to understand: Large population ---> rapid rate of CO2 increase ---> killer tornadoes.

He's not the only one who has similar concerns:...[lecture follows]

You're lecturing. This thread is not about Global Warming, it's about you people lecturing.

That you cannot help yourself but to lecture is amusing, that you can be so easily baited into lecturing is hilarious. With your actions you have proven OP to be correct.

 

[Jerry]

AGW is a political issue, not a scientific issue.

H.L. Mencken: "The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed — and hence clamorous to be led to safety — by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." And, "The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face for the urge to rule it."

 

[Cardinal]

The AGW controversy IS NOT divided with educated people on one side, and idiots on the other.

It's divided along political lines.
democrats on side of AGW and conservatives against it.

Sadly, these are not mutually exclusive.

 

[yobarnacle]

Agree
Not ALL on the left rubber stamp AGW and some on the right do.
But GENERALLY, AGW is a conflict between political agendas.
It has NOTHING to do with saving the planet! Except in the minds of some of the deluded.

 

[Monserrat]

Mr. Mye's view point is that it's the rate of CO2 increase, not the total amount of CO2, which is the problem, and he attributes this problem to size of the human population.

That information is given in the shortened video I linked to, but if you would like to view the whole 10 minutes, here it is:



Mr. Nye is skilled at his ability to keep things simple and easy to understand: Large population ---> rapid rate of CO2 increase ---> killer tornadoes.



You're lecturing. This thread is not about Global Warming, it's about you people lecturing.

That you cannot help yourself but to lecture is amusing, that you can be so easily baited into lecturing is hilarious. With your actions you have proven OP to be correct.

ummm...that's not a lecture...

This is a debate site, usually when people talk about a subject it's okay to provide sources to review, the ones I posted don't even support what Bill Nye was saying but okay :shrug:

 

[Monserrat]

The AGW controversy IS NOT divided with educated people on one side, and idiots on the other.

It's divided along political lines.
democrats on side of AGW and conservatives against it.

AGW is a political issue, not a scientific issue.

Yep. It's also something being discussed in the scientific community.

 

[tech30528]

I'd still like to know what the GW alarmists are doing about it. Has Al Gore stopped flying in his jet? Have those of you here who have bought in to this BS given up your cars? It just seems that over the past few decades where this lie has been spread that enough people would have changed their behavior in a way that would show an environmental benefit.

So let's here it folks, what are you doing to fix it?

 

[Jerry]

ummm...that's not a lecture...

Your post #197 was a lecture, in part because this thread isn't about global warming, yet you couldn't help yourself but go on and on about global warming.

This is a debate site, usually when people talk about a subject it's okay to provide sources to review, the ones I posted don't even support what Bill Nye was saying but okay :shrug:

You were talking about global warming. This thread is not about global warming. This is a bait thread about how people like you can't help themselves but lecture.

 

[Boo Radley]

Your post #197 was a lecture, in part because this thread isn't about global warming, yet you couldn't help yourself but go on and on about global warming.


You were talking about global warming. This thread is not about global warming. This is a bait thread about how people like you can't help themselves but lecture.

That's not actually true. At the heart of the complaint is GW.

 

[notquiteright]

He designed a sundial and now he's a scientist? :lamo :lamo :lamo

I hear Nye's secretly working on his next scientific breakthrough, he calls it the telegraph.

If it goes on a Mars Rover then yes he is... You need to read his bio before sounding like a know-nothing 'conservative'. eace

 

[Monserrat]

Your post #197 was a lecture, in part because this thread isn't about global warming, yet you couldn't help yourself but go on and on about global warming.


You were talking about global warming. This thread is not about global warming. This is a bait thread about how people like you can't help themselves but lecture.

This thread brought up global warming in the OP, I haven't spoken about it at all except for minimally about climate change which I haven't really taken a position on other then saying I think all of the **** we pump out into the environment probably isn't the best thing for us.

Edit add: Post number 197 wasn't a lecture, it was me responding to your "we're all going to die theatrics" that you're getting from Bill Nye which maybe he's like that, maybe he's not...I haven't seen it. Then I posted some articles in academic journals expressing similar concerns, some actually going against Bill Nye because I thought "hey, reasonable intelligent folk in a debate site might want some more information to look over" but I guess not?

 

[Texmex]

If it goes on a Mars Rover then yes he is... You need to read his bio before sounding like a know-nothing 'conservative'. eace

A sundial? :lamo :lamo

I've read his biography. He is not a scientist in spite of the fact that you want him to be one. Nye is a television personality who has a show for children, perhaps that's why you like him so much. :lamo

 

[notquiteright]

A sundial? :lamo :lamo

I've read his biography. He is not a scientist in spite of the fact that you want him to be one. Nye is a television personality who has a show for children, perhaps that's why you like him so much. :lamo

His education says otherwise, Cornell U in mechanical engineering. O'Reilly is a TV personality. Nye has actually contributed to the Space Program and scientific advancement.

 

[Texmex]

His education says otherwise, Cornell U in mechanical engineering. O'Reilly is a TV personality. Nye has actually contributed to the Space Program and scientific advancement.

Since when did mechanical engineering become a degree a scientist would take for a major?

You do know that NASA has people to sweep the floor, do you think these people are scientist also?

 

[Jerry]

This thread brought up global warming in the OP...

OP is about people who lecture on global warming, not the topic of global warming itself.

Edit add: Post number 197 wasn't a lecture...

Post #197 is a lecture.

 

[notquiteright]

Since when did mechanical engineering become a degree a scientist would take for a major? You do know that NASA has people to sweep the floor, do you think these people are scientist also?

Do the floor sweepers put devices on exploratory spacecraft? I have not checked of late but I don't recall a degree field called Scientist nor a degree called Doctorate of Scientifiocity... eace

 

[OscarB63]

Do the floor sweepers put devices on exploratory spacecraft? I have not checked of late but I don't recall a degree field called Scientist nor a degree called Doctorate of Scientifiocity... eace

Bill Nye is the PBS version of Howard Wolowitz

 

[Texmex]

Do the floor sweepers put devices on exploratory spacecraft? I have not checked of late but I don't recall a degree field called Scientist nor a degree called Doctorate of Scientifiocity... eace

Nice dodge. Is mechanical engineering a science degree?

 

[Jerry]

Nice dodge. Is mechanical engineering a science degree?

I have a science degree, I guess that makes me a scientist, and I say global warming is bull****.

A scientist is someone who performs research. Mr. Nye does not perform research, therefore Mr. Nye is not a scientist. When Mr. Nye worked on a NASA project his capacity was as a fabricator, not a researcher. Mr. Nye cannot be accurately described as a scientist, but he could be called an engineer.

 

[notquiteright]

Bill Nye is the PBS version of Howard Wolowitz

With the exception of Nye actually sent something into space and Wolowitz is a character on a sit-com who didn't. eace

But if you mean looked down upon by the 'doctorate' crowd as not a scientist then yeah ya got it...

 

[notquiteright]

I have a science degree, I guess that makes me a scientist, and I say global warming is bull****.

I didn't think you had graduated, thought you was thinking of bailing and becoming a truck driver....

 

[notquiteright]

Nice dodge. Is mechanical engineering a science degree?

Your good at dodge ball yourself. Working in the field makes you one. But please name the Doctorate of Scientificalness, more like a wide variety of fields combine to create the world of scientific advancement.