Texas, Are you getting your "science" from Alex Jones? VTer
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Vermonter
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Ahh, then you were joking with us. I wondered why you didn't offer any citation to back up such an over-the-top statement.
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LB, Scenes, Although he provides no reference, Texas is getting his information from the pseudoscience that is circulating on the world wide global climate change deniers' web. The article from which he cut and pasted his most recent reply can be found, unattributed, on several sites, including this one: http://phalle.com/ and this one: http://www.nov55.com/gbwm.html It appears to be mostly gibberish designed to give the conspiracy ranters something that sounds like science. The love to say CO2 "absorbs radiation to extinction," a phrase that means nothing - and even less in the discussion of global climate change. These folks have a simple …
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I don't know enough about the science to proclaim the prevailing global climate change scenario to be a "fact." I don't have any more than a regular academic background in science. But the debate we seem to be having reminds me of a quote from Vonnegut's Breakfast of Champions: "Kilgore Trout once wrote a short story which was a dialogue between two pieces of yeast. They were discussing the possible purposes of life as they ate sugar and suffocated in their own excrement. Because of their limited intelligence, they never came close to guessing that they were making champagne." The way …
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Thanks, and here's an 'o' for the people.
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"I double checked my professional references to be sure of the absorption rate of radiation of CO2. It absorbs radiation at 10 meters of distance." Ahhhh, I see now. It appears the statement refers to incoming solar radiation - light. You should do a double check on greenhouse gases and the greenhouse effect. The greenhouse effect has nothing to do with gases absorbing incoming solar radiation. In fact, the greenhouse effect relies on incoming solar radiation, which heats the earth. Greenhouse gases absorb the reflected radiation. If you switch to your son's 8th grade earth science book, you'll notice that about …
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NONSENSE! DEBATE MEANS CALLING PEOPLE NAMES AND REFERRING THEM TO OTHER PEOPLE'S IDEAS!
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Thanks BM, I think you're full of shit, too.
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Whattheheck, Any high school graduate knows the difference between a democracy and a republic (despite what BM seems to think) and, while many people use the shorthand term "democracy" to describe our form of government, I doubt that many are under the impression that the voters make all the decisions. Sirota's point IS that we live in a republic - a representative democracy - but our representatives aren't representing us. "It has been four months since voters delivered an antiwar mandate, and the Washington establishment no longer pretends to care about the public will." I've noticed that people often trot out …
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WTH, Thanks for the opportunity to clarify. First, my opinion of high school graduates may be skewed by the excellent schools in my location. I can't say with any certainty that students in the rest of the country have a basic understanding of the principles of democracy. (That was actually the name of my high school civics textbook. I think they call civics "government studies" now.) But I hope they do. I live in a state where direct democracy is practiced hand-in-hand with representative democracy. Voters in a number of Vermont communities have already taken it upon themselves to direct their …
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Just to be clear, mistywindow and others, the American people did not vote Bush in once, and they did not vote him in a second time. The first time he was appointed by the Supreme Court. The second time he was appointed by Diebold. VTer
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