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- thosewithnoeyes, on 05/03/2008, -0/+13With fishing being such an important industry, you'd think that the sustainable fishing techniques would be more wide spread.
- Nodnarbs, on 05/03/2008, -2/+12Actually I think commercial fisherman have the most interest in understanding fish populations and maintaining sustainable fishing. Unfortunately industry will probably take the lead in advocating sustainable environmental policies because so called environmentalists are too busy shooting down any practical solutions because they have their head firmly rooted in their ass.
- jobbernowl, on 05/03/2008, -0/+7Straight from GaTech: http://www.gatech.edu/newsroom/release.html?id=185 ...
- PL3NTY, on 05/03/2008, -1/+8you fool
- noahhoward, on 05/03/2008, -0/+5Pieces can fit together and still only be part of the puzzle. You're problem is you fit one or two pieces together and think you've accomplished something.
Tell me petrodollar, how accurate is a climate model with missing pieces? - inactive, on 05/03/2008, -3/+8weather =/= climate
- PL3NTY, on 05/03/2008, -0/+5Tamant: I am compelled to click on your avatar!?
- inactive, on 05/03/2008, -0/+4Yeah, funny how that works out - commercial fishermen actually have the most vested interest in wildlife conservation, specifically because their livelihoods depend on it.
- insanebrain, on 05/03/2008, -14/+18- "...in helping commercial fishermen understand fluctuations in the fish stock"
So we can more efficiently make the fish go extinct ? - fonebone2, on 05/03/2008, -2/+5Rational choice theory states that, when presented with a 95% chance that one will experience substantial losses if preventative measures are not taken, and a 5% change that substantial loss will be avoided even if no measures are taken, one should take the preventative measures so long as the cost of those measures is less than 0.95 x the amount of predicted loss.
The problem is that rational choice theory presumes that the person making the choice is in fact rational. But right wingers are not rational. Therefore they think that it's safe to roll with the 5% odds and do nothing.
Oddly, right wingers apply the reverse logic to Iraq. According to Dick Cheney's "One Percent Doctrine," it was reasonable to blow upwards of $2 trillion on a war in Iraq even if there was only a 1% chance that Saddam had WMD.
These two examples illustrate the extreme irrationality of right wingers. You just can't reason with these people. - maxer64, on 05/03/2008, -3/+6Yes, I agree. Shallow and pedantic.
- phybere, on 05/03/2008, -0/+3Probably by hundreds of turbines on the ocean floor?
- dsmx, on 05/03/2008, -0/+3Yes indeed
- SpinningHead, on 05/04/2008, -0/+2While small commercial operations do work towards sustainability, larger operations have already been wiping out the tuna by using nets to catch large and small tunas and moving them all to inland farms. By doing so, they have been unable to reproduce in the wild and maintain stocks. The 1st group cares about livelihood, the latter cares for quick profits.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/animals/newsid_3 ... - inactive, on 05/03/2008, -5/+7Climate scientists want debate. They're constantly testing their theories. Remakarbly, theories that predict a long term gradual warming trend have been consistently supported by the data. But because the scientists aren't satisfied, they keep testing them more and more. They take temperature samples from a wider range of sources. They examine historical data to see if the values predicted by their models bear out. Turns out that the models that predict warming in response to increased CO2 levels are born out again. And again. And again.
Right wingers claim that one cold year = a trend. You can't reason with them. When you point out that climate scientists have long been predicting that climate change will cause an overall long term warming trend, but that there will be periodic, localized cooling, right wingers claim that that's just crazy talk because "duhh, global warming means everything has to heat up." - CodeCobalt, on 05/03/2008, -1/+3and how did they create a new current? Install hundreds upon hundreds of turbines in the ocean floor? RTFA, and gain common sense.
- lazyfisherman, on 05/03/2008, -1/+3do you eat fish ? you might have a reason to care when you can't buy fish anymore
- PaganHeathen, on 05/03/2008, -0/+2Congratulations North Pacific Gyre Oscillation on being discovered!
To make it you need to:
- go with the flow
- keep up on (current) events
- don't be shallow
- Don't get drained - phybere, on 05/03/2008, -0/+2It's true, evolution hasn't made idiots extinct yet.
- phybere, on 05/03/2008, -0/+1This discovery really whets my whistle...
- diggimator, on 05/04/2008, -0/+1Don't tell that to the landlocked countries of the International Whaling Commission
- genovais, on 05/04/2008, -0/+1No -- GA Tech.
- rupturexcore, on 05/04/2008, -0/+1Yeah Yellow Jackets!
- inactive, on 05/03/2008, -1/+2so is the Georgia Institute of Technology known as "GIT" ?
- adml_shake, on 05/03/2008, -1/+2You sir have been nominated for Digg's dumb ass of the year award. Congrats.
How the hell do you think the other ones formed? - inactive, on 05/03/2008, -2/+3http://cdiac.ornl.gov/trends/temp/jonescru/jones.h ...
"The only year in the last ten not among the warmest ten is 1996 (replaced in the warm list by 1990). The ten warmest years, in descending order, are 1998, 2005, 2003 and 2002 (tie), 2004, 2001, 1997, 1995, 1999, and 1990."
http://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.com/2008/02 ... - buddarien, on 05/04/2008, -1/+2I am politicizing the global warming hype how? And where have I stated that everything is all figured out? I have stated that it is a waste of time?
You got all of that from my comment? I have no issue with studying the climate, just don't reach into my pocket and steal my money to do it. - inactive, on 05/03/2008, -4/+5Not to stereotype or anything, but environmentalists have a history of being jerks when it comes to sustainable fishing, often recommending ludicrous suggestions that do nothing to maintain sustainability while only hurting fishermen's profits.
- inactive, on 05/03/2008, -1/+2Well, you're the one politicizing it right now. Science doesn't work like that. You don't just come out and pronounce that you've suddenly figured everything out. If you were truly interested in science, you'd say "Let's forget about the political implications, and just study climate change." Instead, you just want to come out and prove to everyone how you're right and they're all stupid for even questioning your wisdom. Frankly, I don't care about the political implications - I don't care if we reduce emissions or whatever, I don't care which side is right - I simply think that studying climate change is important, and I'm getting sick of people like you who claim it's simply a waste of time.
And for the record, I am firmly neutral on the subject of anthropogenic global warming, because there simply isn't enough evidence either way, which is part of why I get pissed off at people like you who wish to stand in the way of studying and investigating it, thus ensuring that there will never be any evidence. - NecroSexy, on 05/03/2008, -0/+1Wrong school. To quote Gob: Bzzzzzzzzz BZzzzzzzzzzzzzz....
- noahhoward, on 05/03/2008, -2/+3No petro you'll find if you can successfully dismiss the evidence that contradicts you you'll have a lot of success in reasoning with me. It also helps to not be a douche.
I'll ask you again, how accurate is a climate model that is missing information. A Pacific ocean current is a fairly large input.
You can quit calling me a right winger now too, that may make you a bit more credible. - buddarien, on 05/04/2008, -1/+2@petro
You are simply a hypocrite. Since you bring up 2nd grade, I will try to explain it on your level.
When you make a claim and say right wingers, you imply ALL right wingers or else you would clarify and say SOME. This is what you meant and you know it. It has nothing to do with misreading.
In your attempt at logical fallacies, you fail. Stating that apples are red does not leave the door open for apples to be green. It just so happens that most people know that apples are also green. If I state that democrats are followers of neo-marxism, do I mean all or just some? Since nobody can really know that answer, it must be clarified or else it fails. - buddarien, on 05/03/2008, -3/+4So the Free Republic somehow represents all right wingers huh?
petrodollar = continual ignorance on display - noahhoward, on 05/03/2008, -2/+3How do you understand the forces at work but somehow miss an ocean current. Accurate models would have led to predictions of this current. If that is what happened then okay, if not then they can't claim to understand.
- Matteos, on 05/03/2008, -0/+1Repetitive and redundant.
- inactive, on 05/03/2008, -2/+2Accurate to well within an acceptable margin of error. We know this because when we match their predicted values with actual observed values over the past century, we find that many of the more advanced models give very accurate results. We can also minimize errors by averaging the results of multiple climate models. This is explained here: http://www.grida.no/climate/ipcc_tar/wg1/308.htm
- xptoast, on 05/03/2008, -2/+2Funny how we keep figuring this crap out yet we pay tons of money to figure out what exactly is right there the whole time. We are a strange strange people.
- noahhoward, on 05/03/2008, -3/+3It's hard to call the odds when you don't fully understand the forces at work.
- twomeyw23334, on 05/03/2008, -2/+2petro
"Where did I say anything about all right wingers? Do you see me make any express claims about all right wingers in any of my posts?"
petro from a post literally 2 minutes earlier...
"Right wingers claim that one cold year = a trend. You can't reason with them."
BTW, its a decade of cooling now and scientists are estimating the next decade will be an increased cooling trend. - inactive, on 05/03/2008, -4/+4http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2010336/p ...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2005746/p ...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1997551/p ... - inactive, on 05/03/2008, -4/+4Where did I say anything about all right wingers? Do you see me make any express claims about all right wingers in any of my posts?
Where did you learn to read so poorly, buddarien?
How does your inability to read make ME ignorant? - inactive, on 05/03/2008, -1/+1Who can argue with the guy who found Atlantis, for *****'s sake?
http://www.lindseywilliams.org/index.htm?LAL_Archi ... - avize, on 07/27/2008, -0/+0This is for fisher man
I is my mind commercial fisherman has the most interest to fish populations. Unfortunately the world indestury will maybe take the advocating sustain environmen is the important because it was help us of course it is busy.
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http://bid-directory.net - dontclickhere06, on 05/04/2008, -0/+0Thats crazy!
- inactive, on 05/03/2008, -2/+2I'm afraid you folks need to go re-take 2nd grade reading.
Saying "apples are red" does not mean "ALL apples are red." It's just as likely that it merely means that "SOME apples are red." The fact that apples are also green does not mean that they cannot also be red, and vice versa.
I very deliberately wrote my statement in such as way as to avoid establishing a necessary/sufficient relationship between the two variables "right wingers" and "believe in global cooling." - inactive, on 05/03/2008, -2/+2"BTW, its a decade of cooling now and scientists are estimating the next decade will be an increased cooling trend."
LOL, you forgot to mention that SOME scientists claim the next decade will be colder, and that SOME measurements show cooling over the past decade. Surely you didn't intend for us to misread your statement to say that ALL measurements show/predict cooling, right twomeyw23334? - kss42, on 05/03/2008, -1/+1I've never seen anyone go from making an ignorant statement to sarcastically mocking the same statement in the space of six minutes. Phybere seems to have completely vaulted over the normal range of rational behavior. Years from now, scientists will look back on this thread as the Internet's most perfectly preserved instance of a troll feeding itself.
- parkernicky50, on 05/04/2008, -0/+0thanks for news
- twomeyw23334, on 05/03/2008, -1/+1So when you write "Right wingers claim" you only mean red right wingers? That was the stupidest thing I've ever read. Now, I purposely left out the specifics of that last sentence. I could be stating it's the stupidest thing I've ever read in the last 2 minutes, or in my life. I, like petro, like to be purposely ambiguous so I can talk myself out of any stupid statements someone may call me on later.
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