Apples and oranges

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Apples and oranges

TB — 5/13/2013 7:01:46 PM (archived)

I was discussing money spent directly on support of the climate change industry, and money directly spent on opposition.

Oil industry profits are no more relevant to those specific numbers than the fact that the government spends $3.6 trillion every year on many things besides climate change.

Try and stay on the rails.

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"The first step in solving a problem is recognizing you have a problem." - ER - 5/13/2013 1:56:12 PM
- Point of argument: - TB - 5/13/2013 3:38:17 PM
  - Your basic German citizen in the '30s and '40s denied the Holocaust, too. - bowser - 5/14/2013 11:05:57 PM
  - If you actually believe that this environmental drive to statism... - ER - 5/13/2013 5:16:30 PM
    - "Personally I believe..." - TB - 5/13/2013 5:57:51 PM
      - Apples and oranges, actually more like watermelons and grapes. - ER - 5/13/2013 6:15:19 PM
        
        Apples and oranges - TB - 5/13/2013 7:01:46 PM
        
        Fine. What about the IPCC graph? - ER - 5/13/2013 7:13:58 PM
        
        Am I being lectured on "changing the subject?" :) - TB - 5/13/2013 7:53:18 PM
        
        If the crisis goes, then they will no longer serve a purpose, will they? - ER - 5/13/2013 8:39:28 PM
        
        Simpy declaring your opposition a loser doesn't make it so. Shades of Davin. (miss the guy). n/t - RobVG - 5/14/2013 1:02:56 AM
        
        There are no winners or losers here. - ER - 5/14/2013 3:28:12 AM
        
        Job security - TB - 5/13/2013 9:22:11 PM
        
        It was a foregone conclusion. - ER - 5/13/2013 10:34:32 PM

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