[quote="Blade";p="414389"]I know people who have received settlements due to the deaths of relatives from Hanford. It's not an uncommon phenomenon around here. Civilians were made sick because the water, after being irradiated for a while, was being released back into the river. Got a lot of people sick. Got a lot of people dead.

Where do you get zero?

The government does not know what to do with radioactive waste. There's nothing to do with it. It's too heavy to shoot into space. It's too dangerous to leave in the ground. It's this hugely poisonous stuff. In the long term, I think it will cause more problems than it will solve.

You are correct. There is "NO PROOF (capital letters always convince me) that man (and woman too) is doing it" However there is a large amount of EVIDENCE that we are!
IPCC makes suggestions on how to mitigate AGW Perhaps you should enlighten yourself.
OK. One of the things I've learned on PF. No matter how much I disagree with anyone here; no matter how different our ideologies, there's always seems to be at least one thing I can agree on. Yes, JP, this is the only thing you and I agree on.

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This is for all you "man-made climate change aint happening" brigade.

As somebody previously commented - 95 percent of climate change scientists insist that we are closely at the tipping point of an irreversible change to the planets climate.

In Britain the government's scientific adviser Sir David King, hardly your typical left-winger, agrees that we are at the point of irreversible catastrophe unless we reduce global carbon emissions by 90 percent by 2020.

The UN's recent report confirms that climate change is a reality. The IPCC report by the world's leading climate change scientists also say it is happening, as did the Stern report here in the UK.

Yet we have ill-informed people, who have never had a peer-reviewed scientific paper published on the subject, claiming the contrary. I refer to this as "the Gallileo syndrome."

Good point, Senax!

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I'm not claiming global warming doesn't exist. I'm saying there's no proof that man is the cause of it. True---we could be contributing to some of it, but not hardly all of it. In the 70's the scientists were claiming there was an ice age coming...and get this: supposedly being caused by fossil fuels. In fact, the proponent of that theory in the 70's is the same scientist who now claims that we're in a global warming crisis and that's it's caused by fossil fuels. The same guy is funded today by George Soros.

So, what do you blame the earlier changes on? Before the industrial age? In Greenland, for instance, past climates have been both warmer and colder than the present. ALL these changes took place long before any industrial age....leading an objective person to believe that much, if not all, of the climate changes are natural.


Oh, I see. So your belief is really about your hate for George W. Bush. Surprise, surprise. It's how most libbies come to their wild-arsed conclusions. So, I guess that means that if a Democrat gets the presidency next time, you'll all shut up about global warming, eh?

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"This is a time for a national imperative not to fail in Iraq." Condoleeza Rice, January 11, 2007

Can someone explain something that has bothered me. Algore writes a book with a claim, and then thousands of scientists crawl out of the woodwork saying "Duh, yeah, he's like right!". Where were all these guys before algore came along? Sleeping on the job??

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Blade: "more educated and literate people than Justabubba"

Justabubba: "that would include everyone"

http://politicalforum.com/showthread.php?t=27847

Whichever the case, Planet Earth will do just fine, with or without us.

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When religion ruled the world...wasn't that the Dark Ages?

They were saying that before, actually.

You just hadn't heard, I guess?

it's going to be hard for you to hear what the scientists are saying when you have your head in the sand ... at least it appears your head is somewhere light doesn't shine

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