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Published Letters: 159 Editor's Choice: 9
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Tell 'em Droogoy's coming-
[Read the article: The atheist delusion]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]- and the math's coming with him!
Keep up the good work.
Droogoy, I don't know if you saw my earlier post, but I was hoping you would contact me about global warming issues. You seem to know your stuff and I wanted to pick your brains to fill the gap in my own knowledge. If you could, email me at auntieentity@hotmail.com
Thanks! And keep on 'em!
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Hey zzz_05,
[Read the article: The year in celebrity scandal]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]- this has nothing to do with celebrity scandal, but I was hoping you would contact me re: global warming. I've read some of your posts on the subject here at Salon and was hoping you could help fill in some gaps in my knowledge.
email me at Auntieentity@hotmail.com if you would.
Thanks!
And yeah, anonymous wealth would be the way to go.
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Go Hillary! GO!
[Read the article: CNN, MSNBC: Obama wins Iowa]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm hoping Hillary gets second (assuming there is no chance she can still get first).
Yeah. I said it.
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Hillary rising
[Read the article: Barack Obama's breakthrough victory]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm still confident that Hillary Clinton will pull this out. She's tough that way, and we need tough for the road ahead.
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That's my girl.
[Read the article: For Clinton, a "voice" and a victory]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Woo Hoo! Go baby, go!
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"In this town, I'm the leper with the most fingers."
[Read the article: Bye-bye, Antarctica?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Exxon risks losing a lot of money due to global warming since they are, you know, causing a lot of it. They risk way more than the paltry 100K they used to front their junk science sites.
Like Roy Gittis, I'll follow the money.
And yeah, if you've read your history, big oil companies are pretty bad.
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Sweet Satisfaction
[Read the article: The best-laid plans]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The only thing better than Sloane Crosley's writing is hearing you people bitch about it.
Hah! She wrote a book about her life and somebody published it. Can't say the same for you loooosers. Double hah!
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Hillary gets the last laugh-
[Read the article: No, Hillary Clinton shouldn't be winning]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]- when she wins in the end.
And I'm totally on-board with that. She'll rough up Obama a bit as a warm up to devouring McCain.
For me that day can't come soon enough.
"Madam President" Start practicing, guys.
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Clinton had me with the nostalgia thing.
[Read the article: No, Hillary Clinton shouldn't be winning]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Eight years of peace and prosperity. Some light-hearted national-stage adultery. Those were good times! And I want those days back.
And HR Clinton's gonna give 'em to me.
And to us all, if we are lucky.
HRC 2008.
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Keep up the fight, LeCastor
[Read the article: Hey, Obama boys: Back off already!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Thank you for the thankless task of troll-slaying. Somebody has to do it, or they'll just nag the world into submission.
I, too, have noticed the Hillary hatred and the thinly veneered sexism. A veneer which is growing thinner by the minute.
I'm voting for HRC and after the naked hostility of the hate-trolls, the nag-trolls, and the concern-trolls, I think I'll kick another couple of hundred to her campaign.
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Is it just me-
[Read the article: Anti-science conservatives must be stopped]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]-or are the editor's picks on the first three pages of letters completely bizarre and random?
And, yeah, we need to get off our asses and start working on this climate change problem. Yeah, it'll cost. We've been warned about it for like 20 years now.
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Firing back
[Read the article: Anti-science conservatives must be stopped]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Man, some serious crazy coming out in the letters section.
But fear not, BrightStar, you are still the craziest. Your title is secure!
Some other fire-backs: Airistotle 1. Okay… so you’re saying that the IPCC can’t be trusted because of the involvement of bureaucrats with an agenda, and then you refer to a book by a… well… a bureaucrat (Vaclav Klaus) with an agenda.
“Hello, Pot? This is Kettle. You’re black.”
Brute. Ah Brute. If the science doesn’t agree with you, I suppose you can always flee to Political Science, Theology, and psychiatrics.
You claim, on one post that “observations in the last 10 years prove AGW false”, and then, in your response to Droogoy, claim that “accurate measurements beginning in 1979/1980; hardly a long-term analysis”. Did you not think anybody would notice?
The 70s global cooling thing. If you actually look at the scientific literature of the 70s, what you notice is that 7 articles predicted cooling, 44 predicted warming, and 20 were neutral on the subject. The 70s were a strange time, ugly hair and bad clothes had caught on in our culture, as did the idea of global cooling. I guess it was maybe a media construct? Or led to a lot of sci-fi books or something that has lodged the mistaken idea that in the 70s climate science predicted a cooling effect.
The hottest year in the U.S. in the 1930s Yeah. That the 1934 and 1998 were close contender for “hottest” year in US history is not now, nor has it ever been, any particular secret.
The petition thing. Ugh. The “Oregon Petition” again? A non-peer reviewed “article” mailed out to unsuspecting scientists and engineers and such that asked them, based on an included non-peer reviewed “article” to sign a petition urging the US not to sign the Kyoto Protocol? When you’re referencing the Petition Project, you have hit the bottom of the barrel.
As always, Taliesan, Droogoy, and Stet, good to see you all trying to ensure that truth will bear away the victory.
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Geez, Manacker, did you think we didn't have google?
[Read the article: Anti-science conservatives must be stopped]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]And wouldn't bother to type in the four plataeu articles you referenced? One of which (the Hadley) states that the plataeu is a temporary trend before the temperatures continue to increase. One of the often-cited references (Anthony Watts) on the correlation of the flat plataues has even had to request that deniers and delayers stop mis-quoting him.
And, of course, a four-year kinda-stable (depending on how you want to parse it) period really doesn't mean jack compared to the long-term trends. What is it with you people?
And don't even get me started on your weak attepts with the antartic ice. Publicola called you out and schooled you way better than I ever could.