CLIMATE MCCARTHYISM

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AURAPTOR

Friday, August 22, 2014 6:15 AM

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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
In my backyard, this seems to be the coolest August in memory. I think it got into the 80's a few times, but lots of high in the 70's, no 100's, and I don't recall any 90's yet this month. Must be that global warming, Eh?

Only in the final weeks of summer has it gotten to what passes as 'normal' heat here. And it's far from scorching. Mid to high 90's. Big whoop.

Oh, and the winter forecast has already come out too.

Colder and wetter than normal.

I Know, it's only 'weather', not climate. Or some such.

Would be the 3rd winter in a row, that's been cooler and wetter.

Oh my ! Global warming !

THGRRI

Friday, August 22, 2014 7:25 PM

63 Trillion Gallons Of Groundwater Lost To California Drought, Pushing Earth’s Crust Higher

http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2014/08/21/63-trillion-gallons-of-gro
undwater-lost-to-california-drought-pushing-earths-crust-higher/

STORYMARK

Saturday, August 23, 2014 12:39 AM

That's ok. Its cold where the rapturd keeps its den, so there's no problem.

“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'”? Isaac Asimov

JEWELSTAITEFAN

Saturday, August 23, 2014 2:58 AM

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Originally posted by THGRRI:
63 Trillion Gallons Of Groundwater Lost To California Drought, Pushing Earth’s Crust Higher

http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2014/08/21/63-trillion-gallons-of-gro
undwater-lost-to-california-drought-pushing-earths-crust-higher/

California mismanages water: SHOCKERS! LET'S BLAME BUSH! Or global warming? Ukraine? Blame the damn JEWS? Blame the Kurds? The Pope? Right wingers? Tea Party?

After watching Chinatown a few times, I just cannot understand how climate isn't the culprit.

MAGONSDAUGHTER

Saturday, August 23, 2014 4:43 AM

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McCarthyism is the practice of making accusations of disloyalty, subversion, or treason without proper regard for evidence. It also means "the practice of making unfair allegations or using unfair investigative techniques, especially in order to restrict dissent or political criticism."

Dont think that applies in this case

1KIKI

Saturday, August 23, 2014 4:58 AM

Originally posted by AURaptor:
Why don't you ask PETA or The Sierra Club what that number should be.

So, no answer.

SAGAN: We are releasing vast quantities of carbon dioxide, increasing the greenhouse effect. It may not take much to destabilize the Earth's climate, to convert this heaven, our only home in the cosmos, into a kind of hell.

AURAPTOR

Saturday, August 23, 2014 6:35 AM

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Originally posted by Magonsdaughter:
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McCarthyism is the practice of making accusations of disloyalty, subversion, or treason without proper regard for evidence. It also means "the practice of making unfair allegations or using unfair investigative techniques, especially in order to restrict dissent or political criticism ."

Don't think that applies in this case

" especially in order to restrict dissent or political criticism "

It applies, completely.

AGW isn't science, it's about politics. Firing a scientist who TALKS about his skepticism of the official state point of view, the POLITICAL position, loses his job. He was DISLOYAL to the STATE.

That's not freedom. That's tyranny.

MAGONSDAUGHTER

Sunday, August 24, 2014 3:53 PM

Dissent or political criticism is different from scientific debate, espeically when on one side of the debate they are rejecting evidence.

McCarthyism prevented people from getting work in any industry, because of their political affiliation, not because there was a disagreement about some key point of an industry. To be more like McCarthyism, this man would have been denied a job because he voted republican, or expressed support for jihadism, or more accurately, had been accused of such things to by someone else looking to evade punitive action as per the witch hunts. You accuse 4 others and you get off scott free while they hang.

The analogy just doesn't work. Scientific communities have the right to employ people based on their expertise, and someone who is a climate change denier is someone who rejects evidence.

SECOND

Sunday, August 24, 2014 6:49 PM

Dr Caleb Rossiter got all prissy about his math for climate change and his math got him into trouble with his colleagues. He is not the first person to insist that there is only one right way to make a calculation and everyone else is wrong, wrong, wrong. Julian Schwinger got all prissy about his mathematical formalism after he won a Nobel prize. Schwinger quit Harvard because his colleagues were not as impressed with him as one-third of the Nobel committee had been. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Schwinger

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

ELVISCHRIST

Sunday, August 24, 2014 11:49 PM

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Originally posted by AURaptor:
Why don't you ask PETA or The Sierra Club what that number should be.

Because they didn't come here and post that solar energy is causing "senseless loss of life." You did.

And when I asked for a specific number, you ran away like the fucking cunt we all know you to be.

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