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Climate Data Re-examined (updated)
An anonymous reader writes "An important paper that re-examines historical climate data was published on 28 October in the respected journal Energy & Environment. (The paper is also available here.) According to an article in Canada's National Post, the paper shows that a "pillar of the Kyoto Accord is based on false calculations, incorrect data and an overtly biased selection of climate records." (USA Today also has a story.) This paper will undoubtedly be controversial and should stir a vigourous data review." Update: 11/05 14:54 GMT by T : newyhouse points out a similarly contrarian 2001 Economist article by Bjorn Lomborg, author of The Skeptical Environmentalist .
It is pretty hot down here. Malda and Michael like to suck my cock a lot, so I guess that doesn't help.
Ya and if the whole hydrogen economy thing wasn't complete BS, then that would be a trajedy.
It's as simple as this:
OIL = Energy source, source of plastics and construction material, and lubricants
Hydrogen = Not a energy source. It's sort of a chemical battery, the energy has to be produced somewere else, like a coal or petroleum powerplant.
Of course you could call it a hydroelectric/wind-powered/corn powered/cow-fart powered/solar powered ecomony, but that wouldn't have the same ring will it? Or fesability.
Right. Much easier to start a flame war by bashing Canadians than by reading and responding to the actual article.
Fact: The World is Dying.
Take a fucken look around. Look at your pig-wastage lifestyle. Now multiply that by a billion or so. Species going extinct, forests cleared, smog everywhere. The earth is fucked. And nobody really cares.
Fact: The World is Dying.
Silly environmentalists, there's a lot more money to be done selling out to corporations to tell dying people they have nothing to worry about.
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So they're filthy commies? I knew it! That means we can witch-hunt them! Call Joe McCarthy, we's gonna have us a lynchin'!
Read Pynchon.
This is pretty cool. Seeing posts which treat environMENTALists like the loonies they actually are and NO flambaits or trolls mods. You oughta see how many of mine in the past have been treated that way. Enjoy it while it lasts, though, folks.
Dawn of the Dead
Environmentalists are biased toward communism. I've never had to listen to an environmentalist for more than two minutes before they're calling for the elimination of capitalism.
It's no big secret that all the communist activists went scurrying to the environmentalist movement when the cold war ended and Communism was discredited.
You can tell a great deal about the character of a man by observing those who hate him.
Pinatubo expelled more CO2 into the atmosphere than the entire history of industrialized civilization.
I'm not saying that humans should just keep on polluting, I'm only saying that the extremist scaremongering is wrong. We can solve our problems with logic and reason, without having to resort to panicked emotionalism.
Don't blame me, I didn't vote for either of them!