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• • 07 Apr 07
  • 8:55 am

  Texas, Are you getting your "science" from Alex Jones? VTer

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• • 07 Apr 07
  • 9:44 am

  Ahh, then you were joking with us. I wondered why you didn't offer any citation to back up such an over-the-top statement.

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• • 09 Apr 07
  • 1:52 pm

  LB, Scenes, Although he provides no reference, Texas is getting his information from the pseudoscience that is circulating on the world wide global climate change deniers' web. The article from which he cut and pasted his most recent reply can be found, unattributed, on several sites, including this one: http://phalle.com/ and this one: http://www.nov55.com/gbwm.html It appears to be mostly gibberish designed to give the conspiracy ranters something that sounds like science. The love to say CO2 "absorbs radiation to extinction," a phrase that means nothing - and even less in the discussion of global climate change. These folks have a simple …

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• • 09 Apr 07
  • 2:53 pm

  I don't know enough about the science to proclaim the prevailing global climate change scenario to be a "fact." I don't have any more than a regular academic background in science. But the debate we seem to be having reminds me of a quote from Vonnegut's Breakfast of Champions: "Kilgore Trout once wrote a short story which was a dialogue between two pieces of yeast. They were discussing the possible purposes of life as they ate sugar and suffocated in their own excrement. Because of their limited intelligence, they never came close to guessing that they were making champagne." The way …

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• • 09 Apr 07
  • 3:29 pm

  Thanks, and here's an 'o' for the people.

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