Do you know anyone who doesn't believe in global warming?

DanCa

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Tue Apr-04-06 12:37 AM
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Do you know anyone who doesn't believe in global warming?

Edited on Tue Apr-04-06 12:38 AM by DanCa

I know this one rethug at my local store that doesn't. He said that god controls the weather. I think he really believed it when his mom told him that god was bowling when he heard thunder as kid. :D Seriously though how can anyone not believe in global warming at this point in time ? What will it take to get through to these loons?

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Mr_Spock

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Tue Apr-04-06 12:41 AM
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1. Tell them to go to Oulu Finland and talk to people who have summer homes

Edited on Tue Apr-04-06 12:43 AM by Mr_Spock

on the islands off the shore of Finland. When I spoke with them they stated that it was melting more and more every year. Of course these "God controls the weather" folks would be afraid to leave the country. The USA has like the lowest percentage of people with Passports in the world. We know who the majority of these fraidy cats are, don't we?

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Land Shark

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Tue Apr-04-06 12:53 AM
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4. Yup, bigger changes up North, my wife is from Finland, big changes...

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New Government

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Tue Apr-04-06 12:47 AM
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2. Author Michael Chrichton and many of his readers

As crazy as it is.

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DLnyc

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Tue Apr-04-06 12:48 AM
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3. Great! Suggest he spend the summer on the coast.

He can be one of the first to get washed away.

Actually, that would be mean. Just tell him he's welcome to the reality community in case he ever get's tired of the wallpaper in lala land.

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misanthrope

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Tue Apr-04-06 12:53 AM
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5. I'm surrounded by them...

Edited on Tue Apr-04-06 12:55 AM by misanthrope

...here in the Bible Belt.

How ironic that we sit in the heart of the northern Gulf Coast where the effects are already being felt and will start appear unmistakably in the next couple of decades.

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DanCa

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Tue Apr-04-06 12:57 AM
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6. Urgh I feel sorry for you truly being in your location..

I wonder though how come these bible thumpers glossed over the part in the bible where it says were supposed to be the care takers of this planet?

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LiberalAndProud

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Tue Apr-04-06 12:58 AM
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7. Armageddonists do not believe in global warming.

God is culling the third. That's why New Orleans drowned, don't you know. He "punished the prostitutes and gamblers. The Holy War wages in the East. We are in the last days. Read your Bible" (I paraphrase my mother-in-law).

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misanthrope

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Tue Apr-04-06 01:12 AM
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9. I have relatives as well,...

...including my mother and aged grandmother, who believe that Katrina struck where it did because God was striking down all the gamblers and sinners on the Mississippi Gulf Coast and in New Orleans.

They had little answer when I asked, through my anger, about the children and other innocents who were killed, too.

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DanCa

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Tue Apr-04-06 01:16 AM
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10. Not to mention all the displaced and discarded embryos.

Hmm maybe we should start keeping track of how many embryos that were destroyed in Katrina and Iraq. Maybe then we'll make head way with these people.

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The Straight Story

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Tue Apr-04-06 01:06 AM
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8. One can believe in it but not agree with the reasons for it

From solar activity to mankind to nature - I think many folks disagree as to the why.

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ToeBot

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Tue Apr-04-06 01:30 AM
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11. Most of the people I encounter don't care if is true. Indeed they are...

anticipating it, something to do with their prophetic, end-times scenario. So don't worry, breed and burn like there is no tomorrow, 'cause God is on his way back. Did I mention I'm from Utah?

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MercutioATC

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Tue Apr-04-06 02:21 AM
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12. Depends on how you mean it..

Edited on Tue Apr-04-06 02:21 AM by MercutioATC

Is the "globe" getting "warmer"? Yeah...I think that's a proven fact.

What's causing it? Hell, I know we're not making it any better but we don't have the records that would let us know how much of it (if any) is just a general warming trend.

Either way, the ONLY thing at stake is the fate of humanity...NOT the planet. The planet will do just fine regardless of what WE do. Let's just be honest and admit that we're being selfish about this. WE want to survive, and that's what has us concerned. Reducing emmissions won't save the PLANET, but it might save US.

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ThoughtCriminal

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Tue Apr-04-06 02:41 AM
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13. My Dad

A lifetime moderate Democrat who strongly dislikes Bush (and pretty much every republican politician). He is also a retired NASA engineer and environmental scientist. He is one of the few qualified scientists I know who takes this position, but has no ties what-so-ever to the fossil fuel industry.

I haven't really debated the topic with him to find out why he is a strong skeptic on global warming. Since we live far apart, we don't get to talk very often and usually it's about family or the 99.5% of things we do agree on.

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