Some will recognize this rebuttal from 2+ years ago..he spewing the same old BS after being whacked like a cheap piñata numerous times

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"There are a couple of facts we can be certain of"

These are "facts" that aren't relevant to the argument..just pointless spin:

"1. If every American started driving a Prius tomorrow, the net effect on man-made global CO2 generation would be insignificant."

A Prius, and especially the new plug in model reduces fuel consumption ( which does reduce carbon emissions) and dependency on petroleum based fuels are the number one reason people buy them, hence your ridicule.

"2. Environmentalists are not in favor of more nuclear power plants."

Some are , some aren't. A fallacious line of argument that assumes nuclear power plants are the only solution. A meaningless statement.

"3. Global cooling from diminished solar activity will render this entire discussion moot."

The global cooling you were referencing in the previous posts ( above) was in a discussion on aerosols in the atmosphere counterbalancing CO2 emissions heating effect, in another blog the "proof "  was due to orbital forcing or Milankovitch cycles. Now magically it's due to "diminished solar activity." Things are dimming alright...but its not the sun. At least in the next few thousand years anyway By the way,

"The next message will be flashed to you in code, by my brother-in-law, who was a radio operator 1963-1968."

Morse code communication is still practiced by our Russian and Chinese friends, who know that if the balloon goes up,HF and LF Morse is the most reliable form of long haul communications and will be around long after our satellites , cell phones and terrestrial coms are piles of fused plastic.

You really shouldn't make fun of things you don't understand."

by MRFred on 03/17/2010 06:18:48 PM EST

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"Things are dimming alright...but its not the sun"

You're probably not right on that one. Last year many sunspots were expected, but they didn't show. This is responsible for the current relatively hard winter, if the next years the occurance of sunspots doesn't rise it could once again mead to a "mini-ice-age". This has happened in Europe a few hundert years ago, with terrible consequences for about 30 years. This is what makes the problem worse. This lack of sun-spots is only a temporary incident, but it may lead to enormous cooling in the short term. Then when the sun-spot activity normalizes global warming will come back with a vengence.

The problem is that the temporal cooling will be used to discredit global warming. # cold winters in a row and everybody will laugh about global warming, without realizing that it was only masked by a temporal lack of sunspots.

I hate it that the discussion is nowadays mainly about global warming, without mentioning all the other problems pollution causes. Why is nobody talking about the astma and cancer cars cause in our cities?

"The first thing Fascists usually try to do is silencing the opposition."

by opposition on 03/18/2010 07:14:05 AM EST

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