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I'd guess the "Inconvenient Truth" did more to entrench his opposition and stagnate any practical progress by his extensive use of hyperbole and worst-case predictions.
Anyone who wasn't drinking...

No. I've a more sophisticated sense of what constitutes knowledge than your average internet junkie.

Sometimes, but not merely because I read it.

Show me evidence otherwise and I'll change my mind. That's the difference between science and fanaticism.

Not that I expect someone who can't distinguish between knowledge and belief, let alone...

It's 100% real. Any long-view of world climate shows that the climate is always changing. It is currently warming, that much is well established. No one with any sense is denying global warming at...

Your local weather is not the global climate.

Any given day can be warm or cold. The predictions are in the single digits for the average yearly temperature. Variance leads to all kinds of odd...

IDK, but it's a moot point.
What matters is that we know it's happening, we know the causes, and we know that IF humanity's contribution to the global sources are the tipping point, then it's too...

To stand under and understand is all the same
-Shakespeare: "Two Gentlemen of Verona"

If you can't understand the answers, then either A) you're not trying to or B) you're not smart enough to
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I don't believe you hear it. If you heard it, you wouldn't need to ask that question.

You would be asking other questions. Questions about how to adapt what you understand to the bits of truth...

All of that just affirms my initial statement.

To wit:

You asked what the other side's point is and I told you a piece of it.
You're not ready to hear it yet, or you are, and you do, and you...

I'm certain that when you're ready and able to hear "the point," you will realize that it's been coming at you from all sides all along. You just don't feel it, so you probably think it's fake, or...

Yes... and no.

Our habitats and eating habits will be altered, but we're not going extinct over any foreseeable amount of climate change.

Humans live in every known environment on the planet...

You want me to come to physical harm for refusing to offer a student the illusion of education rather than actually educating them?

more to the point:
You want me to come to harm over some words...

Because it's not the humans (with our ability to climate control the inside of buildings, i.e. our own environments) which are threatened by the rapid change.

In general, I don't see the direct...

That's how I first approached this thread, too.

What I've learned:
The biggest problem is the cost-benefit analysis of taking action is a total unknown.


As I was taught in Ethics class,...

SMH.

Ostriches hiding their heads in the sand.
I doubt that's a real thing for ostriches, but damn if it doesn't describe people.

No worries; if you did, I got over it.


1/x goes to 0 as x tends toward infinity.
y/0 is undefined for all y.
(Except sometimes using L'Hopital's rule)

It's ambiguous use of language to say...

Lazy hatin' inspires my melodramatic side.

You are free to stipulate this as an axiom, and explore the corner of math that you've created by adding this axiom.

The reason this is not a part of broader mathematics is because of the logical...

What is "it?" Are you certain it's the same it both times?

Regardless, whoever told you that was making it up. Ain't nobody observed inside an event horizon, let alone a singularity. The math...

You are defining infinity as identical to infinitely small.
Might as well be saying that lightning is the same as a lightning bug.

Infinity is a concept of unendingness. To use this concept as...

I'd like to think poop is working on this.[/QUOTE]

To solidify ImSavy's answer, that sum is 0 due to the fact that, while there are an uncountable infinity of numbers between any 2 numbers, there...

X [apples] has not ever been reproducibly observed to equal Y [oranges], yet.
Not even when X = Y.

0 volume is not the same as 0 density, or any amount of density, even infinite.

0 volume is...

Past, present, or future is not the same for all observers; the order of events is not the same for all observers.

What is the same for all observers is causality. Any events that happen in...

*sigh*
Agreed.

He's pretty cool, huh?

I'm gonna have to land on the side of boneheaded, then.

Whether or not the universe contains a mind to observe it seems a trivial fact. I do not believe that any mind (as I understand the...