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indefatigable
13y ago
I'm not sure absolute falsification is meaningful with this kind of prediction. Then it's not science.
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indefatigable
13y ago
Yep, great movie.
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indefatigable
13y ago
OK that's good to hear. But read about the history of eugenics if you'd like to know how other people might misinterpret your argument.
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indefatigable
13y ago
What situation would falsify the theory of catastrophic anthropogenic global warming? Or the theory of catastrophic anthropogenic ocean acidification?
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indefatigable
13y ago
When someone says they have the right to dictate not only how much energy I use, but also where that energy comes from, I call it fascism.
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indefatigable
13y ago
Yeah yeah, I read Ishmael too.
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indefatigable
13y ago
Stewardship means handing it over to fascists?
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indefatigable
13y ago
That's it, thanks!
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indefatigable
13y ago
We seem to disagree, as I'm convinced that a carbon tax would almost certainly be an unmitigated disaster.
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indefatigable
13y ago
Most scientists agreed that fire involved phlogiston not so very long ago.
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indefatigable
13y ago
Giving politicians the authority to levy a carbon tax is an absolutely terrible idea, and it has nothing to do with how I feel about China.
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indefatigable
13y ago
Someone laments the fact that we're all doomed and wants to upend the social order, then someone else replies with a casual implication that population control would be an effective remedy. What a surprise.
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indefatigable
13y ago
Actually it seems like that's not the correct attribution. It was probably Peter Marshall: "Give to us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for—because unless we stand for something, we shall fall for any
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indefatigable
13y ago
Someone famous once said something to the effect of: "When people believe in nothing, they will believe anything." Interestingly enough most of those people are completely in denial about their own irrational zealotry.
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indefatigable
13y ago
Since regulating CO2 is such a useful political tool, it's not surprising that a new hypothesis justifying regulation has been making its way into the mainstream as the global warming movement collapses. I doubt that the researchers in
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indefatigable
13y ago
Ah well, everybody has their off days.
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indefatigable
13y ago
Yet Germany has institutionalized the same mentality on a more abstract level. "Global warming might be happening, shut down the energy industry!" "We can't use nuclear power, someone might get cancer ! Keep mining coal
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indefatigable
13y ago
Wot wot pip pip cheerio get the torch line's engaged eat some crisps there's a good chap.
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indefatigable
13y ago
In other words, we should trust the DHHS and the IRS with information that the NSA can't be trusted to access? Am I reading that correctly?
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indefatigable
13y ago
Your opinions are provided by PageRank? Good to know.
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indefatigable
13y ago
I'm getting a serious Poe's law vibe from this comment and username.