# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2015, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-we-should-chat-about-global-warming/735365/61 "2015-10-22T18:22:13Z")
> [@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 Psst!! _Stage whisper_ _This thread isn’t actually about global warming, dumbass_ ---
**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, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-we-should-chat-about-global-warming/735365/62 "2015-10-22T21:06:46Z")
> [@El\_Kabong](#): > > 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. Yeah, I didn’t think anyone would really bother answering a single one of those questions when there’s a whole lot of grab assing to do instead. AL GORE SAID IT WAS SO AND HE HAS A ‘D’ AFTER HIS NAME SO IT MUST BE TRUE HERP DERP. NOW LETS BAN ANYONE WHO HAS A DIFFERING OPINION AND CUDDLE IN OUR SUPER AWESOME ECHO CHAMBER UTOPIA DERP HERP!!!111 What baffles me is, the internet is slap full of people who claim humans are polluting the earth to the point that we’re all gonna die soon. They claim this on their computer devices that were produced using pollution, using electricity that causes pollution. Interesting… ---
**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, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-we-should-chat-about-global-warming/735365/63 "2015-10-22T21:14:40Z")
Man, somebody had too much pumpkin spice latte this morning. ---
**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, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-we-should-chat-about-global-warming/735365/64 "2015-10-22T21:26:45Z")
I wish there was some kind of formula to measure how many trees die every time some dumbass hippie uses his/her pollution device to post a reply on the internet. “The earth is dying. I better sit on my fat ass and complain about it on da internets. That should solve it.” ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2015, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-we-should-chat-about-global-warming/735365/65 "2015-10-22T21:34:15Z")
Yep the astroturfers make any discussion of climate change a useless endeavor. I have better things to do than reply to dumb points from trolls. ---
**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:** [October 22, 2015, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-we-should-chat-about-global-warming/735365/66 "2015-10-22T21:35:55Z")
> [@canned\_mayhem](#): > > I wish there was some kind of formula to measure how many trees die every time some dumbass hippie uses his/her pollution device to post a reply on the internet. > > “The earth is dying. I better sit on my fat ass and complain about it on da internets. That should solve it.” As opposed to the high volume of pollution spewed out by trolls, right? 😛 I think there is a formula about the mass of hot air times the brain dead constant divided by zero since that’s the amount of brain cells active in folks such as yourself, giving us an infinite amount of stupid horseshit. :eek: Please, stop posting or you will create a black hole of stupidity!! ---
**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, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-we-should-chat-about-global-warming/735365/67 "2015-10-22T21:43:47Z")
Seriously though, if I met some dude running a vegetable stand who grew his own food and lived off the grid complain about humans polluting this planet I would humbly listen to his rant and probably even agree with him to an extent. Reading texts on the internet from some fat ass who sits in the AC all day long while his 1993 Dodge sits in his driveway still warm from his trip to Starbucks tell me about the evils of human consumption is a fucking joke. ---
**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, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-we-should-chat-about-global-warming/735365/68 "2015-10-22T21:47:55Z")
> [@XT](#): > > As opposed to the high volume of pollution spewed out by trolls, right? 😛 I think there is a formula about the mass of hot air times the brain dead constant divided by zero since that’s the amount of brain cells active in folks such as yourself, giving us an infinite amount of stupid horseshit. :eek: Please, stop posting or you will create a black hole of stupidity!! I’m pretty sure the earth got at least 1/4855736627757th warmer from the pollution you just used to post that drivel. You should feel bad ☹ ---
**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, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-we-should-chat-about-global-warming/735365/69 "2015-10-22T21:51:38Z")
Dude, turn your vibrator down, it’s making you jumpy. ---
**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, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-we-should-chat-about-global-warming/735365/70 "2015-10-22T21:52:36Z")
> [@canned\_mayhem](#): > > Yeah, I didn’t think anyone would really bother answering a single one of those questions when there’s a whole lot of grab assing to do instead. > > AL GORE SAID IT WAS SO AND HE HAS A ‘D’ AFTER HIS NAME SO IT MUST BE TRUE HERP DERP. NOW LETS BAN ANYONE WHO HAS A DIFFERING OPINION AND CUDDLE IN OUR SUPER AWESOME ECHO CHAMBER UTOPIA DERP HERP!!!111 > > What baffles me is, the internet is slap full of people who claim humans are polluting the earth to the point that we’re all gonna die soon. They claim this on their computer devices that were produced using pollution, using electricity that causes pollution. > > Interesting… You’re really bad at this. ---
**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, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-we-should-chat-about-global-warming/735365/71 "2015-10-22T22:02:04Z")
I take back what I said about him having a clear thesis statement. Now you’re pissed at the hippies? First it was Al Gore circa 2004. Now hippies. I’m thinking the next attack is on the railroad barons. ---
**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, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-we-should-chat-about-global-warming/735365/72 "2015-10-22T22:06:12Z")
> [@canned\_mayhem](#): > > What baffles me is, Evidently, just about everything. ---
**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, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-we-should-chat-about-global-warming/735365/73 "2015-10-22T22:06:30Z")
Also, if I actually believed in this hoax I would be doing everything I could to reduce my carbon footprint on this so-called fragile planet. I sure as shit wouldn’t be smugly posting on the internet thinking I was gonna change the mind of someone who had an above room temperature IQ. Don’t let me deter you though, burn up that fossil fuel just like I’m doing 😛 ---
**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, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-we-should-chat-about-global-warming/735365/74 "2015-10-22T22:13:21Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > A lazy, _stupid_ troll? A lazy, stupid, _boring_ 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, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-we-should-chat-about-global-warming/735365/75 "2015-10-22T22:14:15Z")
> [@TroutMan](#): > > I take back what I said about him having a clear thesis statement. Now you’re pissed at the hippies? First it was Al Gore circa 2004. Now hippies. I’m thinking the next attack is on the railroad barons. I’m not pissed at anyone, guyblow. The day I let a bunch of hive minded hypocrites piss me off is the day I suck start a shotgun. The word you’re looking for is ‘amused’. Find me a climate change troofer who actually practices what they preach and I’ll listen. Until then keep being a useful idiot for the lifelong politicians who get rich off your fears. ---
**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, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-we-should-chat-about-global-warming/735365/76 "2015-10-22T22:16:53Z")
> [@canned\_mayhem](#): > > Also, if I actually believed in this hoax I would be doing everything I could to reduce my carbon footprint on this so-called fragile planet. I sure as shit wouldn’t be smugly posting on the internet thinking I was gonna change the mind of someone who had an above room temperature IQ. > > Don’t let me deter you though, burn up that fossil fuel just like I’m doing 😛 Congratulations: finally you’re actually engaging, a little bit. Good show, I knew you had it in you. You’re still saying a bunch of idiotic straw-man shit, but hey, baby steps. ---
**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, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-we-should-chat-about-global-warming/735365/77 "2015-10-22T22:19:15Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > A lazy, stupid, _boring_ troll. If I’m so boring then why are you taking the time to constantly make little swipes in my direction? Isn’t there a tree near you that needs a hug? For gods sake man, log off the internet and do something, anything, that doesn’t contribute to the warming of our planet :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2015, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-we-should-chat-about-global-warming/735365/78 "2015-10-22T22:22:25Z")
> [@Smeghead](#): > > Psst!! > > _Stage whisper_ > _This thread isn’t actually about global warming, dumbass_ > [@canned\_mayhem](#): > > I still think it’s hilarious… > lol > [@canned\_mayhem](#): > > I wish there was some kind of formula to measure how many trees die every time some dumbass hippie uses his/her pollution device to post a reply on the internet. > … > [@canned\_mayhem](#): > > Also, if I actually believed in this hoax I would be doing everything I could to reduce my carbon footprint … Don’t believe the hoax! Can’t you see we’re celebrating here?? ---
**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, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-we-should-chat-about-global-warming/735365/79 "2015-10-22T22:23:12Z")
> [@El\_Kabong](#): > > baby steps. Actually, it’s a lot like watching a [dancing chicken.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcoqeNdMAfA) The same moves over and over. ---
**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:** [October 22, 2015, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-we-should-chat-about-global-warming/735365/80 "2015-10-22T22:33:08Z")
> [@canned\_mayhem](#): > > I’m pretty sure the earth got at least 1/4855736627757th warmer from the pollution you just used to post that drivel. > > You should feel bad ☹ Naw, I don’t even feel bad letting an obvious troll such as yourself troll me…I figure you have a half life on this board measured in minutes at this point, and it will be fun to watch you flame out and be banned and forgotten. A good old fashioned troll flame out is one of those little moments to savor around here, though, sadly, you are pretty lame, so the enjoyment factor is as small as your IQ. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-we-should-chat-about-global-warming/735365.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-we-should-chat-about-global-warming/735365.md?page=5)