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To: Augustus Gloop who wrote (758150)	12/16/2013 12:48:01 PM
From: longnshort	5 Recommendations Recommended By Augustus Gloop FJB jlallen joseffy Tenchusatsu Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1577836

listen if you are gonna debate Koan, you will first have to chug a fifth of jack, do 8 bongs hits, drop a tab of acid and have your son hit you in the back of the head with a baseball bat.....many times then the playing field will be even and you might understand where Koan is coming from

To: Augustus Gloop who wrote (758150)	12/16/2013 1:33:16 PM
From: Jim McMannis	4 Recommendations Recommended By Augustus Gloop Blasher joseffy Tenchusatsu Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577836

re:"in the 70's schools were teaching that we were entering a mini ice age" That is true. Was there.

To: Augustus Gloop who wrote (758150)	12/16/2013 3:44:27 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (7) \| Respond to of 1577836

Have you ever taken statistics? When 95% of the best climate minds on the earth say something is real, to bet against them is a fools bet. My son in law says they know. But even if it were only a 25% chance given how bad it could be, not taking precautions is silly (worse than silly). If it were a concrete concept like an asteroid, people would worry, but AGW is too abstract for most people it seems. Unless they understand probability.

To: Augustus Gloop who wrote (758150)	12/16/2013 7:12:12 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577836

Koan, in the 70's schools were teaching that we were entering a mini ice age. Where? Not where I went to school. In fact, I was taught the observed 17 cm rise in sea level that had been recorded since the turn of the century was likely due to thermal expansion because they had ruled out all the other likely sources. That was circa 1978 at the Moody School of Marine Science and Maritime Resources in Galveston. So, if you have some proof, better trot it out. I say this is yet another wingnut myth. The whole new ice age thing was in the popular media, but that isn't the same thing as the prevailing scientific thought of the time. By the early 1980s, even the popular media had come around to global warming. I remember having discussions about the ice caps melting around that time. Being in Galveston, talk of 10 meter rise in sea level gets your attention... Granted, McMannis claims he learned differently. But he went to school in Florida. IIRC, they were teaching creation science there...