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I was questioning your eyesight.
You better check ER's eyesight too.
RobVG —
5/13/2013 2:05:50 AM
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You better check ER's eyesight too.
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C02, "Scary." trend
- RobVG -
5/12/2013 7:54:54 PM
The function of that article lies in the headline, not the chart.
- TB -
5/13/2013 2:08:11 AM
The headline did a good job of boiling down what "James Butler, director of global monitoring at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Earth Science Research Lab in Boulder, Colo." sa…
- alcaray -
5/13/2013 8:49:39 AM
They can no longer deny the message,
- ER -
5/13/2013 1:32:51 PM
You saw the same thing I did. "Bad journalism" was YOUR post. n/t
- RobVG -
5/13/2013 2:17:13 PM
Just because the journalism is bad doesn't mean the news is made up. n/t
- ER -
5/13/2013 3:10:19 PM
PS: Why do conservatives have such a problem with this?
- ER -
5/13/2013 3:15:03 PM
I think that they are getting to the point where it's embarrasing to deny.
- alcaray -
5/13/2013 5:42:54 PM
When scientific judgements are forced to pass an ideological litmus test...,
- ER -
5/13/2013 6:02:38 PM
I can't believe you actually posted that...
- TB -
5/13/2013 6:06:20 PM
At your service, yr most hum. and obd't servant.
- ER -
5/13/2013 6:28:39 PM
No, that chart is not linear since 70. It is quite curved. Hold the edge of an envelope up to it if you don't believe me.
- alcaray -
5/12/2013 11:55:52 PM
Curve in name only.
- RobVG -
5/13/2013 12:53:26 AM
Only plane geometry is necessary. When you said:...
- alcaray -
5/13/2013 1:42:50 AM
Be honest- are you just trying to goad me? n/t
- RobVG -
5/13/2013 2:00:43 AM
I was questioning your eyesight.
- alcaray -
5/13/2013 2:02:55 AM
You better check ER's eyesight too.
- RobVG -
5/13/2013 2:05:50 AM
What part of "steady" increase do you not understand?
- RobVG -
5/13/2013 2:04:53 AM
my response disappeared, so forgive me if another one appears.
- alcaray -
5/13/2013 5:41:59 AM
Actually, you're both wrong.
- ER -
5/13/2013 2:39:59 AM
At some point, you have move past yelling "CRISIS CRISIS CRISIS CRISIS CRISIS!"
- TB -
5/13/2013 4:18:32 AM
But there IS a crisis.
- ER -
5/13/2013 1:54:20 PM
At some point people need to move past blaming everything on bad reporting.
- alcaray -
5/13/2013 5:38:12 AM
It's not just reporters.
- ER -
5/13/2013 1:58:38 PM
That's why we need calculus.
- ER -
5/13/2013 1:02:04 AM
I was trying to give Rob the benefit of a doubt
- ER -
5/13/2013 12:09:51 AM
Bad journalism
- ER -
5/12/2013 9:51:42 PM
It is May 12, 2013 and it is snowing here. How is the weather over there?
- johannes -
5/12/2013 9:24:05 PM
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