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Climate change? Try catastrophic climate breakdown (what hoax deniers will be teaching your kids)
The Guardian ^ | 9/27/13 | George Monbiot

Posted on 09/29/2013 6:41:46 AM PDT by Libloather

**SNIP**

There are no radical departures in this report from the previous assessment, published in 2007; just more evidence demonstrating the extent of global temperature rises, the melting of ice sheets and sea ice, the retreat of the glaciers, the rising and acidification of the oceans and the changes in weather patterns. The message is familiar and shattering: "It's as bad as we thought it was."

What the report describes, in its dry, meticulous language, is the collapse of the benign climate in which humans evolved and have prospered, and the loss of the conditions upon which many other lifeforms depend. Climate change and global warming are inadequate terms for what it reveals. The story it tells is of climate breakdown.

This is a catastrophe we are capable of foreseeing but incapable of imagining. It's a catastrophe we are singularly ill-equipped to prevent.

(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: breakdown; climatechange; globalwarming; hoax
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I smell another plot - catastrophicclimatebreakdown cannot be used as a keyword.
1 posted on 09/29/2013 6:41:46 AM PDT by Libloather
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To: Libloather

I’ve got a fully indoctrinated 16 year old cousin who could easily become the next mass shooter due to the fact that the world has been destroyed and there’s just nothing left to hope for.

The saving grace is my ultra liberal aunt and uncle have him terrified of guns.


2 posted on 09/29/2013 6:45:26 AM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: Libloather

Huh. supercalifragilisticexpealidocious doesn’t work either.


3 posted on 09/29/2013 6:46:01 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (21st century. I'm not a fan.)
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To: cripplecreek
Spending a year working on a real farm could straighten that boy right out.

/johnny

4 posted on 09/29/2013 6:47:06 AM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: Libloather

the language the LANGUAGE

“It’s a catastrophe we are singularly ill-equipped to prevent.”

singularly ill equipped to prevent??

these dramatic doomsayers do have a way with words dont they.


5 posted on 09/29/2013 6:53:18 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ( Un-Documented Journalist / Block Captain..Tyranny Response Team)
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To: Libloather

OK!! Everybody pay attention!

Lesson for today:

1. The sun is 1,300,000 times as big as the earth.

2. The sun is a ball of fire that controls our climates.

3. The earth is a rock.

4. The earth is a speck in comparison to the size of the sun.

5. Inhabitants of the earth are less than specks.

Study Question: How do less-than-specks in congress plan to control the sun?


6 posted on 09/29/2013 6:53:47 AM PDT by abclily
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I just think this kind of teaching is at least part of what creates mass shooters.

They’re taught that life is hopeless and its the all the fault of people, specifically the older people.


7 posted on 09/29/2013 6:58:32 AM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: cripplecreek
The saving grace is my ultra liberal aunt and uncle have him terrified of guns.

But, then again, maybe he plays shooter video games and takes anti-depressants? /S

8 posted on 09/29/2013 6:59:46 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: cripplecreek
Yep, and a strong dose of reality helps bring them around. That's why I suggest a year on a working farm.

/johnny

9 posted on 09/29/2013 7:03:15 AM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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these dramatic doomsayers do have a way with words dont they.

The Language of the Third Reich by Victor Klemperer

In the book, Klemperer describes how the nazis manipulated the language as a means of manipulating German society to make them more accepting of nazi goals.
10 posted on 09/29/2013 7:03:26 AM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: Libloather

It’s not a hoax... IT’S OUTRIGHT FRAUD! Millions, if not billions of dollars have been fraudulently extracted from taxpayers and funneled to Demonic Party collaborators, in order to steal even more more from individuals and businesses through their fraudulently-based legislation and regulatory mandates. All of these “scientists” and so-called environmental “activists” should be rounded up and prosecuted for theft.


11 posted on 09/29/2013 7:07:28 AM PDT by Common Sense 101 (Hey libs... If your theories fly in the face of reality, it's not reality that's wrong.)
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I smell another plot - catastrophicclimatebreakdown cannot be used as a keyword.
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Yes, but on the sunny side we can now use:
keyword=Climate-change-this-is-not-science-its-mumbo-jumbo

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/climatechange/10340408/Climate-change-this-is-not-science-its-mumbo-jumbo.html


12 posted on 09/29/2013 7:08:18 AM PDT by Covenantor ("Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern." Chesterton)
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The kid was born and raised in Kalamazoo MI which is running a close second for most liberal city in the state after Ann Arbor.

His sister is a real mess too. She claims to be androgynous but lives with a lesbian.n The middle brother is the oddball who is straight, married and seems to be drifting rightward. He’s actually a pleasant person to talk to.


13 posted on 09/29/2013 7:09:58 AM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: cripplecreek

Yes, but do you have a girl in Kalamazoo?


14 posted on 09/29/2013 7:15:37 AM PDT by driftless2
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To: Libloather

The only way to defeat Lie-mate Swapping is to tax the rich till there no more rich, Socialism, destroy Israel and white people. That’s I what get from all this.


15 posted on 09/29/2013 7:16:32 AM PDT by Dallas59 (Obama: The first "White Black" President.)
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To: driftless2

None in KZoo but I used to have one in Albion.


16 posted on 09/29/2013 7:18:04 AM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: abclily

They don’t.

The plan to control you and me.


17 posted on 09/29/2013 7:44:59 AM PDT by chris37 (Heartless.)
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To: cripplecreek

Folks like you describe are living evidence that the global warming “Greenies” are in truth and fact a CULT!


18 posted on 09/29/2013 7:47:27 AM PDT by AEMILIUS PAULUS (It is a shame that when these people give a riot)
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To: cripplecreek
the MOST egregious misuse of existing langauge performed by this regime would have to be their adoption and overuse of the word HOPE

HOW so many Americans could BELIEVE that HOPE could mean ANYTHING when connected to America's first CHOOM GANG American Presidential Candidate is well beyond me

The list of Weapons of Mass Destruction of MEANING is obviously far too long to BEGIN here.

I sense that a New Book on the current destruction of meaning through linguistic bastardization and misuse is overdue


19 posted on 09/29/2013 7:48:45 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ( Un-Documented Journalist / Block Captain..Tyranny Response Team)
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Would you run the risk of having him destroy a $300,000 piece of equipment because he believes it’s destroying the planet?


20 posted on 09/29/2013 7:52:13 AM PDT by IMR 4350
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