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Off Topic => General Off Topic => Topic started by: Xant on November 15, 2013, 02:10:28 pm

Title: Global warming, more like global hoax.
Post by: Xant on November 15, 2013, 02:10:28 pm
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2415191/And-global-COOLING-Return-Arctic-ice-cap-grows-29-year.html

http://www.theburningplatbundle of sticks-global-warming-wrong/

And the most hilarious thing is that anyone who dared to doubt "global warming" was classified as a nutjob conspiracy theorist.

Edit: Replaced censored link with a link linking to it

Nevermind; the censor doesn't like "platform."
Title: Re: Global warming, more like global hoax.
Post by: Tomas_Miles_again on November 15, 2013, 02:11:04 pm
This is the Daily Mail. I hope are aware of what kind of paper they are.
Title: Re: Global warming, more like global hoax.
Post by: Xant on November 15, 2013, 02:13:52 pm
I hope you're aware I don't care what "kind of a paper they are." What, exactly, are you assuming they lied or deceived about? NASA images? What? If your only criticism is a general "well they're that kind of a paper", who gives a fuck if their sources match up?
Title: Re: Global warming, more like global hoax.
Post by: FRANK_THE_TANK on November 15, 2013, 02:15:04 pm
It's A grade horse shit Xant. Pull your head out of your arse.
Title: Re: Global warming, more like global hoax.
Post by: Xant on November 15, 2013, 02:17:22 pm
Still waiting for specific criticism. What did they get wrong? Did they fake the NASA pictures?
Title: Re: Global warming, more like global hoax.
Post by: no_rules_just_play on November 15, 2013, 02:30:00 pm
Still waiting for specific criticism. What did they get wrong? Did they fake the NASA pictures?
It's not about faking pictures, it's just about totally misusing given information to form a story that is far but true.
Title: Re: Global warming, more like global hoax.
Post by: Huscarlton_Banks on November 15, 2013, 02:39:11 pm
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To be honest, I couldn't give a crap about climate change if it didn't mean a change in shellfish prices, but yeah, the daily mail tends to twist things a bit.
Title: Re: Global warming, more like global hoax.
Post by: Xant on November 15, 2013, 02:51:30 pm
It's not about faking pictures, it's just about totally misusing given information to form a story that is far but true.
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I'm not sure if you people really think you're making some sort of scathing commentary that just punches holes in the opposing argument or something, but let me spoil the ending for you, you're not.

_______ is totally misusing given information to form a story that is _______

______ is a bad source, therefore ____

Fill in the blanks with anything you want, information value 100% the same as the above posts. Three posts, four logical fallacies collected. Keep 'em coming, gotta catch 'em all.
Title: Re: Global warming, more like global hoax.
Post by: Adamar on November 15, 2013, 03:33:54 pm
Very interesting, if its not just a fluctuation and remains this way for a few years, then the predictions where wrong, and all the thermometers lied.
Title: Re: Global warming, more like global hoax.
Post by: Teeth on November 15, 2013, 03:35:08 pm
Xant, you are claiming that a single cold summer on the Arctic falsifies the theory of global warming and you are lecturing people on arguing in here?
Title: Re: Global warming, more like global hoax.
Post by: Xant on November 15, 2013, 03:38:24 pm
Nope, never claimed that.

Another falsified prediction: http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2011/04/19/another-u-n-global-warming-prediction-50-million-climate-refugees-by-2010-fails-to-materialize/
Title: Re: Global warming, more like global hoax.
Post by: no_rules_just_play on November 15, 2013, 03:39:32 pm
'murrica
Title: Re: Global warming, more like global hoax.
Post by: Teeth on November 15, 2013, 03:42:16 pm
Nope, never claimed that.
You call a thread 'Global warming, more like global hoax.' and then present an article in which the relevant information according to you are NASA pictures showing the effects of one cold summer. Sorry, but I can only assume that the statement in the thread title is based on that cold summer.
Title: Re: Global warming, more like global hoax.
Post by: Prpavi on November 15, 2013, 03:44:01 pm
How many catastrophic predictions have there been in the last century, especially the last 20 years, this is just another one, installing fear in people has been going on way before global warming, only the means change today it's global warming, tomorrow it's bird flue and it goes on...

btw. my region of Europe by latest predictions will be uninhabitable by year 2050 due to 50+ degree summers. We'll see about that.
Title: Re: Global warming, more like global hoax.
Post by: Xant on November 15, 2013, 03:44:11 pm
You call a thread 'Global warming, more like global hoax.' and then present an article in which the relevant information according to you are NASA pictures showing the effects of one cold summer. Sorry, but I can only assume that the statement in the thread title is based on that cold summer.
Failure to read article, check.
Straw man fallacy, check.

The collection grows.
Title: Re: Global warming, more like global hoax.
Post by: Christo on November 15, 2013, 03:46:18 pm
btw. my region of Europe by latest predictions will be uninhabitable by year 2050 due to 50+ degree summers. We'll see about that.

well we can already have 40-45C+ periods of summer here, so it could come true easily
Title: Re: Global warming, more like global hoax.
Post by: Xant on November 15, 2013, 03:47:27 pm
Very interesting, if its not just a fluctuation and remains this way for a few years, then the predictions where wrong, and all the thermometers lied.
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The predictions have already failed horribly. See above, and claim that the arctic ice would be gone by the year 2013, when it has only grown by 26% per cent.
Title: Re: Global warming, more like global hoax.
Post by: Prpavi on November 15, 2013, 03:53:25 pm
well we can already have 40-45C+ periods of summer here, so it could come true easily

Yes same here we had an extremly warm summer and temps got up to 40 here also, but they predict longer periods of such temps which would make life difficult, droughts, inability to grow crops and all other similar problems. Mind you there are people that live in much warmer climate than in south of Europe in the summer and they survived, we'll just have to adapt I guess.
Title: Re: Global warming, more like global hoax.
Post by: [ptx] on November 15, 2013, 03:54:07 pm
If the policies hadn't changed, maybe it would be gone. Must we really wait for a disaster to happen before we start acting against it?
Title: Re: Global warming, more like global hoax.
Post by: Prpavi on November 15, 2013, 03:55:09 pm
If the policies hadn't changed, maybe it would be gone. Must we really wait for a disaster to happen before we start acting against it?

European maybe, China and US did little to nothing
Title: Re: Global warming, more like global hoax.
Post by: Christo on November 15, 2013, 03:57:04 pm
Must we really wait for a disaster to happen before we start acting against it?

That's how it works
Title: Re: Global warming, more like global hoax.
Post by: Zlisch_The_Butcher on November 15, 2013, 03:59:12 pm
I don't believe in global warming as a real thing, it's just another bullshitty idea like all the other ones before it, and the earth gets colder then warmer then colder then warmer then colder all the fucking time...
Title: Re: Global warming, more like global hoax.
Post by: BASNAK on November 15, 2013, 04:01:18 pm
http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2013/09/10/climate_change_sea_ice_global_cooling_and_other_nonsense.html

Enjoy

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The second claim that the Arctic sea ice is now 60 percent higher over August 2012 is technically true but extremely misleading. In the summer of 2012 Arctic sea ice hit a record low. Given just how extreme it was, it’s not too surprising that it would not be as extreme this year. As you can see by the graph here, the sea ice extent (which essentially represents how much area is covered by ice) was incredibly low last year and is still lower than average this year. Rose makes this seem like the ice is on a huge rebound, but it’s more like getting a D- after getting an F on a test. Sure, it’s better, but it ain’t necessarily good.

http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/arctic-antarctic-ice.html

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September 2012 witnessed two opposite records concerning sea ice. Two weeks after the Arctic Ocean's ice cap experienced an all-time summertime low for the satellite era (left), Antarctic sea ice reached a record winter maximum extent (right)

Seems like 2012 was just an extreme case, and in 2013 the icecap would automatically become bigger than 2012 because of that (but still be shrinking long term).
Title: Re: Global warming, more like global hoax.
Post by: Malaclypse on November 15, 2013, 04:11:10 pm
See above, and claim that the arctic ice would be gone by the year 2013, when it has only grown by 26% per cent.

I'd like to pose a clarifying question. What has it grown by 26% in comparison to, from what previous levels?
Title: Re: Global warming, more like global hoax.
Post by: Gravoth_iii on November 15, 2013, 04:18:23 pm
http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2013/09/10/climate_change_sea_ice_global_cooling_and_other_nonsense.html

Enjoy

http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/arctic-antarctic-ice.html

Seems like 2012 was just an extreme case, and in 2013 the icecap would automatically become bigger than 2012 because of that (but still be shrinking long term).

gg
Title: Re: Global warming, more like global hoax.
Post by: Xant on November 15, 2013, 04:19:38 pm
I'd like to pose a clarifying question. What has it grown by 26% in comparison to, from what previous levels?
29%, though the other figure that's thrown around is 60%. Don't know which, but the point is that it was predicted to be completely gone by 2013; obviously untrue.

Also,

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Ice grew at rates faster than average throughout October, at 103,500 square kilometers (40,000 square miles) per day compared to the 1981 to 2010 average of 87,500 square kilometers per day (33,800 square miles per day)

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http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/

The overall data from 2013 also falls within two standard deviations of the average, whereas 2012's data did not.
Title: Re: Global warming, more like global hoax.
Post by: Son Of Odin on November 15, 2013, 04:24:51 pm
The climate changes regardless of what we do. Maybe humans can have some marginal affect, but it's nothing compared to the natural trajectory.

Al Gore is taking a piss on you and runs away with the money.

Global warming is a business... People give you money when you first scare the crap out of them and then tell they are responsible for the scary thing.
Title: Re: Global warming, more like global hoax.
Post by: Teeth on November 15, 2013, 04:37:38 pm
Failure to read article, check.
Straw man fallacy, check.

The collection grows.
Goddamnit Xant, you yourself disqualify the arguments that attack the Daily Mail as a source on scientific subjects by asking whether they falsified the NASA images presented in it. You defend the source and the argument it presents on the basis of it's use of scientific imagery. My deduction that you only find the imagery relevant comes from your defense of the source being based solely on these pictures. These pictures show the effects of a single cold summer which prompts you to claim that global warming is a hoax. Now you tell me to actually read the entire article written by David Rose without any proper sources which stinks of classic journalistic misrepresentation of science to generate interest. He is even claiming that articles published by the Daily Mail prompted the IPCC to reconsider it's position and that the IPCC is holding a pre-summit because of this article.

Which from what I get here is untrue and this just makes David Rose a questionable author. If he makes up this then I am scared to even find out what is wrong with the actual science related arguments and facts he presents.
http://www.rtcc.org/2013/09/11/ipcc-rejects-daily-mail-claims-it-plans-climate-crisis-meeting/

Can't help attacking a straw man if you lack any consistency or clarity in presenting your argument. I ask you again, as apparently it is the entire content of the article which allows you to describe global warming as a hoax. Are you sure the Daily Mail is a good source for these kind of discussion subjects? Get proper sources ya shit.
Title: Re: Global warming, more like global hoax.
Post by: Xant on November 15, 2013, 04:45:21 pm
Goddamnit Xant, you yourself disqualify the arguments that attack the Daily Mail as a source on scientific subjects by asking whether they falsified the NASA images presented in it. You defend the source and the argument it presents on the basis of it's use of scientific imagery. My deduction that you only find the imagery relevant comes from your defense of the source being based solely on these pictures. These pictures show the effects of a single cold summer which prompts you to claim that global warming is a hoax. Now you tell me to actually read the entire article written by David Rose without any proper sources which stinks of classic journalistic misrepresentation of science to generate interest. He is even claiming that articles published by the Daily Mail prompted the IPCC to reconsider it's position and that the IPCC is holding a pre-summit because of this article.

Which from what I get here is untrue and this just makes David Rose a questionable author. If he makes up this then I am scared to even find out what is wrong with the actual science related arguments and facts he presents.
http://www.rtcc.org/2013/09/11/ipcc-rejects-daily-mail-claims-it-plans-climate-crisis-meeting/

Can't help attacking a straw man if you lack any consistency or clarity in presenting your argument. I ask you again, as apparently it is the entire content of the article which allows you to describe global warming as a hoax. Are you sure the Daily Mail is a good source for these kind of discussion subjects? Get proper sources ya shit.
This shoots so far past the mark I'm not even sure what to say. Yes, indeed, the comparison image compares the contraction and recovery of the arctic ice between the years 2012-2013. And?
Title: Re: Global warming, more like global hoax.
Post by: Teeth on November 15, 2013, 04:50:53 pm
Yes, indeed, the comparison image compares the contraction and recovery of the arctic ice between the years 2012-2013. And?
I didn't even say anything that could remotely trigger you asking this question. Way to attack a straw man.
Title: Re: Global warming, more like global hoax.
Post by: Xant on November 15, 2013, 04:56:12 pm
I didn't even say anything that could remotely trigger you asking this question. Way to attack a straw man.
It wasn't an attack, it was a question. Way to attack a straw man.
Title: Re: Global warming, more like global hoax.
Post by: Teeth on November 15, 2013, 04:58:19 pm
Ah well, I'm done, you keep on basing your convictions on David Rose and his articles in the Daily Mail, not my problem.
Title: Re: Global warming, more like global hoax.
Post by: Adamar on November 15, 2013, 05:00:36 pm
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The predictions have already failed horribly. See above, and claim that the arctic ice would be gone by the year 2013, when it has only grown by 26% per cent.

So, if it has been getting warmer, Global warming is real.
Title: Re: Global warming, more like global hoax.
Post by: Xant on November 15, 2013, 05:00:42 pm
Ah well, I'm done, you keep on basing your convictions on David Rose and his articles in the Daily Mail, not my problem.
You keep thinking I base my convictions on David Rose and his articles in the Daily Mail, not my problem.

So, if it has been getting warmer, Global warming is real.
The general trend has been that it's been getting warmer slowly, yes. But the climate is never frozen in place, it has always changed in one direction or another. The question is what's causing it, what the effects will be, will it reverse, slow down or speed up, etc.
Title: Re: Global warming, more like global hoax.
Post by: Adamar on November 15, 2013, 05:06:39 pm
But since it has been getting warmer, you can't call it a hoax. Neither can you ignore the anti-polution mesures taken against this effect, that must have had a hand in changing the predictions. In which case you're using the results of actions taken against Global warming against it. You must be able to see it.
Title: Re: Global warming, more like global hoax.
Post by: Christo on November 15, 2013, 05:07:32 pm
.-.
Title: Re: Global warming, more like global hoax.
Post by: Xant on November 15, 2013, 05:09:33 pm
But since it has been getting warmer, you can't call it a hoax. Neither can you ignore the anti-polution mesures taken against this effect, that must have had a hand in changing the predictions.
Yes, you can call it a hoax. You can call it a hoax when all the catastrophic predictions made about it have been proven false and people have been raking in tons of money from these claims, which are untrue. "Global warming" as it has been marketed to the general public is not "well it's gotten a TINY bit warmer for the past decades", it's "humans are causing this! There will be no ice left by 2013! 50 million climate change refugees by 2010! Death, murder, plague!"
Title: Re: Global warming, more like global hoax.
Post by: Adamar on November 15, 2013, 05:12:24 pm
Like I said, the measures taken aginst global warming would have thankfully changed the predictions. And you can't disprove that.
Title: Re: Global warming, more like global hoax.
Post by: Xant on November 15, 2013, 05:16:09 pm
Like I said, the measures taken aginst global warming would have thankfully changed the predictions. And you can't disprove that.
You can't prove that they have. In fact, do you have any scientific source claiming that? The "global warming" has in fact paused recently; there is no reason to believe that the overall minimal differences in CO2 emissions would have so drastically changed everything.
Title: Re: Global warming, more like global hoax.
Post by: NuberT on November 15, 2013, 05:27:27 pm
Wow you guys still believe in global warming after climategate and all that shit.. turn off the tv for good :-)
Title: Re: Global warming, more like global hoax.
Post by: Adamar on November 15, 2013, 05:30:29 pm
You can't prove that they have. In fact, do you have any scientific source claiming that? The "global warming" has in fact paused recently; there is no reason to believe that the overall minimal differences in CO2 emissions would have so drastically changed everything.

Exept we are yet to see if GW actually paused or if its just a fluctuation and the climate will keep getting warmer. In any event, you can't prove that the steps used to fight GW wheren't partially responsible for the reprieve.
Title: Re: Global warming, more like global hoax.
Post by: Xant on November 15, 2013, 05:33:13 pm
Exept we are yet to see if GW actually paused or if its just a fluctuation and the climate will keep getting warmer. In any event, you can't prove that the steps used to fight GW wheren't partially responsible for the reprieve.
You can't prove there's no invisible pink unicorn in your garage. The burden of proof is on you to prove that those steps are responsible for the reprieve, not the other way around: otherwise I can claim the invisible pink unicorn did it and say you can't prove it didn't.
Title: Re: Global warming, more like global hoax.
Post by: Swaggart on November 15, 2013, 05:38:38 pm
Hold on for a minute I'm getting popcorn.
Title: Re: Global warming, more like global hoax.
Post by: Zlisch_The_Butcher on November 15, 2013, 05:41:58 pm
Exept we are yet to see if GW actually paused or if its just a fluctuation and the climate will keep getting warmer. In any event, you can't prove that the steps used to fight GW wheren't partially responsible for the reprieve.
You can't prove that me taking a shit earlier today didn't save the earth from exploding.
Title: Re: Global warming, more like global hoax.
Post by: Lt_Anders on November 15, 2013, 05:51:14 pm
Most people ignore the nearly 200 years of increased COOLING the earth had from about 1500-1800 or so.(The Little Ice Age)

Before this, you could effectively grow WINE in places like Great Britain and even close to the Scottish Border.(Recorded accounts, as well as verifiable hard evidence)

So if anything, we're actually moving SLOWLY back to the point we were supposed to be at some 500 years ago.
So what HAS been confirmed: Gradual Increase in temperature of Earth. Proven to have happened MORE THAN ONCE in the History of the Earth.
What hasn't been confirmed: Whether Humans have been a major cause of the environmental shift.

If anyone actually does their research, you'd see that most of what has been said is actually false outside of general temperature increases, and even then, those are sometimes fudged by people with agendas. In the end, this is nothing more than a way to force "First World Countries" into a forced  state of acting, while they ignore most developing countries, who in fact would be the largest contributors rather than the developed countries.(Though developed countries tend to eat far more resources than developing countries do, in general)
Title: Re: Global warming, more like global hoax.
Post by: CrazyCracka420 on November 15, 2013, 05:53:38 pm
Are people that fucking retarded to deny that our carbon emissions have an effect on the climate of the planet?

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Weren't we all taught about this in 2nd grade, since the 60s or 70s?

Whether the climate or warming or cooling, we're having an impact on the climate.  Also weather != climate. 

Do people really think that scientists working for educational institutions have more of a financial agenda than corporations making trillions from their ravaging of the planet?  Wake the fuck up you fascist boot lickers.
Title: Re: Global warming, more like global hoax.
Post by: Son Of Odin on November 15, 2013, 06:03:50 pm
Are people that fucking retarded to deny that our carbon emissions have an effect on the climate of the planet?

(click to show/hide)

Weren't we all taught about this in 2nd grade, since the 60s or 70s?

Whether the climate or warming or cooling, we're having an impact on the climate.  Also weather != climate. 

Do people really think that scientists working for educational institutions have more of a financial agenda than corporations making trillions from their ravaging of the planet?  Wake the fuck up you fascist boot lickers.


Are people that fucking retarded to think that only a little over 200 years of heavy industry is having a massive impact in a system as big as our planet?
Title: Re: Global warming, more like global hoax.
Post by: BASNAK on November 15, 2013, 06:04:36 pm
Wow you guys still believe in global warming after climategate and all that shit.. turn off the tv for good :-)

You know that was debunked right? All they said in the mails was if they should use the "fix" which was some sort of calibration and didnt mean any modification to data. The e-mails were investigated and found not guilty to modifiyng data.

Watched a documentary about it, think its called "Science under attack" or something similar and adresses these issues.

*Edit* Found it, I recommend it if you've been discussing in this topic :D

Title: Re: Global warming, more like global hoax.
Post by: Lt_Anders on November 15, 2013, 06:04:51 pm
Are people that fucking retarded to deny that our carbon emissions have an effect on the climate of the planet?

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Weren't we all taught about this in 2nd grade, since the 60s or 70s?

Whether the climate or warming or cooling, we're having an impact on the climate.  Also weather != climate. 

Do people really think that scientists working for educational institutions have more of a financial agenda than corporations making trillions from their ravaging of the planet?  Wake the fuck up you fascist boot lickers.

Sheeple spotted.

Go look it up. What produces the MOST CO2 on earth. (HINT HINT, NOT HUMANS)
Title: Re: Global warming, more like global hoax.
Post by: CrazyCracka420 on November 15, 2013, 06:09:19 pm
I realize that CO2 is a naturally occurring substance.  Thanks for not adding anything to the debate.  Are you denying that we have an effect on the climate with our CO2 emissions?

It's a no brainer.  Also follow the money to find the truth.  It's pretty easy to figure out.  I'm not saying that we need to stop heavy industry (or that we even could), I'm not even saying that climate change is going to be the end of mammals.  Just throwing some obivousness into the debate.

Besides, the planet will be fine.  Humans on the other hand, may be fucked.  I live in Minnesota, can always migrate north to Canada if need be.  I'll be fine.

If we're going to focus on improving the "planet" (aka for humans/animals).  I'd say we focus on recycling and try to avoid things like the huge plastic buildups in the ocean.  Again, we have no control over 3rd world countries, they aren't going to be like "oh yeah, let's worry about the rest of the world" when they're dying of starvation and diseases.

I don't really see the point of even arguing about climate change, 3rd world countries are going to continue to try and become developed nations (requiring cheap industrial processes).  And corporations will continue to try and make as much money as possible within "legal" means.  Have you ever driven by any large buildings at night (even schools) and see all the lights they have on?  you think it would be no brainer to have the lights shut off when nobody is using them, would save a lot of money.
Title: Re: Global warming, more like global hoax.
Post by: Son Of Odin on November 15, 2013, 06:13:42 pm
I realize that CO2 is a naturally occurring substance.  Thanks for not adding anything to the debate.  Are you denying that we have an effect on the climate with our CO2 emissions?

*affect, not effect :rolleyes:

I think no one is denying that, but the question is that is it significant enough to matter.
Title: Re: Global warming, more like global hoax.
Post by: CrazyCracka420 on November 15, 2013, 06:14:54 pm
The point of communication is to transmit an idea to another person or parties in a way that they understand what you mean.  Did you understand what I meant?  Transmission successful.
Title: Re: Global warming, more like global hoax.
Post by: Grumpy_Nic on November 15, 2013, 06:17:58 pm
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STOP FIGHTING, START LOVING KITTENS
Title: Re: Global warming, more like global hoax.
Post by: BASNAK on November 15, 2013, 06:18:33 pm
Sheeple spotted.

Go look it up. What produces the MOST CO2 on earth. (HINT HINT, NOT HUMANS)

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The first one shows the ppm of Co2, ending at 1950 and starting at 800000 years before 1950. This data is derived from trapped gas bubbles in ice and I had a course were we studied this matter and it was pretty interesting.

Anyways, back to the point. Today the ppm of Co2 is at 393.66, which is about 93 ppm higher than it has ever been in the past 800000 years. So no it's not natural sorry.
Title: Re: Global warming, more like global hoax.
Post by: Son Of Odin on November 15, 2013, 06:18:42 pm
The point of communication is to transmit an idea to another person or parties in a way that they understand what you mean.  Did you understand what I meant?  Transmission successful.

Well just making sure ya know. "Effect" would imply that the climate change didn't exist before we humans started polluting the atmosphere and created this phenomenon ;)
Title: Re: Global warming, more like global hoax.
Post by: CrazyCracka420 on November 15, 2013, 06:26:00 pm
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The first one shows the ppm of Co2, ending at 1950 and starting at 800000 years before 1950. This data is derived from trapped gas bubbles in ice and I had a course were we studied this matter and it was pretty interesting.

Anyways, back to the point. Today the ppm of Co2 is at 393.66, which is about 93 ppm higher than it has ever been in the past 800000 years. So no it's not natural sorry.

It's obvious, these people are being willfully ignorant, or just toting political party talking points.  If the Earth naturally produces Co2 and we add to it, what is going to happen?  Durrr if there is 1 apple, and we add 1 apple, what do we get (answer, not an apple pie, it's 2 apples). 
Title: Re: Global warming, more like global hoax.
Post by: Lt_Anders on November 15, 2013, 06:30:39 pm
It's obvious, these people are being willfully ignorant, or just toting political party talking points.  If the Earth naturally produces Co2 and we add to it, what is going to happen?  Durrr if there is 1 apple, and we add 1 apple, what do we get (answer, not an apple pie, it's 2 apples).

*affect, not effect :rolleyes:

I think no one is denying that, but the question is that is it significant enough to matter.
Title: Re: Global warming, more like global hoax.
Post by: CrazyCracka420 on November 15, 2013, 06:32:58 pm
But people ARE denying that we affect the climate.  I can't say whether it's significant of an affect or not.  And I don't think it matters if it is, there's no way we're stopping Co2 emissions.  What you or I do is a drop in the bucket compared to newly developing nations and all the massive corporate office buildings in the world.
Title: Re: Global warming, more like global hoax.
Post by: Lt_Anders on November 15, 2013, 06:38:28 pm
But people ARE denying that we affect the climate.  I can't say whether it's significant of an affect or not.  And I don't think it matters if it is, there's no way we're stopping Co2 emissions.  What you or I do is a drop in the bucket compared to newly developing nations and all the massive corporate office buildings in the world.

That still assumes humans have a significant effect on the climate. (Also effect, not affect their :lol:) What most people argue is the EFFECT of humans, even the massive amount we produce, as a whole. It is still, dwarfed, by the effect of earth. If we produce half of what the earth did, naturally, then sure. But like 1-5%(I believe, I'm pulling numbers out of ass here), is that significant or not?

The data is there, but all this global warming BS is Statistics, and what is the common thing that people use to make fun of statistics, hm? That it's easy to fudge to fit a model.
Title: Re: Global warming, more like global hoax.
Post by: karasu on November 15, 2013, 06:39:23 pm
Leave xant alone, you coldhearted buggers!
Title: Re: Global warming, more like global hoax.
Post by: Overdriven on November 15, 2013, 06:41:22 pm
I studied this at University for 3 years and even I haven't made a decision about it particularly. We must be doing something, but how serious an effect we are having is pretty much impossible to estimate. You look at all the estimates from respected scientists and they range from only a small global temperature difference to some of 5 degrees or more. Whats more no one knows what the hell would actually happen if the temperature increased that much.

The one thing I have decided that if all the hysteria and publicity surrounding global warming forces us to be more conscious of the effects we may or may not have on the planet, that can only be a good thing.
Title: Re: Global warming, more like global hoax.
Post by: Grumpy_Nic on November 15, 2013, 06:41:33 pm
Leave xant alone, you coldhearted buggers!

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Title: Re: Global warming, more like global hoax.
Post by: BASNAK on November 15, 2013, 06:42:07 pm
I also recommend everyone to read about the climate "feedback-effect". Climate change is not a simple process but one which works like a domino-effect. Example: If the icecaps grow alot and earth has large glaciers. The white ice will reflect back more sunlight leading to even colder temperatures which will lead to even more ice and so on and so on. Reverse the process: ice melting and little ice left on earth -> less reflection (albedo) -> higher temperature -> less ice -> higher temperature etc.

And if I recall correctly one of the biggest fears regarding global warming is that we reach the point where the methane gas trapped in Siberia is released with acceleration since Methane is much worse than carbon dioxide.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change_feedback
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arctic_methane_release
Title: Re: Global warming, more like global hoax.
Post by: CrazyCracka420 on November 15, 2013, 07:01:06 pm
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Title: Re: Global warming, more like global hoax.
Post by: BASNAK on November 15, 2013, 07:01:40 pm
I studied this at University for 3 years and even I haven't made a decision about it particularly. We must be doing something, but how serious an effect we are having is pretty much impossible to estimate. You look at all the estimates from respected scientists and they range from only a small global temperature difference to some of 5 degrees or more. Whats more no one knows what the hell would actually happen if the temperature increased that much.

The one thing I have decided that if all the hysteria and publicity surround global warming forces us to be more conscious of the effects we may or may not have on the planet, that can only be a good thing.

You studied Climate change for 3 years or what did you study :D? Well from what I've heard, a temperature rise would mean a sea-level rise which is estimated to be around 0.5-2m in this century. It's not that much as long as you dont live by the shore. Netherlands and other western countries have the economies to protect themselves from sea-level rise, but third world countries like Bangladesh would suffer very, very badly. Bangladesh has about ~150 million inhabitants and it is estimated that around 17 million atleast would be directly affected in Bangladesh by 1.5m sea-level rise and a part of the country would belong to the sea.

That's 17 million climate-change refugees only in one country, and as we all know the West aren't really that fond of more immigrants. And this is only one of many disasters that could follow.

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Title: Re: Global warming, more like global hoax.
Post by: Xant on November 15, 2013, 07:02:54 pm
I also recommend everyone to read about the climate "feedback-effect". Climate change is not a simple process but one which works like a domino-effect. Example: If the icecaps grow alot and earth has large glaciers. The white ice will reflect back more sunlight leading to even colder temperatures which will lead to even more ice and so on and so on. Reverse the process: ice melting and little ice left on earth -> less reflection (albedo) -> higher temperature -> less ice -> higher temperature etc.

And if I recall correctly one of the biggest fears regarding global warming is that we reach the point where the methane gas trapped in Siberia is released with acceleration since Methane is much worse than carbon dioxide.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change_feedback
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arctic_methane_release

Yes, that's one possibility. But there are extremely many factors to all this. For example, right now the arctic sea ice is shrinking, while the Antarctic is growing.

And:
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However, the same data offer a few puzzles. While land surface warming and vegetation cover have steadily increased in the vicinity of Greenland over the last thirty years, warming and vegetation have actually decreased in some parts of Eurasia over the last decade. This suggests that once sea ice declines or the climate warms beyond a limit, other processes begin to play a more central role in summer climate variability, such as moisture availability in the soil or cloudiness, which can lead to cooler conditions during the northern summer. Another mystery is the decline in vegetation cover over the southwest Alaskan tundra despite an increase in land surface temperature over the same period.

So: predictions are likely to go astray, and they have been completely wrong so far, on nearly every aspect.

Another thing to consider is that the IPCC claims there's a "pause" in global warming right now (which wasn't predicted apparently...). That sounds very much like an ad hoc explanation.
Title: Re: Global warming, more like global hoax.
Post by: Overdriven on November 15, 2013, 07:10:28 pm
You studied Climate change for 3 years or what did you study :D? Well from what I've heard, a temperature rise would mean a sea-level rise which is estimated to be around 0.5-2m in this century. It's not that much as long as you dont live by the shore. Netherlands and other western countries have the economies to protect themselves from sea-level rise, but third world countries like Bangladesh would suffer very, very badly. Bangladesh has about ~150 million inhabitants and it is estimated that around 17 million atleast would be directly affected in Bangladesh by 1.5m sea-level rise and a part of the country would belong to the sea.

That's 17 million climate-change refugees only in one country, and as we all know the West aren't really that fond of more immigrants. And this is only one of many disasters that could follow.


I studied Geography. Which naturally incorporates climate change into just about everything  :)

But that's precisely what I mean, it's all estimation, and the estimates vary. No one really knows how much the sea level would rise, if it did rise all that much. No one knows how the hell the weather systems would take to it, because they damn sure would change in some form. No one really knows how many people could be effected, how many ecosystems ect ect.

Sure there are rough estimates, but they are very very rough and still largely guesswork. This is mostly down to the fact the Earth is simply too complex system (with a fuck ton of small systems) all working together.

Which I guess is why I'm still undecided as to how big an effect we are having. Humans are a huge presence on the Earth, but we barely understand a fraction of what happens around us and how different things interact with each other in the Earth's systems.

The other thing that really puts me off following the hysteria is the fact 50 years ago everyone thought it was Global Cooling.
Title: Re: Global warming, more like global hoax.
Post by: Son Of Odin on November 15, 2013, 07:12:42 pm
Xant you continue from here. The smugness has been wiped out of my face when I realized it's highly likely that it's my reading comprehension and not CrazyCracka's English what's shit here.

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Title: Re: Global warming, more like global hoax.
Post by: Scervo on November 15, 2013, 07:25:44 pm
Too lazy to read the whole thread, but global warming does not literally fucking mean the world is only getting hotter. It's an increase in extreme weather. Meaning cold is colder, hot is hotter, more hurricanes, more tornadoes, etc etc. Oh, by the way, even though people argue about global warming, scientists don't. 97% of climate scientists agree that it is happening and that man makes it go faster. Earlier you were throwing out strawman fallacies saying that people were accusing your shitty articles of "faking NASA pictures", so heres a link from NASAs website backing up my claim. http://climate.nasa.gov/scientific-consensus
Title: Re: Global warming, more like global hoax.
Post by: BASNAK on November 15, 2013, 07:31:18 pm
Too lazy to read the whole thread, but global warming does not literally fucking mean the world is only getting hotter. It's an increase in extreme weather. Meaning cold is colder, hot is hotter, more hurricanes, more tornadoes, etc etc. Oh, by the way, even though people argue about global warming, scientists don't. 97% of climate scientists agree that it is happening and that man makes it go faster. Earlier you were throwing out strawman fallacies saying that people were accusing your shitty articles of "faking NASA pictures", so heres a link from NASAs website backing up my claim. http://climate.nasa.gov/scientific-consensus

Are you trying to say that Scientists are more reliable than the Daily Mail? God forbid.
Title: Re: Global warming, more like global hoax.
Post by: CrazyCracka420 on November 15, 2013, 07:32:56 pm
It's called the Daily Fail for a reason (even in 'murica)
Title: Re: Global warming, more like global hoax.
Post by: Overdriven on November 15, 2013, 07:36:36 pm
Or daily wail.
Title: Re: Global warming, more like global hoax.
Post by: Xant on November 15, 2013, 07:39:53 pm
Earlier you were throwing out strawman fallacies saying that people were accusing your shitty articles of "faking NASA pictures", so heres a link from NASAs website backing up my claim. http://climate.nasa.gov/scientific-consensus
I did no such thing. Where did I accuse anyone of claiming that the article faked NASA pictures?
Title: Re: Global warming, more like global hoax.
Post by: Zlisch_The_Butcher on November 15, 2013, 07:49:27 pm
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If there is one thing that pisses me off it's the preserve the rainforest bullshit, Eurasians wiped out the vast majority of their forests and built shit there, then go off crying how the people in Brazil shouldn't be allowed to do the same, if you want forests, go get rid of some of your cities or farms and plant shit there.
Title: Re: Global warming, more like global hoax.
Post by: Overdriven on November 15, 2013, 07:51:41 pm
Well in fairness the rainforests are far larger than anything seen in Europe. Furthermore, Europeans did it long before we had any idea about what effects it would have. Now we know, it's our job to make sure the same doesn't happen elsewhere.
Title: Re: Global warming, more like global hoax.
Post by: Xant on November 15, 2013, 07:53:59 pm
If there is one thing that pisses me off it's the preserve the rainforest bullshit, Eurasians wiped out the vast majority of their forests and built shit there, then go off crying how the people in Brazil shouldn't be allowed to do the same, if you want forests, go get rid of some of your cities or farms and plant shit there.
Well, of course, the whole "rainforests are the lungs of earth" thing has been disproven also.
Title: Re: Global warming, more like global hoax.
Post by: CrazyCracka420 on November 15, 2013, 08:17:31 pm
If there is one thing that pisses me off it's the preserve the rainforest bullshit, Eurasians wiped out the vast majority of their forests and built shit there, then go off crying how the people in Brazil shouldn't be allowed to do the same, if you want forests, go get rid of some of your cities or farms and plant shit there.

Just like the Europeans and American's calling on other countries to stop "slavery" and having second class citizens.

It was like my Doctor who smokes and suggested that I should quit smoking or I might get lung cancer.

How dare they! Those hypocrites!

I get what you're saying, and generally agree.  But using the "but they did it first!" is a pretty terrible excuse for continuing something that is generally seen as negative.  Especially considering that none of us were alive 100 or 200 or 300 years ago.

That being said, these people are clearing the rainforests because it's how they are able to make money and food.  Kind of hard for us to sit back in our computer chairs eating cheetos and tell these 3rd world people to stop making money.  Sure we should try to stop clearing rainforests, but there needs to be viable alternatives for the people doing it.
Title: Re: Global warming, more like global hoax.
Post by: Xant on November 15, 2013, 09:26:43 pm
It was like my Doctor who smokes and suggested that I should quit smoking or I might get lung cancer.
Tu quoque in response to criticism

The first common variant of the fallacy is the "you criticize X, but you use something related to X" argument:

Bob: "Smoking and alcoholism are well-known risk factors for cancer."
Alice: "But you yourself smoke and drink a lot! You're wrong!"

The fact that Bob is a smoker and drinker doesn't mean that he is wrong about the effects of those habits. Still confused? A better rebuttal would be to accept the premise that alcohol and smoking really are cancer risks, but then ask why Bob continues to do them. Perhaps Bob knows full well about the dangers of such addictions, but he may or may not be a Hedonist with no sense of self preservation, or it's just because he cannot or is yet to break from his very own addiction, hence why he continues to do it. Or because he is consciously or unconsciously suicidal, which makes his self-harm a logical consequence.
Title: Re: Global warming, more like global hoax.
Post by: Zlisch_The_Butcher on November 15, 2013, 09:52:32 pm
Just like the Europeans and American's calling on other countries to stop "slavery" and having second class citizens.

It was like my Doctor who smokes and suggested that I should quit smoking or I might get lung cancer.

How dare they! Those hypocrites!

I get what you're saying, and generally agree.  But using the "but they did it first!" is a pretty terrible excuse for continuing something that is generally seen as negative.  Especially considering that none of us were alive 100 or 200 or 300 years ago.

That being said, these people are clearing the rainforests because it's how they are able to make money and food.  Kind of hard for us to sit back in our computer chairs eating cheetos and tell these 3rd world people to stop making money.  Sure we should try to stop clearing rainforests, but there needs to be viable alternatives for the people doing it.
It's not like slavery and second class citizens, it'd be like slavery if we kept the slaves we have, and the children they breed, as slaves but just stop importing new ones and then demanded that no one ever imported slaves in other countries, fact of the matter is that our ancestors got rid of our forests, now we're being massive dicks to some people who want to get rid of some of theirs, the "cause" of saving the rainforest can only be anything but bullshit when Eurasians/North Americans start planting trees in the large farm spaces or cities we have.

"Hey, stop tearing down your trees, trees are important."
"But you tore down all your trees, if you cared about trees you could plant some yourself and deal with the various shitty living conditions they bring to you."
"No, stop tearing down your trees, we tore down our trees back before we started caring about them, and for some reason we deserve shitloads of land cleared of trees while you must be 100% rainforest."

Also there are no viable alternatives to clearing some land, people need space, it is however still possible to reforest some of Eurasia and North America so that there won't be insanely serious consequences when 50-90% of the rainforest has been replaced with farms and cities.
Title: Re: Global warming, more like global hoax.
Post by: CrazyCracka420 on November 15, 2013, 10:37:13 pm
Lots of 'murica is still forested (well parts that natively were).  Even plains are being forested in a lot of areas due to the benefit it provides to combating soil erosion. 

But I do understand your point and generally agree.   No need to resort to -1'ing  :cry:
Title: Re: Global warming, more like global hoax.
Post by: Zlisch_The_Butcher on November 15, 2013, 11:36:13 pm
Lots of 'murica is still forested (well parts that natively were).  Even plains are being forested in a lot of areas due to the benefit it provides to combating soil erosion. 

But I do understand your point and generally agree.   No need to resort to -1'ing  :cry:
Come on mate, gotsta keep my title as 1# post voter.
Title: Re: Global warming, more like global hoax.
Post by: Kalam on November 15, 2013, 11:39:27 pm
Lots of environmental scientists report that climate change caused by human impact is a real thing. I choose to believe them.

I'm not saying that my opinion is invalid due to a lack of education in their specialty, just that if a majority of them agree on something, it's probably got more truth in it than the reverse.

A lot of the arguments against climate change are, well, similar to the arguments for Abrahamic creationism and other science vs. religion discussions.

It's like us disbelieving our best duelists about how the combat mechanics of cRPG work, except in real life there are no devs to back up or discount your views. All we have are the estimates of people who care about a subject more than everyone else, and if they agree on something, I feel like they're more likely to be right about it than any other group of people.
Title: Re: Global warming, more like global hoax.
Post by: Xant on November 15, 2013, 11:57:36 pm


It's like us disbelieving our best duelists about how the combat mechanics of cRPG work
And this might not be such a good idea for the same reason: bias. You might want to take what the two-hander duelists say about two handed weapons with a grain of salt.
Title: Re: Global warming, more like global hoax.
Post by: Overdriven on November 16, 2013, 01:01:20 am
Scientists also have their own agendas. If they come up with something 'relevant' that will spark a lot of attention and is to do with the current issue then they will likely get more funding, advance their own career ect.

So just because scientists agree, doesn't mean they aren't bullshitting or stretching the truth to some extent to suit their own needs in life.
Title: Re: Global warming, more like global hoax.
Post by: Hoppster on November 16, 2013, 02:11:54 am

i dont listen to anything the daily mail says.

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Title: Re: Global warming, more like global hoax.
Post by: Kalam on November 16, 2013, 02:13:58 am
And this might not be such a good idea for the same reason: bias. You might want to take what the two-hander duelists say about two handed weapons with a grain of salt.

Best duelists use all melee weapons. Just sayin'.

There is bias in everything, but if I had to choose between bias that scientists have and bias that the people who actively attack climate change have, I'm more inclined to believe the scientists. I'm not sure who disbelieves climate change in your country, but the same people who do that here tend to believe a number of other things I do not. So it's easy for me to believe the opposing group more easily.

Call it my bias.
Title: Re: Global warming, more like global hoax.
Post by: Xant on November 16, 2013, 02:40:07 am
Best duelists use all melee weapons. Just sayin'.
Uh.. there's no rule woven into the fabric of the M&Bverse that says "you must use all melee weapons to be the best duelist."
Title: Re: Global warming, more like global hoax.
Post by: polkafranzi on November 16, 2013, 02:55:37 am
you're all cunts.

nuff' said.
Title: Re: Global warming, more like global hoax.
Post by: Kalam on November 16, 2013, 02:56:46 am
Uh.. there's no rule woven into the fabric of the M&Bverse that says "you must use all melee weapons to be the best duelist."

It just so happens that the NA ones do.
Title: Re: Global warming, more like global hoax.
Post by: Xant on November 16, 2013, 03:26:10 am
It just so happens that the NA ones do.
NA =/= the whole world.

Shocking, I know.
Title: Re: Global warming, more like global hoax.
Post by: Kalam on November 16, 2013, 05:05:40 am
NA =/= the whole world.

Shocking, I know.

It's a safe assumption that yours do, too.
Title: Re: Global warming, more like global hoax.
Post by: Xant on November 16, 2013, 05:24:02 am
It's a safe assumption that yours do, too.
Shows you just how wrong safe assumptions can be. Wonder what other safe assumptions you have that are false?
Title: Re: Global warming, more like global hoax.
Post by: Kirbyy on November 16, 2013, 05:37:14 am
I hate you. 
Title: Re: Global warming, more like global hoax.
Post by: Kalam on November 16, 2013, 05:49:03 am
Shows you just how wrong safe assumptions can be. Wonder what other safe assumptions you have that are false?

Are you telling me it's wrong? Who else agrees with you?

Are you telling me you disagree with climate change? Why should we believe you? Please give us a longer list (http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/2013/09/10/the-daily-mail-is-wrong-the-earth-keeps-warming/) of evidence against climate change.

Also, are you practicing for a career in politics, education, or law?
Title: Re: Global warming, more like global hoax.
Post by: Xant on November 16, 2013, 05:53:33 am
Are you telling me it's wrong? Who else agrees with you?
Yes. Phyrex is widely considered to be the best duelist EU side, at least he's the one most people would agree on. And then we have people like Bjord, Hearst, Cicero(ololo), Atze... pretty much all of the top EU duelists are or were dedicated 2handers in the Good Times; certainly they played 2handers as their mains, and people are biased when it comes to their mains, alts can be disregarded at will. And Phyrex is the dedicated 2hander, he played with nothing else and is the father of lolstab.
Title: Re: Global warming, more like global hoax.
Post by: Lt_Anders on November 16, 2013, 06:00:02 am
Are you telling me you disagree with climate change? Why should we believe you? Please give us a longer list (http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/2013/09/10/the-daily-mail-is-wrong-the-earth-keeps-warming/) of evidence against climate change.

No one here is disagreeing with it. The majority disagree with the fact that it's "Caused/Aggrivated" by humans.

The list of Evidence that Humans do it, is nothing more than a money maker for those in the "Clean" business. I've talked to statisticians who actually do this(a reputable one at my college who's considered amongst the best: Dr. Don Resio) and he agrees that people on both sides "make up" data to fit a paradigm.
Title: Re: Global warming, more like global hoax.
Post by: Kalam on November 16, 2013, 06:05:45 am
Yes. Phyrex is widely considered to be the best duelist EU side, at least he's the one most people would agree on. And then we have people like Bjord, Hearst, Cicero(ololo), Atze... pretty much all of the top EU duelists are or were dedicated 2handers in the Good Times; certainly they played 2handers as their mains, and people are biased when it comes to their mains, alts can be disregarded at will. And Phyrex is the dedicated 2hander, he played with nothing else and is the father of lolstab.

Alright. That's odd to me, since you'd think you would benefit from a better understanding of every opponent if you'd played in every class. I concede that to you.


http://tothepoles.wordpress.com/2013/09/16/melting-ice-hot-topic/ (http://tothepoles.wordpress.com/2013/09/16/melting-ice-hot-topic/)


http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2010/01/11/205330/foxnews-wattsupwiththat-climatedepot-daily-mail-article-on-global-cooling-mojib-latif/ (http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2010/01/11/205330/foxnews-wattsupwiththat-climatedepot-daily-mail-article-on-global-cooling-mojib-latif/)

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/imageo/2013/09/09/with-climate-journalism-like-this-who-needs-fiction/#.Uob8weK-O2A (http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/imageo/2013/09/09/with-climate-journalism-like-this-who-needs-fiction/#.Uob8weK-O2A)

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=cooler-year-fails-to-shift-long-term-trend-of-arctic-sea-ice-melting (http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=cooler-year-fails-to-shift-long-term-trend-of-arctic-sea-ice-melting)

No one here is disagreeing with it. The majority disagree with the fact that it's "Caused/Aggrivated" by humans.

The list of Evidence that Humans do it, is nothing more than a money maker for those in the "Clean" business. I've talked to statisticians who actually do this(a reputable one at my college who's considered amongst the best: Dr. Don Resio) and he agrees that people on both sides "make up" data to fit a paradigm.

Ach. Now I have to wait till Huey graduates and studies this shit to get someone to do the work for me. I will never take the time to figure out how to do my own synthesis experiments.
Title: Re: Global warming, more like global hoax.
Post by: NuberT on November 16, 2013, 10:24:28 am
Its not like all scientist agree on global warming, those who disagree are just ignored by the mass media..

ipcc report debunked http://heartland.org/media-library/pdfs/CCR-II/Summary-for-Policymakers.pdf thats just the summary.

here is the whole thing: http://www.nipccreport.org/reports/ccr2a/ccr2physicalscience.html not that anyone of you would even read the summary :P
Title: Re: Global warming, more like global hoax.
Post by: Molly on November 16, 2013, 10:59:55 am
[...]and he agrees that people on both sides "make up" data to fit a paradigm.
That's the whole point of statistics...
Title: Re: Global warming, more like global hoax.
Post by: Huscarlton_Banks on November 16, 2013, 11:01:54 am
That paper is not peer reviewed and was published by Heartland, a conservative think tank noted for attacking the link between second-hand smoke and health risks, and the risks of acid rain.

It's really hard to believe that they're neutral on this without peer review.

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Heartland’s funding over the past decade has included thousands of dollars directly from ExxonMobil and the American Petroleum Institute, but a large portion of their funding ($25.6 million) comes from the shadowy Donor’s Capital Fund, created expressly to conceal the identity of large donors to free-market causes. The Koch brothers appear to be funneling money into Donor’s Capital via their Knowledge and Progress Fund.

On the remarks about the Chinese Academy of Sciences research:

http://english.llas.cas.cn/ns/es/201306/t20130615_104626.html
Title: Re: Global warming, more like global hoax.
Post by: Paul on November 16, 2013, 12:51:41 pm
People love to have a view differing from the consensus among the scientific community. It gives a feeling of superiority over other, less "sceptical" people. But if one takes a closer look at the alternatives, their shadyness is ofter several magnitudes higher. You are all wrong anyway. Time cube is the only truth.
Title: Re: Global warming, more like global hoax.
Post by: NuberT on November 16, 2013, 01:13:05 pm
That paper is not peer reviewed and was published by Heartland, a conservative think tank noted for attacking the link between second-hand smoke and health risks, and the risks of acid rain.

It's really hard to believe that they're neutral on this without peer review.

On the remarks about the Chinese Academy of Sciences research:

http://english.llas.cas.cn/ns/es/201306/t20130615_104626.html

So what? the people from the ipcc get their money streight from god himself or what?
Title: Re: Global warming, more like global hoax.
Post by: Paul on November 16, 2013, 01:19:46 pm
No, but close. It's the UN afaik.
Title: Re: Global warming, more like global hoax.
Post by: Overdriven on November 16, 2013, 01:36:15 pm
i dont listen to anything the daily mail says.


I prefer this one.

Title: Re: Global warming, more like global hoax.
Post by: Huscarlton_Banks on November 16, 2013, 02:39:16 pm
So what? the people from the ipcc get their money streight from god himself or what?
People can claim "hey, some scientists might be getting paid to make claims that will make governments subsidize green technology, so their work is biased and not worthy of trust", but you can't say in the same breath "Hey this paper made by scientists who are definitely getting paid by private companies that have a self-interest in the results is totally legit". 

The IPCC is funded by the UN and bases its reports on the peer reviewed work. It does not pay scientists for contributing their work.

It is extremely shady that:

They named their group NIPCC and published their work under that name (presumably to brand themselves to be as credible as the IPCC) without independent peer review.
They receive large amounts of funding from oil companies.
They claimed to have the endorsement of the CAS, but they do not.
Title: Re: Global warming, more like global hoax.
Post by: Xant on November 16, 2013, 03:48:25 pm
That's the whole point of statistics...
Ehm, no. Arguing from the bottom line is not good science.
Title: Re: Global warming, more like global hoax.
Post by: Molly on November 16, 2013, 03:54:48 pm
There is no "good science" any more since Science is a business as everything else.
It probably used to be different a few decades or a century back but nowadays statistics are abused to show what you wanna show which isn't necessarily an image of the objective reality.
Title: Re: Global warming, more like global hoax.
Post by: Havoco on November 16, 2013, 04:20:15 pm
Holy fuck a global warming thread? Isn't this a cliche yet?
Title: Re: Global warming, more like global hoax.
Post by: Nessaj on November 16, 2013, 04:58:26 pm
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The problem is that most of the things being done has nothing to with the topics on that billboard, except maybe from privatized initiatives.

Instead what is being pushed is something as stupid as 'quotas' where companies buy quotas to be able to pollute more, making those who sell/manage the quotas billionaires and the companies keep on polluting just as much as before except they now have to pay for it, but in order to reduce the loss they just increase their prices, lower wages and increase the work hours.

I don't think anyone in this thread disagree about moving towards cleaner and better energy, towards a Green Energy world, it is simply the best no matter what, energy from the ocean, the sun, from lightning and what not, much more and much better than any of our current crap.

Whether or not the climate is changing is a dead end discussion, of course it is changing, it has since the birth of Earth itself. Is current changes part in due to man made pollution? Maybe, maybe not. It doesn't matter. What matters is how we're going to transfer over to Green Energy, which is a much bigger and more intelligent discussion to have, and the answer is most certainly not 'CO2 Quotas' which is the standard being pushed these days.

The problem is how do we get from point A to B, and in order for us to even just begin taking the first real steps we would need to have leaders who care about people and not about staying in office.
Title: Re: Global warming, more like global hoax.
Post by: _schizo321437 on November 16, 2013, 05:06:00 pm
Title: Re: Global warming, more like global hoax.
Post by: Huey Newton on November 17, 2013, 08:17:43 am
I was mightily tempted to present a real argument in this thread.

I do think this is something that is important, whether it be thousands of scientists in on a conspiracy
or
a couple dozen CEO's with financial interests driving the bus the other way.

Climate Disruption is the new term being used by many other Scientists.

Carry on.
Title: Re: Global warming, more like global hoax.
Post by: Kafein on November 17, 2013, 01:23:18 pm
If we want to keep the planet cool, we can if we want to and continue producing as much GHG as we want. This is a non-problem. Our dependance on fossil fuels for energy is a short-term problem as we have plenty of known nuclear technologies that can save the day if we actually start investing in them which will happen eventually. Our dependance on petrol for making all sorts of plastics is more worrisome actually. We might have water problems in the future but this will probably be years after we unlock very powerful power sources that will allow us to desalinate sea water on a widespread scale. Sea levels will not rise more than half a meter in the next 100 years if the temperature continues to rise. CO2 is a ridiculously tiny contributor to global warming, as we know nothing about water vapor and many other GHG, and we know for sure that methane is more than one order of magnitude more powerful than CO2. The only reasonable thing to do on a human scale to stop global warming and be more healthy is to stop or severely reduce meat consumption.
Title: Re: Global warming, more like global hoax.
Post by: Nightmare798 on November 17, 2013, 03:48:38 pm
There is no global warning, just periods of time between ice ages.
Title: Re: Global warming, more like global hoax.
Post by: Bjord on November 27, 2013, 11:26:44 pm
Yes. Phyrex is widely considered to be the best duelist EU side, at least he's the one most people would agree on. And then we have people like Bjord, Hearst, Cicero(ololo), Atze... pretty much all of the top EU duelists are or were dedicated 2handers in the Good Times; certainly they played 2handers as their mains, and people are biased when it comes to their mains, alts can be disregarded at will. And Phyrex is the dedicated 2hander, he played with nothing else and is the father of lolstab.

He was not the father of lolstab, but you wouldn't remember who was. Back in the back then, it used to be TheNarrator who was regarded as the best "thruster". Phyrex merely took his technique and perfected it, while as TheNarrator remained above average. Phyrex no-lifed until he surpassed both me and TheNarrator, and then I started playing a lot more competetively in cRPG and we were more or less equal.

But yes, I'm positive had Phyrex not rage-quit because of the thrust nerf, he'd be a strong contender for the title of Best E-Penis Holder.
Title: Re: Global warming, more like global hoax.
Post by: Herkkutatti666 on November 27, 2013, 11:27:24 pm
First holohoax and now this...Damn hoaxes
Title: Re: Global warming, more like global hoax.
Post by: Joseph Porta on November 27, 2013, 11:29:33 pm
blame it on the minorities
Title: Re: Global warming, more like global hoax.
Post by: CrazyCracka420 on November 27, 2013, 11:36:26 pm
What do you call two black people on a bike? 

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Title: Re: Global warming, more like global hoax.
Post by: Yazid on November 27, 2013, 11:38:58 pm
Xant proves to us once again that not only is a fruitcake, but out of touch with reality as well.
Title: Re: Global warming, more like global hoax.
Post by: LordBerenger on November 28, 2013, 09:57:00 am
Holocaust more like a hoax uheueheueeueheuehee skinhead powah
Title: Re: Global warming, more like global hoax.
Post by: Xant on January 26, 2016, 12:33:38 pm
Lots of environmental scientists report that climate change caused by human impact is a real thing. I choose to believe them.

I'm not saying that my opinion is invalid due to a lack of education in their specialty, just that if a majority of them agree on something, it's probably got more truth in it than the reverse.

A lot of the arguments against climate change are, well, similar to the arguments for Abrahamic creationism and other science vs. religion discussions.

It's like us disbelieving our best duelists about how the combat mechanics of cRPG work, except in real life there are no devs to back up or discount your views. All we have are the estimates of people who care about a subject more than everyone else, and if they agree on something, I feel like they're more likely to be right about it than any other group of people.
http://business.financialpost.com/fp-comment/lawrence-solomon-science-now-settled
Title: Re: Global warming, more like global hoax.
Post by: Molly on January 26, 2016, 12:57:32 pm
http://business.financialpost.com/fp-comment/lawrence-solomon-science-now-settled
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Post by: Vibe on January 26, 2016, 01:09:45 pm
In the CERN CLOUD experiments, Almeida et al. (2013) (http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v502/n7471/full/nature12663.html) found

    "ionising radiation such as the cosmic radiation that bombards the atmosphere from space has negligible influence on the formation rates of these particular aerosols [that form clouds]"

Title: Re: Global warming, more like global hoax.
Post by: Molly on January 26, 2016, 01:32:25 pm
In the CERN CLOUD experiments, Almeida et al. (2013) (http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v502/n7471/full/nature12663.html) found

    "ionising radiation such as the cosmic radiation that bombards the atmosphere from space has negligible influence on the formation rates of these particular aerosols [that form clouds]"

Quote
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) considers that the increased amount of aerosol in the atmosphere from human activities constitutes the largest present uncertainty in climate radiative forcing2 and projected climate change this century29. The results reported here show that the uncertainty is even greater than previously thought, because extremely low amine emissions—which have substantial anthropogenic sources and have not hitherto been considered by the IPCC—have a large influence on the nucleation of sulphuric acid particles. Moreover, amine scrubbing is likely to become the dominant technology for CO2 capture from fossil-fuelled power plants, so anthropogenic amine emissions are expected to increase in the future30. If amine emissions were to spread into pristine regions of the boundary layer where they could switch on nucleation, substantial increases in regional and global cloud condensation nuclei could occur. This underscores the importance of monitoring amine emissions—as well as those of sulphur dioxide—when assessing the impact of anthropogenic activities on the radiative forcing of regional and global climate by aerosols.
Title: Re: Global warming, more like global hoax.
Post by: Vibe on January 26, 2016, 01:38:34 pm
And your point is?
Title: Re: Global warming, more like global hoax.
Post by: Torben on January 26, 2016, 01:52:48 pm
whats your point molly?

also xant:  necro more.  and then with an article older then original thread. le fuck.
Title: Re: Global warming, more like global hoax.
Post by: Xant on January 26, 2016, 01:53:18 pm
Oh no, I have "necroed"!!!!!!!! Whatever shall I do?
Title: Re: Global warming, more like global hoax.
Post by: Torben on January 26, 2016, 02:00:13 pm
Oh no, I have "necroed"!!!!!!!! Whatever shall I do?

not necro ^^
Title: Re: Global warming, more like global hoax.
Post by: Vibe on January 26, 2016, 02:00:54 pm
also xant:  necro more.  and then with an article older then original thread. le fuck.

To be frank, there is nothing wrong with the article, it is a scientific piece that proves something and that is that galactic cosmic rays do affect creation of aerosols, but the change is not significant enough to contribute to cloud formation and global warming. At most, they effect slight changes on short interannual timescales, as the abstract of another piece (http://www.pnas.org/content/112/11/3253) from 2015 says:

Here we use newly available methods to examine the dynamical association between cosmic rays (CR) and global temperature (GT) in the 20th-century observational record. We find no measurable evidence of a causal effect linking CR to the overall 20th-century warming trend; however, on short interannual timescales, we find a significant, although modest, causal effect of CR on short-term, year-to-year variability in GT. Thus, although CR clearly do not contribute measurably to the 20th-century global warming trend, they do appear as a nontraditional forcing in the climate system on short interannual timescales, providing another interesting piece of the puzzle in our understanding of factors influencing climate variability.
Title: Re: Global warming, more like global hoax.
Post by: Torben on January 26, 2016, 02:14:11 pm
vibe, I am referring to this piece of shit conglomerate of words: http://business.financialpost.com/fp-comment/lawrence-solomon-science-now-settled
Title: Re: Global warming, more like global hoax.
Post by: Vibe on January 26, 2016, 02:34:46 pm
that article was just max cringe
Title: Re: Global warming, more like global hoax.
Post by: Piok on January 26, 2016, 03:14:13 pm
Maybe it is hoax(very profitable) but overpopulation is not a hoax :cry:

Just look at waves of potential rocket scientist from Africa and Middle east :twisted:
Title: Re: Global warming, more like global hoax.
Post by: Torben on January 26, 2016, 03:25:51 pm
verpopulation is not a hoax :cry:

I attended a lecture that also broached the subject of population management and learned that todays food production can nourish a world wide population of 12 billion,  ignoring logistics ofc.  considering the increase in population growth speed and changing migration patterns, "overpopulation" may well be considered as a great challenge in the coming century, I agree.
Title: Re: Global warming, more like global hoax.
Post by: ecorcheur_brokar on January 27, 2016, 04:28:07 pm
There is no "good science" any more since Science is a business as everything else.
It probably used to be different a few decades or a century back but nowadays statistics are abused to show what you wanna show which isn't necessarily an image of the objective reality.
The thing is one scientist or one scientist lab in itself means nothing, all he creates must be taken cautiously. The thing that makes science reliable is the debate inside of the scientific community. Is the result replicable? Can another team disprof what has been said? Is everything stated agreed by everyone inside the community (or by most of it)?
The problem is that general media don't wait for the scientific debate to take place. As soon as some results are published, they will go "science say that". But that is not the truth, it should more be like "this lab is saying that. We will see in some years if the scientific community agrees on this".

...that said, I and a lots of people in the scientific community agree that there's a drop in the quality of scientific production. Lots of publishing just to have citations and credits but not enough time spend on each research.

....and we know for sure that methane is more than one order of magnitude more powerful than CO2. The only reasonable thing to do on a human scale to stop global warming and be more healthy is to stop or severely reduce meat consumption.
Do people really think that scientists working for educational institutions have more of a financial agenda than corporations making trillions from their ravaging of the planet? 
Couldn't say those better.

Are people that fucking retarded to think that only a little over 200 years of heavy industry is having a massive impact in a system as big as our planet?
You know about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozone_depletion (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozone_depletion) right?

Maybe some people tend to be too dramatic about it, but climate change is real. Even if climate change have occurred before humans were there, the effects were dramatic, Glacial age were not fun time for living creatures. To what degree human are affecting it is still in debate but there's quite a lot of proof that we do have an effect and reducing it can only make things better.

If there is one thing that pisses me off it's the preserve the rainforest bullshit, Eurasians wiped out the vast majority of their forests and built shit there, then go off crying how the people in Brazil shouldn't be allowed to do the same, if you want forests, go get rid of some of your cities or farms and plant shit there.
What if we just wanted to avoid that they do the same mistake? Plus the situation is quite different as they have way more wildlife diversity as we never had and that they have a tropical soil which after some years without tropical forest becomes infertile. So in one generation the destruction of the forest will have been useless.

Scientists also have their own agendas. If they come up with something 'relevant' that will spark a lot of attention and is to do with the current issue then they will likely get more funding, advance their own career ect.

So just because scientists agree, doesn't mean they aren't bullshitting or stretching the truth to some extent to suit their own needs in life.
Destroying other scientist theories also bring lot of fame and reward for scientists too, if some scientists could have debunked the global warning they would already have done it. And I don't think governement are spending so much money to make everything greener if some scientist could provide them proof global warming is a hoax.
Title: Re: Global warming, more like global hoax.
Post by: Leshma on January 27, 2016, 04:51:52 pm
I attended a lecture that also broached the subject of population management and learned that todays food production can nourish a world wide population of 12 billion,  ignoring logistics ofc.  considering the increase in population growth speed and changing migration patterns, "overpopulation" may well be considered as a great challenge in the coming century, I agree.

Define food? What they sell to mass market is edible but I wouldn't call that proper food. Cancer rates are going up and it's not just because our life span is becoming longer. We are bombarded by various harmful agents from all sides, most of them are in mass produced food.

Also current food industry is taking its toll on ecology. We need to gradually shrink it, which means less food.

But considering that most of you believe that global warming is a hoax, I'm not even sure why are we having this discussion.
Title: Re: Global warming, more like global hoax.
Post by: Leshma on January 27, 2016, 04:54:06 pm
Oh no, I have "necroed"!!!!!!!! Whatever shall I do?

Kill yourself. With a blunt and rusty knife.
Title: Re: Global warming, more like global hoax.
Post by: Torben on January 27, 2016, 05:13:56 pm
Define food? What they sell to mass market is edible but I wouldn't call that proper food. Cancer rates are going up and it's not just because our life span is becoming longer. We are bombarded by various harmful agents from all sides, most of them are in mass produced food.
Also current food industry is taking its toll on ecology. We need to gradually shrink it, which means less food.
But considering that most of you believe that global warming is a hoax, I'm not even sure why are we having this discussion.

My limited knowledge doesnt allow me to answer that. I am guessing that a large part of the equation is subsidized agricultural produce that gets destroyed instead of being shipped to places where it would help due to economic aspects, as well as potential agriculture produce that has been replaced by other plants like rape for bio diesel.

what do you think?
Title: Re: Global warming, more like global hoax.
Post by: Molly on January 27, 2016, 06:40:10 pm
Not just Diesel... remember they raised the Ethanol percentage in petrol from 5% to 10% too.
Although selling both.

Bio-gas installations on probably close to every bigger farm to produce electricity... celebrating it as being oh-so ecological. >___<
Title: Re: Global warming, more like global hoax.
Post by: Xant on January 27, 2016, 06:54:08 pm
Vikings used to live good and fulfilling farmer lives in Greenland and shit before it got all frozen, so if anything we're going in the right direction again.
Title: Re: Global warming, more like global hoax.
Post by: Ikarus on January 27, 2016, 07:17:58 pm
Vikings used to live good and fulfilling farmer lives in Greenland and shit before it got all frozen, so if anything we're going in the right direction again.
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All I see here is somebody being bored so he dug up a dead horse and started to beat it again because why not
Title: Re: Global warming, more like global hoax.
Post by: Gaz.Spencer on January 31, 2016, 02:32:33 am
Lol if I presented this information in my Global Warming assessment if get a big Fail.... :D
Title: Re: Global warming, more like global hoax.
Post by: Xant on January 31, 2016, 03:00:20 am
Lol if I presented this information in my Global Warming assessment if get a big Fail.... :D
That was very eloquently put. You have a way with words.
Title: Re: Global warming, more like global hoax.
Post by: Torben on January 31, 2016, 08:42:15 am
That was very eloquently put. You have a way with words.

goddamit xant,  if you would restrict your posting to sarcastic remarks like this I could actually learn to love you :')
Title: Re: Global warming, more like global hoax.
Post by: Xant on June 04, 2018, 09:10:36 pm
LMAO arctic ice cap still there, nice global HOAX you've got there friends.
Title: Re: Global warming, more like global hoax.
Post by: Oberyn on June 04, 2018, 09:15:10 pm
If you're an environmentalist and also anti-nuclear you're literally retarded. Since that seems to encompass so many of the current day left, well...
Only reason for their "environmentalism" has clearly nothing to do with global warming, pollution or the environment, but completely ulterior motives.
Title: Re: Global warming, more like global hoax.
Post by: Xant on June 04, 2018, 09:29:05 pm
Nuclear, safest and most efficient energy source out there, but not used because of the bad emotions "nuclear" makes people feel. Good stuff.
Title: Re: Global warming, more like global hoax.
Post by: Westwood on June 04, 2018, 09:49:42 pm
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Post by: Drunken_sailor on June 05, 2018, 07:27:12 am
The US needs to take from the French play book and lower the quality of uranium legally required.  Also buy land in Greenland now, going to be a paradise in 10-20 years.
Title: Re: Global warming, more like global hoax.
Post by: Vibe on June 05, 2018, 08:44:31 am
Nuclear, safest and most efficient energy source out there

Not just that, it's also cleaner than pretty much all but solar and wind energy.