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FAA Plans to Clean Up the Skies
coondoggie writes "On top of its recently announced plan to reduce flight delays, Federal Aviation Administration officials today launched what they hope will be pan U.S. and European Union joint action plan to cut greenhouse gas emissions from aircraft. Specifically the group announced the Atlantic Interoperability Initiative to Reduce Emissions or AIRE — the first large-scale environmental plan aimed at uniting aviation players from both sides of the Atlantic."
I had no idea why we were mutual foes, but now I see its your fondness for amusingly pedantic hypotheticals and fallacies.
You opened with some unsubstantiated claims about the Asian climate (love to see some sources on that just out of intellectual curiosity) that one might think would be significantly more championed by the global warming crowd but is in and of itself irrelevant given I already mentioned most of my skepticism hinges on mankind's responsibility for climate change rather than whether or not its happening or if its a total/net positive.
You continued with a clever straw man, trying to discredit me due to my skepticism and insinuating I must not believe anything that hasn't been 100% proven. This is interesting because you created your own false dichotomy and applied it to me, whereby there are only two kinds of scientific theories (proven vs. not proven). We both know there are significantly varying degrees of postulates, theories, laws, conclusions, etc. Even most climatologists will tell you the field is still in its infancy and there exist an ungodly number of variables we don't yet understand or even know about, versus, say, the science of dealing with light refraction.
You continued on to state some facts that while true in and of themselves, paint but a tiny picture of the entire issue. Cute how you tried to oversimplify it into "proving" whatever it was you intended to, and mildly ironic how you proved my point for me as you attempted to rip on it.
You're much like the rest of the loonies who have heard an idea that sounds good, and since you've started carrying its banner, you've now got some weird egotistical vested interest in coming out perceived as "right," going so far as to waste words on those who merely question your cause, and you did it all while making yourself sound like the kind of arrogant jackass every college student fears getting as a teacher.
Bravo, sir.