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paradox
Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 8:11 pm
by magneticgoop
my brother brought up a good point yesterday: ironically many liberals believe that global warming exists and want to stop it to save the earth. the liberals want to keep things the way they are, kinda like conservatives

Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 8:13 pm
by got tonkaed
it is just about as ironic as the fact that most Conservatives dont really try to conserve the planet.
Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 8:13 pm
by spurgistan
Well, the status quo presently involves pumping greenhouse gases at mind-blowing levels into the atmospehere. Libs (and conservatives who DON'T see the value in a global desert) want to change that status quo.
Re: Oxymoron
Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 8:16 pm
by Kid_A
magneticgoop wrote:my brother brought up a good point yesterday: ironically many liberals believe that global warming exists
believe?
are you actually debating the existence of global warming? i suppose evolution is a 'theory' as well.
Re: Oxymoron
Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 8:21 pm
by magneticgoop
Kid_A wrote:magneticgoop wrote:my brother brought up a good point yesterday: ironically many liberals believe that global warming exists
believe?are you actually debating the existence of global warming? i suppose evolution is a 'theory' as well.
no i personally think it exists, but it is not caused by humans but by the natural heating and cooling of the earth. but i dont want to get into that
Re: Oxymoron
Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 8:22 pm
by Arbustos
magneticgoop wrote:Kid_A wrote:magneticgoop wrote:my brother brought up a good point yesterday: ironically many liberals believe that global warming exists
believe?are you actually debating the existence of global warming? i suppose evolution is a 'theory' as well.
no i personally think it exists, but it is not caused by humans but by the natural heating and cooling of the earth. but i dont want to get into that
But do you agree we've had an adverse effect on the situation?
Re: Oxymoron
Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 8:28 pm
by magneticgoop
Arbustos wrote:magneticgoop wrote:Kid_A wrote:magneticgoop wrote:my brother brought up a good point yesterday: ironically many liberals believe that global warming exists
believe?are you actually debating the existence of global warming? i suppose evolution is a 'theory' as well.
no i personally think it exists, but it is not caused by humans but by the natural heating and cooling of the earth. but i dont want to get into that
But do you agree we've had an adverse effect on the situation?
yes but only a tiny percentage
Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 8:33 pm
by The Weird One
that's debatable.
Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 8:36 pm
by magneticgoop
The Weird One wrote:that's debatable.
not the point of the thread
Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 8:38 pm
by The Weird One
that's why all i said was "that's debatable" if it WAS the point of the thread, I would have probably posted much much more.
Re: Oxymoron
Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 8:44 pm
by muy_thaiguy
Kid_A wrote:magneticgoop wrote:my brother brought up a good point yesterday: ironically many liberals believe that global warming exists
believe?are you actually debating the existence of global warming? i suppose
evolution is a 'theory' as well.
It still is considered a theory.

Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 8:48 pm
by Arbustos
So is gravity... doesn't mean it isn't true. Scientifically, "theory" isn't a pejorative as far as fact goes. Besides, what's wrong with evolution? My Bio teacher was Christian and believed in Darwin's findings...
Re: Oxymoron
Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 8:49 pm
by hecter
magneticgoop wrote:Arbustos wrote:magneticgoop wrote:Kid_A wrote:magneticgoop wrote:my brother brought up a good point yesterday: ironically many liberals believe that global warming exists
believe?are you actually debating the existence of global warming? i suppose evolution is a 'theory' as well.
no i personally think it exists, but it is not caused by humans but by the natural heating and cooling of the earth. but i dont want to get into that
But do you agree we've had an adverse effect on the situation?
yes but only a tiny percentage
Right, which is why if we do nothing, in 100 years the earth could be 6.5˚C hotter... Hotter than it has been since the time before the dinosaurs... Here is a model that SHOWS how much we're effecting the climate.
This one is a bit better, I think.
http://www.grida.no/climate/ipcc%5Ftar/
Feel free to read the reports, if you don't believe me.
Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 8:50 pm
by muy_thaiguy
Arbustos wrote:So is gravity... doesn't mean it isn't true. Scientifically, "theory" isn't a pejorative as far as fact goes. Besides, what's wrong with evolution? My Bio teacher was Christian and believed in Darwin's findings...
No, gravity IS a law.

Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 8:52 pm
by The Weird One
yes. . . but there are theories that are just theories because of certain assholes that have decided to debate them with nonexistant evidence
Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 8:53 pm
by magneticgoop
these are based on predictions of past and future temperatures and again this is not the point of the thread
Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 8:53 pm
by Nobunaga
... Please, not another global warming thread.
...
Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 8:54 pm
by Arbustos
muy_thaiguy wrote:Arbustos wrote:So is gravity... doesn't mean it isn't true. Scientifically, "theory" isn't a pejorative as far as fact goes. Besides, what's wrong with evolution? My Bio teacher was Christian and believed in Darwin's findings...
No, gravity IS a law.

WTH, screw Wikipedia. One article they say it's Newton's
Theory of Universal Gravitation, another it's his
Law of Universal Gravitation.
Regardless, Einstein's special relativity is also used, and that's a theory. The point is that, in science, "theory" and fact often go hand in hand.
Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 8:56 pm
by magneticgoop
Nobunaga wrote:... Please, not another global warming thread.
...
QFT
what i meant by the thread was it is funny how the liberals want to conserve in this case, i did not want a debate thread
Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 8:58 pm
by Arbustos
magneticgoop wrote:Nobunaga wrote:... Please, not another global warming thread.
...
QFT
what i meant by the thread was it is funny how the liberals want to conserve in this case, i did not want a debate thread
But that point is inane to begin with, as spurgistan pointed out. So you just want this thread to die?
Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 8:58 pm
by hecter
magneticgoop wrote:these are based on predictions of past and future temperatures and again this is not the point of the thread
So just because it's a prediction means it's suddenly invalid?
Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 8:58 pm
by The Weird One
to some shortsighted people. . .yes
Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 9:00 pm
by hecter
The Weird One wrote:to some shortsighted people. . .yes
Even when presented with information gathered by many many many experts and is currently being used by several governments.
Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 9:00 pm
by muy_thaiguy
Arbustos wrote:muy_thaiguy wrote:Arbustos wrote:So is gravity... doesn't mean it isn't true. Scientifically, "theory" isn't a pejorative as far as fact goes. Besides, what's wrong with evolution? My Bio teacher was Christian and believed in Darwin's findings...
No, gravity IS a law.

WTH, screw Wikipedia. One article they say it's Newton's
Theory of Universal Gravitation, another it's his
Law of Universal Gravitation.
Regardless, Einstein's special relativity is also used, and that's a theory. The point is that, in science, "theory" and fact often go hand in hand.
Why do you think I rarely use wikipedia?
As for theories, they are based off of some fact, with the rest filled in with theories, making theories not 100% fact. While Laws have all the holes filled in with facts (Law of Gravity, etc...).

Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 9:02 pm
by s.xkitten
UGH...
STOP IT, ALL OF YOU...
THIS THREAD IS ABOUT OXYMORONS, OBVIOUSLY...
like, military intelligence...
happy monday...
that sort of thing...
not whether or not global warming exists