starving baby birds wash up on California beaches

Just die, already.

On Thursday, September 6, 2018 at 11:29:10 AM UTC+10, snipped-for-privacy@notreal.com wrot e:

mercenaries in Alberta, it's not just the U.S.

Fred Bloggs suspects that this is going to happen to lots of us, unexpected ly soon.

He's probably wrong, but he is perfectly correct in his assertion that anth ropogenic global warming is going on now and getting progressively more rap id.

More energetic typhoons and hurricanes are the most obvious and dramatic co nsequences of the warming we've seen so far, but all sorts of extreme weath er are becoming more frequent and worse.

Extensive crop failures drove the Arab Spring, and more of them will kill m ore people from time to time.

When the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets slide off into the ocean we'll get enough sea level rise that even John Larkin will notice (if he lives th at long) but that seems to be some way off (though the actual sliding point s are hard to predict because the crucial regions are buried under a couple of miles of ice).

Slowman never lets facts get in the way. Ignore him.

Since the "facts" I'm imagined to be ignoring only exist in krw's ill-informed mind, this isn't the kind of claim that can be taken seriously.

It's John Doe who has got his facts wrong here, not that krw is in any position to know that. Ignoring John Doe and krw is a much better policy.

So do it.

Dan, Earth

PLEASE! Everyone ignore Slowman so the idiot ignores everyone else.

If the methodology chosen to explain the number of typhoons and hurricanes is limited strictly to the frequency of use of the word "hunker" (as in "hunker-down" for the approaching storm), then we are nearing the apocalypse.

That would be irresponsible.

I wonder how krw thinks that that would work? He is using the word "idiot" in his own specialised sense which translates into "person who deosn't share krw's delusions" in regular English.

Who made you responsible for everything posted on use groups?

Dan , Earth

I only react to specific idiocies. Dan lacks the powers of discrimination require to deduce which particular idiocies deserve reaction, and it would be pointless to try and instill that kind of discrimination into his intellectual apparatus.

First you say that John Doe and Krw should be ignored and then you say it would be irresponsible to ignore them. Which is it? Talk about not being able to discriminate. Oh well it is pointless to expect Bill to be consistent.

Dan , Earth

In general they ought to be ignored. When they propagate specific information which might be believed, it could be irresponsible to leave it uncorrected.

Making the choice requires discrimination, which does seem to be beyond you.

I don't claim to be perfectly consistent, but a more discriminating observer might well find me less inconsistent than you do (and might spend less time trying to find something to object to).

Like we are not big boys here and need someone to tell us what is true and false. Just how many readers do you think that you have educated to your views?

Dan , Earth

On Wednesday, September 12, 2018 at 3:47:25 AM UTC+10, snipped-for-privacy@krl.org wrote :

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No idea. But not all of us are sufficiently well educated to tell true from false.

John Larkin gets all his climate change information from denialist web-site s, and can't be educated to the point where he can recognise that he is bei ng suckered by the fossil carbon extraction industry, who want to keep on d egrading the environment for their profit for as long as the can get away w ith it.

There are other examples. Cursitor Doom comes to mind.

Krw and James Arthur think that socialism and communism are interchangeable labels for the same social philosophy, when the international socialist ki cked out Karl Marx and the proto-communists back in 1871 for the entirely s ound and foresighted reason that they were undemocratic.

Being full-grown doesn't guarantee any capacity to tell truth from deceptiv e misrepresentations, as you illustrate from time to time.