[2ndDivisionVet]

Larry knocks it outta the park, again.

[Graybeard58]

That's a price I'm more than willing to pay to hedge my bets to protect the millions of lives at risk,

But he wants to use my money too. I am not willing to pay for what is basicly B.S.

[MovementConservative]

Mr. PhD should look into Pascal's wager since he is a cost/benefit man.

[Prophet in the wilderness]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XttV2C6B8pU

[JudgemAll]

This is socialism, this is about having o br authorized to be born and merely breath air, this is about some minority of freak thugs imposing formalities on others while they can fondle our pants with swine like informality' it's a back door police state in the name of "hedging".... it's frightening... nd they admit that if they're wrong there should be no consequences... just what the communist perv doctors ordered again.

[I see my hands]

[spinestein]

[On the other hand, if the people who advocate doing something now are wrong, the worst is mostly economic. That's a price I'm more than willing to pay to hedge my bets...]


So a global recession with hundreds of millions of people out of work as a result of the banning of fossil fuels is a price some people are more than willing to pay on the CHANCE that the scientifically illiterate AlGore and all the other hypocrites supporting him might be right?

I've got a great idea. Lets just assume that every doomsday hypothesis that is proposed by any and every group with a chip on its shoulder is automatically correct and needs to be acted upon to prevent a catastrophe -- no matter what the cost!

[ancient_geezer]

On the other hand, if the people who advocate doing something now are wrong, the worst is mostly economic.

Unless of the course the fact that the earth spends 90% of its time in deep ice ages is taken into account, and anything we might undertake to prevent warming could operate with an unintended concequence much worse than any global warming scenario.

 

Ice Ages & Astronomical Causes
Brief Introduction to the History of Climate
by Richard A. Muller

Origin of the 100 kyr Glacial Cycle

 

Figure 1-5 Climate for the last 420 kyr, from Vostok ice

 

That's a price I'm more than willing to pay to hedge my bets to protect the millions of lives at risk, as well as the ecosystems and animal species facing extinction.

The real question is how is 9:1 odds of accelerating the earth into into a deep iceage going to protect mankind, ecosystems or species facing extinction?

I am more than willing to pay to hedge my bets against an iceage by doing anything I can to encourage abit of warming myself.

[JillValentine]

Following the advice of the vast majority of the world's atmospheric scientists sounds like a bet all humans should take.

Dear Mr. PhD,

In ancient Greece, the vast majority of scientists believed that the Earth was the center of the universe. One scientist, Aristarchus, proposed that the Earth revolved around the Sun. Who was right?

Oh, and if you don't like the Democrats' whining, leave them. They may have been patriotic in the days of Truman and Kennedy, but they've abandoned their loyalty to America just as surely as the Raiders and Rams have abandoned Los Angeles.

[Reform4Bush]

The argument that we should blindly follow the global warming scare tactics because the result will only be to decrease greenhouse gases or pollution does not make sense to me.

Why must we accept being bullied with junk science to reach a particular end result?

What is wrong with promoting a reduction of greenhouse gases based on it's own merits?

The fear mongering and Lysenko-esque tactics being used against anthrocentric global warming skeptics only makes me want to resist any effort to reduce greenhouse gases. In fact, it only makes me want to fire up my SUV and drive it around the block a few hundred time out of spite.

[omnivore]

Dear Mr. PhD. -

According to my computer model, the moon will fall on your house in ten years. You should be terrified of this.

But you're in luck! This is actually your lucky day! Because if you simply send me one thousand dollars a month for the next ten years, I will personally shift the moon back to a safe orbit for you.

Also, you must convince all your neighbors to do the same, because the moon is of course so big, it would squash all of your houses.

Remember - as long as I get the checks, I can make you safe from the moon falling on you.

Sincerely, Your Friend and Protector,

Albert A. Algore, Jr., former Vice President, and soon to be UN High Astrologer for Planetary Protection

[Caipirabob]

If those who advocate "wait and convince more scientists" are wrong, following their advice may affect hundreds of millions of people, with possibly many killed by famine and flooding.

Following their advice without any real scientific basis or evidence for the cause of alleged "Global Warming" may also affect hundreds of millions of people, with possibly many killed as a result of abandoning efforts to bring borderline areas up to the standard of living that this fellow is accustomed to.

In addition, it will devastate current "1st world nations" by ravaging their middle and lower classes economically.

But this is what the "Global Warming" high priests have planned all along.

Look, they tried this when I was in 2nd grade with the "Coming Ice Age" threat. It didn't work on a 2nd graders and it's not working now. I will oppose them to their last breath and after after that I still might not take my foot off their chest.

[greasepaint]

follow the money


Gore does.

[xcamel]

FReepmail me to get on or off
Click on POGW graphic for full GW rundown

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[goldstategop]

Liberals spend a lot of time and energy worrying over non-issues. Global warming won't affect any one on the planet alive today. Bjorn Lomberg has written the money to be spent on global warming could provide vaccinations, clean drinking water and better food plants to millions in need of them. We're the first civilization in history contemplating spending billions of dollars on a problem that doesn't exist in our own lifetime and the solutions proposed to deal with it won't actually address the supposed threat. That is the crux of the matter in the so-called global warming debate. There isn't one because its all made-up.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[Grampa Dave]

The video link below has real scientists not Green Goron Enviralist Druids pretending to be scientists. They shred Goron‘s Gorebal Warming bs:

The Great Global Warming Swindle

[MosesKnows]

That's a price I'm more than willing to pay to hedge my bets to protect the millions of lives at risk

That has to be one of the stupidest leaps of liberal logic I have never read on Free Republic, or anywhere else for that matter.

This is an excellent example of just how flawed conclusions from people who obviously lack the gene required to process reality can be. This type of logic seems steeped in the liberal’s notion that the lack of evidence of one thing is therefore proof positive of another thing.

Believe me, stupid is the kindest word I can think of when describing the befuddled thinking of this mental midget.