Re: Global warming silliness

2013-11-14 Thread LizR
On 14 November 2013 20:24, Chris de Morsella cdemorse...@yahoo.com wrote: *From:* everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto: everything-list@googlegroups.com] *On Behalf Of *LizR *Sent:* Wednesday, November 13, 2013 7:29 PM *To:* everything-list@googlegroups.com *Subject:* Re: Global

Re: Global warming silliness

2013-11-14 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 11:32 PM, Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.au wrote: On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 10:35:48PM +0100, Telmo Menezes wrote: There is overwhelming evidence in favour of the theory of evolution because of the number of predictions it got right, not because of the amount of

Re: Global warming silliness

2013-11-14 Thread Telmo Menezes
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Re: Global warming silliness

2013-11-14 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 14 Nov 2013, at 04:47, meekerdb wrote: On 11/13/2013 7:26 PM, LizR wrote: On 14 November 2013 16:18, Chris de Morsella cdemorse...@yahoo.com wrote: But as Telmo points out we can't just wait till fossil fuel runs out and then switch. It takes energy to build nuclear power plants and

Re: Global warming silliness

2013-11-14 Thread Alberto G. Corona
Yes. I proposed myself not to argue against sectarian apocalypticists because that is a waste of time, but honoring those of you that are not seduced by the end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it movement, I will say something: Climatic models are bullshit. if you look at how they adjust parameters

Re: Global warming silliness

2013-11-14 Thread Alberto G. Corona
Retrodiction, instead of prediction, in this case. 2013/11/14 Alberto G. Corona agocor...@gmail.com Yes. I proposed myself not to argue against sectarian apocalypticists because that is a waste of time, but honoring those of you that are not seduced by the end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it

Re: Global warming silliness

2013-11-14 Thread Telmo Menezes
Hi Alberto, On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 1:20 PM, Alberto G. Corona agocor...@gmail.com wrote: Yes. I proposed myself not to argue against sectarian apocalypticists because that is a waste of time, Mentioning apocalyptic narratives is an important point. These are a fairly common social phenomena

Re: Global warming silliness

2013-11-14 Thread meekerdb
On 11/14/2013 3:30 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote: On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 4:19 AM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: Good one, Chris. But you can tell from the posts here that what drives the Deniers is fear of government. In the U.S. since the Viet Nam war there has developed a widespread

Re: Global warming silliness

2013-11-14 Thread meekerdb
On 11/14/2013 3:34 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: The use of science by government of science is of the type of pseudo-religion abuse. ?? Does not parse. Brent -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To unsubscribe from this group and

RE: Global warming silliness

2013-11-14 Thread chris peck
To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Global warming silliness On 11/14/2013 3:34 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: The use of science by government of science is of the type of pseudo-religion abuse. ?? Does not parse. Brent

Re: Global warming silliness

2013-11-14 Thread LizR
:37 -0800 From: meeke...@verizon.net To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Global warming silliness On 11/14/2013 3:34 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: The use of science by government of science is of the type of pseudo-religion abuse. ?? Does not parse. Brent -- You received

Re: Global warming silliness

2013-11-14 Thread Russell Standish
On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 12:09:18PM +0100, Telmo Menezes wrote: On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 11:32 PM, Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.au wrote: The good news is that the figures I've seen is that its not such a tremendous cost after all. I am very interested in this. Could you be more

Re: Global warming silliness

2013-11-14 Thread meekerdb
On 11/14/2013 4:20 AM, Alberto G. Corona wrote: Yes. I proposed myself not to argue against sectarian apocalypticists because that is a waste of time, but honoring those of you that are not seduced by the end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it movement, I will say something: Alas, some people just

RE: Global warming silliness

2013-11-14 Thread Chris de Morsella
From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of LizR Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2013 12:26 AM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Global warming silliness On 14 November 2013 20:24, Chris de Morsella cdemorse...@yahoo.com

RE: Global warming silliness

2013-11-14 Thread Chris de Morsella
From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Bruno Marchal Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2013 3:35 AM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Global warming silliness On 14 Nov 2013, at 04:47, meekerdb wrote: On 11/13/2013

Re: Global warming silliness

2013-11-14 Thread LizR
Hi Chris I won't interleave my replies as I'm finding it quite confusing to follow who is saying what in reply to what, so apologies in advance if I miss anything. The suggestion about synthesising petrol from the atmosphere is of course very hypothetical at the moment. Supposing it could be

RE: Global warming silliness

2013-11-14 Thread Chris de Morsella
From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of LizR Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2013 7:20 PM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Global warming silliness Hi Chris Hi Liz I won't interleave my replies as I'm finding

Re: Global warming silliness

2013-11-14 Thread LizR
@googlegroups.com] *On Behalf Of *LizR *Sent:* Thursday, November 14, 2013 7:20 PM *To:* everything-list@googlegroups.com *Subject:* Re: Global warming silliness Hi Chris Hi Liz I won't interleave my replies as I'm finding it quite confusing to follow who is saying what in reply to what, so

Re: Global warming silliness

2013-11-14 Thread meekerdb
On 11/14/2013 7:19 PM, LizR wrote: Hi Chris I won't interleave my replies as I'm finding it quite confusing to follow who is saying what in reply to what, so apologies in advance if I miss anything. The suggestion about synthesising petrol from the atmosphere is of course very hypothetical

RE: Global warming silliness

2013-11-14 Thread Chris de Morsella
From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of LizR Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2013 8:08 PM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Global warming silliness I would like to see us switch away from fossil fuels completely

Re: Global warming silliness

2013-11-13 Thread Telmo Menezes
Hi John, I would like to point out that I did not write the first two sentences you cite and I was being sarcastic when I wrote the third one. As I said, I'm agnostic on human caused global warming. Unusually, I mostly agree with everything you say here. A few comments below... the fossil fuel

Re: Global warming silliness

2013-11-13 Thread John Clark
On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 11:15 AM, Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.comwrote: I would like to point out that I did not write the first two sentences you cite and I was being sarcastic when I wrote the third one. Sorry. John K Clark -- You received this message because you are subscribed

Re: Global warming silliness

2013-11-13 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 5:54 PM, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 11:15 AM, Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.com wrote: I would like to point out that I did not write the first two sentences you cite and I was being sarcastic when I wrote the third one.

Re: Global warming silliness

2013-11-13 Thread LizR
Obviously there is more CO2 in the air than there has been for a very long time, and obviously the climate has changed somewhat in the last couple of decades (warmest on record, again and again). It's hard to prove the connection, of course, but the circumstantial evidence is overwhelming. Of

Re: Global warming silliness

2013-11-13 Thread meekerdb
On 11/13/2013 7:51 AM, John Clark wrote: On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 4:26 AM, Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.com mailto:te...@telmomenezes.com wrote: the fossil fuel industry doesn't have to convince anyone that global warming isn't happening, There is no doubt that the climate is

Re: Global warming silliness

2013-11-13 Thread John Mikes
Dear LIZ: More than ~2 million peer-reviewed articles approved the Bible stories beween 1599 and 2010. We call that 'religon'. (Numbers!!!) Does that make them true? Fossil fuel will not neccesarily run out: nobody will use them after our demise. And for nukes? I would say: O N L Y fusion! The

Re: Global warming silliness

2013-11-13 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 7:49 PM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: Obviously there is more CO2 in the air than there has been for a very long time, and obviously the climate has changed somewhat in the last couple of decades (warmest on record, again and again). It's hard to prove the connection,

Re: Global warming silliness

2013-11-13 Thread meekerdb
On 11/13/2013 10:49 AM, LizR wrote: Obviously there is more CO2 in the air than there has been for a very long time, and obviously the climate has changed somewhat in the last couple of decades (warmest on record, again and again). It's hard to prove the connection, of course, but the

Re: Global warming silliness

2013-11-13 Thread Russell Standish
On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 10:35:48PM +0100, Telmo Menezes wrote: There is overwhelming evidence in favour of the theory of evolution because of the number of predictions it got right, not because of the amount of papers that say that it is a spiffy theory. The theory of anthropogenic global

Re: Global warming silliness

2013-11-13 Thread LizR
On 14 November 2013 10:19, John Mikes jami...@gmail.com wrote: Dear LIZ: More than ~2 million peer-reviewed articles approved the Bible stories beween 1599 and 2010. We call that 'religon'. (Numbers!!!) Does that make them true? They weren't using the scientific method. Do you think

Re: Global warming silliness

2013-11-13 Thread LizR
On 14 November 2013 10:35, Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.com wrote: There is overwhelming evidence in favour of the theory of evolution because of the number of predictions it got right, not because of the amount of papers that say that it is a spiffy theory. The theory of anthropogenic

Re: Global warming silliness

2013-11-13 Thread meekerdb
On 11/13/2013 1:19 PM, John Mikes wrote: More than ~2 million peer-reviewed articles approved the Bible stories beween 1599 and 2010. But did they provide any data? Brent -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To unsubscribe from

RE: Global warming silliness

2013-11-13 Thread chris peck
http://adaptationresourcekit.squarespace.com/storage/climate%20change%20cartoons_better%20world.jpg?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=1302730968594 Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2013 14:48:50 -0800 From: meeke...@verizon.net To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Global warming silliness

RE: Global warming silliness

2013-11-13 Thread Chris de Morsella
From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of meekerdb Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2013 2:18 PM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Global warming silliness On 11/13/2013 10:49 AM, LizR wrote: Obviously there is more CO2

Re: Global warming silliness

2013-11-13 Thread meekerdb
-- Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2013 14:48:50 -0800 From: meeke...@verizon.net To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Global warming silliness On 11/13/2013 1:19 PM, John Mikes wrote: More than ~2 million peer

Re: Global warming silliness

2013-11-13 Thread LizR
On 14 November 2013 16:18, Chris de Morsella cdemorse...@yahoo.com wrote: But as Telmo points out we can't just wait till fossil fuel runs out and then switch. It takes energy to build nuclear power plants and solar panels and wind tubines. In principle they could bootstrap themselves, but

RE: Global warming silliness

2013-11-13 Thread Chris de Morsella
-Original Message- From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Russell Standish Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2013 2:33 PM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Global warming silliness On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 10:35:48PM

Re: Global warming silliness

2013-11-13 Thread LizR
On 14 November 2013 16:25, Chris de Morsella cdemorse...@yahoo.com wrote: And to have the depth and breadth of understanding of the climatic systems both atmospheric and oceanic to be able to say with a high degree of certainty that there won't be unintended consequences that emerge out of

Re: Global warming silliness

2013-11-13 Thread meekerdb
On 11/13/2013 7:26 PM, LizR wrote: On 14 November 2013 16:18, Chris de Morsella cdemorse...@yahoo.com mailto:cdemorse...@yahoo.com wrote: But as Telmo points out we can't just wait till fossil fuel runs out and then switch. It takes energy to build nuclear power plants and solar

RE: Global warming silliness

2013-11-13 Thread Chris de Morsella
From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of LizR Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2013 7:29 PM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Global warming silliness On 14 November 2013 16:25, Chris de Morsella cdemorse...@yahoo.com

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