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  1. In Topic: The psychology and sociology of the International Global Warming Debate

    11 May 2012 - 07:07 PM

    never thought of it from this side but obviously relevant


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    Climate scientists have been consistently downplaying and underestimating the risks for three main reasons. First, their models tended to ignore the myriad amplifying carbon cycle feedbacks that we now know are kicking in (such as the defrosting tundra).

    Second, they never imagined that the nations of the world would completely ignored their warnings, that we would knowingly choose catastrophe. So until recently they hardly ever seriously considered or modeled the do-nothing scenario, which is a tripling (820 ppm) or quadrupling (1100 ppm) of preindustrial levels of carbon dioxide over the next hundred years or so. In the last 2 or 3 years, however, the literature in this area has exploded and the picture it paints is not pretty (see “An Illustrated Guide to the Science of Global Warming Impacts: How We Know Inaction Is the Gravest Threat Humanity Faces“).

    Third, as Blakemore (and others) have noted, the overwhelming majority of climate scientists are generally reticent and cautious in stating results — all the more so in this case out of the mistaken fear that an accurate diagnosis would somehow make action less likely. Yes, it’d be like a doctor telling a two-pack-a-day patient with early-stage emphysema that their cough is really not that big a deal, but would they please quit smoking anyway. We live in a world, however, where anyone who tries to explain what the science suggests is likely to happen if we keep doing nothing is attacked as an alarmist by conservatives, disinformers, and their enablers in the media.

    http://thinkprogress...reat/?mobile=nc

  2. In Topic: Has our BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION ended?

    03 May 2012 - 11:31 PM

    http://theconversati...r+so+many+years

  3. In Topic: Obesity: Why are we getting fat? :epizza:

    22 April 2012 - 03:08 PM

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    The bipartisan Mississippi legislation, which proposed to ban restaurants from serving fat people purportedly to help them lose weight, has highlighted the most popular misconception about fat people. One that even a lot of fat people have been led to believe: that they overeat and that’s why they’re obese.
    This concept has been drilled into us and “everybody knows” it to be true. But is it?

    http://junkfoodscien...lieve-that.html


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    The thrifty genotype hypothesis has been used to explain high, and rapidly escalating, levels of obesity and diabetes among groups newly introduced to western diets and environments, from South Pacific Islanders,[10] to Sub Saharan Africans,[11] to Native Americans in theSouthwestern United States,[12] to Inuit.[13]

    http://en.wikipedia....gene_hypothesis

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    Inactivity Does Not Cause Obesity: Study Confirms Dr. Hanan Polansky’s Starved Gene Theory
    shareshare ROCHESTER, N.Y., July 15, 2010 — According to a recent longitudinal study in children, inactivity does not lead to fatness! Moreover, the authors concluded that fatness is driving inactivity, and not the other way around. The authors noted that this “reverse causality” explains the observed association between inactivity and fatness. It also explains the repeated failures of the attempts to reduce childhood obesity by increasing physical activity. The study was published in the Archives of Disease in Childhood by Dr. Brad Metcalf and colleagues from Plymouth, UK.

    Surprised? You shouldn’t be, if you’re familiar with Dr. Hanan Polansky’s theory on the cause of obesity published in his highly acclaimed “Purple Book.” According to Dr. Polansky, the cause of obesity, and other major diseases, is a chronic infection with one of the most common viruses. The cause of obesity is not lack of activity, and it’s not “bad” eating habits!


    How do chronic viruses cause obesity?
    http://www.ereleases...ne-theory-38069

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    When famine came, some people starved and others survived. The survivors were the ones who had genes for efficient fat storage. Maybe they also had genes for a slow metabolism so they didn't burn calories too fast. The people who carried these "thrifty" genes lived to reproduce. They passed the traits on to their children
    http://www.vegan-wei...ic-obesity.html

  4. In Topic: The psychology and sociology of the International Global Warming Debate

    17 April 2012 - 12:08 AM

    What Is The Disinformation Campaign.

    The sociological literature of the disinformation campaign describes this phenomenon as a counter-movement. (See, for example, McCright and Dunlap, 2000: 559) A counter-movement is a social movement that has formed in reaction to another movement. (McCright and Dunlap, 2000: 504.)

    The climate change disinformation campaign can be understood to be a continuation of the counter-movements that arose among US political conservatives in reaction to the environmental, civil rights, women's rights, and anti-war movements that arose in the 1960's in the United States.

    And so, the climate change disinformation campaign's methods and processes can be understood to be an extension of strategies that had already been developed among some, although not all, conservatives to counter the environmental movement that had developed in the late 1960s and 1970s around other environmental issues such as air and water pollution, safe disposal of waste and toxic substances, and protection of wetlands and endangered species.




    The climate change disinformation movement can be understood to be comprised of many organizations and participants including conservative think tanks, front groups, Astroturf groups, conservative media, and individuals. This disinformation campaign, as we shall see, frequently uses the tactics discussed in this series to convince people and politicians that the science supporting climate change policies is flawed. The central claims of the climate change disinformation movement have been:


    • There is no warming.
    • Its not caused by humans.
    • Reducing greenhouse gas emissions will cause more harm than good.
    (McCright and Dunlap, 2010: 111)


    To support these basic counter-claims, as we shall see, the climate denial machine frequently has made claims that mainstream climate scientists are corrupt or liars, descriptions of adverse climate change impacts are made by "alarmists," scientific journals that publish climate related research are biased against skeptics, and mainstream climate science is "junk" science. As we shall also see, the climate change disinformation machine also has made frequent ad hominem attacks on those who produce climate change science and sometimes has cyber-bullied both climate scientists and journalists.

    The climate change disinformation campaign began in the 1980s

    http://rockblogs.psu.edu/climate/

  5. In Topic: Global Warming

    17 April 2012 - 12:04 AM


    Disinformation, Social Stability and Moral Outrage
    By DONALD A BROWN on February 25, 2012 4:53 PM| 14 Comments | 0 TrackBacks    Preface. ClimateEthics has recently completed a detailed four part series on the ethical dimensions of climate change disinformation campaign in which we distinguish between responsible skepticism and the ethically abhorrent tactics of the climate change disinformation campaign. See the last entry:Irresponsible Skepticism: Lessons Learned From the Climate Disinformation Campaign

    The following entry by guest blogger, Dr. Kenneth Shockley, Associate Professor, University of Buffalo, makes a strong case that the nature of the harm caused by the disinformation campaign calls for collective moral outrage.




    Disinformation, Social Stability and Moral Outrage



    Those who deny the reality, importance, or magnitude of climate change warrant our collective outrage. Whether by action or inaction, their denial blinds us to the risks, vulnerabilities, and threats to our well-being posed by climate change. Insofar as claims of ignorance are becoming increasingly implausible, those who support or propagate the disinformation campaign about climate change are guilty of more than deception. They are guilty of exacerbating risks to our collective well-being and of undermining society.
    http://rockblogs.psu.edu/climate/

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    Michaelangelica 

    06 Nov 2011 - 22:54
    Hello sigurdV
    It would be very boring if we were all the same.
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    sigurdV 

    30 Jun 2011 - 13:58
    Just wanted to say hello...we are so different:)
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    Turtle 

    08 Apr 2011 - 19:26
    scwheet! does PG degree mean post-graduate? did you ever get any of those violets to grow? i have amny dozens of plants now from letting them spread. :) well, i'll let you off with just a warning then. :lol: take care & thanks for the new(s) articles today.
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    Turtle 

    08 Apr 2011 - 14:10
    how ya doin' these days Michael? we're kinda missing you around here. :)
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    Jet2 

    28 Sep 2010 - 08:49
    Hi there. Long time no chat!
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    ChrisN 

    02 Aug 2010 - 18:15
    Hi, See my post on your music education thread. Then check out [url=http://www.sistemaaustralia.com.au]Sistema Australia[/url] Best Chris [email]chrisn@sistemaaustralia.com.au[/email]
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    wheely will 

    02 Feb 2010 - 14:47
    Michaelangelica-- I want to thank you for the guidance you gave me in improving my arguement about Cascara and its dangers. Also, I was delighted with the published articles that you sent me. I'm so happy someone didn't just try to shoot me down. Look forward to hearing from you again. Wheely will
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    Michaelangelica 

    31 Jan 2010 - 23:52
    still no Violets. This may save me a fortune. I won't buy all the rare Violet seed I have found on the WWW !
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    Michaelangelica 

    31 Jan 2010 - 23:46
    Eyes are too hard. Celandine was used folklorically but i wouldn't recommend it. Do they have macular degeneration,(my head is in the way!) degeneration, glaucoma or cataracts? The best thing with everyone over say 45 is to have regular check-ups with an eye specialist--not a optometrist. By regualr I mean every 2 years and then every year after 65. It is too hard loosing your sight when you are old. Some recommend dietary supplements but i am not sure what they are. In the herbal tradition/history most people were dead by 45!
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    maikeru 

    31 Jan 2010 - 01:13
    Michaelangelica, knowing your familiarity with herbs, could you recommend any for improving eyesight in old age? For my parents. Would be much appreciated.
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    Michaelangelica 

    15 Jan 2010 - 20:54
    Funny. Last week I read that they neede afrost to germinate! So I stuck them in acold frig for afew days pot and all. We will see.
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    Turtle 

    11 Jan 2010 - 16:24
    hey buddy: :hi: just found out from makieru that the violet seeds need a cold period. >> [url]http://hypography.com/forums/earth-science/21525-in-the-pursuit-of-better-apple.html#post289964[/url] that is all. :turtle: ps your pm box is full. ;)
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    Dd'sEvilTwin 

    26 Dec 2009 - 11:31
    Mwuhahaha!!! an urge to pester sends me to you:evil: Pop Quiz 1. Why do we need a hot water heater? If it's hot it doesn't need to be heated. 2. How can we have jumbo shrimp? 3. Why isn't phonetic spelled the way it sounds? 4. Why do our noses run and our feet smell? 5. Why does quicksand work slowly? 6. Why are boxing rings square? 7. Why, when lights are out, they are invisible, but when the stars are out, they are visible? 8. Why do we call them apartments when they are all together? 9. If cows laughed, would milk come out of their noses? 10. Why does Denny's have locks on the door if it's open 24 hours? 11. Why do ships carry cargoes and cars carry shipments? 12. When will a building actually become a built?
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    Chacmool 

    23 Dec 2009 - 21:51
    :santa: [COLOR="Red"]Happy holidays![/COLOR] :xmas_gift:
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    pamela 

    23 Dec 2009 - 19:31
    Seasons greetings!!! :)
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