Are we going to die or not?

Quote from: taxed on November 24, 2013, 09:39:05 PM
Come on... tell the class....  are you one of the libs that says the sea levels will rise, or are you (AGW believers) walking that back as well?

I'll leave this for you to figure out.  It's pretty elementary.

Quote from: mdgiles on November 24, 2013, 09:38:42 PM
Whereas you seem quite willing to decrease our personal liberty to accomplish a decrease in CO2 emissions - where we've already accomplish that aim - but unwilling to risk yours to accomplish that aim where its really needed. So why exactly are you bothering us here again?

Do you honestly believe getting locked up and sent to a concentration camp is the same level of risk as having to pay some more taxes?

Quote from: Sci Fi Fan on November 24, 2013, 09:40:53 PM
I'll leave this for you to figure out.  It's pretty elementary.

Hahaha  I knew you'd evade this one...

Good night sweetheart.  I should be back on tomorrow....

Don't leave me hanging! When am I going to burn to death?

Quote from: taxed on November 24, 2013, 09:42:32 PM
Hahaha  I knew you'd evade this one...

Good night sweetheart.  I should be back on tomorrow....

LOL taxed, your delusion is always a joy to flirt with.  Watching you insist that you're right where the entire scientific community is wrong...

Quote from: The Boo Man... on November 24, 2013, 09:44:44 PM
Don't leave me hanging! When am I going to burn to death?

Where did I say that?   

Quote from: Sci Fi Fan on November 24, 2013, 09:46:11 PM
Where did I say that?   

So it's not a pressing issue? Oh thank God!

Quote from: The Boo Man... on November 24, 2013, 09:49:59 PM
So it's not a pressing issue?

Wait, if you won't immediately burn to death, it's not a pressing issue...?

Nothing that you say makes even the faintest hint of sense.

Quote from: Sci Fi Fan on November 24, 2013, 09:51:08 PM
Wait, if you won't immediately burn to death, it's not a pressing issue...?

Nothing that you say makes even the faintest hint of sense.

Well will my great grand kids burn to death?

Quote from: The Boo Man... on November 24, 2013, 09:51:54 PM
Well will my great grand kids burn to death?

Once again it's not that the temperature increase will physically heat your skin to death.  It's the effect of such changes on the ecosystem as a whole and the resultant effect on society on a macro-scale.

So, not literally, no.

But your great grand kids will certainly look down on your GW-denial as you would look down on those who denied heliocentrism.

Quote from: Sci Fi Fan on November 24, 2013, 09:56:52 PM
Once again it's not that the temperature increase will physically heat your skin to death.  It's the effect of such changes on the ecosystem as a whole and the resultant effect on society on a macro-scale.

So, not literally, no.

But your great grand kids will certainly look down on your GW-denial as you would look down on those who denied heliocentrism.

Oh so there will be no food.

Got it.

Quote from: The Boo Man... on November 24, 2013, 10:01:48 PM
Oh so there will be no food.

I never said that.  But maybe crops will be significantly harder to grow; many studies have supported this notion and you have put forth no counterarguments.

Quote from: Sci Fi Fan on November 24, 2013, 10:04:38 PM
I never said that.  But maybe crops will be significantly harder to grow; many studies have supported this notion and you have put forth no counterarguments.

So maybe. What other maybes do you have?

Quote from: The Boo Man... on November 24, 2013, 10:05:53 PM
So maybe. What other maybes do you have?

By "maybe" I mean "the probability is less than 100%", just as the probability that the food you buy at Walmart isn't poisoned is less than 100%. 

Would you criticize a neurosurgeon for freaking out over "only" a five centimeter of missing brain space, and respond to his resultant explanations with mockery?

Why do you think that 1.5 degrees isn't a big deal to the environment because it isn't a big deal to you directly?  Do you think 4 degree increase in your internal temperature is not a big deal because such an increase in the weather would not affect you?  You know, even though it would result in a serious fever?   

Quote from: Sci Fi Fan on November 24, 2013, 10:09:31 PM
By "maybe" I mean "the probability is less than 100%", just as the probability that the food you buy at Walmart isn't poisoned is less than 100%. 

Would you criticize a neurosurgeon for freaking out over "only" a five centimeter of missing brain space, and respond to his resultant explanations with mockery?

Why do you think that 1.5 degrees isn't a big deal to the environment because it isn't a big deal to you directly?  Do you think 4 degree increase in your internal temperature is not a big deal because such an increase in the weather would not affect you?  You know, even though it would result in a serious fever?   

Ah so now you have shifted to probability. Great but you still have not produced an argument for making drastic changes to halt the 1.53 degree increase over a century that needs to include the largest producers. Nor have you explained how to get these countries on board.