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Science wins again w/ Global Warming

Discussion in 'Too Hot for Swamp Gas' started by GatorFanCF, Dec 13, 2024.

  1. GatorFanCF

    GatorFanCF Premium Member

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    Scientists May Have Been Wrong About 'Doomsday Glacier'

    Wow...I'm shocked. Scientific theories and predictions not 100% accurate? This is why we do not need to kneecap our economy (like Germany has) and use only green energy. There should be exploration into green energy; but, please stop the paranoia.
    "The world is about to end" = religious zealot or climate change activist.
     
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  2. mdgator05

    mdgator05 Premium Member

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    Did you read the last two paragraphs of your article?
     
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  3. dangolegators

    dangolegators GC Hall of Fame

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    Yeah, sometimes science is wrong. We know that because of science. That's how science works. It seeks to disprove itself. But one thing we know science has been right about for a long time now is that global warming is occurring and it's caused by the greenhouse gasses humans have spewed into the atmosphere.
     
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  4. PetrolGator

    PetrolGator Lawful Neutral Premium Member

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    I feel like it’s the non-scientists who think science is expected to be 100% right all the time. It’s a total misunderstanding of empirical naturalism. It’s indicative of the poor health of our educational system.
     
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  5. slocala

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    How does one read an article about measurement and time for a collapse of an ice shelf = climate change hoax. SMDH.
     
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  6. PetrolGator

    PetrolGator Lawful Neutral Premium Member

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    This article does nothing to contest the mechanism of climate change; it’s about the result of an improved simulation regarding the potential break up of a single glacier.

    Read an article before posting it. Relying on the title and first paragraph is bad scholarship.
     
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  7. GatorJMDZ

    GatorJMDZ gatorjack VIP Member

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    LOL, they only read the headlines.

    Well, this was embarrassing.
     
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  8. slocala

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    Baffling. Critical thinking is one thing. This is 8th grade reading comprehension.

    To think this is a site associated with a top tier public university is cringe.
     
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  9. PetrolGator

    PetrolGator Lawful Neutral Premium Member

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    I’ve had the same thought often myself. Not all posters are alumni and not all alumni remain grounded in the skills they should have learned at university.
     
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  10. GatorJMDZ

    GatorJMDZ gatorjack VIP Member

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    I've said the same thing many times. Your first thought is to think you are dealing with fellow UF alumni here, but you're not...you are dealing with UF fans, a very obviously intellectually diverse group.
     
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  11. G8trGr8t

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    1. join the maga cult.
    2. declare anything you disagree with fake news
    3. Search tiktok and YouTube for confirmation
    4. Declare yourself correct
     
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  12. G8trGr8t

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    Like the doj investigation that was initiated under djt.
    Sadly, these same posters and the type post it elsewhere an people agree without even reading the info
     
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  13. slocala

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    Fishbowl logic. They chum the waters and giggle about the frenzy.
     
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  14. PetrolGator

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    I’m stealing this.
     
  15. GatorFanCF

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    Oh, the weeping and gnashing of teeth over the last two paragraphs. The last two paragraphs:

    "Currently, sea levels are rising by 0.13 inches per year, according to NASA. Much of this rise is driven by melting ice in the polar regions.

    "The sooner we prioritize and try to understand these changes, the more we're going to set up future generations for success in mitigating the effects," Riverman said."


    My comment from above was we need to incorporate green energy but not kneecap our economy and stop the paranoia. How do the last two paragraphs contradict anything I said? The truth is some folks just want to have it all their way; and, when the facts ( imminent damage is not here ) are presented they move the goalposts and we're back to being lectured because we're the buffoons. Every time someone has to belittle someone else on this site it shows how weak their argument is. What a sad and pathetic life - you never gain ground by throwing dirt.
     
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  16. PetrolGator

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    You had no nuance about engineering solutions to climate change. You posted the same apologetics utilized by pro-hydrocarbon lobbying and media sources.

    You provided no context regarding some sort of economic concerns. You just mentioned something about “paranoia.”

    You know what worries me more than ice sheets? Ocean acidification and the breakdown of major global currents. Both of those have routinely had more alarming, independent papers recently.

    The sad part is that we should have been aggressively dealing with carbon and methane emissions like yesterday, but we’re still kicking the can down the road for our kids/grandkids to hopefully figure out before climate change renders large swaths of the globe hostile to human activities.
     
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  17. wgbgator

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    Simply unbelievable given your commentary on the story in the OP. Every accusation is a confession lol. Were you not belittling people calling them paranoid and comparing them to religious zealots? Just shows how weak your argument is right?
     
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  18. mdgator05

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    So you don't think raising sea levels are damage? And you are actually arguing for not prioritizing this issue (by framing prioritizing it as "paranoia"), which runs directly contrary to what your own article is stating that we should be doing.
     
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  19. exiledgator

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    One single ice sheet that may not fall of and melt as soon as previously predicted does not equal AGW being a hoax. Sheesh.
     
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  20. PetrolGator

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    (Wait until they find out that environmental migration is a real thing and not only happening on our border, but actively in East Asia.)