posted on April 27, 2008 10:12:08 AM new
I recommended Scientific American as something to read instead of whatever comics you people read and not for any article or viewpoint.
Instead of the "the water in the teapot is hot" because people from the planet Zaygon are influencing your mind to think so, maybe you might conclude someone is heating it.
As to psuedo science, LOL, that's what you call looking at a graph of global temperature over THOUSANDS of years that looks like a sine wave and saying: see, see, this current upward arc is man made. How is it none of you can say who was driving the SUVs 5000 years ago. More importantly, how dumb can you be to laugh when people point out these little "problems".
Squirrel, you just wrote, "I recommended Scientific American as something to read instead of whatever comics you people read and not for any article or viewpoint.
That's not correct. On the preceding page, you wrote, Instead of 'Al Gore: My Life and Times' try reading Scientific American or some of the American Chemical Society publications.
How can you understand the theory of global warming if you can't keep track of your own thoughts from one page to another? As I've mentioned before, you need to drop the supercilious sarcasm and try to write a comprehensible sentence in order to communicate your thoughts.
Otherwise, your almost incomprehensible sentences are thoughts so intertwined with insults that they resemble knots tied together by a drunk.
posted on April 27, 2008 07:13:06 PM new
I apologize, Squirrel. It wasn't talk radio. My 12 year-old pointed out which TV show that you got it from (he watches it,too). Scientific American it ain't, Edited to add, it was actually a pretty good program, Mythbusters, that offered a solution as well as presenting the problem. They visited an organic dairy farm which captured the methane gas from the cows' waste products and were able to harness it into energy, supplying 90% of the energy needed to run the farm.
[ edited by pixiamom on Apr 27, 2008 09:31 PM ]
posted on April 28, 2008 09:26:50 AM new
"That's not correct. On the preceding page, you wrote, Instead of 'Al Gore: My Life and Times' try reading Scientific American or some of the American Chemical Society publications."
And in some convoluted way in your brain this is a reference to a specific topic??
posted on April 28, 2008 09:01:48 PM new
Quite simply, people make absurd conclusions because they cannot comprehend scientific methodology and leap to solutions that are simplistic and given validity because they "sound good".
An example:
Poster proclaims "The gummitt should lower air pollution by making every family have at least 1 electric car."
Sounds like a stroke of genius while you wait for your GED.
Except How do you charge all these electric vehicles? Why, from coal fired power plants, a top source of pollution.
Example 2:
the gummitt is keeping XXXXXX (fill in blank, ethanol, hydrogen, etc) alternate energy from the people.
And the TOTAL PROCESS of XXXXXX is MORE energy intensive than what they are trying to replace.
Point this out and you get: "The gummitt should fix that". You know, like reinvent Physics.
It's the world of A=B and B=C therefore A=F logic.
PS: Should I tell Helen, I made up the Al Gore title???
posted on April 28, 2008 09:21:56 PM new
I don't believe anyone here has made those absurd assertions squirrel. And as for understanding scientific methodology, I'm guessing you consider yourself far more adept in that regard than the thousands of working scientists, the VAST majority of working scientists who accept the human contributions to global warming. YOU are much better at understanding scientific methodology than they are.
My goodness you are mighty proud of yourself aren't you?
posted on April 29, 2008 01:51:20 AM new
Golly, if it's on the discovery channel, it must be true. Wake up, Squirrel. Math isn't your strong point. Neither is science.
Squirrel, I am becoming concerned that your repeated remarks that lack consistency or focus or clarity may be related to some personal crisis that you may be
experiencing. If that's the case, you have my sympathy and I wish you well.
Try to review your exceedingly arrogant, insulting and poorly written comments lately and maybe you will understand my concern.
posted on April 29, 2008 01:35:19 PM new
LOL The "vast majority" simply does not exist. And I somehow have no doubt a significant percentage of current community members crying wolf also supported the global cooling (ie: next ice age) theories of the 70's.
But if none of you care to explain the fashionable reasons for the rise and fall of global temp over the millenniums, including much higher than today, that's fine. I wouldn't expect you to.
Pix
My abilities include that of reading a temperature chart which befuddles you. If you want to take a test, I'll spot you 30 points.
