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A_Good_Boy
02/08/18 4:46:18 PM
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http://www.cnn.com/2018/02/08/politics/scott-pruitt-climate-change/index.html

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt suggested Tuesday that climate change could benefit humans, despite scientific evidence to the contrary.

In an interview with KSNV in Las Vegas, Pruitt conceded that climate change is a reality and humans have contributed to it "to a certain degree." However, the EPA administrator cast doubt on its negative long-term implications.

"Is it an existential threat? Is it something that is unsustainable, or what kind of effect or harm is this going to have? I mean, we know that humans have most flourished during times of what? Warming trends," Pruitt said. "I think there's assumptions made that because the climate is warming, that that necessarily is a bad thing. Do we really know what the ideal surface temperature should be in the year 2100? In the year 2018? I mean it's fairly arrogant for us to think that we know exactly what it should be in 2100."

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hockeybub89
02/08/18 4:48:06 PM
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A_Good_Boy posted...
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator

Holy fuck shit our country needs to collapse
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Tezlok
02/08/18 4:55:24 PM
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it will make the pacific north west seem like southern california. there will be palm trees in seattle. Alaska will be more mild and be like the pacific north west.
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Tezlok
02/08/18 4:56:24 PM
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hockeybub89 posted...
A_Good_Boy posted...
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator

Holy fuck shit our country needs to collapse

what's wrong with that job? it's a person who protects nature and prevents too much pollution or oil drilling in sensitive places. that kind of stuff
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hockeybub89
02/08/18 4:57:27 PM
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Tezlok posted...
hockeybub89 posted...
A_Good_Boy posted...
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator

Holy fuck shit our country needs to collapse

what's wrong with that job? it's a person who protects nature and prevents too much pollution or oil drilling in sensitive places. that kind of stuff

No, the problem is a person in that job is a drooling idiot.
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Axiom
02/08/18 4:59:07 PM
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Lmao. What a wonderful choice for head of the EPA. Thanks Trump
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A_Good_Boy
02/08/18 5:00:21 PM
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Tezlok posted...
hockeybub89 posted...
A_Good_Boy posted...
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator

Holy fuck shit our country needs to collapse

what's wrong with that job? it's a person who protects nature and prevents too much pollution or oil drilling in sensitive places. that kind of stuff

Lmao
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Questionmarktarius
02/08/18 5:38:41 PM
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Horungen
02/08/18 5:40:02 PM
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What would environment people have said during the ice age - which was NATURAL?

Imagine the meltdown.
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Antifar
02/08/18 5:41:26 PM
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A_Good_Boy posted...
Do we really know what the ideal surface temperature should be in the year 2100? In the year 2018? I mean it's fairly arrogant for us to think that we know exactly what it should be in 2100."


It's not arrogance to say "all things considered, we'd rather Miami not flood every week."
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3deep5u
02/08/18 5:41:37 PM
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I fucking hate our government sometimes.
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Questionmarktarius
02/08/18 5:43:50 PM
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Horungen posted...
What would environment people have said during the ice age - which was NATURAL?

Imagine the meltdown.

Same as now, really:
"This is all your fault, therefore you have to sacrifice your livelihood and liberty for your own good."
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iPhone_7
02/08/18 5:46:35 PM
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Trump picks the best people, the best.
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Antifar
02/08/18 5:46:43 PM
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Questionmarktarius posted...
Horungen posted...
What would environment people have said during the ice age - which was NATURAL?

Imagine the meltdown.

Same as now, really:
"This is all your fault, therefore you have to sacrifice your livelihood and liberty for your own good."

You are not as dumb as you are pretending to be in this post.
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Blue_Dream87
02/08/18 5:47:39 PM
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Antifar
02/08/18 5:48:16 PM
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Blue_Dream87 posted...
Who gave this guy power?

Donald Trump
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Questionmarktarius
02/08/18 5:50:05 PM
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Antifar posted...
Questionmarktarius posted...
Horungen posted...
What would environment people have said during the ice age - which was NATURAL?

Imagine the meltdown.

Same as now, really:
"This is all your fault, therefore you have to sacrifice your livelihood and liberty for your own good."

You are not as dumb as you are pretending to be in this post.

Okay, sorry about that.

"You have to sacrifice your liberty and livelihood because it's the Ook Ook tribe's turn to make the glaciers bigger. Also you have to give the Ook-Ooks a portion of your skins and meat, just because."
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luigi13579
02/08/18 5:50:10 PM
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Questionmarktarius posted...
https://www.climate-policy-watcher.org/ecological-footprints/hothouse-earth.html


According to geologists at the University of North Carolina, this period of intense warming triggered the greatest mass extinction in the Earth's history about 250 million years ago, as opposed to the theory that the mass extinction was caused when a meteor hit the Earth. Instead, they claim that volcanic eruptions and global warming were the causes of the mass extinctions during the Permian. As a result of their research, they have determined that the climate turned exceedingly hot because

Also harmful to life on the planet was the enormous amount of hydrogen sulphide that entered the atmosphere, which damaged the ozone layer and killed the majority of life-forms.

Oxygen content was drastically reduced, causing major die-offs of deep-sea foraminifera.

Groovy.
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Blue_Dream87
02/08/18 5:53:01 PM
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fenderbender321 posted...
It's funny how liberals want government to have the power to have a strong role in society, yet they are constantly getting pissed at how the government uses that power. Maybe time to rethink your entire political philosophy?

This is exactly why I became a libertarian.


I mean if we had the right people in power we'd be fine.
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Questionmarktarius
02/08/18 5:55:57 PM
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Blue_Dream87 posted...
I mean if we had the right people in power we'd be fine.

Disagreements about who the "right people" are, is how wars get started.
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Blue_Dream87
02/08/18 5:56:01 PM
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fenderbender321 posted...
Blue_Dream87 posted...
fenderbender321 posted...
It's funny how liberals want government to have the power to have a strong role in society, yet they are constantly getting pissed at how the government uses that power. Maybe time to rethink your entire political philosophy?

This is exactly why I became a libertarian.


I mean if we had the right people in power we'd be fine.


The problem is that "power" attracts the wrong kind of people.


If we gave more power to the people we could keep that shit in check. But under our current oligarchy that wont happen.

This is like one of those places where I'd be more Libertarian with the current system, but ideally we need to rework everything.
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Blue_Dream87
02/08/18 5:56:51 PM
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Questionmarktarius posted...
Blue_Dream87 posted...
I mean if we had the right people in power we'd be fine.

Disagreements about who the "right people" are, is how wars get started.


I mean he haven't gone into a civil war yet with Trump.
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Questionmarktarius
02/08/18 5:58:08 PM
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Blue_Dream87 posted...
but ideally we need to rework everything

Term limits, that all expire simultaneously.
If the entire government cycled every few years, there'd be minimal opportunity for corruption and narcissists.
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Antifar
02/08/18 5:59:13 PM
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Questionmarktarius posted...
https://www.climate-policy-watcher.org/ecological-footprints/hothouse-earth.html

What relevance do you believe this to have to the topic at hand?
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Questionmarktarius
02/08/18 6:00:19 PM
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Antifar posted...
Questionmarktarius posted...
https://www.climate-policy-watcher.org/ecological-footprints/hothouse-earth.html

What relevance do you believe this to have to the topic at hand?

It was much warmer a few times in the past, and we didn't do it.
Also, this is what to expect, if it turns out we actually did.
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UnholyMudcrab
02/08/18 6:04:51 PM
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Questionmarktarius posted...
Blue_Dream87 posted...
but ideally we need to rework everything

Term limits, that all expire simultaneously.
If the entire government cycled every few years, there'd be minimal opportunity for corruption and narcissists.

If the entire government was replaced at once, it would be the equivalent of the country having a stroke and relearning how to walk every four years.
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Questionmarktarius
02/08/18 6:05:21 PM
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UnholyMudcrab posted...
Questionmarktarius posted...
Blue_Dream87 posted...
but ideally we need to rework everything

Term limits, that all expire simultaneously.
If the entire government cycled every few years, there'd be minimal opportunity for corruption and narcissists.

If the entire government was replaced at once, it would be the equivalent of the country having a stroke and relearning how to walk every four years.

And that's any worse than as-is?
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Omnislasher
02/08/18 6:06:25 PM
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Questionmarktarius posted...
It was much warmer a few times in the past, and we didn't do it.


So what?

https://climate.nasa.gov/scientific-consensus/
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