I wouldn't dis your team, allosaur.

So you are not talking Auburn Tigers or LSU Tigers.
Never mind.

Huh!? Well you got me stumped. I am not even sure what you are talking about.

Oh, gosh, lucky you to have met Paul Carey. I met Ernie once. He was such a gentleman. I cried when he died....was an end of an era. How do I get in touch with you by email? I'm not a paying member of The Gulch as of yet.

Shoot me an e-mail when you come to Florida next spring. Go (Detroit) Tigers! I got hooked on the Tigers when I was a little kid, and Paul Carey (Ernie Harwell's sidekick) was visiting his mom. My grandmother lived two doors down, and as a little kid, I got to talk with a big league announcer. I've been a Tigers fan ever since.

I'm talking major league baseball here, allosaur. I grew up in Detroit. My son has been brought up right. He's an "Atlas Shrugged fan" and a Tiger fan. Every year, we all go to a spring training game in Lakeland, FL and a game in Detroit.

To forcibly silence all to create an illusion of compliance over climate change being man-made is just what the lefties want.
Writing the above, I was suddenly reminded of a guy on TV who stood up at a Clinton rally and asked Broom Hitlery about the email scandal. He was immediately shouted down from all around.
Nobody wanted to hear that They just want to believe what they want to believe. Facts are not relevant. Neither are common sense solutions..

Boo all Tigers! Roll Tide!
(or for clarification)
Yea, Alabama! Crimson Tide!

Most of the problems we discuss in the Gulch are, in reality, very simple. The solutions are simple. But take those problems out into the world and they make rocket science look simple by comparison. It illustrates the power of lying and deceit. How people can prey upon not merely the simple people, but also many who within their diverse fields are quite intelligent. There are some who believe because they want to believe. Because it fits their agenda. No matter how much opposite proof is offered, it will be discarded in favor of the outcome they prefer. To me, it is possibly the most frustrating things I encounter, which causes me to shrug in my own way, by simply ceasing to engage these dunderheads in any discussion. The hell of that is that it often taken as agreement.

LOL!
On something that we both can agree on....Go Tigers!

Nothing better than a good "gotcha."

You obviously don't understand that this is a religion and faith demands that facts contrary to accepted religious dogma actually reinforce the faith!

Oh, I wouldn't say better.

Geologists and astronomers are both accustomed to dealing with very large numbers when it comes to time and distance. Geological epochs go back hundreds of millions and even billions of years. It is not uncommon to consider the end of the Jurassic period as relatively recent in terms of geologic time. Astronomers consider galaxies that are "only" a few million light years distant as part of the "local" group. We are accustomed to dealing with these quantities. As a result the dynamics of climate when measured over a period of 100 years or less is viewed with a different perspective. The real problem is not scientific but political. Politicians, and other would be despots, see AGW as a powerful political tool that can be used to incite fear in the general population. They realize that fear is the most powerful political tool known. AGW implies an impending doom and as such can be used as a weapon. The real concern among the climate zealots is that the "deniers" may be successful in defusing this weapon thus depriving them of their most powerful component in their arsenal. AGW does not need to be real, it is only necessary that the general populace believes it to be real. When this belief is threatened their entire strategy to gain power is jeopardized.

Good Morningstar!
I hope you didn't take me seriously. Or are you jut better at satire than me?

There is another Global Warming post in the gulch:
https://www.galtsgulchonline.com/post...

We the people are at fault for the shift in the earth's poles.

Hmmmmm hasn't this happened before? And I don't think people were around then. Oh that right they subscribe to the tree in the forest falling and no one around so it don't make a noise theory.

Absolutely. The time scale is indeed just different. With an ore deposit, we are dealing with the end result of these dynamic processes that takes such time expanses far longer then the usual grasp of an individual. This is the unique training that geologists get, whether it is expressly taught or not.

Geologists, when truly taught, attain a unique perspective on the time scales involved in the history of the earth. This is why we laugh at the silliness of this climate change/global warming nonsense. The Pleistocene, with its many swings between glacial and interglacial warm periods alone is not even a measurable drop in the bucket given the timescale of the earth. Let alone the pitifully tiny little time period of the last 30 years of satellite data (the best there is) or even since humans settled down to an agrarian lifestyle. And all that is so far less than a drop in the bucket since the changes that ended the dinosaurs (no offense to old allosaur). And that is still a drop in the bucket compared to the timeline of life on earth.

To try and "model" the final result of the geologic process of the creation of an ore deposit is an exercise so necessary and essential to moving forward with economic activity, and yet is humbling compared to the reality when one is involved with actually mining it out. It is the essence of experience and insight when one has been through this process. This is something the climate modelling "experts" will never have the benefit of experiencing in their lifetimes.

This is what contributes to the lack of accountability in whatever they try and say behind the facade of being "authorities".

LOL!

I am happy for you Herb. May you find peace in your worship of Eris. To loosely quote G. K. Chesterton, " A man who believes in nothing, will believe in anything."

Amen, Brother allosaur! Peace be with you.

this is Orwellian -- Thou Shalt Not Speak Ill of ManMade
Climate Change -- remain PC or you go to Jail. -- j
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