tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5506451.post7164906982622795640..comments2023-10-31T06:44:26.393-07:00Comments on Billings Blog: Dumbest quoteDavidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00372790238744903272noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5506451.post-24043802290371344972008-03-18T15:34:00.000-07:002008-03-18T15:34:00.000-07:00Thanks.My feeling is that there's so many harsh th...Thanks.<BR/><BR/>My feeling is that there's so many harsh things being said at both ends of the spectrum that it makes it almost impossible to have a reasonable conversation. <BR/><BR/>I'll agree that it doesn't do much good to say that the science on global warming is all a pack of lies (although we do have to be open to the possibility that some of it is flawed).<BR/><BR/>Likewise, I don't Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5506451.post-55871183150999145122008-03-18T08:40:00.000-07:002008-03-18T08:40:00.000-07:00Anonymous 10:11,I don't think anyone knows the ans...Anonymous 10:11,<BR/>I don't think anyone knows the answer to your question, although I am sure there are people who would be happy to give you a ballpark figure. But the fact is, climate is extraordinarily complex and the different factors that make it up interact in complicated and not fully understood ways.<BR/><BR/>My quarrel is not with anyone who raises doubts about the significance of Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00372790238744903272noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5506451.post-62339366169163961342008-03-17T22:11:00.000-07:002008-03-17T22:11:00.000-07:00I was hoping someone would know the answer to my q...I was hoping someone would know the answer to my question. I figured that, with so many folks who "know" that Republicans are wrong about the science of global warming, they must know what science says about how much man is contributing to the problem.<BR/><BR/>Of course, maybe folks are just bored by the question or have moved on, but I'll still toss out the question again because I'm genuinely Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5506451.post-65428835882997788472008-03-16T15:46:00.000-07:002008-03-16T15:46:00.000-07:00I'm still hoping to learn how much of global warmi...I'm still hoping to learn how much of global warming is caused by man. Anyone?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5506451.post-33353241811703317842008-03-14T16:51:00.000-07:002008-03-14T16:51:00.000-07:00I believe the planet has warmed a bit over the las...I believe the planet has warmed a bit over the last century, and man has contributed to that warming. But I don't know the extent of man's contribution.<BR/><BR/>I wonder if those here who know the science -- and there seem to be many -- could tell me the scientific consensus on how much man is contributing to global warming. Is it 100 percent? 80 percent? 60 percent? 40 percent? Or some other Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5506451.post-37361045355692664002008-03-14T10:37:00.000-07:002008-03-14T10:37:00.000-07:00Mark: I think that you've just made an oxymoron. ...Mark: I think that you've just made an oxymoron. Anyone who thinks the world is only 6,000 years old is not very smart.Chuck Rightmirehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06985358507956039363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5506451.post-57287608296084891772008-03-13T17:07:00.000-07:002008-03-13T17:07:00.000-07:00Intelligence is overrated, but lack of curiosity i...Intelligence is overrated, but lack of curiosity is a fatal flaw. Bush lacks curiosity, and apparently so does McGee. He obviously knows nothing about the subject, and is sputtering about what he apparently believes to be a conspiracy involving thousands of people spanning continents and disciplines. <BR/><BR/>I know some very smart people who think the earth is 6,000 years old.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5506451.post-38738451155707069592008-03-13T12:35:00.000-07:002008-03-13T12:35:00.000-07:00Dan McGee and has a degree in geology and Roy Brow...Dan McGee and has a degree in geology and Roy Brown has a degree in Petroleum Engineering and neither are working in the oil business. <BR/><BR/>Draw your won conclusions.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5506451.post-37242333919091259092008-03-13T09:40:00.000-07:002008-03-13T09:40:00.000-07:00Follow Chuck Rightmire's good example on this subj...Follow Chuck Rightmire's good example on this subject, and in my arguments with him on several others: be courageous enough to sign your name to your post, and civil enough to address me by my first name instead of my last, and I will.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5506451.post-59610645698651493912008-03-13T04:36:00.000-07:002008-03-13T04:36:00.000-07:00Rye, I sent the last post too fast. I should also...Rye, I sent the last post too fast. I should also add that I don't know how logic can be considered politically conservative, middle of the road or liberal. Maybe you can explain??Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5506451.post-8580294033472182672008-03-13T04:34:00.000-07:002008-03-13T04:34:00.000-07:00To Dave Rye: A quote I once read seems applicable...To Dave Rye: A quote I once read seems applicable here. "While each of us is entitled to our own opinion, we are not entitled to our own set of facts." Thus, for example, one could still say, "in my opinion, the earth is flat." As to this topic, the fact is that there are 6+ billion people on this earth and we do "create" a could deal of waste, such as plastic bottles, CO2, chemicals. The Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5506451.post-90663760432364750012008-03-12T21:30:00.000-07:002008-03-12T21:30:00.000-07:00I don't know Dan McGee, but I do know that a degre...I don't know Dan McGee, but I do know that a degree in geology does not establish one's expertise on global warming. <BR/><BR/>Mr. McGee's records indicate that he graduated from Louisiana State University in 1969 with a bachelor of science degree. Other than that, he's taken some post-graduate courses in hydrology. How does that record stack up against University of Montana professor Steven Anitahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01659158275742664262noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5506451.post-17623374709465375442008-03-12T21:16:00.000-07:002008-03-12T21:16:00.000-07:00Actually, Dave, he may have had a degree in geolog...Actually, Dave, he may have had a degree in geology, but apparently he hasn't practiced in a long time. And he's also behind the Republican times because even the head ignoramus has finally admitted that humans are causing global warming. And a geologist is not truly a scientist unless he practices science instead of just finding rocks. He's at best a form of engineer and engineers make Chuck Rightmirehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06985358507956039363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5506451.post-33509497086660296292008-03-12T00:24:00.000-07:002008-03-12T00:24:00.000-07:00Dan McGee has a degree in geology. He probably kn...Dan McGee has a degree in geology. He probably knows more about the subject than did anyone else in the room at the EQC meeting. <BR/><BR/>How easy it is to throw out slurs such as "never been the sharpest tool in the box" under the cloak of anonymity. The truth is that Dan McGee is very smart indeed, so I suspect it is Dan's consistent, principled, and articulate conservatism that grates on Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5506451.post-44349993204708366682008-03-11T19:44:00.000-07:002008-03-11T19:44:00.000-07:00Sue Dickenson's comment about the stork is pricele...Sue Dickenson's comment about the stork is priceless.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5506451.post-43183543973285733812008-03-11T16:49:00.000-07:002008-03-11T16:49:00.000-07:00David, I agree. But Dan has never been the sharpe...David, I agree. But Dan has never been the sharpest tool in the box. In any event, common sense tells one that 6+ billion people with all of our factories, waste, pollution has got to have some effect.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com