# I'm sick of this Global Warming! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 16, 2013, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sick-of-this-global-warming/666440 "2013-08-16T18:57:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![XT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xt/32/456_2.png) [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2013, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sick-of-this-global-warming/666440/81 "2013-08-21T21:25:16Z")
> [@FXMastermind](#): > > Hey! Take that Fukushima shit to the [other threads about it](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=602177). Fukushima is nothing compared to what global warming is doing. There’s millions of people already dead, and you care about some nuclear radiation leak in Japan? C’mon people, nuclear isn’t the danger, it’s the global warming that will kill us all. it’s fucking serious business. > > You already have [two Fukushima threads](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=634886) to whine in, leave this one for the serious issues. You mean those other two closed threads…closed primarily because of your ridiculous antics and stupidity? THOSE Fukushima threads? As for leaving this (Pit) thread ‘for the serious issues’, it’s to laugh. You are as ignorant of climate change and the serious issues involved as you were of nuclear power. ---
**Author:** ![sylmar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b782af/32.png) [@sylmar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sylmar)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2013, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sick-of-this-global-warming/666440/82 "2013-08-22T00:20:44Z")
> [@fudrucker](#): > > Of course. But liberals will only examine scientific evidence if it fits their political agenda. Makes sense. As very little of the scientific evidence is being “examined” by [Republicans](http://www.people-press.org/2009/07/09/section-4-scientists-politics-and-religion/) … > [@](#): > > Most scientists identify as Democrats (55%), while 32% identify as independents and _just 6% say they are Republicans_. It’s interesting to note that 95% of the scientific community supports the theory FX is so ineptly attempting to belittle. That leaves as unsure or opposed 5% (I know, simple math, but I didn’t want to lose you guys too soon). Given the closeness of those two numbers ( Reminder, 6% of scientist Republican, 5% not convinced of climate change), one could theorize that a Venn diagram of these two population sets might not only reveal a significant intersection, but actually entirely overlap( Allowing for survey measurement error). ---
**Author:** ![FXMastermind](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fxmastermind/32/7289_2.png) [@FXMastermind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FXMastermind)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2013, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sick-of-this-global-warming/666440/83 "2013-08-22T02:17:35Z")
> [@sylmar](#): > > It’s interesting to note that 95% of the scientific community supports the theory FX is so sure of. It’s not a theory. It’s a fact. ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2013, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sick-of-this-global-warming/666440/84 "2013-08-22T03:49:55Z")
This statistic should be given more publicity: > [@sylmar](#): > > …“Most scientists identify as Democrats (55%), while 32% identify as independents and just 6% say they are Republicans.” I first learned David Brooks was a blithering idiot when he mentioned a statistic like this, but reversed cause and effect: He blamed Universities for not hiring right-wingers. :smack: I don’t remember the details of Brooks’ plan. I suppose Biology Departments needed to hire more creationists, Economics Departments needed more gold bugs, etc. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2013, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sick-of-this-global-warming/666440/85 "2013-08-22T04:03:11Z")
> [@FXMastermind](#): > > It’s not a theory. It’s a fact. It’s neither. It’s a hypothesis with very strong support. ---
**Author:** ![sylmar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b782af/32.png) [@sylmar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sylmar)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2013, 10:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sick-of-this-global-warming/666440/86 "2013-08-22T10:12:53Z")
Pet peeve, but please don’t alter my words in your “quotes” FX . You quoted me as saying, > [@](#): > > “It’s interesting to note that 95% of the scientific community supports the theory FX is so sure of.” When I’d actually said, > [@](#): > > “It’s interesting to note that 95% of the scientific community supports the theory FX is so ineptly attempting to belittle.” ---
**Author:** ![FXMastermind](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fxmastermind/32/7289_2.png) [@FXMastermind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FXMastermind)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2013, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sick-of-this-global-warming/666440/87 "2013-08-22T18:44:08Z")
> [@sylmar](#): > > Please don’t use my words in your “quotes” FX . Then stop trying to tell people what I said. Just quote my words and shut the hell up. ---
**Author:** ![sylmar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b782af/32.png) [@sylmar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sylmar)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2013, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sick-of-this-global-warming/666440/88 "2013-08-22T19:07:49Z")
> [@sylmar](#): > > Pet peeve, but please don’t alter my words in your “quotes” FX . FXMastermind > [@](#): > > Originally Posted by sylmar View Post > Please don’t use my words in your “quotes” FX . That’s twice butt-munch. I think it’s time we got a second opinion on this. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2013, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sick-of-this-global-warming/666440/89 "2013-08-22T19:24:13Z")
> [@FXMastermind](#): > > It’s not a theory. It’s a fact. [Moderating] **FXMastermind** , do not alter other people’s words inside the quote box. Doing so is a violation of the board rules. No warning issued this time. [/Moderating] ---
**Author:** ![sylmar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b782af/32.png) [@sylmar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sylmar)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2013, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sick-of-this-global-warming/666440/90 "2013-08-22T19:34:41Z")
> [@FXMastermind](#): > > Then stop trying to tell people what I said. Just quote my words and shut the hell up. Quote your words FX? Why repeat the long form version of stupidity? Simple summation, you’re a moron. But then, you’re doing an excellent job of “telling” people that yourself. Carry on. And on. And…still a moron. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2013, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sick-of-this-global-warming/666440/91 "2013-08-22T19:37:27Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > It’s neither. It’s a hypothesis with very strong support. Well, that applies to the causation-theory, but the **warming** is a fact. ---
**Author:** ![FXMastermind](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fxmastermind/32/7289_2.png) [@FXMastermind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FXMastermind)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2013, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sick-of-this-global-warming/666440/92 "2013-08-23T19:21:39Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > It’s neither. It’s a hypothesis with very strong support. Thems fighting words. ---
**Author:** ![armedmonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@armedmonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/armedmonkey)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2013, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sick-of-this-global-warming/666440/93 "2013-08-23T22:09:22Z")
I know this will be an unpopular opinion on this liberal leaning board, but if you look at the data from **un** biased scientists, you notice that average global temperatures have increased for every year that B. Hussein Obama has been in office. He’s using this to control the food supply, and you can see it every time you go to the grocery store. Hot dogs have always been sold in packs of eight, but if you go to a grocery store now, with B. Hussein Obama in office, hot dog buns are only sold in packs of six. Thanks to Obama warming we’re [producing less wheat](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wo1-sI7MOQ) than what is required to have eight buns per package. He’s using this rationing to push his gay rights agenda by forcing people to slurp on two naked hot dogs. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2013, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sick-of-this-global-warming/666440/94 "2013-08-23T22:23:18Z")
> [@armedmonkey](#): > > I know this will be an unpopular opinion on this liberal leaning board, but if you look at the data from **un** biased scientists, you notice that average global temperatures have increased for every year that B. Hussein Obama has been in office. He’s using this to control the food supply, and you can see it every time you go to the grocery store. > > Hot dogs have always been sold in packs of eight, but if you go to a grocery store now, with B. Hussein Obama in office, hot dog buns are only sold in packs of six. Thanks to Obama warming we’re [producing less wheat](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wo1-sI7MOQ) than what is required to have eight buns per package. He’s using this rationing to push his gay rights agenda by forcing people to slurp on two naked hot dogs. 😃 You jest, but just in case our resident denier gets the wrong idea: the \*\*few \*\*scientists that the denialists declare unbiased, are the ones that are getting it wrong, so constantly in the past years that one can not help but to look at their funding from conservative think thanks as part of the problem. They then are one of the reasons we see congress not doing much on this issue. ---
**Author:** ![Truman\_Burbank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@Truman\_Burbank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Truman_Burbank)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2013, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sick-of-this-global-warming/666440/95 "2013-08-23T22:44:22Z")
Was \*\*FX \*\*pretending to be an idiot, then not? Or pretending to be ironic, then stupid? Or genuinely hasn’t taken his meds? I can’t really decide what to mock until the someone helps me pierce the general incoherence. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2013, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sick-of-this-global-warming/666440/96 "2013-08-23T23:09:15Z")
> [@Truman\_Burbank](#): > > Was \*\*FX \*\*pretending to be an idiot, then not? Or pretending to be ironic, then stupid? Or genuinely hasn’t taken his meds? I can’t really decide what to mock until the someone helps me pierce the general incoherence. What I see is that he is simply attempting to turn his sarcasm to 11 and tell others a caricature: that scientists are proposing that climate change is deadly and that scientists are deceivers as they will be correct no matter what changes come. The mockery is geared to press his point that scientists will be right no matter what changes take place, **this is a misrepresentation of the science** , and a good thing to notice how wrong he is one should see the video of the baseball and steroids analogy, scientists predicted that more heat records would come in a warming world, but that cold records are still expected. This has turned to be correct. There is also the mocking idea that scientists are proposing that extreme weather is \*\*caused \*\*by the current climate change. That is misleading, what scientists are reporting is that extreme weather events are getting stronger in intensity, and this is simply because the warming already detected has increased the water vapor content in some regions to increase by 5% or more; and the energy in the background were a tornado or hurricane passes by has increased also. I still go for FX being just a willful ignorant. ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2013, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sick-of-this-global-warming/666440/97 "2013-08-23T23:13:07Z")
> [@armedmonkey](#): > > I know this will be an unpopular opinion on this liberal leaning board, but if you look at the data from **un** biased scientists, you notice that average global temperatures have increased for every year that B. Hussein Obama has been in office. He’s using this to control the food supply, and you can see it every time you go to the grocery store. > > Hot dogs have always been sold in packs of eight, but if you go to a grocery store now, with B. Hussein Obama in office, hot dog buns are only sold in packs of six. Thanks to Obama warming we’re [producing less wheat](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wo1-sI7MOQ) than what is required to have eight buns per package. He’s using this rationing to push his gay rights agenda by forcing people to slurp on two naked hot dogs. > [@GIGObuster](#): > > 😃 > > You jest, but just in case our resident denier gets the wrong idea: the \*\*few \*\*scientists that the denialists declare unbiased, are the ones that are getting it wrong, so constantly in the past years that one can not help but to look at their funding from conservative think thanks as part of the problem. They then are one of the reasons we see congress not doing much on this issue. Why do you think he “jests?” From everything I see of his posts and warnings on the board, he believes this claptrap. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2013, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sick-of-this-global-warming/666440/98 "2013-08-23T23:44:24Z")
> [@samclem](#): > > Why do you think he “jests?” From everything I see of his posts and warnings on the board, he believes this claptrap. About the hot dogs? Yeah, he may believe in that other claptrap but I take the post as satire. Still, I did take Poe’s law into consideration and mentioned what scientists actually report. \*\*armedmonkey \*\* may think that FX is an idiot that needs to be mocked because it makes slightly more intelligent opponents like him look bad. ---
**Author:** ![Cyros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a698b9/32.png) [@Cyros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyros)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2013, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sick-of-this-global-warming/666440/99 "2013-08-24T00:46:00Z")
> [@armedmonkey](#): > > He’s using this rationing to push his gay rights agenda by forcing people to slurp on two naked hot dogs. Can you tell me, if I cook my hot dogs in a solar oven, am I helping gay rights? Am I hurting farmers? Do gay rights hurt farmers? Help me separate the wheat from the chaff here! ---
**Author:** ![armedmonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@armedmonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/armedmonkey)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2013, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sick-of-this-global-warming/666440/100 "2013-08-24T01:42:18Z")
> [@samclem](#): > > Why do you think he “jests?” From everything I see of his posts and warnings on the board, he believes this claptrap. Seriously, buddy? You are talking out of your ass. Bite me. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sick-of-this-global-warming/666440.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sick-of-this-global-warming/666440.md?page=6)