Why worry about global warming?

[AV1611VET]

Think tanks are ideological organizations, they don't do science.

So I'm wrong?

The whitecoats didn't harp on everything from overpopulation to killer bees?

Then you won't mind a Urologist performing heart surgery on you then. After all, a doctor is a doctor is a doctor.

C'mon ... are we going to discuss this intelligently or not?

You want the name of a scientist who harped on overpopulation (for example), right?

And I'm asking, "What does that matter?"

 

[Freodin]

So I'm wrong?

The whitecoats didn't harp on everything from overpopulation to killer bees?

C'mon ... are we going to discuss this intelligently or not?

You want the name of a scientist who harped on overpopulation (for example), right?

And I'm asking, "What does that matter?"

Considering that in your terminoloyg Pontius Pilatus was a scientist... I'd say it matters quite a lot.

 

[AV1611VET]

If you use up all oil, there won't be any left for your lamps.

I don't know how old you are, but are you familiar with the Parable of the 29th Day that that girl gave to the Club of Rome, that became their springboard for informing us plebeians that we'd better get our acts together, or we've had it?

 

[RickG]

So I'm wrong?

The whitecoats didn't harp on everything from overpopulation to killer bees?

C'mon ... are we going to discuss this intelligently or not?

You want the name of a scientist who harped on overpopulation (for example), right?

And I'm asking, "What does that matter?"

I would very much like to discuss climate change / global warming intelligently. To do this one must review the published peer review science in that discipline, not other disciplines.

I would like to know what climate scientists you think are harping on doomsday.

 

[Tinker Grey]

I don't know how old you are, but are you familiar with the Parable of the 29th Day that that girl gave to the Club of Rome, that became their springboard for informing us plebeians that we'd better get our acts together, or we've had it?

I'm old enough, but no, I'm not familiar with that.

(Just in case it passed anyone by, I was joking.)

 

[Blackwater Babe]

Does it matter? a scientist is a scientist is a scientist.

I love internet users who rail against the evil of "science".

*Idly wonders if AV would seek scientific treatment if unfortunate enough to be diagnosed with cancer*

 

[AV1611VET]

I'm old enough, but no, I'm not familiar with that.

It goes like this:

Imagine you own a piece of property on which lies a small lake.

Near the shore is a variety of water lily with a most unusual characteristic: it doubles in size every day. You understand that, if the lily is permitted to grow unchecked, it will completely cover your lake in 30 days, blocking out all light and oxygen, thus choking off every other from of life in the water.

But you're busy - and besides, the lily pad seems small in comparison to the size of the lake. And so for weeks you ignore it, deciding to deal with it when it covers close to half your lake.

On what day will that be?

On the twenty-ninth day, of course. By then you will have only one day left in which to save your lake.

 

[Blackwater Babe]

It goes like this:

And your problem with this analogy is..?

 

[AV1611VET]

I love internet users who rail against the evil of "science".

What do you do with the 'evils of science'?

*Idly wonders if AV would seek scientific treatment if unfortunate enough to be diagnosed with cancer*

You bet I would.

 

[RickG]

What do you do with the 'evils of science'?

You bet I would.

Name something evil in science. Not what evil people might do with science, but what science is evil?

 

[AV1611VET]

Name something evil in science. Not what evil people might do with science, but what science is evil?

I'm asking you what you do with the 'evils of science'.

Whatever it is you deem evil -- what do you do with it?

I'm not going to play 20 questions and try to guess what you deem evil.

 

[RickG]

I'm asking you what you do with the 'evils of science'.

Whatever it is you deem evil -- what do you do with it?

I'm not going to play 20 questions and try to guess what you deem evil.

I asked you a direct question. What science do you consider evil. Answer the question and I will be happy to answer yours.

 

[AV1611VET]

I asked you a direct question. What science do you consider evil. Answer the question and I will be happy to answer yours.

Macroevolution.

 

[AV1611VET]

I asked you a direct question. What science do you consider evil. Answer the question and I will be happy to answer yours.

Macroevolution.

Your display of happiness is kinda slow in coming, is it not?

 

[AV1611VET]

Your display of happiness is kinda slow in coming, is it not?

-- Well, nuts!

/thread

 

[Nostromo]

Patience my child, he went offline before you replied.

 

[Jazer]

Name something evil in science. Not what evil people might do with science, but what science is evil?

Depends on what you call evil. If you consider anything that would harm people or harm the earth then there is a lot of evil in science. Weapons of mass destruction, air and water pollution all are harmful.

 

[FrenchyBearpaw]

Macroevolution.

Has happened, is happening, continues to happen, with every generation. The beauty of our natural world.

 

[mzungu]

Science just took a hike up the Atacama highlands and we shall soon see great and wondrous things: BBC News - Alma telescope begins study of cosmic dawn

 

[Saving Hawaii]

Your display of happiness is kinda slow in coming, is it not?

Oddly enough, somebody with over 2 million posts over the past couple years is claiming that an average person with just a few is being "kinda slow" for not responding within a 12 minute period. You're weird AV. We'll leave it at that.