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techno900
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Posted: Sat Mar 15, 2014 8:28 am Post subject: |
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pueno said: Quote: | That might be true or it might not be true, but the downside risk is too terrible to ponder |
My point is that we need to move judiciously, and not let emotions or "chicken little" cries overcome logic and reason. Too terrible to ponder??? When someone steps in front of a moving car without looking, the results may be too terrible to ponder, but that doesn't mean that we must fence in every roadway to prevent people from being run over.
People that live and own business in flood planes made a conscious decision to live/work in a place that could go underwater or get blown away in a storm. So, who's responsibility is it to solve this problem, assuming the seas will rise? Since there is a fair amount of public infrastructure, certainly the cites, counties and states may have a significant obligation. The rest is up to those that chose to take the risk, which should mean - move your butt or pay a huge insurance premium.
When I moved to North Carolina, I looked at Wilmington on the coast, but after doing research on storms and potential flooding, I decided I didn't want to live with that storm cloud over my head every summer and fall during hurricane season, so I looked inland. |
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pueno
Joined: 03 Mar 2007 Posts: 2807
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Posted: Sat Mar 15, 2014 10:57 am Post subject: |
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techno900 wrote: | Too terrible to ponder??? When someone steps in front of a moving car without looking, the results may be too terrible to ponder, but that doesn't mean that we must fence in every roadway to prevent people from being run over. |
An illogical example used for argument.
But to continue with your illogical example... if that one person stepping front of that one moving car means the death of millions of people and the destruction of millions of miles of shoreline and the loss of millions of businesses and the loss of zillions of jobs and the ruination of the habitable climate to which we're accustomed...
...then, yes, the cost of fencing every roadway -- and/or developing new technologies to prevent that one car from hitting that one person -- is absolutely worth it.
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mac
Joined: 07 Mar 1999 Posts: 17747 Location: Berkeley, California
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Posted: Sat Mar 15, 2014 11:03 am Post subject: |
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Nit wit, again demonstrating a fundamental lack of understanding of physics and the literature on climate change, blows his wad all over his keyboard:
Quote: | Because you brought this up in this thread, it seems to me that you are trying to link hurricanes to global warming.
All I can say is O M G !!! Shocked |
Indeed, there are two phenomena associated with climate change that are linked to hurricanes. First, sea level rise means that hurricanes do more damage. Second, one of the long time predictions of climate modeling is that extreme storms, and yes that includes hurricanes, will get more frequent.
The literature is full of science, not Koch brother lies, that show that much of the additional heat trapped on the planet due to elevated CO2 levels has been stored in the ocean. If Nit Wit had any understanding of physics, or the development of hurricanes, he would understand that hurricanes start over, or near Africa, and travel east across the ocean--picking up energy from the heat in the ocean. More heat in the ocean means more energy in the hurricane.
To summarize for nit wit, who stopped reading immediately--climate change doesn't cause hurricanes--it makes them worse.
I can suggest a number of used physics books that might make you seem less foolish. OMG> |
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MalibuGuru
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Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2014 1:26 am Post subject: |
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pueno wrote: | techno900 wrote: | Too terrible to ponder??? When someone steps in front of a moving car without looking, the results may be too terrible to ponder, but that doesn't mean that we must fence in every roadway to prevent people from being run over. |
An illogical example used for argument.
But to continue with your illogical example... if that one person stepping front of that one moving car means the death of millions of people and the destruction of millions of miles of shoreline and the loss of millions of businesses and the loss of zillions of jobs and the ruination of the habitable climate to which we're accustomed...
...then, yes, the cost of fencing every roadway -- and/or developing new technologies to prevent that one car from hitting that one person -- is absolutely worth it.
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You and the fear mongers are insane! |
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pueno
Joined: 03 Mar 2007 Posts: 2807
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Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2014 5:35 am Post subject: |
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stevenbard wrote: |
You and the fear mongers are insane!
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Except YOU are the one who tried to make a stupid argument with an illogical example.
When you claim "insane," look in the mirror.
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mac
Joined: 07 Mar 1999 Posts: 17747 Location: Berkeley, California
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Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2014 11:20 am Post subject: |
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I love it when those who history will show to have been on the wrong side just ignore the arguments and facts that they have trouble comprehending.
Irony is all we have left in the face of an effective public relations campaign by the carbon industries. |
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techno900
Joined: 28 Mar 2001 Posts: 4161
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Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2014 2:21 pm Post subject: |
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pueno said: Quote: | ...then, yes, the cost of fencing every roadway -- and/or developing new technologies to prevent that one car from hitting that one person -- is absolutely worth it. | I know, how about 5 point seat belts, roll bars and helmets for every car, driver and occupant? That would save thousands and thousands of lives. Oops, I forgot the pedestrians that cross streets. Helmets may save a few of them too and would be less expensive than fencing in every road. Or maybe invisible fencing along all roadways except for crosswalks, and require all pedestrians to wear shock collars.
No expense too great to save a life? I wonder it this logic will lead to a debt crisis that will be "too terrible to ponder"? |
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pueno
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Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2014 2:58 pm Post subject: |
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techno900 wrote: |
No expense too great to save a life? I wonder it this logic will lead to a debt crisis that will be "too terrible to ponder"? |
Cheney said, "Deficits don't matter." Don't you believe Dear old Dick? I mean.... he's a man with a heart! (Someone else's.)
And it's not "a life" we were discussing... it was millions of lives, many thousands of miles of shoreline, zillions of jobs, businesses by the gazillion, national economies, and so on.
You seem to have conveniently forgotten the essence of your original screed.
No surprise there.
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techno900
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Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2014 3:36 pm Post subject: |
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pueno said: Quote: | Cheney said, "Deficits don't matter." Don't you believe Dear old Dick? I mean.... he's a man with a heart! (Someone else's.) |
There you go, what an convincing argument. Too bad Bush didn't say that, or your argument would be sooooo much stronger.
He also said: Quote: | And it's not "a life" we were discussing... it was millions of lives, many thousands of miles of shoreline, zillions of jobs, businesses by the gazillion, national economies, and so on. |
Exactly, and don't you want to get it right before you move ahead with the spending? That was and is still my point, which you seem to ignore.
He also said: Quote: | it was millions of lives | Did I miss a disaster somewhere? |
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keycocker
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Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2014 5:40 pm Post subject: |
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The spending you are speaking of- that would be the trillions of dollars that Talk Radio has invented as a budget for libs? or hundreds of trillions?
No the libs have never said they plan to move on that spending. |
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