From: MNMikeW on

"Carbon" <nobrac(a)nospam.tampabay.rr.com> wrote in message
news:4b827115$0$4891$9a6e19ea(a)unlimited.newshosting.com...
> On Mon, 22 Feb 2010 06:49:36 -0500, BAR wrote:
>> In article <4b81f556$0$5110$9a6e19ea(a)unlimited.newshosting.com>,
>> nobrac(a)nospam.tampabay.rr.com says...
>>> On Mon, 22 Feb 2010 03:02:46 +0000, assimilate wrote:
>>>> On 21-Feb-2010, Carbon <nobrac(a)nospam.tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>> Inhofe has said repeatedly that global warming is "the biggest
>>>>>>> hoax ever perpetrated against the American people."
>>>>>>
>>>>>> He is not speaking of the climate at all, he is speaking of the
>>>>>> politically driven tax the wealthy agenda of the IPCC.
>>>>>
>>>>> "Global warming is the greatest hoax perpetrated on the American
>>>>> people." -- Sen. James Inhofe, 2003.
>>>>
>>>> exactly, the hoax part is the whole Carbon Tax regime that would
>>>> "solve all our problems" not to mention the exaggerated threats � la
>>>> Gorical.
>>>
>>> You understand that taxes have nothing to do with whether or not
>>> global warming is valid, correct?
>>
>> You understand that taxing carbon will not stop the natural cycle of
>> warming and cooling that the planet has gone through for the last
>> couple of billion years?
>
> You're certain that any proposed solution will have no discernible
> effect, are you? How would that be?

Unless everyone is on board (China,India,ect) it wont do much.


From: William Clark on
In article <ATxgn.75238$OX4.51506(a)newsfe25.iad>, assimilate(a)borg.org
wrote:

> On 22-Feb-2010, Jim Lovejoy <nospam(a)devnull.spam> wrote:
>
> > > You understand that taxes have nothing to do with whether or not global
> > > warming is valid, correct?
> > >
> > And whether global warming is valid has nothing to do about whether any
> > particular way of dealing with it is optimum.
> >
> > Other than the obvious that IF global warming is valid, puting your
> > fingers
> > in your ears and chanting "nha nha can't hear you" is not optimum.
>
> that IF becomes larger every day as we see what shoddy science is behind
> such claims

But you don't, because you wouldn't know "shoddy science" unless Fox
news told you. This is a classic strawman argument, designed to hamper
progress towards dealing with the real issues.
From: William Clark on
In article <3Xxgn.76283$OX4.5921(a)newsfe25.iad>, assimilate(a)borg.org
wrote:

> On 22-Feb-2010, William Clark <clark(a)nospam.matsceng.ohio-state.edu> wrote:
>
> > The evidence suggests that the effect is significant, and is
> > swamping the natural cycle to unprecedented levels.
>
> the <cough, cough> evidence is being called into question. The "proposed"
> solutions look worse than the "problem."

No it is not - at least by any one other than the denialists, who have a
financial stake in convincing everyone that the emperor has no clothes.
The fact remains that the quibbles that heave been blown into mountains
are just that - minor quibbles. The main predictions and conclusions
remain, in spite of what a certain hysterical section of the media would
have us believe.
From: Moderate on

"William Clark" <clark(a)nospam.matsceng.ohio-state.edu> wrote in message
news:clark-4DFDB6.16401722022010(a)charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu...
> In article <ATxgn.75238$OX4.51506(a)newsfe25.iad>, assimilate(a)borg.org
> wrote:
>
>> On 22-Feb-2010, Jim Lovejoy <nospam(a)devnull.spam> wrote:
>>
>> > > You understand that taxes have nothing to do with whether or not
>> > > global
>> > > warming is valid, correct?
>> > >
>> > And whether global warming is valid has nothing to do about whether any
>> > particular way of dealing with it is optimum.
>> >
>> > Other than the obvious that IF global warming is valid, puting your
>> > fingers
>> > in your ears and chanting "nha nha can't hear you" is not optimum.
>>
>> that IF becomes larger every day as we see what shoddy science is behind
>> such claims
>
> But you don't, because you wouldn't know "shoddy science" unless Fox
> news told you. This is a classic strawman argument, designed to hamper
> progress towards dealing with the real issues.

Blaming FoxNews is the strawman argument.


From: Dinosaur_Sr on
On Feb 22, 4:42 pm, William Clark <cl...(a)nospam.matsceng.ohio-
state.edu> wrote:
> In article <3Xxgn.76283$OX4.5...(a)newsfe25.iad>, assimil...(a)borg.org
> wrote:
>
> > On 22-Feb-2010, William Clark <cl...(a)nospam.matsceng.ohio-state.edu> wrote:
>
> > > The evidence suggests that the effect is significant, and is
> > > swamping the natural cycle to unprecedented levels.
>
> > the <cough, cough> evidence is being called into question. The "proposed"
> > solutions look worse than the "problem."
>
> No it is not - at least by any one other than the denialists, who have a
> financial stake in convincing everyone that the emperor has no clothes.
> The fact remains that the quibbles that heave been blown into mountains
> are just that - minor quibbles. The main predictions and conclusions
> remain, in spite of what a certain hysterical section of the media would
> have us believe.

What "major prediction" in this area has come to be...and they have
been making them for 40 years now. Name one that has happened.
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