Agree-to-Disagree

You are ruining your life worrying about something that might never happen. Even if it happens it will be long after you are dead.

Hi Lionino. I would like to know where the 2 US temperature maps for Jul 20 2019 came from. The scale has obviously changed, so how did you get the 2 ...

Please stop making posts that are reasonable and based on common sense. Somebody might believe you. :grin:

I thought that opposites attract. :cool: + :nerd: = :heart:

I would put my money on bacteria. Bacteria have always ruled to earth, and always will rule the earth. Bacteria love global warming. They would like t...

The world’s fossil fuel producers are planning expansions that would blow the planet’s carbon budget twice over, a UN report has found. Experts called...

This headline is misleading because it creates the impression that the US is warming faster than other countries. The fact is that almost every countr...

I have posted something like this before. I have lived through many existential threats to humanity. - All through my childhood the doomsday clock was...

Checkmate. :cool: :up: :party:

Oh, the irony, it burns. /uploads/resized/files/v5/vsvu4msv7immegr6.png

At least I don't tell lies to support my comments.

You are attacking me personally without commenting on what I have said. Making an ad hominem attack on a Philosophy Forum is the ultimate irony.

Do you reply to every bit of every post? Is this a case of the pot calling the kettle black?

I am interested in what other people have to say. I am inviting people to comment on the topics that I post about. If you have anything constructive t...

I have recently posted about: - the ECS - my belief that we should slowly move away from using fossil fuels - what I think we should do about rising s...

So according to you there is evidence for horoscopes, the loch ness monster, bigfoot, yeti, aliens, UFO's, homeopathy, conspiracy theories, ghosts, et...

If it bleeds, it leads.

Okay. If it was in the news then it must be correct. :wink:

I think that we should slowly move away from using fossil fuels. But slowly enough to not cause very large problems. When the technology is really bet...

But doing the wrong thing based on what we think we know about global-warming/climate-change is a VERY expensive mistake.

I am more of a breast type of guy. :wink:

I didn't say that the news item is wrong. What I said is based on the assumption that the news item is correct.

Frank, I was a computer programmer for the last 40 years. Just because they "model the climate with super computers" doesn't prove that they are corre...

When are you talking about Frank? The graph that I displayed shows the history over the last 420,000 years. Are you claiming that "There used to be ju...

Think carefully about the implications of this statement. 125,000 years ago it was as warm as today, or warmer. The CO2 level 125,000 years ago was ab...

Perhaps you are going through your second childhood. :grin: If you are 71 and three quarters then you are likely to die before me. :halo:

Many a true word is said in jest.

It is the younger generation who is "setting one generation against another". They blame almost everything on the older generation. Your statement "ju...

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Question - should we stop trying to reduce air pollution and aerosol pollution until after global-warming/climate-change is under control?

The lyrics of "The Boxer" by Paul Simon are often appropriate when discussing beliefs, facts, and reality. It is quite common for people to disregard ...

If you have food in the refrigerator, clothes on your back, a roof over your head and a place to sleep … … then you are richer than 75 per cent of thi...

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I am a cynical and skeptical old man. :sad: I was an idealist when I was young, but life turned me into a realist.

And pigs might fly. :grin: It is not just nuclear war that we should worry about. As civilizations create increasingly powerful technologies self-dest...

Why do you think that the judgement of the majority will prevail? For example, a small minority with nuclear weapons may disagree.

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What does "reasonable" mean? Surely what is "reasonable" is a subjective opinion, not an absolute. Who said that sustainability is the result that we ...

Some people may see "a pure economics of justification" as being reasonable.

Many people (probably most people) are more concerned with the continued and healthy future of a subset of humanity (e.g. themselves, their family, th...

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A plant (e.g. a tree) can produce toxic chemicals as a response to being eaten. Isn't this an example of experience? Some of these trees can communica...

I agree with this statement. Collective action = lots of people reducing their carbon footprint.

I will use the abbreviation CC/GW to stand for Climate-Change/Global-Warming. Your comment Mikie (which is shared by many people who are concerned abo...

As I have said before, the way to reduce the amount of fossil fuels used is for consumers to reduce their demand (individually or as a group). There i...

Okay Mikie, I will rephrase it for you. I don't think it will happen.

I could say the same to YOU Mikie. Who gives a damn about how you feel about this.

I would like to raise another aspect of time. I think that time is meaningless without change. So if nothing changes, or nothing exists, then time is ...

This is a common belief but it is not true. In english we have different words for different types of snow and we can add additional words if we don't...