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Originally Posted by Technocratic_Utilitarian
Sam's been reading too much Michael Chriton.
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I'm agreeing with Techno on something??
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Originally Posted by Oregon Elephant
A ridiculous story about some schmuck saying this or that about it does not validate the entire theory. That is just a sad fallacy.
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It invalidates it for Sam... and many of those who think like him... so for Sam and his cronies... it works...
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Originally Posted by Chan
The real fallacy is in assuming that climate change is a bad thing and that we absolutely must do something about it.
Talk to me about climate change when Al Gore and his cult followers are all living exactly the kind of green lifestyle they propose to force on everyone else!
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Show me a link that states
Nobel Prize Winner Al Gore is trying to force any changes on anyone.
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Originally Posted by Oregon Elephant
So because Al Gore is a hypocritic, that discredits everything else?
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it does for Chan and his cronies...
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Originally Posted by Chan
It goes to credibility. Besides, it has not been proven that climate change is necessarily a bad thing or that there have not been periods of warming and cooling in the past. Why do we assume that just because we're arguably the dominant species on the planet that we should be exempt from having to adapt to changes in the environment instead of trying to force the environment to adapt to us?
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So what if it has happened in the past? How many people died as a result of the famines created by the droughts? Or died in the flooding? Or were killed in wars fought over the loss of terrirtory and/or resources? How many cities were swallowed up by rising seas?
hmmm, chan? How many?