"It was not until the rise of the environmental movement in the 1980s that everything suddenly changed. From then on it was almost a foregone conclusion that global warming could only be perceived as a disaster for the earth's climate. Environmentalists, adopting a strategy typical of the Catholic Church, have been warning us about the horrors of greenhouse gas hell ever since -- painting it as a punishment for the sin of meddling with creation. What was conveniently ignored, however, is that humanity has been reshaping the planet for a very long time, first by clearing forests and plowing fields, and later by building roads, cities and factories.
In the age of climate change, it has become a popular social pastime to scour the weather forecast for omens of doom. Has it ever been as hot in April as it is this year? Is this lack of rain normal? Could all this mean that the end is nigh?"
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We are all still waiting to die by killer bee attack. I gots me suspicions we will die by the bee, before we will die by drowing from melting glacier water.
Killer bees? no no that's not right, it's over population that will end the world. Don't you know we're running out of food and we're heading for mass famine?
I'm just chilling and waiting for Jesus to come back and take me to heaven, but i'll put in a good word for you pagans and maybe the some of the Jews too but i don't want to stick my neck out too far...
poor heathens.....
I was under the impression that our demise will be at the hands of the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man.
Global warming? This Minnesotan says "BRING. IT. ON." Naturally though, the poor and minorities will be hardest hit. It's a shame, 'tis true.
actually, it's the bee depopulation that will kill us. that's what i heard. someone actually told me that the decline in this year's bee population means the world is going to end in 4-5 years.
i'd laugh if it weren't so sad.
in any case, in the interest of promoting reason and science over faith and ideology, i thought you would get something out of this.
That is a joke right?
Why is it that the most partisan and polemic groups always have such harmless names? The Union of Concerned Scientists... how cute.
By defintion their founder and president is a career ideologue, and any "scientific group" that endorses "An Inconvenient Truth" clearly is faith based for as Al Gore has said himself, climate change is a morality issue.
half-joking.
there are a lot of politically-motivated position statements on their "objective" chart, but there are others where they bring up valid points, such as the administration's efforts to prevent the WHO from putting RU486 on the list of "essential medications" purely for ideological reasons.
Are you saying that RU486 is essential medication? Like penicillin?
I think you just countered your other half that wasnt joking. Forget the morality issue of abortion, at its most basic rudimentary purpose... RU486 is birth control (via abortion), and I dont see how those who argue that gov't should stay out of peoples bedrooms on one level should then get involved when those bedroom activitites result in, shall we say, certain inconveniences.
Not to mention the unknown physical and pyschological side effects of a woman bleeding a dead fetus into her toilet bowl.
But you are right, it is a politically motivated stand and I think if we look deeper we'd find NARAL somewhere in the shadows of those "concerned scientists"
Medically speaking I stand behind the decision, as these things take time. There are countless potentially life saving drugs awaiting FDA approval because all is not known and tests not fully completed.
Political ideology should never be a motivation to "fast track" a drug.
Scientists are some f'ked up mutherf'kers. They want tax payers' dollars so's they can tinker in the lab and hang out in the treetops all day making up fanciful shit! I watched Secrets of the Dead last night and they had some dumb ass beyatches, all lip and middle nose pierced, white women with dreadlocks stupid as banana slugs and ugly tattoed, they called themselves "osteoarcheologists" or some such crap and they were making major stupid and nonsensical hypothosis about some Roman skeletons they had found in Britain. They were all on about the "cut marks" from swords and crap. Then they were making wild guesses about the scenarios leading up to the "sword cuts" which it is impossible to know about, period. Those dumb cnts were talking out their asses. I was cracking up. Their shitty stories sounded like a bad romance novel.
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