Global cooling

[mac]

Techno argues that this is a substantive point?

[swchandler]

NW30, why on earth do you hang out at places like InfoWars for anything meaningful? Is this kind of obscure fringe stuff news to you? Alex Jones is a nut.

[keycocker]

I agree we should not go overboard. I know it may be hard to accept, but what if a leftie or a scientist had a plan to ease off as I posted earlier.
Would that be an acceptable compromise?
I have never seen that Talk Radio blueprint for spending trillions without any evidence. Have you?

[keycocker]

Fringe stuff, conspiracy theories, fake facts that support preconceived ideas is much more satisfying than the boring real world libs live in and their often moderate reasonable opinions.
I makes you feel good that they are such fools and you have the inside line.
It is an addiction. Once you accept enough of it, the real world is hard to understand anymore.
In that fake world all is extreme. Those who accept climate science want to kill anybody who disagrees.
O is Satan.
There is a giant secret fund that grants money to millions of scientists if they agree to never tell that it is all a scam.
O is a Muslim.
Libs love to pay high taxes and waste money.
John Mcain is a terrorist.
Welfare people vote in mass for anyone who gives them money.
O is a Kenyan.
America is helpless because of the changes Congress, I mean O, has made.

I have heard every one of these things here on this site alone.

[mac]

KC--Of course nobody here has said do unreasonable things to deal with global warming. I have posted--and never gotten any reasoned response--to the proposal by Jim Hansen to enact a revenue-neutral carbon tax, where taxes on carbon replaced other taxes.

Of course you get blather from the right that government can't do anything. This, by people who go to parks to windsurf. When you point out that government regulation and education has resulted in the smoking rate dropping from over 42% in 1962 to 18% in 2012--they say nothing. When you point out that the reduction in smoking rate has saved billions in health care costs--they say nothing. When you point out that Big Oil hired some of the same "scientists" that hid the evidence on the damage that smoking does--they say nothing.

But they invent, in their own minds, the terrible things that scientists will do to prevent sea level rise from swamping the coastal areas where half the population in the United States lives.

Facts are so inconvenient--and scarce--in the right wing.

[pueno]

[mac]

Pueno--I had missed the irony of this the first time:

[pueno]

[keycocker]

I like that idea of enlightening rational debate.
Among human beings , including every poster here I only read about it in Socratic Dialogues . In the last few thousand years it has fallen out of favor.
These guys do debate at random here.
Me too.

[nw30]