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Tetrachloride

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1. Sorry to say: sophistry. I live in a higher risk area which

Reply to JudyM (Original post)

Fri Mar 31, 2023, 07:36 PM

Mar 2023

Last edited Fri Mar 31, 2023, 08:09 PM - Edit history (2)

is near to mighty high risk areas.

The passages imply there is solid math but the passages have zero math.

Psychologically, forthright decisions as implied are The Way.

However, psychology isn’t math nor action.

I’d be looking forward to a lot more action than theory.

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An intelligent friend found this argument about the climate crisis plausible [View all] JudyM Mar 2023 OP

Sorry to say: sophistry. I live in a higher risk area which Tetrachloride Mar 2023 #1

Using rational logic relayerbob Mar 2023 #2

Global society needs to work together on this better than we ever have before. The motivation JudyM Mar 2023 #5

The author of that article certainly seems to take climate change very calmly. Jim__ Mar 2023 #3

Thanks for posting this. That heat wave in India last year was horrific. JudyM Mar 2023 #6

Thanks for the wet bulb reference orthoclad Apr 2023 #10

The key phrase in the quote is orthoclad Mar 2023 #4

When I read it it felt like a tic/tell to me, too, but there's a fairly continuous focus in the JudyM Mar 2023 #8

Sophistry, as noted above orthoclad Mar 2023 #9

That Delphinus Apr 2023 #14

Plot the rise in CO2 concentration orthoclad Apr 2023 #16

This assumption here is flat-out bullshit, rendering the entire argument moot NickB79 Mar 2023 #7

Methane blowholes in Siberia orthoclad Apr 2023 #11

This increase in CO2 is rising faster than ever IbogaProject Apr 2023 #12

From your ScienceDaily link: orthoclad Apr 2023 #13

Intelligent people who nonetheless engage in tortured bourgeois soothsaying in order to... NNadir Apr 2023 #15