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[quote user="TokyoTom"] [...] Sure, "a whole lot of both conscious and unconscious effort has gone into establishing and maintaining ... [AGW] ... as a primary political issue of our time". And sure, some are engaged on this effort in order to further institutionalize political authority...
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[quote user="TokyoTom"] hjmaiere : "anthropogenic global warming is a manufactured issue, selected specifically for its ability to slough off `libertarian approaches.`" While I respect your suspicions (as I have repeatedly acknowledged, unfortunately with a big government politics...
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[quote user="Jon Irenicus"] Whether or not global warming is a fact of the matter, Austrians should be discussing libertarian approaches to it, so that should the evidence ultimately be found in favour of GW, we have a ready response to silence those who'd rather use the heavy hand of coercion...
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[quote user="TokyoTom"] hjmaiere, will you be responding to my last post? [/quote] As far as I can tell, you have fairly restated most of my thesis, but I seem to have failed to fully communicate its implications. For now I will only re-emphasize that although specific people benefit from specific...
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[quote user="TokyoTom"] Look, I`m strongly opposed to the war, too. But those who started it and are burning through ferocious sums off-budget are the same ones who turned K street into a pork orgy feast while distracting us with loud claims that we need to be really, REALLY afraid of Islamofascists...
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Some minor points. I'll let everything else stand. [quote user="TokyoTom"] [...] Those most interested in stopping the war obviously aren't in power. [...] [/quote] Yet those who would put together an inter-governmental panel on climate change are. The Iraq and Afghanistan wars consume...
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[quote user="TokyoTom"] [...] You might think that "GW" is and will continue to be a "no-problem", but it is already a fact, that is affecting millions. It can be seen in the multi-degree warming of the high latitudes, changing in climate zones/seasons/planting & harvest...
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[quote user="Donny with an A"] [...] The important consideration is how concentrations of CO2 have changed over time. Atmospheric CO2 trends since the industrial revolution have not correlated with atmospheric temperature, and the proportion of isotopes of CO2 in the atmosphere does not match...
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Humans, like other primates, are communal. Our ancestors spent almost all of their evolutionary history as humans living in small groups of interdependent individuals. At the same time, tribes were in competition for each other for natural resources: foraging grounds, hunting grounds, agricultural lands...