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| Not_an_Owl 04/29/17 5:07:32 PM #181: | If "climate skeptics" really were skeptical of the potential effects of climate change they wouldn't be supporting policies that result in more and more carbon being pumped into the atmosphere every year. Being skeptical means that you don't know if it's true or not, and if human-caused climate change is real then it's one of the most clear and pressing dangers to mankind (not to mention America - at the rate we're going south Florida is going to be under water before 2100 or so). Ergo, if you accept even the possibility that that is our future then you should be supporting anything that might possibly divert us from that fate, like decreasing our carbon emissions and shifting to renewable energy. So-called climate skeptics don't do this, of course, because they aren't skeptical at all. They either deny climate change exists or they don't care because those carbon emissions make them rich and/or they're going to be dead before the worst effects of climate change happen anyway. --- Besides, marijuana is far more harmful than steroids. - BlitzBomb I headbang to Bruckner. ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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