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Call to Earth - A Message from the World's Astronauts to COP21

posted by martyb on Tuesday December 08 2015, @10:26PM   Printer-friendly
from the there-is-only-one-earth dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

A plea from orbiting solar farmers on the ISS to COP21 (The United Nations Climate Change Conference): "open your eyes!"

The Association of Space Explorers reached out to their fellow astronauts to pass on a simple message of solidarity, hope and collaboration to combat climate change and reach our political leaders during such a crucial time.

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  • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Tuesday December 08 2015, @11:34PM

    by FatPhil (863) <reversethis-{if.fdsa} {ta} {tnelyos-cp}> on Tuesday December 08 2015, @11:34PM (#273701) Homepage
    Nonsense. Climate change is just something that people on *both sides* (both scientists and loons) have been lying about. There needs to a be a Stalinesque purge of all the generals of both sides (and of the footsoldiers who were complicit in the hiding of the facts), and an agreement that if anyone repeats the same mistakes, they too will only be able to publish in for-pay vanity journals in the future.

    Fortunately, culling all the scientists who've spouted bullcrap, and all the loons who've spouted bullcrap will leave us with a fair number of less attention-seeking scientists, and almost no loons.
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  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Ethanol-fueled on Wednesday December 09 2015, @12:57AM

    by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Wednesday December 09 2015, @12:57AM (#273734) Homepage

    We could be headed toward a death spiral of climate change meaning the end of humanity in 15 years, but thanks to politicization of environmental issues by psychopathic shit-eating politicians, nobody would believe it.

    The general population would believe with justification that politicians were doing their usual fearmongering to squeeze even more behavioral compliance and tax monies out of people at worst and putting on of a phoney totally-righteous handwavey shitshow to distract them from the death and destruction caused my a more immediate issue: Western governments using terrorism to implement neo-colonialism.

    If there was one single situation where "shoot first, ask questions later" applied, it would be in the context of your message.

  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 09 2015, @01:13AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 09 2015, @01:13AM (#273735)

    > Nonsense. Climate change is just something that people on *both sides* (both scientists and loons) have been lying about.

    Fallacy of false balance. Getting tired of stupid teenager shit like that on a site full of greybeards.

    • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Wednesday December 09 2015, @10:20AM

      by FatPhil (863) <reversethis-{if.fdsa} {ta} {tnelyos-cp}> on Wednesday December 09 2015, @10:20AM (#273872) Homepage
      Dafuq?!? It's nothing to do with "false balance", there was no mention of consensus, the media, or non-existence of real extremes.

      What has been going on is (a) the noisiest loons spouting unsupportable claims; and (b) the noisiest scientists doing *bad science* (such as "Mike's trick"), and *fraudulent* reporting of results (like "hiding the decline"). Those are documented facts. (For (a) see the rebuttals by reliable scientists, and for (b) see the rebuttals by reliable scientists.)

      But I'm repeating myself, and apparently you have pitiful comprehensions skills, so I'm not sure why I bothered.
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      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 09 2015, @04:55PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 09 2015, @04:55PM (#273998)

        Gee, you gave two positions and equated them as equally bad. Sounds like characterizing it as balance.

        Perhaps the problem is you are so deep in the derp that you can't comprehend how unintentionally revealing your own words are.