What Western countries have always had a hard time figuring out is how to conduct asymmetrical warfare whereby the enemy hides amidst the population, uses tunnels, and in the case of groups like Isis and Hamas, use a variety of barbaric terrorist methods, no matter the cost to their own people. — schopenhauer1
The genocide — oh, sorry, I mean that very just “war” on innocent children — continues. Eight thousand dead and counting. — Mikie
Apparently, you'be not been paying attention — 180 Proof
And Bibi's regime took the bait, so fuck 'em too. — 180 Proof
Did you happen to look at the graph on the Wikipedia page? Look at what happened to the temperature at the beginning of the — frank
The proximal vector in the multiplexed zone retraces the inferior Fibonacci levels to localize on the scale of dimensional applications. — frank
For decades Bibi has supplied matches & gasoline to Hamas and now firebombs Gaza in retaliation for Hamas setting one of Bibi's houses ablaze. — 180 Proof
You can't identify single incidents like this, or look at a single graph, or look at this year's weather and decide what the climate is doing. The climate is much bigger than this year, or even the last 150 years. This is why they use super computers to sort out all the billions of variables. — frank
I live by the sea, and empirically I observe none of the supposedly world-shattering trends that people talk about. — Tzeentch
The graph that shows the milankovitch cycle covers eight hundred thousand years. That's gigantic. Our species has only been around for maybe 300,000. It's kind of mind blowing to get the scale of geological time. I found it that way, anyway. — frank
When you want hostilities to occur you ignore the warning signs and let your enemies attack you so you may appear Just to the world. — Vaskane
I have to ask you: did you think the earth's climate had pretty much always been the way it is now? — frank
When you want hostilities to occur you ignore the warning signs and let your enemies attack you so you may appear Just to the world. (In reply to the PBS documentary). — Vaskane
It's partly the earth's axial wobble, and partly the way the earth's orbit changes from circular to elliptical. I haven't read a book about the climate change in a couple of years, and that's long enough to get out of date. So, don't take my word. Look it up. — frank
Yes — frank
That graph covers 800,000 years in 4 inches. You're just a tiny speck at the end. — frank
Basically a shit ton of computer modelling by a shit ton of scientists all over the world. It's called the IPCC. — frank
For climate change? Of course. The climate has been changing since there's been a climate. — frank
milankovitch cycle — frank
800 thousand years isn’t short. — Mikie
That's usually the time Israel does something horrible which is then not picked up in western media because they're too busy gorging themselves on a ridiculous amount of food. — Benkei
Climate scientists are alarmists, dogmatists, zealots. Funny so much quasi-religious accusations get thrown about when so much of this comes from evangelicals, who themselves are largely young-earth creationists. — Mikie
The great god Science has pronounced our doom, and your faith or lack of faith changes nothing. — unenlightened
Humanity as a whole stands in judgement of itself, and it looks like our judgement is that we might as well die in our own shit. So it goes. — unenlightened
You have neither listened nor inclined your ears to hear, although the Lord persistently sent to you all his servants the prophets, saying, ‘Turn now, every one of you, from his evil way and evil deeds. . . Yet you have not listened to me, declares the Lord, that you might provoke me to anger with the work of your hands to your own harm. — Jeremiah 25:4
Read what you wrote as if you were talking about money. Money is a successful social technology. So is the legal apparatus that allows us to do rule of law. We just don't have any social technology for orchestrating events beyond about a hundred years. — frank
The issue is that we don't have any experience with "caring" on the temporal and geographical scale of climate change. — frank
When was the last time you heard anyone talk about pesticides causing Parkinson's disease in increasingly younger people? — Tzeentch
Yeah, another shocker: just ignore whatever you disagree with. In line with the rest of your juvenile ramblings. — Mikie
according to an analysis of visual evidence by The New York Times.
It was 12 midnight and I had an important meeting the next morning. Should I spend more time trying to convince someone on here that a comedian was wrong about some of the basic history of my country when they just don't want to believe that? I mean this article: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pale is all anyone would need, but then I'd just be inviting more off-topic conversation. — Baden
identity as this or that nationality is no longer functioning other than purely from a place of grievance and revenge. — schopenhauer1
Being left apparently nowadays means having principles. — Benkei
who also didn't get the point of the video. — schopenhauer1
I actually think he did quite good cramming a lot of conflict-history in a short amount of time to make a broader point about getting over what one perceives as historical wrongs over land and whatnot. The Israeli-Pals issue is no different than what has happened and in the past people have coped, dealt with it, moved on, compromised. — schopenhauer1
So a familiar debate tactic is to focus on some wording issue. Thus the main idea is lost to fighting over the trees and not the forest. — schopenhauer1
Good night. — Baden