The world is insane

I don't have a huge amount of time, but I will post my position on global warming, backed up by accepted scientific truths.

Fossil fuels (coal, oil and gas) are made up of extremely pure carbon. This is an accepted scientific fact.

When a fossil fuel is burnt, it's components are turned primarily to gas. These gases include carbon dioxide and sulphur dioxide (which causes acid rain when coal of high sulphuric content is combusted). This is an accepted scientific fact.

Since the industrial revolution, humans have begun using fossil fuels on an unprecedented scale. Ergo, unprecedented amounts of carbon dioxide is being released into the atmosphere via the burning of fossil fuels. This is an accepted scientific fact.

Carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas.The main greenhouse gases in the Earth's atmosphere are water vapour, carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, and ozone. These gases are what retains the sun's heat in the atmosphere and allows life to exist. This again, is a proven scientific fact.

Therefore, an increase in the amount of greenhouse gases present in the atmosphere via increased combustion of fossil fuels allows more heat to be contained in the atmosphere. As usual, this is an accepted scientific fact.

There have been dozens of studies conducted on global warming by independent bodies, and time and time again the same result has occurred.

Man-caused global warming is a scientific fact, accept it.

 

Taxation is not theft, it is a payment for the services (roads, hospitals etc) it is used for.

 

For a change, why don't you tell us WHY global warming doesn't exist? All you have done is claimed anything anyone has posted as irrelevant, and added nothing to the debate.

If you can't, I think I'll make a thread claiming god doesn't exist and deny any attempt to prove me wrong.

 

I have already provided you with several accepted facts which show global warming to be true. What more do you want?

 

It's theft when you get a gun shoved in your mouth if you refuse to pay. Try going door to door and saying,

'Hi, I'm selling newspapers. I'm just gonna go ahead and take this twenty out of your pocket, okay? What's that sir? You don't want my paper? That's okay, you don't have to get it, you're just going to have to give me the money for it. I'll be back next month too. What? You won't give it next month? Well, if you're going to be that way.. I'm going to have some of my friends come and lock you up for a while until you cough up. You won't go willingly? You'll defend yourself? Well, unfortunately, they're going to shoot you if you struggle.'

 

Do I need to post exactly what I posted above?

Burning fossil fuels creates carbon.

Carbon as a greenhouse gas is what has always kept the earth's temperature liveable and stable.

As more greenhouses gases are released by burning, there is more carbon in the atmosphere.

Therefore, more heat is retained and the earth becomes warmer.


This time, instead of claiming all my statements are irrelevant, why not try and tell me why?

Burden of proof does not mean you can deny any argument.

 

Care to inform me of one occasion when people have been physically intimidated for not paying taxes?

 

The fact that we could do without something does not render it nonexistent, simply unimportant.

Governments: Merely an ideal set up in order to keep some order, not necessary and not something to kill people over. If they choose to instate dictators as their leader, they get what's coming to them, and there is no reason for us to bail them out, other than to look good. Also, it usually involved killing many to save many, so who's worse, us or the dictator?

Gods: "My invisible friend is real, yours isn't. As such, I will kill millions of your people and heavily subdue the remaining huddled masses. After you have been tortured for 20 years, maybe then you'll see the light and worship my God."

Global Warming: There's multiple other reasons for there to be an increase in carbon dioxide, if that even is the cause. It's more of a "wait and see" thing at this point, so far as I know. Educate me if the situation is otherwise.

National borders: This is more of a battle for resources, not "my country is bigger than yours" bragging rights. Understandable in some ways, although the abolition of any borders or governments would solve this instantaneously. If governments everywhere were abolished, I'd probably cling to the intellectual few, and we could probably recruit some manual labor. Carve out a little niche in the Sierra's and feed on bears. That'd be the life.

As for the rest of what you listed, those are just PR moves by government. Politicians want to get re-elected? Feed the poor! Fund the churches! Cut taxes! Mass criminal round-up! Multiple ploys to look good and clean a filthy conscious, stained by unfulfilled campaign promises and dirty deals. It's a game of politics, and those that know what strings to pull and find what appeals most to a society that's getting increasingly humanistic are the ones that get re-elected, and can slide some of their personal desires into the deals they make with 3rd-parties and in the bills they pass in the form of pork-barrel spending.

 

I don't need to find any occasions, it's policy. Of course the government wouldn't physically attack someone for not paying. (lol not openly anyways)


Compare the two:

1) I shoot mobsters that are attempting to kidnap me. The shooting was in self defense. Result: No action taken by anyone. Self defense killing is not immoral.

2) I shoot city police officers that are attempting to kidnap me. The shooting was in self defense. Result: I receive a punishment anywhere between years in Government rape rooms to riding the lightning.

It's aggravated rape. Not only are they raping you, but they refuse to call it rape. They insist that it must be called consensual.

 

Your argument is fallacious as you have no evidence.

 

You do realize Global Warming has been debunked, already, right? Several scientists are calling it a political movement in which they're simply trying to scare people into giving them more money, and more power (which is very normal).

We're actually inbetween ice ages. It's theorized that the world experiences an Ice Age every 10,000 years, and we're supposedly at like the 11,000 mark or some shit.

I'd prefer global warming over an ice age, tbh. What's gonna happen is it's gonna heat up a little bit, then it's gonna get cold... real cold.


And to answer the question, Sythe, according to Henry Markham, we're all merely natural experiments. The brain has evolved and is developing in the typical way. We're a new race, and my bet is that we don't last long as the development wouldn't be done at the stage it is. Think about how far humans themselves have come in the way of brain development. And then think about how far we may one day go... it's merely all adapting.

The wars, and shit, aren't our leaders' fault, tbh, they're our fault as we encourage such activities. I'm sure, soon, something will happen to send the world into chaos once again. Maybe this generation can have some fun and destroy our current social class!

 

Read the rest of my post. Basically I should've just quoted the paper currencies part. Ever held a dollar? Well in the case that you have ever been in possession of paper currency, you've obviously fulfilled the empirical evidence as has been requested of me. All of the rest are simply ideals with horrifically real ramifications.