okie wrote:kuvasz wrote:
Of course I summed it up. I am capable of cutting through your bull$hit. But, no "my" side doesn't "believe," it has established data to back up its positions for the rise in CO2 in the atmosphere and concomitent rise world-wide in temperatures on land, sea, and air. The disease can not be accounted for by traditional natural causes. Even the infamous Dr. Lomborg agrees with this assessment.
The disease is the climate change and the assessment, the diagnosis is correct. And I would point out to you and others that you have not ever been able to show any evidence where I (and Parados) personally prescribed any of the medicines you claimed we did. My brook here has been solely to counter the mouth breathers who deny the science of climate change for purely personal political reasons.
If you are the honest man you presume to be, and have any moral, ethical, or intellectual integrity then when you post in response to me here, quote me where I have listed the medicine to alleviate the disease. If not, here as elsewhere you are showing yourself as simply a liar or whacko like massegetto and you are just making up $hit about me so as to win an imaginary argument you have made with yourself.
I have asked a dozen times for proof to claims you and massegetto have made about me seeking or promoting the destruction of the US economy by placing severe restrictions on CO2 emissons. Instead of validating your position by positng any facts to support your claims, all you and massegetto have done is hide your face and engage in a hoary tap dance away from admitting you are both bold-faced liars.
So kuvasz, you now agree with me, or do you? I think we need some clarification of your obfuscated opinions here. To accomplish that, kuvasz, I wonder if you can answer the following 2 questions as what your opinion truly is?
1. Is global warming occurring and is it definitely man-caused, linked with CO2 production by man?
2. Is global warming a significant enough of a problem, warranting significant political action, such as should we sign on to Kyoto? Is Kyoto a reasonable treatment for the above problem? This question is especially perntinent if your answer to #1 is yes, but can still be answered regardless of your answer to #1.
From what passage of my remarks have you come to the conclusion that I agree with you?
I have asked you and your marginally sane colleague on several occasions to state where I have called for the destruction of the US economy. Rather than answer that simple question and supply me with documentation for your accusation you two have embarked on a concerted campaign of denial and obfustication.
I must remark that since I have posted now for months on the facts climate change is occurring that at minimum you must have reading difficulties if you do not know now the facts on global warming and upon where I stand on the issue. And it is you who have finally agreed with the experts on this topic that the earth warming is occurring. I know that because instead of denying the reported data that records that the earth is warming, you have attacked the manner by which such data is collected by declaring for the opinions of Vincent Gray and his debunked theories on heat islands in populated areas. Since you agree that warming is documented, yet Gray's heat island theories have been assessed and found without merit by the IPCC report, one should be an adult and admit that global warming is occurring, and due to man-made causes.
as to your remark:
okie wrote:Is global warming a significant enough of a problem, warranting significant political action, such as should we sign on to Kyoto?
Are you sufficiently mentally flexible to understand that one can agree with the first clause of your interrogative and yet question the validity of the assumption from which the second clause arises?
so yes, "global warming is a significant enough of a problem, warranting significant political action."
And maybe yes, maybe no should we sign on to Kyoto.
After all, only a dummy would think that what we knew in the mid 1990's in the infancy of the understanding on global warming should drive the actions now nearly a decade later. However what we knew then and know better today is that the problem is real is perhaps a lot worse then we knew in the mid 1990's and it will not go away if we ignore it.
as to this remark:
okie wrote:Is Kyoto a reasonable treatment for the above problem?
Before one answers are you referring to the problem of global warming as it was perceived to have existed in the mid 1990's when the Kyoto Accords were being developed, or now ten years hence? These things matter. For if actions set out in Kyoto were base upon a 70% probability of global warming occurring from our understanding of the problem in 1996 and now ten years later they have a 99% chance of happening, what course would you take today that would be different than the actions you would have taken then? You can reverse the probabilities if you want a mental excerise and also come to the same conclusion on the mental process by which an opinion is made on action, viz., it depends on the data as to how one acts.
Now, since I have once again answered yet another of your silly questions either you or your nutbag bag ally show me where I stated any desire to wreck the US economy.
btw: and for you marginally sane colleague: I was a proud member of the US Army Corps of Engineers, 1974-76.