Students around the world skip school to protest and demand action on climate change

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  1. Heartburn

    Heartburn Well-Known Member

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    Of course it's an important job and I don't think I have discouraged anyone from becoming a teacher. It's just reality that teaching isn't going to pay the same as an engineer or as in your husbands case, a broker.
     
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    I was a child activist. I spent part of every day growing my own food and acquiring renewable sources of energy to stay warm. :)
     
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    Ice core researched showed that things fluctuate. But it never fluctuated like this in the past 400.000 years / as far as the ice core research goes.
     
  4. Adfundum

    Adfundum Moderator Staff Member Donor

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    Ha! did you live on a hippie commune?
     
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  5. Renee

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    Fine, if you’re ok with it......horse burgers must be yummy. But it’s OK if they tell you there’s no horse meat in it because after all that would be to socialistic
     
  6. Renee

    Renee Well-Known Member

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    I hope you’re sharing your knowledge with the hundreds of scientists from all over the world. Obviously you know more than they do for the fake news or a secret conspiracy LOL
     
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    557 Well-Known Member

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    Nope. Was just a country boy who’s parents valued formal and informal education more than material possessions.
     
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    Sorry I asked. Horseburgers straight to socialism and all I asked is how horse meat would hurt you. Seemed like a simple question...
     
  9. Starjet

    Starjet Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Is not only obvious, but the lack of integrity on the part of these pseudo scientists is revolting.
     
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    Thedimon Well-Known Member

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    Of course they will! Ice cores will only show strong cooling trends as the layers would melt or evaporate during warming periods leaving you with no data.
     
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  11. Renee

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    Wonder why we don’t eat them..seriously!
     
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    I knew it!!! Those thousands of scientists From all over the world are all part of the secret conspiracy. What is this now, conspiracy # 2860?
     
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    Religious traditions mostly. Whoever would have thought modern progressives would fall so hard for and cling so tightly to an old Jedeo/Christian tradition.

    I’m one of the “lucky” ones who gets to deal with the consequences of abused, neglected, and starved horses, donkeys, and mules. If you cared about climate change and animal welfare you would be begging for horse burgers.
     
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    Ice core samples are interesting and useful

    But the are only part of the story because they cant tell us what the sun was doing at that time along with many other variables

    So there is still a lot of guesswork being supplied by zealots who think they already know the answers
     
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    Nope. No conspiracy, just intellectually stunted--and that's even more revolting--after Copernicus, who'd think a scientist would know the difference between delusions and reality. I mean, think about what these pseudo-scientists are saying: Because the human mind is so creatively powerful it has created technological wonders and marvels that have increased our prosperity, increased our enjoyment of life, made deserts bloom, and rivers behave, and doomed us to extinction in 12 yrs if we don't give it all up. Really? That's science? That's the truth? That's a fact? Maybe in a Kurt Voggenuet nightmare, but not ever Man's vision of tomorrow.

    Want to see tomorrow? Here, take a look:

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    Aha! So your parents were elitist hippies! :)
    Sounds like the best of both worlds.
     
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    This what I’m talking about. Head of the EPA doesn’t know what percentage of the atmosphere is CO2 but is recommending policies on global warming? WTF!



    There is no conspiracy, just a lot of emperors running around with no clothes on.


    Nitrogen accounts for 78% of the atmosphere, oxygen 21% and argon 0.9%. Gases like carbon dioxide, nitrous oxides, methane, and ozone are trace gases that account for about a tenth of one percent of the atmosphere.

    A tenth of 1%? A MFKN tenth of 1 GD percent? That’s what’s requiring us to give up fossils fuels, grilled T-Bones, barbacued ribs, grandchildren’s smiles, and a tomorrow of even greater wonders and marvels? Sacrifice everything for nothing? For one tenth of 1% of nothing. Trace gasses?

    It’s insanity run amuck.
     
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    Don't they eat horse in Europe? I thought remember something about that.
     
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    My parents were as far from hippie as you could get. They thought they’d failed as parents when my brother grew his hair out after high school. :)

    Elitist hippies is a funny combination of terms though. Have to file that one away for future use.
     
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    Adfundum Moderator Staff Member Donor

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    I had the same kind of parents. My father gave my brother and I money for a haircut and sent us to the barbershop. He expected the usual GI haircut, but one time we just got the sides trimmed. When we got home, he took us right back and told the barber what kind of haircut we were to have.
     
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    It's been said a butterfly's breath may start a hurricane. Should we ban butterflies? No? Well, the banning of fossil fuels is just as stupid.
     
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    Did the barber collect a second fee? :)

    You were lucky. My mom cut our hair. Yep, you guessed it. Bowl cuts.
     
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    Ha! My father was hard-core military. I was in boot camp. The most we were allowed was a flattop haircut. And yes, the barbers got paid twice. Forty five cents if I remember correctly. We got a dollar a week allowance, and he deduced it from that. Those were the days...
     
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    Why?
     
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    I missed out on the military aspect. Probably would have been good for my lack of bed making skills. :)

    Yep those were the days. I’m thankful my parents cared more about me and my future than their own vices or luxuries.
     
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