1. Protesting the Creation Museum

Comment #49456 by kniggit on June 12, 2007 at 2:38 am

here here
Lawrence Krauss is fantastic, I really enjoyed his books, The Physics of Star Trek and Beyond Star Trek

2. Top Scientists Warn of Water Shortages and Disease Linked to Global Warming

Comment #26493 by kniggit on March 19, 2007 at 6:00 pm

Thanks for posting those Aussie.
YouTube video = exactly my point.....

3. Top Scientists Warn of Water Shortages and Disease Linked to Global Warming

Comment #25956 by kniggit on March 15, 2007 at 7:59 pm

Apologies to those of you who enjoy a healthy debate without regressions to vulgarity however I was called a "prick" for presenting some valid anti-global warming facts so I was responding in kind.

Brian, I fail to see how the site you posted about the scientist I quoted in any way makes him a "shill" Perhaps there is a hidden URL that would take me to a page saying he is a paid employee of anti-global warming self interest groups. Please post that URL. And as for you being my mentor and suggesting I look up the others, I will respectfully decline, I am quite confident in the abilities of members of the National Academy of Sciences. A former president of that organisation is on record describing global warming as "at best unproven and at worst pure fantasy"

BaronOchs, you asked what I'm advocating, I am in the same boat as Quetzalcoatl however I will go one step further and say I have been, thus far, convinced by the anti-global warming stance. As any intellectually honest person should be, I am always open to opinion changing new evidence.
There are numerous facts on record that challenge the basic premise of the human induced global warming hypothesis and for me, these facts constitute enough evidence to take the stance I take. You ask about the 0.6 degree rise last century and you quite rightly point out that this is significant on a global scale but not when you take into account that at the end of the 19th century, the Krakatoa volcanic eruption caused a drop by, some say, as much as 3 degrees, can it not be argued that the climate was just stabilising after that major event? ? And the fact that most of last centuries warming occured before 1940 gives further weight to that argument, CO2 emmissions could not have been a factor.
You also ask about the melting Artic ice, if human induced global warming is universal, why is the Antarctic "on a whole getting colder and thicker"? Al Gore shows off his stunning before and after pictures of melting glaciers and pack ice yet he does not show any of the glaciers that are actually growing at the same rate as the ones he shows are melting!
And finally, the fear mongerers would have us believe all their apocalyptic scenarios will come true if we dont act now, these dire warnings are based on computer models, what about the computer models that show any sort of global warming (be it human induced or natural) would actually provide a net benefit to humans, it has been argued that increased CO2 levels act as a fertiliser promoting plant growth and the magazine New Scientist has recently confirmed this "New Scientist has learned that a separate analysis of satellite images completed this summer reveals that dunes are retreating right across the Sahel region on the southern edge of the Sahara desert. Vegetation is ousting sand across a swathe of land stretching from Mauritania on the shores of the Atlantic to Eritrea 6000 kilometres away on the Red Sea coast." Why are these computer models not as readily and blindly accepted just as the doomsday ones are? After all they both are just educated guesses at the end off the day.
These are just a few of the facts that challenge the hypothesis of human induced global warming, there are many more where they came from so as much as my learned friend Brian would like to assert that global warming science is as sound as the theory of evolution, I must respectfully disagree and pose the question, why waste all the time and resources on it untill it is proven one way or the other?

4. Top Scientists Warn of Water Shortages and Disease Linked to Global Warming

Comment #25811 by kniggit on March 15, 2007 at 9:16 am

Keep flying off on those tangents cowboy, now I'm a creationist as well as a disingenous prick. Seriously though, what does evolution and all the other verbal diarrhea you are spouting got to do with an ongoing debate about the validity of claims about human induced global warming? I'll give you the answer so you dont hurt your head: Five Fifths of fuck all. Just because you are on this site, you dont have to go 'running home to mama" and bring evolution into it so as to convey some sort of air of intellectual superiority. Mate, seems like you do to much reading and not enough thinking, so here read this:

"Global Warming, as we think we know it, doesn't exist," says Dr. Timothy Ball. He has Ph.D. in climatology, having earned his degree from the University of London, England, and taught for many years at the University of Winnipeg. A Google search of his name turns up a plethora of posts attacking him, always a sure sign that the Greens feel threatened by an outspoken scientist. The quote below explains why:

"Believe it or not, Global Warming is not due to human contribution of Carbon Dioxide (CO2). This in fact is the greatest deception in the history of science."

Dr. Ball is hardly alone in his views. Dr. Richard Lindzen, an atmospheric physicist and a professor of meteorology at MIT, as well as a member of the National Academy of Science, has said of Global Warming that, "the consensus was reached before the research had even begun."

Increasingly, not just climate scientists, but people in leadership positions around the world have joined in rebuking the Global Warming hoax. Czech President Vaclav Klaus is only the most recent, joining Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper who, in 2006, received a letter from sixty prominent scientists expressing opposition to the theory of Global Warming. The list is growing as other scientists in France, Denmark and around the world speak up.

Seems like there is quite a few pricks out there eh? I think I'd much rather be in their company than "please tell me what to think" dickheads like you.

5. Top Scientists Warn of Water Shortages and Disease Linked to Global Warming

Comment #25513 by kniggit on March 14, 2007 at 12:36 am

Re: Comment #25400 by briancoughlanworldcitizen
Sounds to me that you are the one on the lunatic fringe in this discussion. Simply muddling along as we have, is the worst possible option, even if we accept whatever pseudo-scientific nonsense you're peddling at face value.

Wake up and smell the coffee, and at least get out of the way if you're not going to help. Prick.

Whoa there cowboy, where do you get off calling me a prick? I sourced my info from reputable establishments (www.bom.gov.au), its hardly top secret and definately not "psuedo science", just cold hard facts and where did I question the need for alternate fuel sources? Mate Ive seen people go off on tangents before but you take first prize (stay on the line and we will organise a plunger to get sent out to you so you can pull your head out of your arse), my post was simply to highlight the fact that human induced global warming is still far from a proven and hardly overwhelming with an equally, if not more, credible consensus that this is simply a natural climatic shift in which case there is not a whole lot humans can do about it.

So can I respectfully suggest you smell your own coffee and check they havent put dusted bullshit instead of chocolate on your frothy milk...

6. Top Scientists Warn of Water Shortages and Disease Linked to Global Warming

Comment #25398 by kniggit on March 12, 2007 at 10:56 pm

For people that refuse to accept God or religion without empirical evidence and scorn followers for their departure from the scientific method, its so amusing that people such as educated atheists take this whole global warming issue on such face value without considering all the facts.
Facts like the global temp. increase last century was just 0.6 of a degree celsius or that most of the warming of last century occured before 1940 or that Temperatures fell between 1940 and 1970 even as CO2 levels increased or that Sea levels have been rising at the rate of 10 to 20 centimeters per hundred years for the past 6,000 years. etc etc etc. Human induced global warming and its associated fear mongering is indeed just another religion...

7. Root of All Evil? Discussion

Comment #20358 by kniggit on February 2, 2007 at 1:16 am

Sam Harris would have been in his element amongst that lot....

8. She told them the boy was dead

Comment #19402 by kniggit on January 27, 2007 at 12:11 am

All the real psychics are playing poker at partypoker.com and taking my money!

9. Radical cleric sparks fury in Australia

Comment #18535 by kniggit on January 21, 2007 at 3:55 pm

Re: Comment #18370 by Stanless
The precursor to that event was a series of incidents by the gangs of middle eastern youths culminating in the bashing of a surf lifesaver so to simply say that it was a media driven persecution of a minority is sheer propaganda and perhaps you should have added that 'perspective'. I agree, intolerence is universal however it can be argued with relation to to this particular incident that some of the participants simply said "enough is enough" and felt obliged to act in defense of their liberties.

10. General Synod's Life of Christ

Comment #16441 by kniggit on January 6, 2007 at 3:35 pm

Well obviously, it's not meant to taken literally, it refers to any manufacturer of dairy products...