Global Warming

[Dugh]

What's the synonym for awesome?

Discuss, bitches.

[Sekhem]

A decent bit of skepticism, I still prefer Richard Lindzen's debates on global warming where he fucking embarrasses the college students who think that global warming will destroy the planet.

Also that douche is not funny. At all.

[Gagsy]

I am one of the many people who can't be assed to watch that for 9 minutes. :3

Give us a little detail pwease.

[Chdonga]

Global Warming can suck my dick.

[TheSilverGuitar]

At 8/11/09 12:35 PM, Chdonga wrote: Global Warming can suck my dick.

I'd watch.

Also, I do not have the attention span to watch that monster video. Sorry.

[citricsquid]

I'm not going to watch the video, but global warming does exist, but it's far from as serious as is made out, which I assume is what he's saying in this video. Furthermore, we can't stop global warming, it's natural for our planet to evolve, but we could stop contributing to the cause as much.

[froggerfreak]

Old video is OLD

[Russ3ll]

At 8/11/09 12:48 PM, froggerfreak wrote: Old video is OLD

Chanspeak on non-chan is bad.

Wait a second.

[scubastan089]

At 8/11/09 12:42 PM, citricsquid wrote: I'm not going to watch the video, but global warming does exist, but it's far from as serious as is made out, which I assume is what he's saying in this video. Furthermore, we can't stop global warming, it's natural for our planet to evolve, but we could stop contributing to the cause as much.

The Earth is warming yes, but it is not caused by human beings. It is a cycle that occurs every century or so where the temperature increases extremely then drops quickly. We cannot stop it as it is nothing to be fixed. We should just let it be.

[Raguel]

At 8/11/09 12:25 PM, Sekhem wrote: A decent bit of skepticism, I still prefer Richard Lindzen's debates on global warming where he fucking embarrasses the college students who think that global warming will destroy the planet.

It's not really skeptical at all.

He's taken the main arguments and put them into a logical state of opposing outcomes to come to a rational mode of action.

I don't fully believe that things will get quite as bad as some people say and I don't think he does either, but what he is saying is that we should do what we can to stop contributing to something that may theoretically cause hardship as opposed to hoping for the best and I'd have to agree.

[Fleshlight]

Alright let's do this.
First scenario: Did I get an STD from that hooker last night?
Actions: Did I get myself checked?

[Russ3ll]

That video makes sense...

...if the chance of Global Warming being real was 50/50. Or if it was based of chance at all.

[citricsquid]

At 8/11/09 12:53 PM, scubastan089 wrote:

At 8/11/09 12:42 PM, citricsquid wrote: I'm not going to watch the video, but global warming does exist, but it's far from as serious as is made out, which I assume is what he's saying in this video. Furthermore, we can't stop global warming, it's natural for our planet to evolve, but we could stop contributing to the cause as much.

The Earth is warming yes, but it is not caused by human beings. It is a cycle that occurs every century or so where the temperature increases extremely then drops quickly. We cannot stop it as it is nothing to be fixed. We should just let it be.

I think that to an extent, you're correct, but surely our use of things like petrol and other carbon dioxide emitting things are contributing to it?

[yagru]

i'm pretty sure it's not happening anymore

[Raguel]

At 8/11/09 12:58 PM, citricsquid wrote:

At 8/11/09 12:53 PM, scubastan089 wrote:

The Earth is warming yes, but it is not caused by human beings. It is a cycle that occurs every century or so where the temperature increases extremely then drops quickly. We cannot stop it as it is nothing to be fixed. We should just let it be.

I think that to an extent, you're correct, but surely our use of things like petrol and other carbon dioxide emitting things are contributing to it?

Exactly. The man isn't really even making a point about whether or not global warming is something completely catastrophic that we need to work against or whether it's bullshit that we should ignore. He's just saying that, if those are the two arguments, then fighting against it when it doesn't exist is much better than ignoring it if it does and it's logically sound.

It's like saying that wearing a motorbike helmet whilst riding a motorbike is better than not wearing one because you might get hit in the head by a brick flung by a random kid on the side of the road.

But they've thrown in a such an unbelievably random thing that people suddenly pounce on the fact that a child throwing a brick that hits you in the head as you cruise by at 100mph is so outlandishly unlikey that helmets are a stupid idea and should be abandoned.

The far fetched idea (brick to the head) is put there to get widespread attention but the underlying fact that we aren't doing as much as we could (just wearing the goddamned helmet in case of other things such as crashing and hitting your head on the road) is what should really be focussed on.

Basically there's clean energy, that's easily tapped, that's more or less free after the initial setup and it can completely transform the world. Not only by helping third, second and first world countries, but also by ensuring that we don't contribute to polluting the earth as much as we do regardless of whether or not we are contributing to the current climate.

Rich stay rich and poor stay poor is the only real argument against it.

[Sensationalism]

I really like this video.

[Aughiris]

At 8/11/09 08:38 PM, SuperMarioBro79 wrote: Whos global warming?

Ice Age's older brother.

[wtf97ds]

We should definitely take action, for two reasons.

1) The reason presented in the video

2) The fact that, even if Global Warming isn't a problem, non-renewable resources are and we need to take action against that.-

[kamelona]

At 8/11/09 12:25 PM, Sekhem wrote: A decent bit of skepticism, I still prefer Richard Lindzen's debates on global warming where he fucking embarrasses the college students who think that global warming will destroy the planet.

Also that douche is not funny. At all.

I love you

[RocketBean]

That was hawt.

[michelinman]

This video is assuming that all these scenarios are equally likely. That's why they look like boxes. What you people fail to realize is that the boxes that are in the true column are about 99 percent the size of the ones in the false column. The sun gets warmer and cooler on a consistent rate, and global temperature responds on a consistent rate, which hasn't been affected in the last 400 million years. I would post a graph, but I'm tired of arguing with you conspiracy nuts every day, and can't be bothered to scroll through my folders.

[michelinman]

At 8/11/09 09:50 PM, michelinman wrote: This video is assuming that all these scenarios are equally likely. That's why they look like boxes. What you people fail to realize is that the boxes that are in the true column are about 1 percent the size of the ones in the false column. (99 times out of 100, global warming is false.) The sun gets warmer and cooler on a consistent rate, and global temperature responds on a consistent rate, which hasn't been affected in the last 400 million years. I would post a graph, but I'm tired of arguing with you conspiracy nuts every day, and can't be bothered to scroll through my folders.

Sorry about the mix-up. This post has now been edited, and these words below it are here simply to override the BBS' desire to not let me post it because too much of my post is quoted text.

[cast]

At 8/11/09 12:20 PM, Dugh wrote: What's the synonym for awesome?

Discuss, bitches.

There are many, however my favorite is stupendous.

[Raguel]

At 8/11/09 09:50 PM, michelinman wrote: This video is assuming that all these scenarios are equally likely. That's why they look like boxes. What you people fail to realize is that the boxes that are in the true column are about 99 percent the size of the ones in the false column. The sun gets warmer and cooler on a consistent rate, and global temperature responds on a consistent rate, which hasn't been affected in the last 400 million years. I would post a graph, but I'm tired of arguing with you conspiracy nuts every day, and can't be bothered to scroll through my folders.

It's a completely simplified version of it and he admitted that himself.

Again I'll point out that he's not a doomsayer and neither am I, but I have to agree with his logic when it comes to a problem with so many variables and uncertanties. You take the worst case scenario of each option and choose the path that will avoid the worst of the worst case scenarios.

Forget about global warming. Just forget about any information about any subject and tell me the flaw in that argument. It's perfectly sane.

[Armado]

BOORRIIIINNG

wake up when you have a video with action

[michelinman]

At 8/11/09 09:58 PM, Raguel wrote: Again I'll point out that he's not a doomsayer and neither am I, but I have to agree with his logic when it comes to a problem with so many variables and uncertanties. You take the worst case scenario of each option and choose the path that will avoid the worst of the worst case scenarios.

Forget about global warming. Just forget about any information about any subject and tell me the flaw in that argument. It's perfectly sane.

Because it's the equivalent of spending billions of dollars on making sure every human being on earth is vaccinated for smallpox. Sure a smallpox epidemic would be catastrophic, and sure, it's SANE to do it, but the fact of the matter is the disease is so well repressed, that the odds of an outbreak are microscopic. If you want your taxes to quadruple to "fix" the earth, you can go right ahead, but it's just fine in my eyes, and i'm sure my great great grandkids will feel the same way.

[DragonFyre9]

Well looking at the history of the earths climate we should have an ice-age soon.

[Davoo]

At 8/11/09 12:58 PM, Russ3ll wrote: That video makes sense...

...if the chance of Global Warming being real was 50/50. Or if it was based of chance at all.

My thoughts exactly! I watched this video a long time ago, but I believe he says near the begining:
"We don't know if global warming is true or not..."

Yeah, we can't be %100 positive. BUT the whole hype behind it all follows the same pattern and shows all the same elements of every other "omg the world is gonna go boom!" theory/conspiracy throughout history has had. All of which, have turned out to be a bunch of paranoia.

But it doesn't matter anyway: because the world is going to end in 2012!!!!

[Davoo]

Wow, I thought at least %80 of the people in this thread were going to be a bunch of enviorment-hyping, gore-kissing freak shows! I'm plesantly surprised. That new art portal must be making everyone a lot smarter. =)

[Soapbubble]

Global warming? Such a has-been.