I downvoted this even though it followed instructions, because the final sentence has a scornful tone that does not seem conducive to good-faith intellectual discourse.
Apologies, the final sentence was an edit after the downvotes rolled in. I should have marked it as such. I was very surprised though that I met the brief and was downvoted.
Conspiracist nonsense?
Can you explain your reasons + what that implies about the rest of the events that occured on 9/11.
You forgot to mention, perhaps your global warming denial.
Are you some far-left hippie?
So many downvotes? Care to explain?
I read the report linked below and it confirmed my long held beliefs that there has been a major coverup of information surrounding the events of 9/11. Feel free to read and refute for yourself. BTW, if you can refute it and get published there is a $100k prize waiting!
I don’t deny global warming. I look forward to a few degrees of warning as do many thousands of people who lose family members every winter. I believe that CO2 concentration lags temperature change. I don’t believe taxing carbon is the answer. I don’t believe the ‘climate problem’ has been adequately defined. I could go on but this is not the place.
I am not a hippie and I consider myself right of centre and most topics.
If we are talking a couple of degrees over century timelines I don’t think anyone much is going to be worse off. Especially if, as I believe, CO2 concentration lags temperature. Greening the planet further is a good thing for most people in my opinion. And if you compare more warming to more cooling I think you will find warming is less dangerous generally.
The experts I read don’t say that. The experts I read say that none of these or similar predictions over the past 30 years have come true. Lots of times the exact opposite has occurred. ‘My’ experts show how the predictive models of other experts have not predicted anything of value and a lot of the time data has to be manipulated to even approach predicted outcomes. Just depends who you believe I guess. Just recently the IPCC itself poured a big bucket of cold water over the whole ‘increasing devastation from weather’ myth. The guys I have been following have been saying this for 10 years plus so it should be a big deal when one the biggest alarmists supports the sceptic position. Wonder why it didn’t get much airtime?
BTW, if you can refute it and get published there is a $100k prize waiting!
Just so you know, whenever I hear that there’s prize money for refuting a conspiracy theory, I immediately lower my probability that the conspiracy theory is true. I’ve encountered numerous such prizes from conspiracy theories in the past, and the general pattern I have seen is that the prize is being offered disingenuously, since the person offering it will never concede. I’ve (perhaps unconsciously) labeled anyone unaware of this pattern as either (1) purposely disingenuous, or (2) not very smart about convincing people of true things. Both (1) and (2) are evidence of a failure in their reasoning (but obviously this argument isn’t airtight).
The prize is for refuting the findings of the university paper not a conspiracy theory. And the prize is not offered by the university but a third party. There are lesser prizes for refuting a finding but not being published. I will go ahead and assume you haven’t read the paper yet.
World Trade Centre building 7 did not collapse at free fall into its own footprint because of office fires.
downvotes? too contrarian? hahaha.
I downvoted this even though it followed instructions, because the final sentence has a scornful tone that does not seem conducive to good-faith intellectual discourse.
Apologies, the final sentence was an edit after the downvotes rolled in. I should have marked it as such. I was very surprised though that I met the brief and was downvoted.
Indeed. Have a compensatory upvote.
Conspiracist nonsense? Can you explain your reasons + what that implies about the rest of the events that occured on 9/11. You forgot to mention, perhaps your global warming denial. Are you some far-left hippie? So many downvotes? Care to explain?
I read the report linked below and it confirmed my long held beliefs that there has been a major coverup of information surrounding the events of 9/11. Feel free to read and refute for yourself. BTW, if you can refute it and get published there is a $100k prize waiting!
http://ine.uaf.edu/wtc7
I don’t deny global warming. I look forward to a few degrees of warning as do many thousands of people who lose family members every winter. I believe that CO2 concentration lags temperature change. I don’t believe taxing carbon is the answer. I don’t believe the ‘climate problem’ has been adequately defined. I could go on but this is not the place.
I am not a hippie and I consider myself right of centre and most topics.
I didn’t vote on your comment.
Are you saying that warming is better for somepeople (eg in colder countries) or overall?
If we are talking a couple of degrees over century timelines I don’t think anyone much is going to be worse off. Especially if, as I believe, CO2 concentration lags temperature. Greening the planet further is a good thing for most people in my opinion. And if you compare more warming to more cooling I think you will find warming is less dangerous generally.
The experts say that +2C will lead to increases in drought, flooding and cyclones affecting 100s of millions. Are they wrong?
The experts I read don’t say that. The experts I read say that none of these or similar predictions over the past 30 years have come true. Lots of times the exact opposite has occurred. ‘My’ experts show how the predictive models of other experts have not predicted anything of value and a lot of the time data has to be manipulated to even approach predicted outcomes. Just depends who you believe I guess. Just recently the IPCC itself poured a big bucket of cold water over the whole ‘increasing devastation from weather’ myth. The guys I have been following have been saying this for 10 years plus so it should be a big deal when one the biggest alarmists supports the sceptic position. Wonder why it didn’t get much airtime?
Just so you know, whenever I hear that there’s prize money for refuting a conspiracy theory, I immediately lower my probability that the conspiracy theory is true. I’ve encountered numerous such prizes from conspiracy theories in the past, and the general pattern I have seen is that the prize is being offered disingenuously, since the person offering it will never concede. I’ve (perhaps unconsciously) labeled anyone unaware of this pattern as either (1) purposely disingenuous, or (2) not very smart about convincing people of true things. Both (1) and (2) are evidence of a failure in their reasoning (but obviously this argument isn’t airtight).
The prize is for refuting the findings of the university paper not a conspiracy theory. And the prize is not offered by the university but a third party. There are lesser prizes for refuting a finding but not being published. I will go ahead and assume you haven’t read the paper yet.
I haven’t read the paper, you’re right. I didn’t mean my own comment as a counterargument.