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Heartland Institute Learning To Troll On Billboards
Fluffeh writes "The Heartland Institute is a lovely group of folks who take issue with mainstream climate science. They organize an annual get-together of like minded folk and talk trash about environmental change. 'The people who still believe in man-made global warming are mostly on the radical fringe of society.' (That's from a press release!). Recently, when they were tricked by a researcher into sending him a lot of internal documents, they decided to go on the offensive and also get some more media attention. After all, any story is a good story, right? Launching a billboard with the Unabomber on it with the slogan 'I still believe in Global Warming. Do You?' was just the start, with the institute planning Fidel Castro, Charles Manson and possibly even Osama Bin Laden. That's when even their stout backers threatened to walk away, backing started to dry up — and it seems that common sense started to prevail — but only so far as to stop them from making their message too public."
Volcanoes emit 300 million tons of CO2 per year
Every year? Like there is a UN coordinator on a budget?
Nope, that's an average. If you want a particular year you you can look it up if you want to.
It won't change the fact that you sound like a buffoon when you post stuff like that as an 'argument'. Is that really how you justify your position to yourself?
No sig today...
Today Heartland's conspiracy to falsify science is threatening to destroy civilisation as we know it.
How? Even if you grant fully the research supporting AGW (Heartland's primary target), there's no civilization-threatening problem out there. Even a rather large rise in sea level (on the order of many tens of meters of rise) doesn't end civilization. Slightly more acidic ocean doesn't end civilization. Even a significant shuffling of fertile areas doesn't. Farmers can move to where the food growing currently is. Sure, it's rather inconvenient for most people and lethal for a number of people and species, but these effects aren't that serious.
So where's the civilization-ending threat? Second-hand smoke?
Further, the only real way for a small, podunk organization like the Heartland Institute to have any sort of profound impact is to be right. They don't have a massive advertising budget and this latest fumble indicates that they don't really have the finesse to play the advertising game either.
So when I see overwrought hand wringing like the above, I have to ask. Do you have any perspective or sense of proportion at all?
Most conservatives do cling very strongly to science, myself included. The wackos are just very loud
So.. where is this majority of conservatives to which you hint? They're too busy being the silent majority, I suppose.
Unfortunately for you, silence does imply approval.
--- The American Way of Life is not a birthright. Hell, it's not even sustainable.
You are such a stupid ignorant fuck.
It's not up to anyone to prove the earth is not warming. It's up to the Warmists to prove that it is. They also have to Prove that man is responsible. YOU CAN'T FUCKING PROVE A NEGATIVE. YOU HAVE TO PROVE A POSITIVE. Fuck, you are stupid.
They also have to provide a theory that is falsifiable. So far all we get is that anything that happens is caused by Global Warming.
The theory is not falsifiable, the data is questionable and the mechanism is naively simplistic.