Ironicwarcriminal posted:i just feel bad that the opportunist greed of science and big climate is going to usher in a new age of mysticism and irrationality.
curse those global warmists for dragging us back to the primitive and irrational mysticism of Ptolemists and Pythagorists and out from under the cold empirical illuminance of Oppenheimer and Mengele
getfiscal posted:a lot of IWC's posts aren't meant for reading, they are only excretions from his poisoned soul. a lot of my posts are like that too, not as bad as IWC generally though. responding to them usually just makes things worse. it'd be like arguing with liquorgus or whatever, not very useful.
i don't see a poisoned soul in your posts GF, only a yearning for humanity to be more honest with itself.
seriously overstating the climate problem—or, what is much the same thing, of seriously understating the uncertainties associated with the climate problem
yeahhh except those aren't much the same thing at all
Ironicwarcriminal posted:i just feel bad that the opportunist greed of science and big climate is going to usher in a new age of mysticism and irrationality.
this is the opposite of what is happening. the people who are against the idea that human are negatively affecting their environment are the same people who think that you cant get pregnant from rape and that its impossible for a black person to swim.
How can't he peep that the world be burnin'?
c_man posted:iwc is like basically any conservative troll and just posts anything that seems like it agrees with him without any reflection at all. basically the same as mustang, so idk why you keep him around and ban mustang.
mustang is a real shitlord and IWC is cool and funny
Ironicwarcriminal posted:chickeon posted:its goign to be funny watching your continent quickly becoming uninhabitable and the probable disappearance of the aboriginal peoples while you sit in an air conditioned room posting about models being imperfect or whatever
so you think the models are perfect? lol
they don't have to be anywhere perfect also even if we somehow knew with 100% certainty that anthropogenic global warming didn't exist it would be in the interest of the left to act as if it were true anyways.
Superabound posted:well now that Global Warming is completely debunked, how are we supposed to justify not wanting Capitalists to fill our air water and bodies with industrial wastes? cuz i got nothin
animal rights
Ironicwarcriminal posted:getfiscal posted:hey IWC, there seem to be a lot of opportunities in australia, with a growing economy and a conservative government. should i move there?
Yes, especially once the new government repeals business-killing green religious measures like the carbon tax.
Didn't you work at a mine in some godforsaken corner of the outback? Can you get me a job there?
They aren't going to stop the boats for white people are they
chickeon posted:Ironicwarcriminal posted:
chickeon posted:
its goign to be funny watching your continent quickly becoming uninhabitable and the probable disappearance of the aboriginal peoples while you sit in an air conditioned room posting about models being imperfect or whatever
so you think the models are perfect? lol
they don't have to be anywhere perfect also even if we somehow knew with 100% certainty that anthropogenic global warming didn't exist it would be in the interest of the left to act as if it were true anyways.
thank you for being honest about this, but it poses a real question as to how the left (or Big Climate) is going to respond when the temperatures keep stalling.
being even older would be even better, old men of quality are of incalculable brilliance and intelligence. that's why einstein is a byword for intelligence, just look at a picture of einstein he is like 70 or something
Lykourgos posted:oh man I wish I was 33 in a few months, I would know everything imaginable and be like a god amongst men
personally, i haven't studied the classics in much detail, so you can imagine how stupid i am. but i will work hard and praise my elders and the god.
Aerosols counteract part of the warming effects of greenhouse gases, mostly by increasing the amount of sunlight reflected back to space. However, the ways in which aerosols affect climate through their interaction with clouds are complex and incompletely captured by climate models. As a result, the radiative forcing (that is, the perturbation to Earth’s energy budget) caused by human activities is highly uncertain, making it difficult to predict the extent of global warming…
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/343/6169/379.short
Science 24 January 2014:
Vol. 343 no. 6169 pp. 379-380
DOI: 10.1126/science.1247490
yesterday it was the ocean, today it's aerosols, tomorrow it's the toothy fairy....but remember, the science has been settled for years and questioning anything makes you a Denier in the pocket of big oil!
getfiscal posted:Lykourgos posted:oh man I wish I was 33 in a few months, I would know everything imaginable and be like a god amongst men
personally, i haven't studied the classics in much detail, so you can imagine how stupid i am. but i will work hard and praise my elders and the god.
Don't worry, read the words of Solon and rejoice, for we still aren't even near our best years. Both of us are beyond our physical prime (barely), but still a fair sight off our intellectual prime:
A child in his infancy grows his first set of teeth and loses them within seven years. For so long he counts as only a child.
When God has brought to accomplishment the next seven-year period, one shows upon his body the signs of maturing youth.
In the third period he is still getting his growth, while on his chin the beard comes, to show he is turning from youth to a man.
The fourth seven years are the time when every man reaches his highest point of physical strength where men look for prowess achieved.
In the fifth period the time is ripe for a young man to think of marriage and children, a family to be raised.
The mind of a man comes to full maturity in the sixth period, but he cannot now do as much, nor does he wish that he could.
In the seventh period of seven years and in the eighth also for fourteen years in all, his speech is best in his life. He can still do much in his ninth period, but there is a weakening seen in his ability both to think and to speak.
But if he completes ten ages of seven years each, full measure, death, when it comes, can no longer be said to come too soon.
The future is going to own so hard for us when we're older.
EDIT: wow didn't know that roseweird was such a gerontophobe.
Edited by Lykourgos ()
I do "amuse" myself in a sense, because it is enjoyable to be reminded of such good tidings. We are still maturing and I honestly believe that ages 35 through 56 will constitute the best years of our lives, assuming we are blessed enough to be around for them. The best years may actually be after that, depending on our individual mental fitness, but at any rate the point is that the future is full of promise and Solon's words are a reminder that we have so much personal potential.
His words also remind us of our current youth, and that we can still put our nose to the grindstone and lay the foundation for a glorious adulthood.
roseweird posted:i also am committed to the study of ancient history, tho i am less provincial than you in these matters. i know the pleasure to be gained in study. i was referring to your entire act and posture. does behaving this way, constantly attempting to portray yourself in this way, really entertain you?
Lykourgos posted:we can still put our nose to the grindstone
you are a petty prosecutor working for the government of the united states of america. you do not seem to have ever performed any sort of useful work at all on behalf of anyone. i am sure, however, that you are being compensated reasonably well. enjoy your glory.
I don't know what you're on about half the time, but know that I don't value any of your criticisms. You just run your mouth with the same dreary, abusive nonsense every time you post in the same thread as me. I don't even remember what it is that you do anymore, other than make bad posts.
Lykourgos posted:imagine being a hundred, the queen herself has to send YOU a letter.
So that's what the British monarchy does in it's spare time other than being a tourist attraction?
Ironicwarcriminal posted:yesterday it was the ocean, today it's aerosols, tomorrow it's the toothy fairy....but remember, the science has been settled for years and questioning anything makes you a Denier in the pocket of big oil!
iwc's overheating brain cannot comprehend anything with more than one cause.
Ironicwarcriminal posted:chickeon posted:
thank you for being honest about this, but it poses a real question as to how the left (or Big Climate) is going to respond when the temperatures keep stalling.
"climate change science is uncertain, which is why i know that temperatures will certainly keep stalling"
.....so far this century, of 14 yearly headline predictions made by the Met Office Hadley centre, 13 have been too warm.
It’s worth stressing that all the incorrect predictions are within the stated margin of error, but having said that, they have all been on the warm side and none have been too cold.
I guess they erred on the side of funding
