Comments on: What Not To Say: “Do as I Command or You’re Going to Die!”

By: PoohBear

PoohBear — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 20:17:55 +0000

51 comments on this and no comment on the skinhead at the high school ??????

By: The Walrus

The Walrus — Sat, 20 Nov 2010 23:33:26 +0000

So you felt it more important for you to say it was disgusting for her commenting on her disgust, than to comment on the fact that it is disgusting that these things were said to her. Looks like you kind of helped her point a bit….

By: unclecharlie

unclecharlie — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 19:01:08 +0000

Climate Change is vague enough to cover any act of nature.

It is a fact that most of the hardline communists turned their attention to the environmental movement post cold war as hardline environmentalism supports government control of industry.
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Wow

The methods and the conclusions of all the research are out there for people to analyse. The term Climate Change is beside the point. We’re not trying to blame an act of nature on people. We don’t want to destroy business or take away all our precious individual freedoms. Nobody’s hiding data under their mattresses or working to debunk the few honest scientists out there that are struggling against the borg to reveal the truth.

This is what gets me, that people want to believe that there is some conspiracy among the evil scientists in league with the conservationists and the power hungry government toadies rather than look at common sense results of scientists who put their work out there for all to critique and debunk if they can. They accuse environmentalists of using fear to make their argument and force their politics on everyone. But the other side uses fear blatantly — fear the conspiracy, fear the loss of freedom, fear the “elite”.

By: jkga

jkga — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 17:50:28 +0000

I’m really saddened to read a lot of these comments. I am not a climate scientist but I am a scientist; I teach physical chemistry at Emory. (If you want to look up my credentials, my initials are JK; I don’t feel the need for anonymity in what I’m saying, but I don’t want blog comments to come up in case anyone Googles my name.) I don’t know how I can convince you skeptics the absurdity of the idea that climate scientists studying global warming are conspiring to mislead the public. Any scientist who can come up with a scientifically sound alternative to the general consensus that we are warming the planet by burning fossil fuels would get instant fame and fortune (at least, fame and fortune by academic standards!).

I’m pretty sure the reason that this hasn’t happened is that there is no getting around the fundamentals of how gases interact with heat and light, which have been well understood for over a century. Adding more and more carbon dioxide to the atmosphere *does* cause higher and higher temperatures. Predicting exactly how much and how fast is is what the the huge computer modeling efforts are aimed at doing, and nobody claims that it’s easy. However, since the effect of adding more carbon dioxide is cumulative – since it stays in the atmosphere for decades at least – if we keep pushing in the same direction then we can be almost certain that we will manage to change climate dramatically. And when I say “almost certain”, I mean quite a bit more certain than most predictions about economic or strategic threats that are used as the basis of major policy decisions.

By: MyNameIsNotSusan

MyNameIsNotSusan — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 17:30:46 +0000

So, were the liquor bottles already empty and you were hoarding empty bottles? YES. I AM SEEKING HELP. Did you finish all the booze before you recycled them? YES. I DON’T BELIEVE IN WASTING NATURAL RESOURCES. Did you pour good liquor down the drain? I MAY BE A HOARDER BUT I’M NOT CRAZY . Do you have a good recipe for hot buttered rum? NO. ASK YOUR GRANDMOTHER. These are the questions true Decaturites are truly interested in.

Rebbacab: You’re right. I promise not to ever use the word *ommie again.