Anthropogenic Global Warming...i.e., the idea that human activity will drastically shift the climate in one direction or the other, bringing about our destruction, as opposed to climate cycles being a normal part of earth's history, clearly documented for the last 50 Million years.
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 12:24 PM, Kierkecraig <[email protected]>wrote: > > 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: > > > > > > > > > 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? > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Minds-Eye?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
