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Formerly Classified Global Warming Spy Photos Released
An anonymous reader writes "The Obama administration has released more than a thousand intelligence images of Arctic ice, following a declassification request by the National Academy of Sciences. The images feature a 1m resolution, and scientists who have had to base climate models on 15m- or 30m-resolution photos are rejoicing. The photos, kept classified by the Bush administration, show the impact of global warming in the Arctic and the retreat of glaciers in Washington and Alaska."
Is always totalitarianism. No thanks.
That's the problem with you global-warming zealots. Anyone says anything, you go crazy and call them "deniers" and whatnot. Such behavior doesn't help your cause.
Fuck systemd. Fuck Redhat. Fuck Soylent, too. Wait, scratch the last one.
Even if Global Warming Alarmism were true, and
human activity was causing some effect, that
still is not a reason for me to cede my liberty
to a Carbon trading mafia based in Chicago.
There are many things in nature that I don't like,
causes that I could support. Again, not a reason to
cede my liberties to untrustworthy bureaucrats.
water freezes. Ice melts. the powerful scheme for
more control over the lowly.
The integrity of the president is in question in the sense
that his friend set up the carbon trading floor in Chicago,
funded by the foundation that our dear legacy president
worked for . . .
It is all in the public record but not widely reported by the media.
And so since we can not trust the people who scheme for these new
arduous taxes, we must reject them out of hand. Profiteering
by elected officials . . . will it ever end.
The race-baiting bigots who are the affirmative action
legacies have a very compelling argument that they
make about the corruption of the human soul.
They say that 'white' people have been traditionally
racist. I know that there is a flaw in their argument.
I say that is all people who are inherently self-centered.
So, I know this is true. And that people are selfish and
not immune to trying to enslave others, even it if is just in
a small way.
So I don't trust the motives of those who argue for the
carbon-credit tax. I think that they are doing this because either
they are brainwashed by the alarmism, or they are
going to profit from the new taxes.
Socialism if failure, Marxism is envy-mongering, Global-warming is
a clever scare tactic to allow for these new consumption based taxes.
Meanwhile the so-called global leadership class will continue with
their piggish consumption. No tax will curb their ferocious over-consumption.
So why curb my modest consumption?
I was raised to believe that all men are created equal.
Then I was told that 'my race' was always doing better so
we must be kept back. But I was tought that race isn't supposed to
matter. But it clearly still did. I realized that my parents had
trained me to believe in the equality of all men but that the
people who I was equal to thought that I must be a bigot. I must be doing
better than them. So I have to let them go to the front of the line based upon
their race. Isn't that racism? They said no. Then I was told that if I disagree than
I must be a racist.
Meanwhile affirmative action programs don't care about needs of the
candidates, only a racial preference based upon the arbitrariness of
place of origin or skin color.
I am tired of the descrimination, the racebaiting,
the continuous nepotism of the monied elites.
And also I am tired ot the global-warming-alarmist industry.
These alarmists really need to be put out of business.
Think of all the global warming they cause with their continuous
harping in the media on a false premise: that global warming is real so
give us all your money.
When we are finally free of these scare-mongerers who seek
to take our liberty and make our lives much more expensive,
then we can face the realities of climate change.
The greed-heads who seek our enslavement need to stop.
Your knee-jerk reaction, suspecting alterior motive, is the reason why I call you a zealot.
Suspecting ulterior motive....
The whole point of the line you quoted was my acknowledging the exact opposite of what you're accusing me of claiming--that the OP may very well be a reasonable person who did not imply what I saw in his post...he may have just been humorously musing on the juxtaposition, as he put it. In fact, I think this is probably what happened.
I don't think 'suspecting' means what you think it means. Unless you meant to say I suspected he DIDN'T have an ulterior motive, which would be closer to reality.
The strawman I'm referring to is the idea that just because the climate has changed in the past (which it obviously has, including drastic changes in recent history having nothing to do with the industrial revolution--the Little Ice Age in the 12th-13th centuries, surprisingly cold years in the 19th century in Europe, etc.) means that climate change in the future is no danger. On reflection, this isn't really a strawman argument (though it does sometimes function as a component of one, but that isn't relevant). But it is a fallacy. I was explaining why it was a fallacy.
As I said in the opening line of my original post, I suspected the OP didn't mean to imply that. But there are people who think that, so I felt that it would be beneficial to the overall discussion to explain why it is a fallacy.
How dare he disagree with studies that are largely funded by the same groups that are going to profit from carbon taxes! Surely he's a witch! Grab the torch and pichforks, and gather all the other in our groupthink!
www.cnsnews.com will never be right about anything.
Temperature increases are held at bay by melting ice sheets(basic chemistry, if you heat ice, when it melts it will not gain in temperature).
I also enjoy the lack of link or even the full name of the study to look it up. That's much appreciated.
According to CNS News, this comment is peer-reviewed, well received, and flies in the face of the conservative-correct, political timebomb that is tardness.