# You know, we should chat about global warming **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 21, 2015, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-we-should-chat-about-global-warming/735365 "2015-10-21T16:32:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2015, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-we-should-chat-about-global-warming/735365/41 "2015-10-22T14:50:11Z")
So **Canned Mayhem** is not part of the entertainment? I thought he was reminiscing with the gang, reliving the glory days with he who shall not be named, albeit poorly. Dude, you’re not doing it right. Try using some SCIENCE! (Bitches), and come back when you have data. ---
**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:** [October 22, 2015, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-we-should-chat-about-global-warming/735365/42 "2015-10-22T15:31:42Z")
> [@ddsun](#): > > Dude, you’re not doing it right. Try using some SCIENCE! (Bitches), and come back when you have data. There’s nothing worse than a lazy troll. ---
**Author:** ![Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/budget_player_cadet/32/205_2.png) [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Budget_Player_Cadet)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2015, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-we-should-chat-about-global-warming/735365/43 "2015-10-22T15:42:59Z")
This thread makes me very happy. One of the important things about fighting ignorance is realizing when the fight is lost. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2015, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-we-should-chat-about-global-warming/735365/44 "2015-10-22T15:43:41Z")
A lazy, _stupid_ troll? ---
**Author:** ![canned\_mayhem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/53a042/32.png) [@canned\_mayhem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/canned_mayhem)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2015, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-we-should-chat-about-global-warming/735365/45 "2015-10-22T16:29:12Z")
Oops… [m.townhall.com/columnists/johnhawkins/2007/03/30/10\_questions\_for\_al\_gore\_and\_the\_global\_warming\_crowd/page/full](http://m.townhall.com/columnists/johnhawkins/2007/03/30/10_questions_for_al_gore_and_the_global_warming_crowd/page/full) “Quite frankly, if you buy into manmade global warming, you should have good answers for these questions or, if you don’t, admit that your opinion is based more on faith and guesswork than it is on science.” Predictably of course, instead of trying to answer any of these questions, everyone will just attack the source or make snarky comments about my masturbation techniques or call me a troll. Seems to be a common theme here. BELIEVE WHAT I BELIEVE OR I WILL CRY ABOUT IT!!!1111 lol ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2015, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-we-should-chat-about-global-warming/735365/46 "2015-10-22T16:57:52Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > I’m buying properties several miles inland and buying big beach umbrellas. > > Screw those Doomsday Sayers who think global warming will be an economic disaster! There’s money to be made! That reminds me of way back in 1985, when we had a 8th grade gifted eduction team [creative problem solving](http://www.innovationmanagement.se/imtool-articles/the-basics-of-creative-problem-solving-cps/) competition in which global warming was the theme (see it’s not just something that Al Gore invented in 2005). The first step or the procedure was to define the problem using the sentence “In what way might we…”. Most teams said something like “In what way might we reduce CO2”, or “In what way might we cool the planet”. Our team proposed “In what way might we use global warming to make a profit”. Our solutions involved buying up land in Siberia and get into the dike building business. For some reason this solution didn’t seem to go over too well with the judges. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2015, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-we-should-chat-about-global-warming/735365/47 "2015-10-22T16:58:28Z")
> [@canned\_mayhem](#): > > Oops… > > [m.townhall.com/columnists/johnhawkins/2007/03/30/10\_questions\_for\_al\_gore\_and\_the\_global\_warming\_crowd/page/full](http://m.townhall.com/columnists/johnhawkins/2007/03/30/10_questions_for_al_gore_and_the_global_warming_crowd/page/full) > “Quite frankly, if you buy into manmade global warming, you should have good answers for these questions or, if you don’t, admit that your opinion is based more on faith and guesswork than it is on science.” > > Predictably of course, instead of trying to answer any of these questions, everyone will just attack the source or make snarky comments about my masturbation techniques or call me a troll. > > Seems to be a common theme here. BELIEVE WHAT I BELIEVE OR I WILL CRY ABOUT IT!!!1111 > > lol You seem to spend an inordinate amout of time laughing to yourself. Also, we’re supposed to have already answered questions in some bogus link that you posted, before you ever posted it? How’s that work, exactly? Anyway, I haven’t said a word about your masturbation techniques. Describe them in detail, however, and maybe I’ll weigh in. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2015, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-we-should-chat-about-global-warming/735365/48 "2015-10-22T17:06:56Z")
“Global warming isn’t real because I was cold today! Also great news: World hunger is over because I just ate.” - Stephen Colbert ---
**Author:** ![Lobohan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobohan/32/79_2.png) [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2015, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-we-should-chat-about-global-warming/735365/49 "2015-10-22T17:12:16Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > I’m buying properties several miles inland and buying big beach umbrellas. > > Screw those Doomsday Sayers who think global warming will be an economic disaster! There’s money to be made! You’re essentially following Lex Luthor’s plan from the first Superman film. I can’t decide if that’s a good thing or not. ---
**Author:** ![Abe\_Babe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3ab097/32.png) [@Abe\_Babe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Abe_Babe)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2015, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-we-should-chat-about-global-warming/735365/50 "2015-10-22T17:14:10Z")
> [@Lobohan](#): > > You’re essentially following Lex Luthor’s plan from the first Superman film. I can’t decide if that’s a good thing or not. Y’all know that Superman will just fly around the earth really fast, reverse the spin, change history, and then fall off a horse. ---
**Author:** ![Askthepizzaguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askthepizzaguy/32/9405_2.png) [@Askthepizzaguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askthepizzaguy)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2015, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-we-should-chat-about-global-warming/735365/51 "2015-10-22T17:20:07Z")
I saw snow, global warming is an hoax. ---
**Author:** ![TroutMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troutman/32/6721_2.png) [@TroutMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroutMan)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2015, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-we-should-chat-about-global-warming/735365/52 "2015-10-22T17:20:55Z")
> [@Abe\_Babe](#): > > Y’all know that Superman will just fly around the earth really fast, reverse the spin, change history, and then fall off a horse. I’m sick of this global spin reversal misconception! He didn’t change the direction of the earth’s spin. He went so fast that he was traveling backwards in time, which from his perspective (and the audience’s) made it _look like_ the spin was reversed. It was all perfectly in accordance with the laws of physics. ---
**Author:** ![Flyer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/flyer/32/7298_2.png) [@Flyer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flyer)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2015, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-we-should-chat-about-global-warming/735365/53 "2015-10-22T17:21:40Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > Note that I live about 800 feet above current sea level. People downhill, like **canned mayhem** , better start saving their nickels for a down-payment up here because they won’t get one from selling ocean. You flatlanders are so cute sometimes. ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2015, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-we-should-chat-about-global-warming/735365/54 "2015-10-22T17:32:15Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > … > > Note that I live about 800 feet above current sea level. People downhill, like **canned mayhem** , better start saving their nickels for a down-payment up here because they won’t get one from selling ocean. You are aware that current projections call for a sea level raise of 801 feet right? I know, I have a cite but I’ll just argue with myself for another 1500 posts before producing it. ---
**Author:** ![Knorf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/58956e/32.png) [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2015, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-we-should-chat-about-global-warming/735365/55 "2015-10-22T17:36:53Z")
> [@Morgenstern](#): > > I know, I have a cite but I’ll just argue with myself for another 1500 posts before producing it. I’ll point out how wrong you are, and insult you several times to boot. The only cites I have, though, are misquoted, out of context, flagrantly distorted, or, you know, fiction, but since I am relatively articulate, and state my argument using strong language, I assert that I have won the argument and that you, sir, are a toady, buffoonish, lick-spittle of some undocumented theory I feel strongly opposed to, but cannot clearly articulate. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2015, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-we-should-chat-about-global-warming/735365/56 "2015-10-22T17:47:08Z")
Now, now, as we’ve recently learned, back in 2007 a conservative columnist with no known scientific credentials posed ten questions based on a garbled understanding of some stuff he read in a book by Bill Bryson, and since no one here could be arsed to come up with a point-by-point rebuttal in the past hour or so, the whole global warming house of cards has permanently and irrevocably collapsed. Case closed. ---
**Author:** ![Askthepizzaguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askthepizzaguy/32/9405_2.png) [@Askthepizzaguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askthepizzaguy)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2015, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-we-should-chat-about-global-warming/735365/57 "2015-10-22T17:49:37Z")
His post was his cite. ---
**Author:** ![TroutMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troutman/32/6721_2.png) [@TroutMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroutMan)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2015, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-we-should-chat-about-global-warming/735365/58 "2015-10-22T17:50:27Z")
> [@El\_Kabong](#): > > …since no one here could be arsed to come up with a point-by-point rebuttal in the past hour or so… In fairness, it’s because we’re a bunch of fuckheads, so we have an excuse. ---
**Author:** ![doorhinge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a5b964/32.png) [@doorhinge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doorhinge)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2015, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-we-should-chat-about-global-warming/735365/59 "2015-10-22T18:11:55Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > That reminds me of way back in 1985, when we had a 8th grade gifted eduction team [creative problem solving](http://www.innovationmanagement.se/imtool-articles/the-basics-of-creative-problem-solving-cps/) competition in which global warming was the theme (see it’s not just something that Al Gore invented in 2005). The first step or the procedure was to define the problem using the sentence “In what way might we…”. Most teams said something like “In what way might we reduce CO2”, or “In what way might we cool the planet”. Our team proposed “In what way might we use global warming to make a profit”. Our solutions involved buying up land in Siberia and get into the dike building business. For some reason this solution didn’t seem to go over too well with the judges. It appears that the judges had pre-determined the only acceptable results of their “creative problem solving” competition. Actual creative problem solving was not permitted. ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2015, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-we-should-chat-about-global-warming/735365/60 "2015-10-22T18:12:41Z")
I’m right, and you all are wrong. If you just invested a little time researching this matter you’d know. Here \*Homer: See, Lisa, looks like tomorrow I’ll be shoveling ten feet of global warming. Lisa: Global warming can cause weather at both extremes, hot and cold. Homer: I see, so you’re saying warming makes it colder. Well aren’t you the queen of crazy land. Everything the’s opposite of everything.\* Homer Simpson, PhD. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-we-should-chat-about-global-warming/735365.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-we-should-chat-about-global-warming/735365.md?page=4)