EXXON Contradicts its Own Scientists

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Gunnar wrote:Stop being obtuse! You know that what I meant is that the claims I made didn't originate with me. They are the claims of scientists far more knowledgeable than either you or I.
And now you are back to the fallacious argumentum ad verecundiam or Argument from authority. You really are a damned retard.
Gunnar wrote:Again, you are being deliberately obtuse. The fact that we can't predict or prevent some incredibly huge catastrophe that might or might not possibly occur sometime in the indefinite future does not justify refusing to work on solving problems here and now that we know we can do something about.
You can't do anything about how much gas I burn or how much energy someone in China uses either. Religious nuts like you think you have some control over the world. News flash!!! You don't.
Gunnar wrote:Yet more obtuseness and irrelevancy.
And yet you pretend to be so concerned about CO2 emissions. I can't wait for you religious nuts to propose the giant plug for mega-eruptions.
Gunnar wrote:Nonsense! Improving efficiency and reducing waste is always a good idea, no matter what. And you didn't even try to look at and consider the links to Amory Lovins' ideas. What he said completely blew your arguments to smithereens, which is why you are afraid to look at them.
Of course you would say that. You don't understand economics or have any sense in your head. It also explains why you are a religious nutjob.
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Yep! Definitely an incorrigible troll!
No precept or claim is more likely to be false than one that can only be supported by invoking the claim of Divine authority for it--no matter who or what claims such authority.

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Some Schmo wrote:Gunnar, I just want to remind you that you're arguing with a dude who believes in a space god.

Thought I put some context around Toby's nonsense.


Let's bear in mind that it takes a true piece of crap like Some Schmo to not only misrepresent my position, but to bring up something has nothing to do with the topic at hand.
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Some Schmo wrote:Gunnar, I just want to remind you that you're arguing with a dude who believes in a space god.

Thought I put some context around Toby's nonsense.


Irrelevant; Katharine Anne Scott Hayhoe is an atmospheric scientist and is an evangelical Christian, is the daughter of missionaries. She wrote "How To Convince Conservative Christians That Global Warming Is Real".
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Tobin:

How CO2 is measured.
SEE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXgDrr6qiUk
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The CCC wrote:Tobin:

How CO2 is measured.
SEE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXgDrr6qiUk


And this addresses mega-eruptions exactly where?
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The CCC wrote:
Some Schmo wrote:Gunnar, I just want to remind you that you're arguing with a dude who believes in a space god.

Thought I put some context around Toby's nonsense.


Irrelevant; Katharine Anne Scott Hayhoe is an atmospheric scientist and is an evangelical Christian, is the daughter of missionaries. She wrote "How To Convince Conservative Christians That Global Warming Is Real".

Irrelevant to what?

I was simply reminding Gunnar that there are better people with which to have this conversation. It's not like I was telling him anything he didn't already know.
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Whether someone believes in a "space god" is irrelevant to science. In fact just over half of American scientists (51%) believe in some form of deity or higher power; specifically, 33% of scientists say they believe in God.
SEE http://www.pewforum.org/2009/11/05/scie ... nd-belief/
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Tobin wrote:
The CCC wrote:Tobin:

How CO2 is measured.
SEE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXgDrr6qiUk


And this addresses mega-eruptions exactly where?


Volcanoes don't burn oxygen, and don't release much CO2 in comparison to the human contribution.
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The CCC wrote:Whether someone believes in a "space god" is irrelevant to science. In fact just over half of American scientists (51%) believe in some form of deity or higher power; specifically, 33% of scientists say they believe in God.
SEE http://www.pewforum.org/2009/11/05/scie ... nd-belief/

Um... Toby's not a scientist. And while his belief in a space god is irrelevant to science, it's certainly relevant to the nonsensical crap he spews on the subject.
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