Why is the climate changing. (Page 65) vphaxg: You are hateful stupid and worth nothing. The world will only benefit in every way after you both die. theHating: Man, i have tried so hard to embody the kind of person that vp is. Now that I have actually found a vp, i think maybe god does exist. Sir Loin: Look for her in the San Francisco phonebook under psychologists. You'll enjoy visiting her. She really is very very beautiful Sir Loin: Haha Hating, I have 6 kids. Fortunately none are as stupid as this one, or as offensive. They wouldn't dare! vphaxg: You could never beat me Sir Loin. Kill yourself and save me work, unlike you I make actual accomplishments and you are just a waste of my time. vphaxg: I think the right answer shouldn't be this uppity jackass keeps trying to pretend he is competent. vphaxg: It is about you: "Modern society; give a man a fish and he displays a mild range of affectations that look like a fleeting softening of attitude before he forgets entirely but teach a man to fish and he spits in your face assaults your intelligence and pretends he knows everything." ghostgeek: Should everything we read and hear in the media be taken at face value? Possibly not. In 1989, the Associated Press relayed a warning from a U.N. official: "A senior U.N. environmental official says entire nations could be wiped off the face of the Earth by rising sea levels if the global warming trend is not reversed by the year 2000." The official was Noel Brown, director of the New York office of the U.N. Environment Program, who added: "Shifting climate patterns would bring back 1930s Dust Bowl conditions to Canadian and U.S. wheatlands.” Instead, U.S. and global farm production rose, and more than 1 billion people worldwide rose out of extreme poverty due to economic growth. [ https://www.foxnews.com/science/10-times-experts-predicted-the-world-would-end-by-now ] ghostgeek: Remember the following: Global cooling was once a worry to many, such as University of California at Davis professor Kenneth Watt, who warned that present trends would make the world “eleven degrees colder in the year 2000 ... about twice what it would take to put us into an ice age.” British science writer Nigel Calder was just as worried. "The threat of a new ice age must now stand alongside nuclear war as a likely source of wholesale death and misery for mankind,” Calder warned in International Wildlife magazine in 1975. [ https://www.foxnews.com/science/10-times-experts-predicted-the-world-would-end-by-now ] Now, of course, the experts have decided things are going in the opposite direction. So how many times do we let them change their minds before we start wondering if they know what they're talking about? zeffur: Endlessly--you never know when one of them might actually get things right at some point. We just don't take them seriously. Which is essentially what has been happening for the past 20 years---mainly because what they've presented isn't factually true or effectively convincing. (Edited by zeffur) | Science Chat Room 3 People Chatting Similar Conversations |