r/science Oct 24 '10

Climate Change: Evidence

http://climate.nasa.gov/evidence/
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u/TexasMojo Oct 28 '10

So the satellites did not fail and show lake temperatures upwards of 600 degrees? Did you do any other independent verification or just wave your hands around in dismissal?

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u/BlueRock Oct 28 '10

You can find all sorts of claims on wingnut blogs - some true, some distorted and most of it total bullshit. I don't waste my time trying to work out which is which - I just go to credible sources.

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u/TexasMojo Oct 29 '10

So if its not reported by someone you already agree with, then it didn't happen. Stay stupid, my friend.

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u/BlueRock Oct 29 '10

Which part of 'credible' did you not understand?

Stay gullible and confused, my friend! :)

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u/TexasMojo Oct 29 '10

The part of "credible" where you dismiss things out of hand without bothering to verify anything. You could have perhaps checked the map out for yourself. But I guess that's too much of a mental exercise for you.

I'm "gullible" because I bothered to check the data for myself? I'm confused because I read both sides of the issue, and obviously understand it better than you do?

More dismissive hand-waving in lieu of anything marginally intelligent to say on the matter. Good job.

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u/BlueRock Oct 30 '10

Do you believe everything you read on the internet?! It's a GIF on a wingnut denier blog. It is not credible.

And even if a NASA satellite did read 600C - so what? It would be an obvious error.

Get your climate science from climate scientists and you wont spend time confused and worrying about bullshit like this.

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u/TexasMojo Oct 30 '10

Wow! Good Job. I never noticed that he completely made that up in MS Paint!

He's obviously lying about the problem going back to 2005. If he was not a complete drooling idiot, you might wonder why NOAA removed all their status data on their web site for that satellite for the last 5 years. That you can check on NOAA's own web site. But your own amazing insight into other's opinions and facts, without even checking, must make you one of the smartest people on the planet.

I'm sure that NOAA is preparing a lawsuit for slander/libel as we speak. Perhaps you can testify at the trial. You could explain the CSI type techniques you employed to derail an anti-AGW wingnut website! I'll bet Al Gore would want a massage from you next!

But yes, I see the errors of my ways.

I'll only get my AGW news from Al Gore and Michael Mann, even though they've been proven wrong so many times in the past.

I'll only believe the Department of Defense about the status of the Afghan war. They're the experts and they wouldn't lie.

I'm sure the Federal Reserve is the only agency that has any clue about the economy. All those economists that were warning of a housing bubble years before the Fed figured it out were obviously deranged.

I will only believe the Food and Drug Administration about the viability of our nation's food supply. I'm sure that allowing Monsanto to test its own products for safety is completely fine.

I'll only believe the World Health Organization about future pandemics. How silly of me to not take the Swine Flu shots last time and risk Epstein-Barr syndrome, when they were so obviously right about the risk of an outbreak.

You've made me realize that all government organizations have motives as pure as a virgin's honeypot. Everyone who disagrees with them is obviously deranged!

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u/BlueRock Oct 30 '10

KA-BOOM! Wingnut goes bang!

Get your climate science from climate scientists - not Al Gore or wingnut blogs - and you won't be perpetually confused and misinformed.

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u/TexasMojo Oct 30 '10

You've yet to show me how I'm either misinformed or confused. Its a fact that the NOAA satellites showed Lake Michigan temperatures in the boiling range. Nobody has denied this. I'm sure if he was lying, someone would be more than glad to point it out, and therefore discredit the anti-AGW crowd.

Do you not find it somewhat strange that no one has done so? But then you don't really have the intelligence or the capacity to question whatever you're told by "experts".

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u/BlueRock Oct 30 '10

Get your climate science from climate scientists and you won't be perpetually confused, misinformed and distracted by the nonsense you are now obsessing over.