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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI made the mistake of discussing climate change with a Deplorable online.
Me- I'm not a scientist but I know there is a consensus in the scientific community that the planet is warming and man's activities are contributing to it. The only debate is how quickly it is occurring, have we past the past the point of no return, and if we haven't what can we do to slow it.
Deplorable - Why isn't Florida under water ?
cos dem
(903 posts)lapfog_1
(29,219 posts)there are many "flood days" with NO RAIN in the last few days.
They are investing in raising the level of the streets and in massive pumping systems.
Florida, being made of mostly limestone, is not going to stop the rising ocean with any kind of sea wall.
Crutchez_CuiBono
(7,725 posts)they never got...bc they can't stand 'ler'nen'. Or they feign stupid. (lesser amount of the time.) Their ignorance is so collossal that you could type all day everyday, and they say stupid things just to delay and wait for your description. then, they would pick THAT apart avoiding the bigger point. That point being, Climate change is real and man has contributed. PERIOD. the time for debate was over on that about 1996.
joshcryer
(62,276 posts)Don't discuss denialism with a denialist.
It's the same arguments creationists use.
Spent many a year, better part of a decade in the early 2010s, arguing with those idiots.
Was fun, but informative.
world wide wally
(21,753 posts)It doesn't matter what you "think"
In spite of what Guiliani says, truth IS truth.
elleng
(131,073 posts)brooklynite
(94,699 posts)ProfessorGAC
(65,141 posts)The idea that things take hundreds, thousands, millions of years is lost on the willfully ignorant.
lpbk2713
(42,766 posts)It only brings you down to their level and it doesn't change anything.
Doodley
(9,119 posts)GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)Never argue with an idiot...
They bring you to their level of intelligence and then beat you with experience.
The Wielding Truth
(11,415 posts)As Waters Rise, Miami Beach Builds Higher
Send him this article
https://www.npr.org/2016/05/10/476071206/as-waters-rise-miami-beach-builds-higher-streets-and-political-willpower
Girard442
(6,083 posts)That's to further the Climate Change hoax. Really, it all becomes so obvious once you stop taking those meds.
The Wielding Truth
(11,415 posts)onethatcares
(16,178 posts)"the climate is always changing and back in Fred Flintstones day it wasn't the peddlemobiles that caused the warming so you can't prove it's being warmed by man". "Back in the day, the 70s, it was global cooling" "if Al Gore would stop riding around in his plane and inventing things like the interwebs it wouldn't be getting warmer". "The ice is getting deeper everywhere and the polar bears like the idea of warm water"
And that pretty much sums it up.
Vinca
(50,302 posts)LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)Rejection of the scientific method is the only sign I need to realize I'm talking to an idiot.
The Wielding Truth
(11,415 posts)Together with the chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes), the bonobo (Pan paniscus) is man's closest living relative. arkive.org
Huh.... this explains a lot.