Climate change threatens to strip identity of Glacier National Park

[Zipperfish]

Reality is a great ideology.

In your case, not so much.

 

[EagleSmack]

you couldn't intelligently discuss a single related subject... you choose to remain in denial... simply for denials sake! It's your comfort zone! You don't know why you like it... you just feel better without all that factual sciency stuff getting in your way. That's why you revert to your strengths in dropping your cutesy images. I expect it's the only way you're able to actually contribute to these threads... isn't it?

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[taxslave]

I suppose it is. Myself, I don't think you should be anti-AGW or pro-AGW. I think you should follow the path the evidence takes you. Like most on here, your opposition to AGW is primarily ideological.

Trouble is too much of the "evidence" has been proven to be BS. It is kind of like crying wolf once too often. IPCC and the UN have their own agendas which don't necessarily match reality.

 

[waldo]

Trouble is too much of the "evidence" has been proven to be BS. It is kind of like crying wolf once too often. IPCC and the UN have their own agendas which don't necessarily match reality.

gee, that's not a broad wide-sweeping charge you're leveling there... is it? Care to speak to your declared "evidence", who/what made the claim you're speaking to and who/what has "proven" it to be, as you say, BS?


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