Op-Ed: If only gay sex caused global warming

That's a great, refreshing perspective on things. Makes some logical sense, certainly.

 

"The odds of this happening in the next few decades are better than the odds that a disgruntled Saudi will sneak onto an airplane and detonate a shoe bomb."

Oh sure - for political expediency - hype the theory at the expense of the fact.

Global warming is still a theory. Terrorist attacks are a fact.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Sufferin' Prius Envy @ Jul 2 2006, 09:59 PM) [snapback]280404[/snapback]</div>

Global warming is not a theory to the islanders of Micronesia. Many Micronesians have been displaced to higher ground as flooding has continually become worse over the past few years in their country. GW is only a theory if you are on the payroll of companies who stand to lose $ if it is recognized. To the real scientific community the debate is over. The threat is real. The fact will affect hundreds of millions. Terrorists only threaten a few people. Let's see how much of a theory GW is when all those rich people come begging to the government to bail them out of their investments on the beaches of the world. It'll be YOUR money that they get to cover their asses for a bad investment. (sounds like the S&L bailout, dontcha think?) and who benefitted greatly from S&L bailout? THE BUSH FAMILY made millions when they were given YOUR tax dollars to hedge against their bad investment in failed banks (or S&L's)

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Sufferin' Prius Envy @ Jul 2 2006, 11:59 PM) [snapback]280404[/snapback]</div>

So is gravity.

 

OK, here comes a global warming poll.

 

it's easier to worry about trivial stuff... i guess. why else do people get so worked up over crap like celebrity gossip when there is so much real stuff to worry about in the world?

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(galaxee @ Jul 4 2006, 12:29 AM) [snapback]280910[/snapback]</div>

It would appear that instead of thinking globally and acting locally, that we're mostly thinking selfishly and acting... not at all.

 

thanks

 

Some corporations will do anything to maintain their income and please their shareholders and investors.

I think it was this thread where someone made a post saying why attach the source of the information... the credibility of the source of information is very important. I'll take a page out of the history of another industry.

The industry in question renamed the term cancer as zephyr.

Zephyr - "a soft gentle breeze"

www.thetruth.com

 

I'll admit it, I really don't give a crap about the state of the world 100 years from now. It's all going to end sooner or later, it matters not. It only takes away from living in the present, might as well worry about lottery numbers. IMHO of course... h34r:

 

You are the most ultra chill guy I have ever heard of!

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Mirza @ Jul 15 2006, 12:39 PM) [snapback]286759[/snapback]</div>

Dude, I'm soooo chill, I've been known to whip out my celly and call someone in the next room/downstairs/etc., 'cause I didn't feel like getting my lazy arse up, or expend the energy to yell...

 

I truly hope/desire that the people who say that global warming is only a theory, that we have nothing to worry about, that human intervention into the planetary climate is insignificant at best ... I truly hope that they are right and that my study/feelings/conclusions/etc in this regard are wrong.

But if 30 years down the line, as I await my pinebox chariot to carry me on, if at that time the facts of life are laid out and the planet is on a straight path to becoming unable to support life as we know it. And it proves to be true we *COULD* have done something about it, however small, but that opportunity is now lost forever through lack of time...

These are uneasy thoughts. I would rather believe that I could act in good faith to do something that might help than simply allow neglect, avarice, or stupidity condemn the future generations of human beings.

As a good friend of mine commented:
"The truth is, we're all going to die. The trick is not to do it all at once."

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(IsrAmeriPrius @ Jul 2 2006, 08:50 PM) [snapback]280375[/snapback]</div>

Be carefull.

We don't want to give the anti-gay movement any ideas. It won't be long before they'll have their "Scientific experts" citing proof that gay marriage is the cause of global warming.

I wouldn't put anything past the neo-cons.

Dave McKinstry

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Godfrey DiGiorgi @ Jul 27 2006, 02:19 PM) [snapback]293307[/snapback]</div>

If we look for certainty then it will be too late. As soon as we get serious about this, the sooner this blind denial will end. And then we are compelled into action. Lots of the stupid BS that keeps us so busy has to put aside. Either we co-operate to a solution or we fight to the bottom.

PS. To say something is aScientific Theory is to recognise that there does not exist compelling evidence to the contrary.

PPS. Here is a link to one of the few remaining denialist climate scientists. I give you, Richard Lindzen!

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(triphop @ Jul 27 2006, 02:26 PM) [snapback]293427[/snapback]</div>

I agree.

We can do much more right than wrong if we just think about being sensible with our energy and resource use all of the time. And there are no negative consequences to acting sensibly, even if our actions in this regard combine together to be insignificant in the end. To do less than that is at least self-destructive.

 

I think it's "No funding for us climate guys so lets gin up some FUD and let the cash flood in BABY!" Never-the-less I am all for what the Global Warming guys say to remedy the vapor ware of global warming. You never have air that is too clean or water that is too clear IMHO. But lets go about this in a smart way and not throw the baby out with the bath water. eh?

1 degree?
One hundred years?
Hmmmm, was that F or C cause if it's F no big deal but if it's C, [attachmentid=4284] OMG the sky is falling!!! :lol:

Wildkow

p.s. Okay how bout some cites on those islanders losing out due to rising tide levels from Global Warming? eh?

 

I apologize ahead of time for what I'm about to say, because I personally hate alienating conservatives from environmental and global warming issues... but the real unwarranted alarmist campaign was that of Iraq.