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  1. Re:nope on Darker Arctic Boosting Global Warming · · Score: 1

    Probably Fox News, we know how credible they are..

  2. Re:As we've always said on Darker Arctic Boosting Global Warming · · Score: 1

    agree, in the UK it seems to be the wettest. it looks like its all related to the Gulfstream being moved, hopefully not for good, and that looks like it is down to climate change

  3. Re:Botany 101 on Darker Arctic Boosting Global Warming · · Score: 1

    yes, it is plant food but with all the deforestation going on for mankind's predilections, there are less and less plants to capture the CO2

  4. Re:Not Prudent on Darker Arctic Boosting Global Warming · · Score: 1

    Why does the temperature have rise a lot to cause an issue? As more forests are chopped down to make way for more meat production, there are less ways of capturing CO2 .Remember the hole in the ozone layer? Did you think that wasn't a problem, should have it been ignored? If things like CFCs were not removed from appliances etc, it would not have let the hole reduce and repair itself. pushing the problem to the people in 100 years time makes any resolution more difficult and expensive.

  5. Re:Not Prudent on Darker Arctic Boosting Global Warming · · Score: 1

    if no-one is buying fossil fuels then it has to get cheaper to move product. they can only limit digging it out of the ground to force prices higher but that would then be counter-productive if there is a viable alternative energy

  6. Re:Not Prudent on Darker Arctic Boosting Global Warming · · Score: 1

    Seems like you are the sort of person would disbelieve evolution happens because you can't see it happening. Those "billions or trillions" spent reducing CO2 etc would be creating new jobs, new economies and a cleaner environment. i'd love to walk around a city with clean air and not smelly dirty exhaust fumes.

  7. Re:Well first of all.... on Darker Arctic Boosting Global Warming · · Score: 2

    A drop of 2 degrees in body temp puts you into hypothermia so small changes in temp can be catastrophic.

    " I'll argue that the goal of life on earth is to evolve, adapt and die" - correct

    "The true goal should be the eradication and elimination of all life - there can only be one species." - sounds like a crackpot religious argument to me.

  8. Re:Cloud formation albedo on Darker Arctic Boosting Global Warming · · Score: 2

    So what is your benchmark to "seeing the cliff"? When its too late its almost impossible to turn around?

  9. Re:Cloud formation albedo on Darker Arctic Boosting Global Warming · · Score: 2

    " The proposed changes will be costly, both in terms of real money and in terms of people's quality of lives." - just think how costly it would be if nothing is done, crops washed away in flooded regions, crops burnt in drought areas for example. This "I'm currently al-right so sod the rest of you as i'm keeping my head in the sand until its too late" attitude is all wrong.

    Start the mitigating measures yesterday, so what if it costs, fossil fuels cost as well. I'd rather the measures taken even if it all turns out to be wrong because the planet will be much more pleasant to live in afterwards so we all win anyway.

  10. Re:Your backyard on US Secretary of State Calls Climate Change 'Weapon of Mass Destruction' · · Score: 1

    I don;t understand why the solar farms have to be built. If the solar panels were installed on every building and they initially powered that building and any excess is sent to the grid. All the engineers/designers seem to want to build as few power generators to serve as many as possible thereby creating a weak link if one giant power station goes off line. If they built more smaller power stations, there would be more jobs.

  11. Re:Bah, fake posturing. on US Secretary of State Calls Climate Change 'Weapon of Mass Destruction' · · Score: 1

    looks like you'll have to get fishing in a big way

  12. Re:God's endorsement on Plan 9 From Bell Labs Operating System Now Available Under GPLv2 · · Score: 1

    now there's a delusional OS written by a delusional coder, must be worse than Windows then

  13. Re:Really good question on NSF Report Flawed; Americans Do Not Believe Astrology Is Scientific · · Score: 1

    Here's the real definition of Merkin.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merkin - its a pubic wig

  14. Re:Go back .... on NSF Report Flawed; Americans Do Not Believe Astrology Is Scientific · · Score: 2

    Citation not needed at all, just look how many believe there are gods and miracles and creationists

  15. Re:If we're the 99% on South Carolina Education Committee Removes Evolution From Standards · · Score: 1

    with that arithmetic, yes.... :o)

  16. Re:Didn't Ken Ham lose? on South Carolina Education Committee Removes Evolution From Standards · · Score: 1

    "Maybe just have a foot note saying,"It isn't the only origin theory ..."

    no, that devalues the scientific value and proof of evolution and give cretionism some sort of credibility.. You can say "Creationism is only one religions belief and there are many religions with their own belief of how life began and you cannot compare any of them to evolution and we cannot discuss them in science class, only in religions and myths class."

  17. Re:Check the evidence on South Carolina Education Committee Removes Evolution From Standards · · Score: 1

    thats an insult to monkeys, shame on you

  18. Re:Evolution is a theory, but not "just a theory". on South Carolina Education Committee Removes Evolution From Standards · · Score: 1

    and you are a twatting troll.

  19. Re:Evolution is a theory, but not "just a theory". on South Carolina Education Committee Removes Evolution From Standards · · Score: 1

    you've already proved numerous times that you know nothing so fuck off trolling

  20. Re:law of gravity on South Carolina Education Committee Removes Evolution From Standards · · Score: 1

    "bigots can't move past a 19th century mindset."

    thats giving them too much credit, it should be 1st century (or earlier) mindset

  21. Re:law of gravity on South Carolina Education Committee Removes Evolution From Standards · · Score: 1

    you are a idiotic troll, you are needed at redditt, go now

  22. Re:How is presenting all theories a problem? on South Carolina Education Committee Removes Evolution From Standards · · Score: 1

    oh fuck off you trolling idiot. best be thought a fool than open you mouth and prove it - which is what you have done and always do

  23. Re:Teach the controversy, but define it first on South Carolina Education Committee Removes Evolution From Standards · · Score: 1

    There is a lot of similarity between the bible and the hebrew torah, the first five books are the same. You could say that the Torah and Tanachs are the master copy for the bible, bit like the bible is master copy for the mormon version of it. The quoran is also related in lots of ways and has the same creation bollox as the torah and bible. So christian creationism is actually based on the religions of Abraham.

    Richard Dawkins book "The Magic of Reality" lists quite a few creation stories from around the world so i guess his book would be a good reference book for schools who want to teach creationism....

  24. Re:How is presenting all theories a problem? on South Carolina Education Committee Removes Evolution From Standards · · Score: 1

    sometimes answering these trolls/creationists can enlighten others that might fall victim to their shit so in a way the trolls are defeating themselves

  25. Re:How is presenting all theories a problem? on South Carolina Education Committee Removes Evolution From Standards · · Score: 1

    no they are not, you really need to go back to school and read, read, read until you comprehend the difference. Finding any evidence is a small part of the process, it needs to be tested as well. Here is a very simplistic example, if i found a coconut laying on the sand near a beach, i could just assume it grows on the ground if i didn't test the hypothesis of "found coconut on ground therefore they grow on the ground"