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Monday, August 18, 2014 7:38 AM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!


...claims another victim.

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Climate McCarthyism has claimed another victim. Dr Caleb Rossiter - an adjunct professor at American University, Washington DC - has been fired by a progressive think tank after publicly expressing doubt about man-made global warming.

Rossiter, a former Democratic congressional candidate, has impeccably liberal credentials. As the founder of Demilitarization for Democracy he has campaigned against US backed wars in Central America and Southern Africa, against US military support for dictators and against anti-personnel landmines. But none of this was enough to spare him the wrath of the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) when he wrote an OpEd in the Wall Street Journal describing man-made global warming as an "unproved science."

Two days later, he was sacked by email. The IPS said: "We would like to inform you that we are terminating your position as an Associate Fellow of the Institute for Policy Studies...Unfortunately, we now feel that your views on key issues, including climate science, climate justice, and many aspects of US policy to Africa, diverge so significantly from ours."

In the WSJ OpEd entitled Sacrificing Africa for Climate Change, Rossiter argued that Africans should benefit from the same mixed energy policy as Americans rather than being denied access to fossil fuels on spurious environmental grounds by green activists. He wrote: "The left wants to stop industrialization - even if the hypothesis of catastrophic, man-made global warming is false."


http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-London/2014/06/13/Climate-McCarthyi
sm-claims-yet-another-victim






Former Democrat congressional candidate.

Thinks Africa should benefit from the same cheap energy which helped more advanced nations elevate their standard of living.

( Just for those keeping score at home. )


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Monday, August 18, 2014 9:28 AM

ELVISCHRIST





So you're NOT in favor of free markets and at-will employment?

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Monday, August 18, 2014 9:43 AM

AURAPTOR

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So you're NOT in favor of free markets and at-will employment?



Modern day denial of service of blacks @ the lunch counter. You were cool with the good ole days, huh?

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Monday, August 18, 2014 10:12 AM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.


Rappy, if the shoe were on the other foot... if someone had been fired BECAUSE OF their activism to prevent GW, you'd be all happy about it. Your ethics are extremely convenient. Please don't think that any of us believe that you have an interest in scientific integrity or freedom of speech.

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THUGR is a know-nothing militarist.

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Monday, August 18, 2014 10:31 AM

AURAPTOR

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Creation science would be an apt analogy. Teaching the bible / Torah / Quran as scientific fact. But writing an opinion piece which is skeptical ,of AGW , is different. And by more than a little.

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Monday, August 18, 2014 11:03 AM

STORYMARK


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Originally posted by AURaptor:
Creation science would be an apt analogy. Teaching the bible / Torah / Quran as scientific fact.



No, see, son, this is teaching science as science.

Your persecution complex is fuckin' adorable, though.





“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'”? Isaac Asimov

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Monday, August 18, 2014 11:06 AM

AURAPTOR

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It's not a complex. It's real bigotry & it's flat out wrong.

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Monday, August 18, 2014 11:26 AM

NEWOLDBROWNCOAT


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Originally posted by AURaptor:
It's not a complex. It's real bigotry & it's flat out wrong.




Hey, I just talked to my pal Luigi. He thought the "real bigotry" was "onne uh dose, whatchacallem, redwoods."

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Monday, August 18, 2014 11:44 AM

AURAPTOR

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Originally posted by NewOldBrownCoat:
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Originally posted by AURaptor:
It's not a complex. It's real bigotry & it's flat out wrong.




Hey, I just talked to my pal Luigi. He thought the "real bigotry" was "onne uh dose, whatchacallem, redwoods."



And this is what passes off as the " intelligent " side of the debate.

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Monday, August 18, 2014 3:19 PM

STORYMARK


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Originally posted by AURaptor:
It's not a complex. It's real bigotry & it's flat out wrong.



Teaching science is bigotry....

A white guy, saying his refusal to acknowledge overwhelming evidence... is the same as discrimination against blacks...

I am amazed that after all this time, you always manage to top the last utterly idiotic thing you said with something even dumber.

Thankfully, with your disposition, I doubt you'll ever breed and spread your inanity to the next generation.



“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'”? Isaac Asimov

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Monday, August 18, 2014 3:20 PM

STORYMARK


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Originally posted by AURaptor:
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Originally posted by NewOldBrownCoat:
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Originally posted by AURaptor:
It's not a complex. It's real bigotry & it's flat out wrong.




Hey, I just talked to my pal Luigi. He thought the "real bigotry" was "onne uh dose, whatchacallem, redwoods."



And this is what passes off as the " intelligent " side of the debate.



When you other side has nothing but "Nuh-uh, science is religion, nyah!" one need not try hard to leap WAY over you dumb motherfuckers.



“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'”? Isaac Asimov

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Monday, August 18, 2014 9:17 PM

AURAPTOR

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Originally posted by Storymark:
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Originally posted by AURaptor:
It's not a complex. It's real bigotry & it's flat out wrong.



Teaching science is bigotry....



Getting fired for teaching science = bigotry.

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A white guy, saying his refusal to acknowledge overwhelming evidence... is the same as discrimination against blacks...



Discrimination is discrimination. Period.

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I am amazed that after all this time, you always manage to top the last utterly idiotic thing you said with something even dumber.



Which only makes YOU on par w/ a Grand Dragon ,decked out in your pointy headed finest.

Quote:



Thankfully, with your disposition, I doubt you'll ever breed and spread your inanity to the next generation.






Sister, they don't know what to do w/ just one of me !

HA !


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Monday, August 18, 2014 10:50 PM

ELVISCHRIST


If NASA found out that one of its scientists in charge of orbital engineering was actually a flat-earther, should they be allowed to get rid of him?


If a catholic priest stood up in church and declared from the altar that he did not believe in god, should the curch be able to give him the heave-ho?


If a general said before the invasion of Iraq that we'd need far greater numbers of troops than we were prepared to send, should he be able to be fired for his opinion?



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Monday, August 18, 2014 10:57 PM

ELVISCHRIST


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Originally posted by Storymark:


Thankfully, with your disposition, I doubt you'll ever breed and spread your inanity to the next generation.




Ponder this reality: Charlie Manson just got married, and the raptard can't even get a date. Says a lot about how fucked up he is, doesn't it?

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Monday, August 18, 2014 11:38 PM

AURAPTOR

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So, because AGW isn't real, you feel the need to insult those you'll never meet over the internet.

Where's that get fun ?

And what difference to you does it matter if I join your lame ass cult or not ?

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Monday, August 18, 2014 11:46 PM

ELVISCHRIST


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Originally posted by ElvisChrist:
If NASA found out that one of its scientists in charge of orbital engineering was actually a flat-earther, should they be allowed to get rid of him?


If a catholic priest stood up in church and declared from the altar that he did not believe in god, should the curch be able to give him the heave-ho?


If a general said before the invasion of Iraq that we'd need far greater numbers of troops than we were prepared to send, should he be able to be fired for his opinion?






So... no answers?


And science is a "cult" now?

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Monday, August 18, 2014 11:50 PM

ELVISCHRIST


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Originally posted by AURaptor:
So, because AGW isn't real, you feel the need to insult those you'll never meet over the internet.




Are you trying to say you've never insulted someone you'll never meet?


If you're insulted because I think you're a despicable waste of oxygen, then good for you. Be insulted, by all means. But it doesn't make what I said any less true.

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Monday, August 18, 2014 11:56 PM

AURAPTOR

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Junk science with the intent of politicizing is a cult, yes.

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Monday, August 18, 2014 11:58 PM

AURAPTOR

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You tried to insult those who don't join your cult. I'm not insulted, I think you sad & pathetic, but that's a you problem.
Nothing you say has an iota of truth to it. You're a troll.

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Tuesday, August 19, 2014 3:31 AM

1KIKI

Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.


Groups Accuse EPA of Muzzling Science Advisers

http://www.laboratoryequipment.com/news/2014/08/groups-accuse-epa-muzz
ling-science-advisers




This week, journalist and scientific organizations accused the Environmental Protection Agency of attempting to muzzle its independent scientific advisers by directing them to funnel all outside requests for information through agency officials.

In a letter, groups representing journalists and scientists urged the EPA to allow advisory board members to talk directly to news reporters, Congress and other outside groups without first asking for permission from EPA officials. An April memo from the EPA's chief of staff said that "unsolicited contacts" need to be "appropriately managed" and that committee members should refrain from directly responding to requests about committees' efforts to advise the agency.

The scientific advisory board's office had asked the EPA to clarify the communications policy for board members, who are government employees.

"The new policy only reinforces any perception that the agency prioritizes message control over the ability of scientists who advise the agency to share their expertise with the public," the groups wrote.

The EPA relies on independent advisory boards to weigh complex scientific information and to advise the agency on policy, such as setting new standards for air pollutants. Recently, Republicans in Congress have been critical of the scientific advisory board overseeing the review of the ground-level ozone standard, saying it failed to evaluate the consequences of recommending a tougher limit.

The chair of that panel, H. Christopher Frey, said in an interview with the Associated Press in which he stressed he was offering his personal opinion, that he found the tone of the EPA memo to be unnecessary.

Frey, a distinguished university professor in North Carolina State Univ.'s environmental engineering department, said that many of the scientists that serve on the committees are national and internationally-renowned experts and that EPA "need not be too strong in precluding interactions with the media or others."

For journalists, it's the latest skirmish involving transparency issues and the Obama administration. Last month, more than three dozen groups wrote to the White House about what they described as growing censorship throughout federal agencies. Last year, dozens of leading news organizations protested restrictions that sometimes keep journalists from taking pictures and video of President Barack Obama performing official duties and two press groups urged members to stop using official photos and video handed out by the White House, dismissing them as little more than "government propaganda."

An EPA spokeswoman said there are no constraints on members fielding requests in a personal or professional capacity. She said the memo was designed to assure transparency.

The groups signing the letter include the Society of Professional Journalists, the Society of Environmental Journalists, Investigative Reporters and Editors, Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, Society for Conservation Biology, American Geophysical Union and the Union of Concerned Scientists.





SAGAN: We are releasing vast quantities of carbon dioxide, increasing the greenhouse effect. It may not take much to destabilize the Earth's climate, to convert this heaven, our only home in the cosmos, into a kind of hell.

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Tuesday, August 19, 2014 10:43 AM

AURAPTOR

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Huh.


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Tuesday, August 19, 2014 11:01 AM

1KIKI

Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.


Yes.

For example, when scientists estimated the range of oil spilled at Macanhdo. and Obama cited the lowest figure at THE estimate, scientists weren't allowed to speak to the press and correct that lie. Similarly, when dispersant was being used on the spill, scientists weren't allowed to correct Obama's statements that it was non-toxic and harmless to the environment.

Other scientists when coming up with global warming estimates that are alarming in the course of their work aren't allowed to publicize them.

Scientists when coming up with polar bear death rates due to global warming have not only been forbidden to publish and discuss their work but have been fired on pretexts later AG's have found to be abuse of power and worthy of prosecution in and of themselves.

Yes, scientists who are trying to raise an alarm are being silenced.




SAGAN: We are releasing vast quantities of carbon dioxide, increasing the greenhouse effect. It may not take much to destabilize the Earth's climate, to convert this heaven, our only home in the cosmos, into a kind of hell.

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Tuesday, August 19, 2014 11:15 AM

AURAPTOR

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The simple statement -' Science can be & often is politicized ' - will be embraced or rejected as determined by who is saying it.

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Tuesday, August 19, 2014 11:21 AM

STORYMARK


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Originally posted by ElvisChrist:
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Originally posted by Storymark:


Thankfully, with your disposition, I doubt you'll ever breed and spread your inanity to the next generation.




Ponder this reality: Charlie Manson just got married, and the raptard can't even get a date. Says a lot about how fucked up he is, doesn't it?



I think it's natural selection (uh-oh, I bet he'll think that's an occult term or some bullshit) doing our species a favor.



“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'”? Isaac Asimov

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Tuesday, August 19, 2014 11:22 AM

STORYMARK


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Originally posted by AURaptor:

Nothing you say has an iota of truth to it. You're a troll.



Imagine him stamping his wittle feet as he shouts this.

It makes it THAT MUCH FUNNIER.



“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'”? Isaac Asimov

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Tuesday, August 19, 2014 12:15 PM

AURAPTOR

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Storybook - you're projecting your own inadequacies onto others again.

Ya might want to see to that.

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Tuesday, August 19, 2014 12:29 PM

NEWOLDBROWNCOAT


Quote:

Originally posted by AURaptor:
Quote:

Originally posted by Storymark:
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Originally posted by AURaptor:
It's not a complex. It's real bigotry & it's flat out wrong.



Teaching science is bigotry....



Getting fired for teaching science = bigotry.

Quote:


A white guy, saying his refusal to acknowledge overwhelming evidence... is the same as discrimination against blacks...



Discrimination is discrimination. Period.

Quote:



I am amazed that after all this time, you always manage to top the last utterly idiotic thing you said with something even dumber.



Which only makes YOU on par w/ a Grand Dragon ,decked out in your pointy headed finest.

Quote:



Thankfully, with your disposition, I doubt you'll ever breed and spread your inanity to the next generation.






Sister, they don't know what to do w/ just one of me !

HA !




HEY, that's amazing. Just yesterday, I mentioned a Grand Dragon, and here you are, using the same term today. Haven't heard anybody around here use the term in , like, forever Like mentioning it got it stuck in your mind.

You ever hear the one about the parrot and the plumber?

Kinda like, hear it, get it stuck in yer brain, repeat it. Now I think about it, that is your style. I've seen it before.

Raptard want a cracker?

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Tuesday, August 19, 2014 12:32 PM

NEWOLDBROWNCOAT


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Originally posted by ElvisChrist:


If a general said before the invasion of Iraq that we'd need far greater numbers of troops than we were prepared to send, should he be able to be fired for his opinion?





Funny thing, something like that DID happen, I seem to remember. 'Course, BUSH did THAT, so that's OK.

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Tuesday, August 19, 2014 3:50 PM

AURAPTOR

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Originally posted by NewOldBrownCoat:

HEY, that's amazing. Just yesterday, I mentioned a Grand Dragon, and here you are, using the same term today. Haven't heard anybody around here use the term in , like, forever Like mentioning it got it stuck in your mind.




NOBC - go back and read the progression of the thread. Yeah, I saw you use that description and figured it applied here as well. So what ? Stop being such a ninny.

Be flattered I bothered to even READ your posts and that I thought enough to remember what you said.

Sheesh.

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Wednesday, August 20, 2014 5:08 PM

STORYMARK


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Originally posted by AURaptor:

Getting fired for teaching science = bigotry.



But that didn't happen. He got fired for NOT teaching science, and pushing the idiotic politically-entrenched, science-free bullshit you continue to excrete.

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Discrimination is discrimination. Period.




True, but there's no discrimination going on.


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Which only makes YOU on par w/ a Grand Dragon ,decked out in your pointy headed finest.




Aw, you're adorable. Dumb as a fucking stump, but amusing in your desperation.

But please, keep insisting that recognizing reality is "bigotry." That way, we never run out of comedy.


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Sister, they don't know what to do w/ just one of me !




Sure they do - that completely ignoring you thing - it's on purpose.



“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'”? Isaac Asimov

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Wednesday, August 20, 2014 5:42 PM

JEWELSTAITEFAN


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Originally posted by Storymark:
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Originally posted by AURaptor:
Creation science would be an apt analogy. Teaching the bible / Torah / Quran as scientific fact.



No, see, son, this is teaching science as science.

Your persecution complex is fuckin' adorable, though.


Did you fail Comparisons 101? Incapable of logical analogy?

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Wednesday, August 20, 2014 6:09 PM

AURAPTOR

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Quote:

Originally posted by Storymark:
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Originally posted by AURaptor:

Getting fired for teaching science = bigotry.



But that didn't happen. He got fired for NOT teaching science, and pushing the idiotic politically-entrenched, science-free bullshit you continue to excrete.



Wrong.

...
he wrote an OpEd in the Wall Street Journal describing man-made global warming as an "unproved science."


He refused to blindly accept you cult's agenda. And good for him.

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Wednesday, August 20, 2014 10:51 PM

ELVISCHRIST


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Nothing you say has an iota of truth to it.





So oil spills have never killed even a single animal?


Wow. I did not know that.

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Wednesday, August 20, 2014 10:55 PM

AURAPTOR

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Originally posted by ElvisChrist:
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Originally posted by AURaptor:
Nothing you say has an iota of truth to it.





So oil spills have never killed even a single animal?


Wow. I did not know that.




You twist comments to get out of having to admit you're wrong. Constantly.

Oil spills aren't normal operating procedure for the oil company, any more than auto accidents are for car companies.

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Thursday, August 21, 2014 1:26 AM

1KIKI

Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.


No, oil spills are unintended - though completely calculable - consequences. Just like fried birds. It depends what you're willing to tolerate.

So, how ya' doin' coming up with a NUMBER? That thing you need in order to ANSWER THE QUESTION - rather than merely random trolling. Or is that claim that you answered just another quotable RapFact™ in a long string of them?




SAGAN: We are releasing vast quantities of carbon dioxide, increasing the greenhouse effect. It may not take much to destabilize the Earth's climate, to convert this heaven, our only home in the cosmos, into a kind of hell.

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Thursday, August 21, 2014 8:25 AM

AURAPTOR

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Why don't you ask PETA or The Sierra Club what that number should be.

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Thursday, August 21, 2014 1:08 PM

STORYMARK


Expecting an answer from the rapturd is waiting for a train that don't come.



“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'”? Isaac Asimov

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Thursday, August 21, 2014 1:19 PM

AURAPTOR

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Already gave you my answer.

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Thursday, August 21, 2014 6:13 PM

THGRRI

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Thursday, August 21, 2014 6:36 PM

JEWELSTAITEFAN


In my backyard, this seems to be the coolest August in memory. I think it got into the 80's a few times, but lots of high in the 70's, no 100's, and I don't recall any 90's yet this month. Must be that global warming, Eh?


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Originally posted by AURaptor:
Quote:

Originally posted by Storymark:
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Originally posted by AURaptor:

Getting fired for teaching science = bigotry.



But that didn't happen. He got fired for NOT teaching science, and pushing the idiotic politically-entrenched, science-free bullshit you continue to excrete.



Wrong.

...
he wrote an OpEd in the Wall Street Journal describing man-made global warming as an "unproved science."


He refused to blindly accept you cult's agenda. And good for him.


Methinks this irony will be lost on Storymark.

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Thursday, August 21, 2014 8:15 PM

AURAPTOR

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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
In my backyard, this seems to be the coolest August in memory. I think it got into the 80's a few times, but lots of high in the 70's, no 100's, and I don't recall any 90's yet this month. Must be that global warming, Eh?



Only in the final weeks of summer has it gotten to what passes as 'normal' heat here. And it's far from scorching. Mid to high 90's. Big whoop.

Oh, and the winter forecast has already come out too.

Colder and wetter than normal.

I Know, it's only 'weather', not climate. Or some such.

Would be the 3rd winter in a row, that's been cooler and wetter.

Oh my ! Global warming !

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Friday, August 22, 2014 9:25 AM

THGRRI


63 Trillion Gallons Of Groundwater Lost To California Drought, Pushing Earth’s Crust Higher

http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2014/08/21/63-trillion-gallons-of-gro
undwater-lost-to-california-drought-pushing-earths-crust-higher
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Friday, August 22, 2014 2:39 PM

STORYMARK


That's ok. Its cold where the rapturd keeps its den, so there's no problem.



“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'”? Isaac Asimov

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Friday, August 22, 2014 4:58 PM

JEWELSTAITEFAN


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63 Trillion Gallons Of Groundwater Lost To California Drought, Pushing Earth’s Crust Higher

http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2014/08/21/63-trillion-gallons-of-gro
undwater-lost-to-california-drought-pushing-earths-crust-higher
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California mismanages water: SHOCKERS! LET'S BLAME BUSH! Or global warming? Ukraine? Blame the damn JEWS? Blame the Kurds? The Pope? Right wingers? Tea Party?

After watching Chinatown a few times, I just cannot understand how climate isn't the culprit.

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Friday, August 22, 2014 6:43 PM

MAGONSDAUGHTER


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McCarthyism is the practice of making accusations of disloyalty, subversion, or treason without proper regard for evidence. It also means "the practice of making unfair allegations or using unfair investigative techniques, especially in order to restrict dissent or political criticism."


Dont think that applies in this case

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Friday, August 22, 2014 6:58 PM

1KIKI

Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.



Originally posted by AURaptor:
Why don't you ask PETA or The Sierra Club what that number should be.


So, no answer.




SAGAN: We are releasing vast quantities of carbon dioxide, increasing the greenhouse effect. It may not take much to destabilize the Earth's climate, to convert this heaven, our only home in the cosmos, into a kind of hell.

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Friday, August 22, 2014 8:35 PM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!


Quote:

Originally posted by Magonsdaughter:
Quote:

McCarthyism is the practice of making accusations of disloyalty, subversion, or treason without proper regard for evidence. It also means "the practice of making unfair allegations or using unfair investigative techniques, especially in order to restrict dissent or political criticism ."


Don't think that applies in this case



" especially in order to restrict dissent or political criticism "

It applies, completely.

AGW isn't science, it's about politics. Firing a scientist who TALKS about his skepticism of the official state point of view, the POLITICAL position, loses his job. He was DISLOYAL to the STATE.

That's not freedom. That's tyranny.

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Sunday, August 24, 2014 5:53 AM

MAGONSDAUGHTER


Dissent or political criticism is different from scientific debate, espeically when on one side of the debate they are rejecting evidence.

McCarthyism prevented people from getting work in any industry, because of their political affiliation, not because there was a disagreement about some key point of an industry. To be more like McCarthyism, this man would have been denied a job because he voted republican, or expressed support for jihadism, or more accurately, had been accused of such things to by someone else looking to evade punitive action as per the witch hunts. You accuse 4 others and you get off scott free while they hang.

The analogy just doesn't work. Scientific communities have the right to employ people based on their expertise, and someone who is a climate change denier is someone who rejects evidence.

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Sunday, August 24, 2014 8:49 AM

SECOND

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly


Dr Caleb Rossiter got all prissy about his math for climate change and his math got him into trouble with his colleagues. He is not the first person to insist that there is only one right way to make a calculation and everyone else is wrong, wrong, wrong. Julian Schwinger got all prissy about his mathematical formalism after he won a Nobel prize. Schwinger quit Harvard because his colleagues were not as impressed with him as one-third of the Nobel committee had been. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Schwinger

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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Sunday, August 24, 2014 1:49 PM

ELVISCHRIST


Quote:

Originally posted by AURaptor:
Why don't you ask PETA or The Sierra Club what that number should be.




Because they didn't come here and post that solar energy is causing "senseless loss of life." You did.


And when I asked for a specific number, you ran away like the fucking cunt we all know you to be.

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