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Mythbusters: Five reasons why even global warming skeptics should support a carbon tax
Pay Your Air Share ^ | 2/8/2009 | M. Harrison

Posted on 02/08/2008 10:14:24 AM PST by tang0r

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To: tang0r

BS


41 posted on 02/08/2008 11:50:19 AM PST by CMAC51
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To: Syncro

“What they say about dolphins; It’s true, it’s true!!!”


42 posted on 02/08/2008 11:57:06 AM PST by Hegewisch Dupa
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To: tang0r; Killing Time; Beowulf; Mr. Peabody; RW_Whacko; honolulugal; SideoutFred; Ole Okie; ...


FReepmail me to get on or off
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Go MythBusters!
43 posted on 02/08/2008 11:58:01 AM PST by xcamel (Two-hand-voting now in play - One on lever, other holding nose.)
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To: tang0r

IDIOCY.


44 posted on 02/08/2008 12:04:29 PM PST by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
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To: tang0r
New doofus theory:

Even if the danger is totally imaginary, additional taxes are good for everybody.

Ummmmmm.
Ok.

45 posted on 02/08/2008 12:05:51 PM PST by Publius6961 (MSM: Israelis are killed by rockets; Lebanese are killed by Israelis.)
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To: tang0r

The Price of Oil increased by 250% in the last 3 years.

It never made a dent in the consumption of Oil.

So the premise that a Carbon tax will reduce consumption or carbon emmissions is falsified.


46 posted on 02/08/2008 12:10:49 PM PST by JustDoItAlways
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To: N. Theknow
Your car, er, SUV, (and mine) funds Bin Laden. Every dollar we spend on Gulf (and, now, it appears, Russian, Venezuelan and etc.) oil, we send money to those that want to wipe America off the face of the planet.

Man-made global warming is total BS in my humble evaluation of the scientific evidence, but I am now a national security "greenie." Give me an electric car built by an American car company and powered by sunlight shining on the lower 48 states!

47 posted on 02/08/2008 1:02:34 PM PST by rebel_yell2
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To: Hegewisch Dupa

It’s still a great show. A little eye candy doesn’t hurt.


48 posted on 02/08/2008 2:32:37 PM PST by driftless2
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To: driftless2

Hell - it’s a better show now ;)


49 posted on 02/08/2008 3:07:30 PM PST by Hegewisch Dupa
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To: tang0r
The way to answer whether there is a scientific consensus about the effects of man on the climate is to seek the expert opinions of as many climatologists and economists as possible. (Think the AP and Coaches' polls in college football.)

Strikingly horrible analogy.

I don't know what the guy knows about climate science, (he admits nothing special) but he obviously knows even less about college football.

And he somehow thinks that 'consensus has something to do with the scientific process. That consensus thing went out with Galileo and didn't return to the Western world until a D+ college science student named Al Gore decided it did.

50 posted on 02/08/2008 10:43:33 PM PST by Ditto (Global Warming: The 21st Century's Snake Oil)
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To: rebel_yell2
Give me an electric car built by an American car company and powered by sunlight shining on the lower 48 states!

Stop over my place tomorrow. I'll sell you one.

Keep in mind, I don't offer any warranties or anything, but I'll sell you a car that does that.

If it were that damn easy, it would have been done a long time ago. People just don't understand the amazing thing that oil is as far as energy per volume. The only thing that tops it is nuclear.

Oh... BTW, I sell nuclear powered cars too.

No warranty.

51 posted on 02/08/2008 10:50:31 PM PST by Ditto (Global Warming: The 21st Century's Snake Oil)
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To: Always Right

The article repeated the assumption regarding our “dangerous” dependence on ME oil. Is the author even aware that we get most of our imported oil from Canada and Mexico? And that the ME has plenty more countries lined up to buy “our” share if we were to boycott them?

And I am beginning to despise “consensus” suggestions; as Michael Crichton said (something to the effect of), science doesn’t need consensus, politics needs consensus. In science, you are either right or wrong. On this point, the climate change alarmists are WRONG.

I don’t disagree about planning for future natural disasters or fuel shortage issues, however, just not within the context of this farce of climate change.


52 posted on 02/09/2008 4:44:20 AM PST by alwaysconservative (Don't forget that you're unique--just like everybody else.)
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To: xcamel

Thanks for the pings!


53 posted on 02/09/2008 4:45:42 AM PST by alwaysconservative (Don't forget that you're unique--just like everybody else.)
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To: Army Air Corps

>>>Do I get any credits for an activated charcoal filter?

Only if installed in your knickers.


54 posted on 02/09/2008 4:48:09 AM PST by Keith in Iowa ( <<<Say NO! to Juan McAmnesty!>>>!!! <<<Life's a bitch, don't elect one President.>>>)
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To: Hegewisch Dupa

As much as I love that Kari, I don’t think THIS “MythBuster” has ANYTHING AT ALL to do with the show.

I see NOTHING to suggest it at this point. Maybe I’m wrong but until someone proves it, I would just put it aside.

And this was written by a libertarian, not a leftist.


55 posted on 02/09/2008 5:02:33 AM PST by Skywalk (Transdimensional Jihad!)
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To: tang0r

M. Harrison=Jim Jones


56 posted on 02/09/2008 5:23:34 AM PST by Navy Patriot (John McCain, the Manchurian Candidate.)
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