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paradox

PostPosted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 7:11 pm
by magneticgoop
my brother brought up a good point yesterday: ironically many liberals believe that global warming exists and want to stop it to save the earth. the liberals want to keep things the way they are, kinda like conservatives :?

PostPosted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 7:13 pm
by got tonkaed
it is just about as ironic as the fact that most Conservatives dont really try to conserve the planet.

PostPosted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 7:13 pm
by spurgistan
Well, the status quo presently involves pumping greenhouse gases at mind-blowing levels into the atmospehere. Libs (and conservatives who DON'T see the value in a global desert) want to change that status quo.

Re: Oxymoron

PostPosted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 7:16 pm
by Kid_A
magneticgoop wrote:my brother brought up a good point yesterday: ironically many liberals believe that global warming exists


believe?

are you actually debating the existence of global warming? i suppose evolution is a 'theory' as well.

Re: Oxymoron

PostPosted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 7:21 pm
by magneticgoop
Kid_A wrote:
magneticgoop wrote:my brother brought up a good point yesterday: ironically many liberals believe that global warming exists


believe?

are you actually debating the existence of global warming? i suppose evolution is a 'theory' as well.
no i personally think it exists, but it is not caused by humans but by the natural heating and cooling of the earth. but i dont want to get into that

Re: Oxymoron

PostPosted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 7:22 pm
by Arbustos
magneticgoop wrote:
Kid_A wrote:
magneticgoop wrote:my brother brought up a good point yesterday: ironically many liberals believe that global warming exists


believe?

are you actually debating the existence of global warming? i suppose evolution is a 'theory' as well.
no i personally think it exists, but it is not caused by humans but by the natural heating and cooling of the earth. but i dont want to get into that


But do you agree we've had an adverse effect on the situation?

Re: Oxymoron

PostPosted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 7:28 pm
by magneticgoop
Arbustos wrote:
magneticgoop wrote:
Kid_A wrote:
magneticgoop wrote:my brother brought up a good point yesterday: ironically many liberals believe that global warming exists


believe?

are you actually debating the existence of global warming? i suppose evolution is a 'theory' as well.
no i personally think it exists, but it is not caused by humans but by the natural heating and cooling of the earth. but i dont want to get into that


But do you agree we've had an adverse effect on the situation?
yes but only a tiny percentage

PostPosted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 7:33 pm
by The Weird One
that's debatable.

PostPosted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 7:36 pm
by magneticgoop
The Weird One wrote:that's debatable.
not the point of the thread

PostPosted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 7:38 pm
by The Weird One
that's why all i said was "that's debatable" if it WAS the point of the thread, I would have probably posted much much more.

Re: Oxymoron

PostPosted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 7:44 pm
by muy_thaiguy
Kid_A wrote:
magneticgoop wrote:my brother brought up a good point yesterday: ironically many liberals believe that global warming exists


believe?

are you actually debating the existence of global warming? i suppose evolution is a 'theory' as well.
It still is considered a theory. :wink:

PostPosted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 7:48 pm
by Arbustos
So is gravity... doesn't mean it isn't true. Scientifically, "theory" isn't a pejorative as far as fact goes. Besides, what's wrong with evolution? My Bio teacher was Christian and believed in Darwin's findings...

Re: Oxymoron

PostPosted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 7:49 pm
by hecter
magneticgoop wrote:
Arbustos wrote:
magneticgoop wrote:
Kid_A wrote:
magneticgoop wrote:my brother brought up a good point yesterday: ironically many liberals believe that global warming exists


believe?

are you actually debating the existence of global warming? i suppose evolution is a 'theory' as well.
no i personally think it exists, but it is not caused by humans but by the natural heating and cooling of the earth. but i dont want to get into that


But do you agree we've had an adverse effect on the situation?
yes but only a tiny percentage

Right, which is why if we do nothing, in 100 years the earth could be 6.5˚C hotter... Hotter than it has been since the time before the dinosaurs... Here is a model that SHOWS how much we're effecting the climate.
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This one is a bit better, I think.
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http://www.grida.no/climate/ipcc%5Ftar/
Feel free to read the reports, if you don't believe me.

PostPosted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 7:50 pm
by muy_thaiguy
Arbustos wrote:So is gravity... doesn't mean it isn't true. Scientifically, "theory" isn't a pejorative as far as fact goes. Besides, what's wrong with evolution? My Bio teacher was Christian and believed in Darwin's findings...
No, gravity IS a law. :wink:

PostPosted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 7:52 pm
by The Weird One
yes. . . but there are theories that are just theories because of certain assholes that have decided to debate them with nonexistant evidence

PostPosted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 7:53 pm
by magneticgoop
these are based on predictions of past and future temperatures and again this is not the point of the thread

PostPosted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 7:53 pm
by Nobunaga
... Please, not another global warming thread.

...

PostPosted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 7:54 pm
by Arbustos
muy_thaiguy wrote:
Arbustos wrote:So is gravity... doesn't mean it isn't true. Scientifically, "theory" isn't a pejorative as far as fact goes. Besides, what's wrong with evolution? My Bio teacher was Christian and believed in Darwin's findings...
No, gravity IS a law. :wink:


WTH, screw Wikipedia. One article they say it's Newton's Theory of Universal Gravitation, another it's his Law of Universal Gravitation.

Regardless, Einstein's special relativity is also used, and that's a theory. The point is that, in science, "theory" and fact often go hand in hand.

PostPosted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 7:56 pm
by magneticgoop
Nobunaga wrote:... Please, not another global warming thread.

...
QFT

what i meant by the thread was it is funny how the liberals want to conserve in this case, i did not want a debate thread

PostPosted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 7:58 pm
by Arbustos
magneticgoop wrote:
Nobunaga wrote:... Please, not another global warming thread.

...
QFT

what i meant by the thread was it is funny how the liberals want to conserve in this case, i did not want a debate thread


But that point is inane to begin with, as spurgistan pointed out. So you just want this thread to die?

PostPosted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 7:58 pm
by hecter
magneticgoop wrote:these are based on predictions of past and future temperatures and again this is not the point of the thread

So just because it's a prediction means it's suddenly invalid?

PostPosted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 7:58 pm
by The Weird One
to some shortsighted people. . .yes

PostPosted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 8:00 pm
by hecter
The Weird One wrote:to some shortsighted people. . .yes

Even when presented with information gathered by many many many experts and is currently being used by several governments.

PostPosted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 8:00 pm
by muy_thaiguy
Arbustos wrote:
muy_thaiguy wrote:
Arbustos wrote:So is gravity... doesn't mean it isn't true. Scientifically, "theory" isn't a pejorative as far as fact goes. Besides, what's wrong with evolution? My Bio teacher was Christian and believed in Darwin's findings...
No, gravity IS a law. :wink:


WTH, screw Wikipedia. One article they say it's Newton's Theory of Universal Gravitation, another it's his Law of Universal Gravitation.

Regardless, Einstein's special relativity is also used, and that's a theory. The point is that, in science, "theory" and fact often go hand in hand.
Why do you think I rarely use wikipedia?

As for theories, they are based off of some fact, with the rest filled in with theories, making theories not 100% fact. While Laws have all the holes filled in with facts (Law of Gravity, etc...). :wink:

PostPosted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 8:02 pm
by s.xkitten
UGH...

STOP IT, ALL OF YOU...

THIS THREAD IS ABOUT OXYMORONS, OBVIOUSLY...

like, military intelligence...

happy monday...

that sort of thing...

not whether or not global warming exists