Climategate
12-28-2019, 01:54 AM
#501
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I will bet you the gentlemanly wager of 1.00 usd just like in the movie Trading Places that 50yrs from now South Florida and the Florida Keys will still be pretty much the way they are now. I can only go 50 years as I am 57 now and this is if we just hold the current environmental improvements in place.
I wonder how many of the folks wringing their hands over the "existential threat" to our planet
would be willing to make the same bet with their own money instead someone else's as is their normal M.O.
12-28-2019, 04:17 AM
#502
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This thread is on par with flat earther discussions. It reminds me of this one time in Montreal where a U.S. Captain with a southern accent was loudly trying to convince a Canadian passenger that winter and snow tire requirements were a government hoax.
Pilots... we know, just ask us
Pilots... we know, just ask us
12-28-2019, 06:18 AM
#503
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Or scientists like Paul Ehrlich who confidently predicted in 1968 we’d all be the starving humans in a Mad Max environment by now. There’s always doomsters about.
12-28-2019, 10:23 AM
#504
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5 Myths about Climate Change:
https://www.chicagotribune.com/opini...206-story.html
250,000 deaths a year from climate change is a 'conservative estimate'
https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/16/healt...udy/index.html
https://www.chicagotribune.com/opini...206-story.html
250,000 deaths a year from climate change is a 'conservative estimate'
https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/16/healt...udy/index.html
12-28-2019, 10:25 AM
#505
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This thread is on par with flat earther discussions. It reminds me of this one time in Montreal where a U.S. Captain with a southern accent was loudly trying to convince a Canadian passenger that winter and snow tire requirements were a government hoax.
Pilots... we know, just ask us
Pilots... we know, just ask us
12-28-2019, 10:49 AM
#506
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Many of you choose to believe in seemingly more convenient conspiracy theories. Convenient for captains of industry that is. Instead of looking at the sources themselves it seems that you concern yourself with positions of various mouth pieces in the political extremes.
...and no the scientific consensus was not that Florida would be under water in 2010.
12-28-2019, 10:56 AM
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https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/sealevel.html
12-28-2019, 11:30 AM
#508
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Ok. I put my faith in the scientific community. I realize that predictive science on a global scale may be imperfect. However, just like a regular weather forecast I heed their advice while preparing for unforeseen circumstances.
Many of you choose to believe in seemingly more convenient conspiracy theories. Convenient for captains of industry that is. Instead of looking at the sources themselves it seems that you concern yourself with positions of various mouth pieces in the political extremes.
...and no the scientific consensus was not that Florida would be under water in 2010.
Many of you choose to believe in seemingly more convenient conspiracy theories. Convenient for captains of industry that is. Instead of looking at the sources themselves it seems that you concern yourself with positions of various mouth pieces in the political extremes.
...and no the scientific consensus was not that Florida would be under water in 2010.
12-28-2019, 11:43 AM
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Consensus isn't science. However, a majority consensus within the scientific community points towards a truth leveraged by a collective effort. This collective effort was done by hundreds of scientists each dedicated to their research and better educated in the field than you, me, and pilots in general. When searching for the truth do you look for general concord or do you latch on to the outliers? If your answer is that you dont believe in our intellectual community and that you know better then I dont know what to tell you. This type of arrogance have downed many an airplane. The water level IS indeed rising despite whatever you've read on some website or heard from a political figure.
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12-28-2019, 12:24 PM
#510
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