Global Warming...New Report...and it ain't happy news

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My above statement is presented as opinion. You are free to disagree with it; if I wanted to state it as a categorical fact, I would have provided supporting evidence, which I didn't care to do.

And this is fairly good documentation, absent several other of his personally directed slurs, that illustrates why I adopted my personal policy of not feeding, the trolls, arguing with idiots, or engaging in exercises of futility.

And man did I get a lot of additional ammunition to use in the last several pages should it be necessary to use them.

(P.S. In the context in which I used it, 'tact' is the correct word.)

And man did I get a lot of additional ammunition to use in the last several pages should it be necessary to use them.

Nope. Using my own understanding of the word, my own Merriam-Webster dictionary, and the links you provided, "tact" is the correct word in the context in which I used it. And that's putting it in "simple English".

Main Entry: tact
Pronunciation: 'takt
Function: noun
Etymology: French, sense of touch, from Latin tactus, from tangere to touch -- more at TANGENT
1 : sensitive mental or aesthetic perception <converted>
2 : a keen sense of what to do or say in order to maintain good relations with others or avoid offense

Main Entry: 1tack
Pronunciation: 'tak
Function: verb
Etymology: Middle English takken, from tak
transitive verb
1 : ATTACH; especially : to fasten or affix with tacks
2 : to join in a slight or hasty manner
3 a : to add as a supplement b : to add (a rider) to a parliamentary bill
4 : to change the direction of (a sailing ship) when sailing close-hauled by turning the bow to the wind and shifting the sails so as to fall off on the other side at about the same angle as before
intransitive verb
1 a : to tack a sailing ship b of a ship : to change to an opposite tack by turning the bow to the wind c : to follow a course against the wind by a series of tacks
2 a : to follow a zigzag course b : to modify one's policy or attitude abruptly
- tack·er noun

Main Entry: 2tack
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English tak fastener, rope tying down the windward corner of a sail, from Middle French (Norman dialect) taque; akin to Middle Dutch tac sharp point
1 : a small short sharp-pointed nail usually having a broad flat head
2 a : the direction of a ship with respect to the trim of her sails <starboard> b : the run of a sailing ship on one tack c : a change when close-hauled from the starboard to the port tack or vice versa d : a zigzag movement on land e : a course or method of action; especially : one sharply divergent from that previously followed
3 : any of various usually temporary stitches
4 : the lower forward corner of a fore-and-aft sail
5 : a sticky or adhesive quality or condition

In fact I think I'll copy the whole discussion as it might come in handy if he continues on this tact.

By the way, nobody has offered anything at all concerning my question about how much solar energy is converted to kinetic energy and thus not exhibited as heat energy in the atmosphere, and what possible effect this may have on global temperatures. Nobody even said it was a stupid question, which surprised me.

Its a false argument, Parados, which yours is.

In fact I think I'll copy the whole discussion as it might come in handy if he continues on this tact....

And this is fairly good documentation, absent several other of his personally directed slurs, that illustrates why I adopted my personal policy of not feeding, the trolls, arguing with idiots, or engaging in exercises of futility.

Fox,

While tact might work in the sentence as you used it, it doesn't make much sense in the context of how you used it.

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In fact I think I'll copy the whole discussion as it might come in handy if he continues on this tact....

And this is fairly good documentation, absent several other of his personally directed slurs, that illustrates why I adopted my personal policy of not feeding, the trolls, arguing with idiots, or engaging in exercises of futility.

The meaning would be 'I'll copy the discussion if he continues using his keen sense of not giving offense.' Which directly contradicts your statement about not feeding trolls or arguing with idiots. Obviously, Cyc has given offense based on your later statements.

Certainly one wouldn't continue "on this tact". They would continue "with tact". Everything points to you misusing the word Fox.

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Its a false argument, Parados, which yours is.

Did I mistate the argument? I don't think so. You quoted someone saying that grid electricity is dirty to produce hydrogen. I pointed out that grid electricity is NOT the only way to get electricity.

Your argument that we don't presently get most of our grid electricity from green sources is a red herring. There is no requirement that we use grid electricity. One could easily build a hydrogen producing plant today using electrolisis that uses nothing but green energy. We have wind farms that produce electricity. It would be very efficient to build a hydrogen electrolisis plant in the middle of a wind farm. All the electricity would be green and the excess would be sold.

The problem isn't that creating the hydrogen would be dirty. The problem is no infrastructure to distribute the hydrogen.

parados wrote:

Fox,

While tact might work in the sentence as you used it, it doesn't make much sense in the context of how you used it.

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In fact I think I'll copy the whole discussion as it might come in handy if he continues on this tact....

And this is fairly good documentation, absent several other of his personally directed slurs, that illustrates why I adopted my personal policy of not feeding, the trolls, arguing with idiots, or engaging in exercises of futility.

The meaning would be 'I'll copy the discussion if he continues using his keen sense of not giving offense.' Which directly contradicts your statement about not feeding trolls or arguing with idiots. Obviously, Cyc has given offense based on your later statements.

Certainly one wouldn't continue "on this tact". They would continue "with tact". Everything points to you misusing the word Fox.

Well admittedly there are other words that I could have used. But in American vernacular one frequently uses the term that is an absurd opposite to emphasize something that is ridiculous or just plain wrong.

Example: Blatham using the "Compassionate Torturers Handbook" to take a poke at me, or somebody quoting something absolutely assinine and commenting "absolutely brilliant!" to emphasize that it was anything but. Or referring to somebody as "learned, astute, wise, etc." when you are communicating that the person is anything but.

And given a member's propensity for rude, unkind, malicious, hateful, childish, and inappropriate remarks along with an enormous double standard utilized almost every time he takes up a new subject, I thought 'tact' to be a much better term than the really rude, unkind, malicious, hateful, childish, but quite appropriate terms that I could have used.

In other words, I tried to be as tactful as possible under the circumstances.

Get it?

Probably not, but that's the way it is.

Tack, on the other hand, would have in no way communicated what I was communicating.

I will concede that I may not have communicated as clearly as I would have liked if those who do not share the member's dislike of me didn't get it either.