Recent content by Mon Mauler

Precisely, SimonL. You said it much more eloquently than me.

First of all, I didn't demand the source for that graph. Second of all, I never questioned the reliability of the data presented. Don't accuse me of things I did not do. Most importantly, however, even looking at that graph, as I said in a previous post, doesn't it look like CO2 is rising...

I'm pretty sure that's what an intergovernmental body is. Edit: Sorry. Thought the quote was, "The IPCC is not just policy makers." My point is that an intergovernmental body absolutely is a set of policy makers.

You guys are making me hungry for a good bone-in strip. Definitely going to Capital Grille tonight...

I'm looking at the graph, and it kind of looks to me like it is in line with what I was saying in my previous post about CO2 levels FOLLOWING temperature. And, what is going on at the end of the graph (present day)? Is that a depiction of the hockey stick there at the end? I love that...

I am certainly not challenging the greenhouse effect or that CO2 is a greenhouse gas. CO2, though, is only one of many greenhouse gases (most of it's water vapor, IIRC), and it represents a very small amount of the greehouse gasses in the atmosphere. Along the same lines, the human...

I sympathize with your dislike of McClatchy. Pittsburgh Pirates. So sad.

If you regulate the carbon output of an individual, corporation or nation, you are in effect taxing that individual, corporation or nation. It costs more to produce goods, transport goods, sell goods. Prices go up. Consumption goes down. Parts of the market disappear because it no longer...

I'm not sure you completely appreciate the costs of fighting global warming.

Of course, all of this assumes that there is a direct correlation between the level of CO2 in the atmosphere and the mean global temperature, wherein a rise in the level of CO2 in the atmosphere is met with a rise in the mean global temperature. I have not seen any data that conclusively shows...

Siblings of tree-huggers.

You sell me short, Warlord. Under my dictatorship, the military would be much better funded than it is now. You would be training your marines with the best equipment that modern technology allows. As I've said in other threads, if I had my druthers, we would decrease taxes and increase...

That's not my specific platform. A lot more goes into it than that. And the reason I would not pay additional monies (over taxes) to support the military is because I, individually, would not be gaining any more benefit from military ventures than my fellow taxpayers (co-consumers).

Very, very valid points. I'm glad you brought them up. Of course, these points generally apply pretty much across the boards concerning science here at CFC. Of course, I would say that the scientists coming to the conclusions concerning anthropogenic global warming are also being motivated...

The thread title specifically referenced "right-wingers" and "lefty," which is why I used the term here. I assumed everyone knew what we were talking about. A lefty or leftist would be someone whose political views fall on the left side of the political spectrum. I didn't think it required...