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Gay Lawyer Burns Himself Up To Protest Global Warming

Posted by $ allosaur 6 years ago to News
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Is me dino a bad person?
As fast as my eyes beheld the headline of the article, I enjoyed an uncontrolled (spontaneous) very loud belly laugh that lasted about 20 seconds due to secondary waves of hilarity sweeping in and splashing ashore .
If that lawyer knew what we Gulchers knew about why "global warming" may have been changed to "climate change," he may have opted to seal himself into a big freezer instead of making an ash of himself. :
SOURCE URL: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/04/15/david-buckel-prominent-gay-rights-lawyer-burns-himself-to-death-in-new-york-to-protest-global-warming.html


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  • Posted by Mitch 6 years ago
    Dino, would it make me a bad person if I said, we should encourage more protest such as this one?
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    • Posted by $ 6 years ago
      You are not a bad person if your spell checker missed the "s" that belongs on the end of "protest."
      Stuff like that happens to me dino all the time.
      Me dino is looking forward to the day that spell checking software is advanced to detect improper grammar.
      To answer your question, suicidal protests or any other form of suicide morally should not include innocent bystanders or anyone else.
      Suicide by cop may be psychological hurtful to the cop so me dino does not condone that.
      All me dino can say to someone crazy enough to burn himself up is to please do that outside and at a safe distance from, say, a gas station
      and automotive vehicles.
      A public park is a good place to make such a life stinks statement but please do it when most kids are in school.
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  • Posted by Herb7734 6 years ago
    And yet, the longest recorded lives on average took place during the 20th century, notorious according to eco-freaks as being the most man-made pollutant era of the previous centuries.The ecology movement has as much validity as Zarathustrian Tree Worship.
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    • Posted by $ 6 years ago
      As for the lawyer who shortened his life in this century, I'd have to look back at the article to remember his name.
      And me dino don't feel like it.
      Such is the impact of his going out in a blazing bright suicide of protest.
      Nada. Save for those who laughed at him for a brief moment, hardly anyone cares.
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  • Posted by $ blarman 6 years ago
    The one thing I did have to do was congratulate this idiot for actually standing up for what he believed in. Most of these eco-terrorists are more than happy to tell other people what they should do, but aren't willing to do it themselves. Even though the guy was obviously not on solid psychological footing (no one commits suicide without deep psychological trauma) I have to give him credit for being convinced enough to live his creed.
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    • Posted by $ 6 years ago
      For me dino to say he went out by leaving behind a carbon footprint would be disrespecting the courage of his convictions.
      Al Gore DOES do far more damage by flying around in his private jet and powering his grandiose mansion.
      When ya gonna man up, Gore? When ya gonna man up?
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  • Posted by chad 6 years ago
    If everyone who believed in global warming would follow his example there would be a spike in CO2 but then it would drop precipitously because the decreased number of people requiring the burning of fossil fuels to transport them, electrify their homes and feed them with a bonus of a reduction in the population that should make them very happy! :)
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  • Posted by dukem 6 years ago
    Well, reading of this immolation certainly changed MY mind on global warming/societal destruction. If he burned himself to death, what other evidence does one need to join the Warmists?
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    • Posted by $ 6 years ago
      Right on! Spread the word that immolation is the ticket!
      After enough useful idiots set themselves on fire, climate change deniers will eventually see enough firelight to come around!
      Hip, hip hooray when everyone comes around to hop aboard Captain Planet's save the world solar-powered choo-choo!
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  • Posted by Dobrien 6 years ago
    12 inches of fresh snow the third heavy snow this spring and temps about 20 degrees below normal.
    Idiot emotional reaction coupled with mental illness results in suicide.
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    • Posted by $ 6 years ago
      When my Birmingham area had a very unique deep snow blizzard during March of all months back in 1993, Al Gore said that the same big time winter storm along the rest of the East Coast was due to Global Warming.
      Me dino recalls listening to Rush Limbaugh laughing at Al about that.
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      • Posted by Solver 6 years ago
        Cold is warm is a form of Progressive think. Because it wasn’t fooling enough people, they relabeled their same idea as, Climate Change. After all who could deny that the climate changes?
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        • Posted by $ 6 years ago
          Not me. Me dino has written "The climate is always changing" here many times.
          Maybe I also wrote "--has always been--."
          Both work.
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          • Posted by Solver 6 years ago
            Using post-modernist critical theory, Climate Change is nothing more than a social construct created by the oppressors used to oppress.
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            • Posted by CircuitGuy 6 years ago
              That's the whole argument for denying science, right? You can't really know anything. Scientists are going to be biased toward whoever pays them, and elites control the purse strings. So scientific inquiry only tells us about political power struggles. We should just look at which answers lead to just power structures that respect individual rights and find ways to get political support for those "scientific" results. The collectivists are certainly doing the same thing, but for the wrong side. It's unilaterally disarming to seek to understand what's actually happening. If science, as practiced by flawed humans, is just an extension of cultural power structures, then objective truth is unknowable. We only have political struggles.
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              • Posted by $ WilliamShipley 6 years ago
                Sadly science does have it's bias. If something gets funded then more scientists will follow it. And there are personal wars between scientists trying to protect their reputation. This is by no means limited toward climate.

                I know you buy into the "global warming" argument -- although you state you don't personally know enough to judge it yourself. Here's something you can look at: When someone with a scientific background expresses doubt as to the direction, cause or magnitude of the change, how much the AGW crowd tries to destroy them, to discredit them, to get them fired to do anything to stop them from expressing their judgement.

                Now, in spite of years of telling us it is getting warmer and we will see winters without snow we are getting more snow and bitter cold. This, of course, is the new climate change. Science does not involve retroactively making predictions of what is happening. It involves predicting the future and judging the validity of the predictions. They haven't done so well.

                On the other hand, based on the science of solar cycles as well as the new understanding of why they vary, I've been predicting cold for the last decade. Further, I predict even more cold for the next decade. All signs point to a Maunder minimum which is associated with cooling trends. This isn't denying science, this is science too. The only science that AGW people embrace is the science that "oil is bad". And they will tell whatever story they can to promote that.
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                • Posted by CircuitGuy 5 years, 11 months ago
                  "the AGW crowd"
                  By the very name is this politics. If we're just going by political reactions, then we can watch how the same groups that accept the science of global warming reject the scientific consensus on GMOs, homeopathy, and organic foods. What those interest groups wish were true does not matter.
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              • Posted by term2 6 years ago
                I think what you are saying is that hidden agendas are all over "scientific discovery", the those agendas need to be stripped off those discovering to uncover the real issues.
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                • Posted by CircuitGuy 5 years, 11 months ago
                  "what you are saying is that hidden agendas are all over "scientific discovery", the those agendas need to be stripped off those discovering"
                  Humans are imperfect. Trying to understand things scientifically, though, is all we have. And in general science delivers the goods.

                  Thomas Kuhn explains it in The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, although you have to put up with a lot of repetition. Scientists initially reject findings inconsistent with current models.

                  There's also the bias toward original work, as opposed to verifying others' findings. There's a bias of studies with finding consistent with the null hypothesis (i.e. what you'd expect if their hypothesis were not true) not being published as much, but publishing things that might be random sampling noise. There's the whole issue of p-hacking. It's not as simple as stripping off the political agendas.
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          • Posted by Dobrien 6 years ago
            The difference between weather and climate is a measure of time. Weather is what conditions of the atmosphere are over a short period of time, and climate is how the atmosphere "behaves" over relatively long periods of time 30+ years.

            When we talk about climate change, we talk about changes in long-term averages of daily weather.
            These patterns classify the world into six major climate regions.
            Polar. Polar climates are very cold and dry throughout the year. ...
            Temperate. The temperate region experiences cold winters and mild summers, and covers much of North America, Europe and the northern parts of Asia. ...
            Arid. ...
            Tropical. ...
            Mediterranean. ...
            Tundra. Most With subsets i.e. Rainforest monsoon
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  • Posted by Solver 6 years ago
    Not quite Darwin award material, but close.

    Warning! This is what will happen to the earth in seven 7.5 billion years!
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    • Posted by $ 6 years ago
      Sooner thatn that.
      Me dino just looked it up.
      In approximately 5 billion years, our yellow sun will burn through its hydrogen and expand into a red giant, consuming Mercury and Venus and reaching Earth.
      Any "intelligent" human life left on Earth, given even one billion (make that a million) years worth of opportunities to spread out and migrate deeper into the galaxy, will
      definitely show its ash.
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  • Posted by Lucky 6 years ago
    I hope it is not illegal or threatening to propose voluntary exit strategies for snowflakes whereby they could 'de-life' themselves at the lowest net contribution to carbon footprints.

    For example: give them the locations of pet food factories and renewable energy power plants, and volunteering at the Porton Down biological weapons lab would generate less carbon pollution than setting themselves alight with fossil fuel.
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    • Posted by $ 6 years ago
      During the 60s, I met a dude who was all impassioned, as were other young libs at the time, that everyone should be put down when they reached the age of 30.
      This would heal the world of stupid wars like Vietnam, various social ills and I suppose Republicans also.
      I'm certain that sentiment inspired Logan's Run during the 70s.
      The "Carrousel Renewal" of Logan's Run just may appeal to snowflakes.
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wjXp...
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  • Posted by lrshultis 6 years ago
    Might be bad, if your change of 'gay rights lawyer' to 'gay lawyer' was intensional. There is no evidence in the article that he was in fact gay.
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    • Posted by $ 6 years ago
      Not "intentional," that the proper spelling.
      Jumped to that conclusion with my only motive to shorten the title.
      Still, I'd bet $20 that he is gay while not saying that he is for a fact. .
      Odds seem to favor my bet. Could be wrong.
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      • Posted by lrshultis 6 years ago
        Sorry I recalled the wrong word which referred to the connotation of a concept and not the whether it was on purpose or not.
        However the article was about someone who for reasons about climate, burned himself to death. The work that he did and his sexual orientation and your guess as to that orientation has no relationship to his death.
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  • Posted by Jstork 6 years ago
    I wonder how much he inadvertently supported the petroleum industry via purchase of products derived from petroleum. From clothing, and packaging, to transportation. At least he did not take anyone else with him. Not to say that we should not watch and make as small of a footprint on this earth as we can. One of the problems slowing the advancement of better or alternative energy sources is the government. Our provincial government is proposing to spend my money (tax dollars) on a pipeline which I do not wish to support. Given the freedom, I would rather invest my money in other energy projects where I might make a profit. The barrel of the government so to speak.
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