That's lib think for ya.

At least there is one less IDIOT walking the streets and trying to manipulate people with idiotic ideas.

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.

I actually laugh my ass off when I read about this last week. I wish more would take his example and run with it.

My immediate thought, and I apologize for its calloused nature, was that he flamed out.

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.

Yep! Live and let live I say.

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.

As Mark twain said, " IT is not always easy to be eccentric. Sometimes it takes work. But if they want to be I say let them..." lol

Maybe he could not tollerate the hate he felt for himself, being a white privileged male and all. So he rationalized an exit strategy.

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.

Unbeknownst to this galawyer, by incinerating him/her self may have caused a bit of localized temporary climate warming. Bad, bad nancy boy...no twinkies for you!
Had he thought about it, he could of at least ashed himself on a Wednesday!...

Yes, who are we to stand in the way of a man's harm no one (else) pursuit of happiness?

"these chasing times"a good tune; now we're into
"these changing climes"

Addition by subtraction.

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...

A little Clorox in the gene pool from time to time is never a bad thing.

If it makes him happier to be burned alive, by all means go for it.

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.

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.

Using post-modernist critical theory, Climate Change is nothing more than a social construct created by the oppressors used to oppress.

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

Not me. Me dino has written "The climate is always changing" here many times.
Maybe I also wrote "--has always been--."
Both work.

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?