Political Discussions for "Adults"

OccultHawk · 03-22-2020, 09:51 AM

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Originally Posted by Anteater

Just remember that it wasn't all that long ago that climate scientists said we only had 12 years or something and then we soared past that date with zero consequences. Look at the data but take their conclusions with a grain of salt.

A bush fire the size of California in Australia isn’t a consequence?

The hurricanes, floods, fires, all across the planet?

Anteater · 03-22-2020, 09:56 AM

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Originally Posted by OccultHawk

A bush fire the size of California in Australia isn’t a consequence?

The hurricanes, floods, fires, all across the planet?

The biggest wildfire in human history was way back in 1910, long before the onset of what climate scientists have been talking about. How do you explain that?

The problem with conversations about climate is that, irregardless of what the scientists say right now, there is hard evidence that the planet has gone through warm cycles in the past that make what we are seeing today look like nothing. And human activity wasn't a factor at all in those previous periods, but we still saw Ice Ages and periods where CO2 was in high abundance anyway.

**Frownland** · 03-22-2020, 09:57 AM

Stupid science bitches don't know ****!

**Frownland** · 03-22-2020, 10:00 AM

Did you know that dumbass scientists used to talk about global COOLING? Now they're saying it's global warming. I can't trust anyone who lacks conviction like that.

Anteater · 03-22-2020, 10:05 AM

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The problem with conversations about climate is that, irregardless of what the scientists say right now, there is hard evidence that the planet has gone through warm cycles in the past that make what we are seeing today look like nothing. And human activity wasn't a factor at all in those previous periods, but we still saw Ice Ages and periods where CO2 was in high abundance anyway.

**Frownland** · 03-22-2020, 10:09 AM

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Originally Posted by Anteater

The problem with conversations about climate is that, irregardless of what the scientists say right now, there is hard evidence that the planet has gone through warm cycles in the past that make what we are seeing today look like nothing. And human activity wasn't a factor at all in those previous periods, but we still saw Ice Ages and periods where CO2 was in high abundance anyway.

This is actually the reason why we know that human activity is a direct factor in this change. Those past periods had clear causes whether it was solar activity, volcanic activity, the dinosaur apocalypse event, Milankovitch cycles, atmospheric changes from algae, etc. The Earth has had its climate change many times, but always with reason, and we are the reason for the current climate change that we're witnessing. Unless you have evidence showing that something else is the cause?

Keep a few grains of salt on hand when you hear these very well refuted climate change denialist arguments that you're parrotting.

**Exo** · 03-22-2020, 10:15 AM

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Originally Posted by Frownland

This is actually the reason why we know that human activity is a direct factor in this change. Those past periods had clear causes whether it was solar activity, volcanic activity, the dinosaur apocalypse event, Milankovitch cycles, atmospheric changes from algae, etc. The Earth has had its climate change many times, but always with reason, and we are the reason for the current climate change that we're witnessing. Unless you have evidence showing that something else is the cause?

Who are you trying to fool Frown? Humans are perfect and couldn't be the cause of anything. I've said my peace. I'm headed to the beach for a volleyball game. See yah chumps.

**Frownland** · 03-22-2020, 10:17 AM

You got me. I was just jealous of guys with big trucks this whole time.

~~jwb~~ · 03-22-2020, 10:19 AM

Didn't we almost get wiped out a few times in the past as well? Just for the sake of argument I don't see why, theoretically, if we weren't causing the climate change it would pose any less of a threat.

**Exo** · 03-22-2020, 10:23 AM

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Originally Posted by jwb

Didn't we almost get wiped out a few times in the past as well? Just for the sake of argument I don't see why, theoretically, if we weren't causing the climate change it would pose any less of a threat.

Because the most important thing forgotten most is that the republican/democrat to my left is a HUGE WAD.

03-22-2020, 09:57 AM	#5193 (permalink)
Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,541	Stupid science bitches don't know ***! __________________ Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth.* d e a f b o x

03-22-2020, 10:00 AM	#5194 (permalink)
Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,541	Did you know that dumbass scientists used to talk about global COOLING? Now they're saying it's global warming. I can't trust anyone who lacks conviction like that. __________________ Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth. d e a f b o x

03-22-2020, 10:17 AM	#5198 (permalink)
Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,541	You got me. I was just jealous of guys with big trucks this whole time. __________________ Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth. d e a f b o x

03-22-2020, 10:19 AM	#5199 (permalink)
~~jwb~~ Account Disabled Join Date: Jul 2019 Posts: 4,403	Didn't we almost get wiped out a few times in the past as well? Just for the sake of argument I don't see why, theoretically, if we weren't causing the climate change it would pose any less of a threat.