What is AGW?
On Jan 12, 9:55 am, "Chris Jenkins" <[email protected]>
wrote:
> I'll step in here.
> I'm passionate about Al Gore's scam.
>
> I'm inflamed by his rhetoric. I'm offended by his smugness. I'm appalled
> that as many people in the US as believe in Christianity have converted to
> AGW with the same sort of faith, insisting upon believing in the bible of
> "Consensus", despite the fact that no such thing exists. I have tracked the
> paper trail that Occam's Razor deftly shears away to explain WHY he created
> this scam. The SEC filings show how he profited to the tune of 8 (going on
> 9) figures from this scam. Extensive research by hundreds of peer reviewed
> well respected solar scientists, climatologists, astrophysicists, biologists
> and immunologists counter nearly every assertion that he has made, and yet
> large crowds of sheep wander around either blankly smiling and blathering on
> about saving the world by driving a Prius, or worse, the Fundies of AGW
> attack me viciously, much like the Southern Pentecostals of Christianity,
> hurling epithets and accusing me of either intentional ignorance, or being
> on the payroll of the oil companies (lord, don't I wish).
>
> My passion is stirred in offense at ignorance, and in defense under attack.
>
> As someone who has expressed ideas which are unpopular in the mainstream
> (AGW is a baseless idea when really examined in depth, there is no rational
> reason to believe in a God), and having been attacked for it, I recognize
> the defensive passion.
>
> As someone who despises both ignorance and injustice (AGW "fixes" which seek
> to tax the US trillions while leaving China and India virtually scott free,
> and which cripple basically the entire African continent's ability to become
> a further developed nation; tele-evangelists scamming millions from the
> elderly and infirm, "moral" legislation), I recognize the offensive
> passion.
>
> On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 11:25 AM, Kierkecraig <[email protected]>wrote:
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> > On Jan 12, 9:01 am, chazwin <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > There is a world of difference between being passionate about there
> > > being no life on Mars and being passionate about the evidence of no
> > > life on Mars when people keep insisting that there is.
>
> > What is that difference exactly?
>
> > > This is
> > > especially true when people are making money, offering salvation, and
> > > altering lives due to the fiction that there is.
>
> > Why does making money make a difference? If I believed that there was
> > life on mars, and I spent every one of my hard earned dollars on
> > research to prove that there is, why would that enflame your
> > passions? Why does my money matter to you?
>
> > Why would a religion offering salvation enflame your passions?
>
> > Why would altering lives be a reason to get passionate?
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