Is it OK to jest about global warming?

2020hindsight · 11 July 2008

given the consequences of failure, is it ok to jest about it?

sam76 · 11 July 2008

2020hindsight said:
given the consequences of failure, is it ok to jest about it?

What? Like saying it's a "hot" topic?

LOL

2020hindsight · 11 July 2008

lol
I should have asked

Do you agree with wayne's hero - David Suzuki - that politicians who don't act responsibly on CO2 reduction should be held legally responsible ...

and that goes for posters on chatrooms as well

springhill · 11 July 2008

sam76 said:
What? Like saying it's a "hot" topic?

LOL

sam76 please do not "pollute" this thread with corny jokes, this is a very very serious topic haha

Garpal Gumnut · 11 July 2008

2020hindsight said:
given the consequences of failure, is it ok to jest about it?

Most definitely. Its a joke. Poor science, poor lacklustre proponents and now poor old kev07 will bore us all the more about it.

gg

professor_frink · 11 July 2008

2020hindsight said:
given the consequences of failure, is it ok to jest about it?

of course it is!

I'd hate to live in a world where people can't make fun of a theory about the ultimate destruction of the world as we know it.

Nice work Sam. Keep the cheesy one liners coming

wayneL · 11 July 2008

Considering it has about as much validity at the flying spagetti monster, it would be wrong to not make fun of it.

On the other hand, taking it seriously is resulting in psychosis, as detailed on the other thread.

2020hindsight · 11 July 2008

new poll out today that 5% of aussies believe we should ignore GW -
sad reflection of the intelligence and/or concern for the planet around here that so many agree with the 5% (serious) minority

wayneL · 11 July 2008

2020hindsight said:
new poll out today that 5% of aussies believe we should ignore GW -
sad reflection of the intelligence and/or concern for the planet around here that so many agree with the 5% (serious) minority

There is only one sad reflection around here... the single person who voted no.

Reflect on that.

2020hindsight · 11 July 2008

wayneL said:
There is only one sad reflection around here... the single person who voted no.

Reflect on that.

who was that ? lol - I havn't voted

Hey
here's a funny joke

reflect on that

http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2008/s2300597.htm

Fears Murray-Darling is about to die

PM - Thursday, 10 July , 2008 18:18:00
Reporter: Paula Kruger
MARK COLVIN: There's more bad news today for Australia's once mighty Murray-Darling Basin river system.

The latest drought report from the Murray-Darling Basin Commission shows last month's inflows were the lowest on record.

The report is particularly dire for the Coorong, a once world renowned estuary at the mouth of the Murray.

Communities in the area and the surrounding Great Lakes fear that an entire ecosystem is about to die.

etc

2020hindsight · 11 July 2008

just to jog your memory on that one wayne,,,
here's what I predicted 2 years ago .. on your "Global Cooling" thread

https://www.aussiestockforums.com/forums/showthread.php?p=69768&highlight=naive#post69768

PS the poster I really enjoyed reading was MIT... all from around that time as well

Quote:
Originally Posted by mit
If we believe the mainstream science, the worse case is the best case and we have wasted some money cutting back on emissions. MIT

Quote:
Originally Posted by mit
Weather Forecasters get it wrong due to the "butterfly effect" (chaos theory) not due to errors in their theory. The greenhouse effect is real and the vast majority of scientists believe it to be so....... And the popular press loves controversy and giving a "balanced" view........The people who push Greenhouse gas denial....know this and have been successful in casting doubt on work by people who spend their lives studying the science.....I currently have a simple test. Find out what the majority of scientists believe in a subject and trust that this is what best fits the current data.

Quote
Sorry, I only put down half a thought down. Most of the mainstream modelling agrees that there will be further global warming and the effects wont be pleasant, all of the positive and negative feedback effects are NOT 100% known so how bad it is going to get is unknown. It's a bit like Pascal's wager. We can do nothing because of a couple of lone voices we read in the newspaper it is not going to happen or we can believe the mainstream science and try and get something done.

If we believe the lone voices and they are wrong and the worse case happens then we are f**ked well and truly. If we believe the mainstream science, the worse case is the best case and we have wasted some money cutting back on emissions.
mit

professor_frink · 11 July 2008

2020hindsight said:
who was that ? lol - I havn't voted

Hey
here's a funny joke
reflect on that

that's not very funny 2020. I like rivers. Why laugh at one being destroyed? I thought you wanted to save the planet, not laugh at it's destruction

Now here's some good global warming humour. Look out for this in the next lefty scare campaign

wayneL · 11 July 2008

http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2008/s2300597.htm

Fears Murray-Darling is about to die

PM - Thursday, 10 July , 2008 18:18:00
Reporter: Paula Kruger
MARK COLVIN: There's more bad news today for Australia's once mighty Murray-Darling Basin river system.

The latest drought report from the Murray-Darling Basin Commission shows last month's inflows were the lowest on record.

The report is particularly dire for the Coorong, a once world renowned estuary at the mouth of the Murray.

Communities in the area and the surrounding Great Lakes fear that an entire ecosystem is about to die.

etc

Does this not illustrate my enduring point? GW is the wrong target. general environmental malaise is what we need to be targeting.

Reduced rainfall in the Murray-Darling basin could be due to any number of factors, but it is the taxing of the Murray via irrigation etc which is endangering it.

Once again, selective use of facts exposes intellectual fraud and moral bankruptcy of the AGW agenda.

2020hindsight · 11 July 2008

here's another joke ;_

on your deathbeds gentlemen , please reflect on the fact that you were not prepared to give the planet the benefit of the doubt.

Kurt Vonnegut :- When the last living thing has died on account of us, how poetical it would be if earth could say in a voice floating up, perhaps from the floor of the Grand Canyon, it is done, people did not like it here.

2020hindsight · 11 July 2008

As for pretending you're a greenie, and still protesting against action on GW

now there's the best joke I've heard all year

wayneL · 11 July 2008

2020hindsight said:
As for pretending you're a greenie, and still protesting against action on GW

now there's the best joke I've heard all year

Hahaha! I am impervious to your puerile barbs. I sleep well at night having done my bit.

You on the other hand, have not the courage of your incorrect convictions and live a lie; shoving AGW propaganda down people's throats while stomping all over the earth with an enormous carbon footprint with your profession.

I believe it is called cognitive dissonance and the reason your sense of humour is both inappropriate and conflicted.

Cheers

Smurf1976 · 11 July 2008

The environmental movement argues that we should challenge and question practically everything.

Except them.

This sort of thinking is dangerous. VERY dangerous if history is any guide.

Worth noting too that the whole "only authority above god" thing was what gave birth to the environmental movement as a mainstream political force in the first place. Now they're doing exactly what they once opposed - arguing for blind acceptance on the grounds that "this must not fail". All those words sound very familiar...

Smurf1976 · 11 July 2008

2020hindsight said:
As for pretending you're a greenie, and still protesting against action on GW

now there's the best joke I've heard all year

Don't confuse environmentalist / sustainability with greenie / conservationist. The two are very different - even prominent conservationist David Bellamy publicly argues that climate change isn't happening in line with the theories.

Julia · 11 July 2008

Garpal Gumnut said:
and now poor old kev07 will bore us all the more about it.

Sigh. Ah, yes, and he isn't even in full flight yet.
All sense of reason and perspective seems to have been lost. Everything is Garnaut. Even Brendan Nelson is making relative sense.

2020hindsight · 11 July 2008

here's another great joke ...

lost opportunities - thanks Johnny

http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2008/s2301635.htm

Andrew Blakers is the director of Sustainable Energy Systems at the Australian National University and says Australia is lagging behind.

He says the previous government had an appalling track record for renewable energy,

Is it OK to jest about global warming?