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Re: If Global Warming Is Real, Why All The Lies?

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On 9/15/18 8:43 AM, SilverSlimer wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Sep 2018 14:50:55 -0400, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
> 
>> SilverSlimer wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:
>>
>>> I think that this assessment is the one that most conservatives
>>> believe. I no longer want to say that man-made global warming is not
>>> happening, but I do want to state that the solution to most of it will
>>> appear sooner than later and without any kind of government
>>> intervention. People will get tired of fossil fuels as well as their
>>> increasing price in favour of regular electricity and its relatively
>>> stable prices. The more of these electric cars we find on the road, the
>>> less CO2 we pump into the atmosphere from one year to another. The end
>>> result will be that drivers,
>>> at the very least, will no longer be contributing to the problem if it
>>> really exists.
>>>
>>> Nevertheless, people tend to forget that mining for the batteries a
>>> driver needs to power the aforementioned vehicles is no less a polluter
>>> than driving a gas car would be and that those batteries - once they no
>>> longer hold a charge - are fairly useless to everyone and not so easily
>>> disposable. I'm wondering whether the solution is truly better than the
>>> problem.
>>>
>>> By the way, I'm aware that there are other polluters such as factories
>>> pumping pollutants into the air. However, I'm mostly focusing on what
>>> individuals contribute since they're the ones constantly being blamed
>>> for the whole of the problem regardless of how little they truly
>>> contribute to it.
>>
>> This is a reasonable opinion, and informed minds can vary in what they
>> think the situation is.  There's always room for argument... unless one
>> of the minds is not open to examine purported evidence to see where it
>> might be incomplete or erroneous.
> 
> I understand both sides and am most comfortable sitting somewhere in the
> middle which, according to every test I've taken, seems to be where I am
> located.

Bullshit.

> The way I see it, the left essentially takes every scientific
> report as accurate and dismisses the possibility that it might have an
> agenda and the right mostly dismisses the science and only sees the
> agenda.

Bullshit.

> Neither is incorrect since the science _is_ skewed and there _is_
> an agenda. 

There can be in individual studies... absolutely. And even in smaller 
items being studies. In large items the bias is LARGELY weeded out.

> I think we'd all be a lot healthier, psychologically at least,
> is we sat in the middle where I'm trying to be and didn't automatically
> accept or dismisses whatever is thrown our way.

You listen to and BELIEVE Alex Jones.

> However, I honestly believe that the conversations of the future will be
> a lot less like the one we're having now and something closer to the kind
> of shit you see on "Leave It To Beaver" episodes. We will all become so
> disillusioned with politics and current events and start focusing on
> things we mostly consider inconsequential. We will be ignorant but we
> will be blissful

You are already there.

> and we will all start loving one another a lot more. I
> would not even be surprised if there is a powerful religious revival as
> well.

As people lose hope religion does benefit.



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cannot use reason to show the message to be wrong so they try to feel 
somehow superior by attacking the messenger.

They cling to their attacks and ignore the message time and time again.

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If Global Warming Is Real, Why All The Lies? William Poaster <noemail@lutenorg.com> - 2018-09-14 00:12 +0000
  Re: If Global Warming Is Real, Why All The Lies? SilverSlimer <silver@slim.er> - 2018-09-14 12:27 +0000
    Re: If Global Warming Is Real, Why All The Lies? Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2018-09-14 14:50 -0400
      Re: If Global Warming Is Real, Why All The Lies? SilverSlimer <silver@slim.er> - 2018-09-15 15:43 +0000
        Re: If Global Warming Is Real, Why All The Lies? Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2018-09-15 09:14 -0700
          Re: If Global Warming Is Real, Why All The Lies? Steve Carroll <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2018-09-15 13:22 -0700
      Re: If Global Warming Is Real, Why All The Lies? William Poaster <wp@dev.null> - 2018-09-15 16:28 +0000
        Re: If Global Warming Is Real, Why All The Lies? SilverSlimer <silver@slim.er> - 2018-09-15 16:43 +0000
    Re: If Global Warming Is Real, Why All The Lies? Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2018-09-14 18:53 -0700
  Re: If Global Warming Is Real, Why All The Lies? Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2018-09-14 07:18 -0700

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