Recent content by Reflective

discussing Global Warming? If so, is that some sort of American colloquialism used by children/teens? (Doesn't "fake" usually mean "counterfeit"?) I spent many years in the UK but have not encountered this sort of usage. Is this teen slang?

...basis of your decision? (Obviously, if you have never held some other position from your present one, you never made such a decision and don't have a basis.)

...sufficient reason to commit hari kari? As I have followed these debates, I've often been frustrated by what I read. But somehow, I reached critical mass -- and went off the deep end -- when I came to this contribution to the forum's wisdom: "Other than AGW and ocean acidification, there...

DESPITE "An Inconvenient Truth"? Considering the howlers, exaggerations, and just plain errors in "An Inconvenient Truth", I can understand why Al Gore probably made a lot of thinking people very skeptical of his Global Warming hypothesis. So did many of you have to consciously ignore the...

...in the movie? ....and why didn't anybody in his audiences or in the movie's production proofread or correct some of the more embarrassing errors and "urban legends" in it? I finally saw the movie as broadcast on U.S. cable television this weekend. I was most shocked at the number of glaring...

...produce more snow? I grew up in a Midwestern farm state where -- much like the Atlantic coastal states -- warmer winters generally meant more winter snow (and therefore a better winter wheat crop). So why are so many Global Warming opponents speaking as if record snow storms are some kind of...

...is some kind of concession? ......of some sort of error in the term "Global Warming"? We all know that the existence of thermal conveyors would mean that under global warming conditions, some areas are bound to COOL as the conveyors are disrupted. (Just to use one example.) So in the light...

...religion/science debates.....? ......considering that Occam's Razor is neither? (Is it simply a matter of general ignorance among an under-educated general public or was the argument promoted by some prominent writer?)