This Should be added as an option on the "Emotions" to Post!

**skex** · 02-20-2009, 09:40 PM

Originally Posted by TropicalBob

Good Lord. Get a sense of humor, man. Make the funny connections ....

I have a perfectly functional sense of humor. I just get rubbed the wrong way when information like this is passed about as if it was fact. It's pretty typical right wing anti-science clap trap that sounds reasonable at first brush but seriously misleads people because most hear it and just nod their heads.

A lot of people read this stuff and believe that because of this one isolated fact that the people talking about the dangers of climate change are full of crap. Even though there is no serious debate amoung reputable scientists.

You seem to be a reasonable person interested in accurate information and you are exactly the sort of person this type of propaganda is aimed at. I didn't reply to attack you I did so to inform.

I've read quite a bit of what you post here and I've seen you to be a considered and honest individual and I understand you were meaning the statement in jest.

However I suspect that you did buy into the line else you wouldn't have made that particular funny. Because it would only be trully ammusing if it were rooted in truth. Since it is not it's simply perpetuating a lie which was exactly the reason this little tidbit was put out in the first place.

This is anoying as all the people who talk about saving trees and spotted owls when talking about the environment. Environmentalism has absolutely nothing to do with saving trees or owls and everything to do with saving humas.

It's like the other day when I picked up my 5 year from pre-school where they've been studying polution and he told me that polution hurt the earth.

No, polution hurts people, the earth could give a ****. It was here several billion years before we were and it will most likely be around a few billion after we're gone.

For what it's worth forest fires are carbon neutral ;-P

**TropicalBob** · 02-20-2009, 10:11 PM

I'm not offended, you are correct, and it was a joke.

"Animal Armageddon" on Animal Planet last night dealt with the second great extinction episode on Earth, a time when life mostly disappeared, only to return in a vastly different fashion. Yes, we humans are a blip -- inconsequential in the planet's Big Picture. Earth likely will be here, evolving, long after our intelligent species has disappeared.

See, I do understand my place in the Grand Scheme of Things. I'm almost as low as a smoker.

**ApOsTle51** · 02-20-2009, 10:16 PM

so whats all this about cows then ??

**Cage** · 02-20-2009, 10:40 PM

**Cage** · 02-20-2009, 10:41 PM

To be fair...
It's not just the cows:

**TribbleTrouble** · 02-21-2009, 09:10 AM

Yeah, I saw a History Channel show about the millions of years that the Earth took to sequester all of that carbon. We have put almost all of it back into the atmosphere withing the last 100 years, or so. That methane from the cows butts, though, isn't helping things either!

**MonkeyMonk** · 02-21-2009, 01:33 PM

Perhaps Australia will, now, reconsider re-legalizing e-cigs. Yes? Is there any chance? Were there any supporters of keeping it legal before it was banned?

**TropicalBob** · 02-22-2009, 02:59 AM

Sherid, that news item is a separate thread. It deserves a separate thread. It doesn't have anything to do with Australia and is far too important to be a simple post in another thread.