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  1. Tonington

    69% Say It’s Likely Scientists Have Falsified Global Warming Research

    The conditions didn't persist...they can come back. Without any population data it's all stabs in the dark. Fact: Polar bear body condition is declining. This is seen in nearly every collapse of a species. Healthy animals don't just suddenly die, save for massive extinction events. Fact...
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    69% Say It’s Likely Scientists Have Falsified Global Warming Research

    Yes. So do fish. Good thing they don't originate in the same tubes... Yes, why let facts get in the way when rhetoric sounds so good... I'll defer to the experts studying arctic climate and ecology thanks.
  3. Tonington

    69% Say It’s Likely Scientists Have Falsified Global Warming Research

    It is a non-sequitur. The scientists aren't saying the end of the world is coming first of all. They are saying that future sea ice conditions will place large stresses on polar bears. The fact that polar bear populations have recovered from excessive harvest numbers due to restrictions in the...
  4. Tonington

    69% Say It’s Likely Scientists Have Falsified Global Warming Research

    Yes...journalists like to tell stories. Having two sides is great for their dialogues, not great for informing people about reality. That's the non-sequitur.
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    69% Say It’s Likely Scientists Have Falsified Global Warming Research

    Nitrogen. Chicken **** contains lots of nitrogen, in the form of ammonia which the birds convert into uric acid. To make methane you need something to digest, like methanogenic bacteria found in the rumen!
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    69% Say It’s Likely Scientists Have Falsified Global Warming Research

    How do we know the population level 40 years ago were healthy? We don't have any reliable data for the 50's and 60's. There was growing harvest numbers before restrictions were placed, and the population rebounded from that. But it's apples and oranges to compare rebounds from over-exploiting to...
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    69% Say It’s Likely Scientists Have Falsified Global Warming Research

    Do you understand what context that quote comes from? What was said before it go t to that point? What events lead up to that quote? It was a mistake, no question about it. But I've had emails at work that were obviously written while someone was still hot about something. In the end they look...
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    69% Say It’s Likely Scientists Have Falsified Global Warming Research

    Sure they do. Cows do as well, but that's not where the methane is coming from. Horses have no rumen, cows do.
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    69% Say It’s Likely Scientists Have Falsified Global Warming Research

    There's a reason I'm so critical of the media...the perceptions of underhandedness come from somewhere, and they aren't placed in context. I bet Rex Murphy never looked into the talking points any further. If he did, he's being deceitful by pulling the quotes from context in the manner that he...
  10. Tonington

    69% Say It’s Likely Scientists Have Falsified Global Warming Research

    It's burping. Cows burp. The cow fart is the meme that get's repeated by the deniers, but it's not true. The methane comes from burps. The rumen is closer to the mouth than it is to the anus...
  11. Tonington

    69% Say It’s Likely Scientists Have Falsified Global Warming Research

    That is debatable. In a court of law, these quotes would be placed in their proper context. Now see this is what I'm talking about, with respect to context. It's not deceit for experts to quibble over which studies get into a literature review. That has no bearing at all on the validity of...
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    69% Say It’s Likely Scientists Have Falsified Global Warming Research

    Tossed for what?
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    69% Say It’s Likely Scientists Have Falsified Global Warming Research

    Being critical of poorly written papers is not evidence of falsified data. The irony is that if you know what papers they were actually talking about in that quote, they were very poor, and in the end they were published, but they haven't withstood the test of time. This poll is along the...
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    Water Flows Discovered on Mars?

    ‪Water Flows Discovered on Mars‬‏ - YouTube
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    Credit where credit is due, to Harper et al.

    This is likely to raise the ire of our forum xenophobes. Brain-drain plugged, Stephen Harper says | Posted | National PostHAMILTON, ONT. — The “brain drain,” once decried by academics and pundits who saw the flight of the brightest Canadians in industry, research and medicine to higher...
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    Earth may once have had two moons

    Early Earth may have had two moons : Nature NewsEarth once had two moons, which merged in a slow-motion collision that took several hours to complete, researchers propose in Nature today. Both satellites would have formed from debris that was ejected when a Mars-size protoplanet smacked into...
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    Archaeopteryx may fly from the bird family tree...

    and into a related group called Deinonychosauria. As of right now, Archaeopteryx is in a branch called the Avialae, which also includes our modern birds. But a new study has given convincing evidence for removal of Archaeopteryx from Avialae to placement in the Deinonychosauria infraorder. This...
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    Mars is inhabited.

    They're good workers too, until they throw a revolution into the mix and your culture crashes! :lol: micro humour needs a micro smilie
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    Have you completed the voluntary National Household Survey

    With the survey being voluntary, and distributed to more households, I'm curious who here has received a package in the mail, and who has completed it.
  20. Tonington

    Fox News, the thinking is done for you

    Gawker's John Cook has unearthed a White House memo from the Richard Nixon Presidential Library with Roger Ailes hand writing all over it, detailing the plans to put the GOP talking points on the news. Shocking, I know. The Ailes Files
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