Originally Posted by fdpaq0580 (Post 2403189)

Common sense? Common Sense? Don't make me laugh! "Common sense" would have us believe the earth is flat? Common sense would have us believe the sun and moon stars and planets revolve around the Earth. Common sense is all that uneducated ancients had to try and figure out what was happening all around them. Their answered to thunder and lightning, earth quakes and floods, plagues and famine and disease was gods, demons, witches and sorcery. Common sense doesn't seek to find truth, only an easy answer. Common sense doesn't care about what really went on through out the ages of Earth's history, or the cosmos, or the future. Common sense only cares about here and now and not falling off your chair.
What science does is use extraordinary sense, expanded sense. Science doesn't use Common sense to cures for diseases, or see if we can fly faster than the speed of sound (once thought impossible), or even if we could fly (also once thought impossible).
Sorry, friends, but common sense isn't good enough for identifying and finding remedies for the complex problems of this new age.

Originally Posted by sounding (Post 2403191)

Sorry folks -- as of today the climate crisis was cancelled along with the green new deal. Alarmists will now have to find a new scam to work.

Originally Posted by fdpaq0580 (Post 2403189)

Common sense? Common Sense? Don't make me laugh! "Common sense" would have us believe the earth is flat? Common sense would have us believe the sun and moon stars and planets revolve around the Earth. Common sense is all that uneducated ancients had to try and figure out what was happening all around them. Their answered to thunder and lightning, earth quakes and floods, plagues and famine and disease was gods, demons, witches and sorcery. Common sense doesn't seek to find truth, only an easy answer. Common sense doesn't care about what really went on through out the ages of Earth's history, or the cosmos, or the future. Common sense only cares about here and now and not falling off your chair.
What science does is use extraordinary sense, expanded sense. Science doesn't use Common sense to cures for diseases, or see if we can fly faster than the speed of sound (once thought impossible), or even if we could fly (also once thought impossible).
Sorry, friends, but common sense isn't good enough for identifying and finding remedies for the complex problems of this new age.

Originally Posted by Blueblaze (Post 2403245)

Nobody is arguing against science, merely the politicization of science.

My son-in-law is a scientist and AG professor, with a PhD in the correct discipline to have an opinion on climate change. He lost tenure for merely pointing out in a break room conversation that the polar caps on Mars recede and grow at the same rate as Earth's, suggesting that our current warming trend could have something to do with the variable star we live next to -- maybe even more than a .04% CO2 level, which always increases during warming trends, anyway.

Firing a scientist for questioning a prevailing theory is not science -- that's politics.

Common sense applies when you're worried about a hurricane blowing away your house and you think the solution is to starve 4 billion people in order to turn the thermostat down generations from now.

Common sense says use technology to solve the problems we can solve now and use science to solve the problems of the future without killing billions of people in the process.

Originally Posted by fdpaq0580 (Post 2403313)

First, sorry that your son lost his job, but I'd be willing to bet the barn that there is more to that story the that, whether you know it or not.
As to the starving of 4 billion people, that makes no sense because nobody wants to fun the thermostat down. That would send us backwards towards an ice age. We, at least I, would like to see us take our boot off the warming distruction of the planet. Stop cutting rain forests (that provide oxygen for us to breath) and replacing them with coffee plantations that provide far less oxygen. Stop polluting the land, sea, rivers, lakes and the air. Stop applauding folks who have more than 2 kids. Over population is, imo, the root of all humanities woes. (Nobody has to kill anybody. Cutting the birth rate means more of everything for the living, a better quality of life). Cut the use of fossil fuels and replace them when we can with other, cleaner sources of energy. My list goes on, but the basic idea is for human beings to help make our planet a healthier, cleaner, better, bio-rich place for our species to engage in more ethical pursuits than the petty squabbles over wealth, land and power.
We've "paved paradise and put up a parking lot". Think how it could be if we could "get ourselves back to the garden", knowing what we know now.

Originally Posted by sounding (Post 2403314)

Notice that the northern tip of The Villages is in a Winter Weather alert -- for tomorrow. Green energy users will have problems staying safe and warm.

Originally Posted by jimjamuser (Post 2403139)

Sentence #4......"to bring the wealth we enjoy to the rest of the world".......that is NOT even Capitalism. That is strangely more like Communism. I am sure that was NOT intended. 1st sentence.......sort of confusing, but my goal is to replace gasoline vehicles with ELECTRIC ones.....no more, no less. Not a HIDDEN agenda.

Originally Posted by mtdjed (Post 2403360)

PLease Mr Moderator . Please put a stop to these self declared experts. Let anybody say anything about water and we get the same lectures.

Originally Posted by Moderator (Post 2403362)

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Originally Posted by Blueblaze (Post 2403145)

Everything you just said is demonstrably untrue. China was destitute for millennia -- until they embraced capitalism. The current generation is the first one able to feed it's billions -- and there are more of them than ever before. Mao couldn't do it, even after starving 50 million of them. In fact, this is the first generation in the history of mankind worldwide where starvation isn't rule. Capitalism, technology, wealth, and fossil fuels did that, not communism, which is nothing more than a scientific-sounding name for feudalism..

And until you find a way to replace fossil fuels, electric vehicles merely make the problem worse, due to the inefficiency of burning the fossil fuel 50 miles away, and sending it over wires to store in a battery that requires more carbon to make than it ever saves. You aren't replacing anything by mowing down forests for windmills and photocells that only produce power 50% of the time under the best conditions. We need a new technology. You won't get new technology by rolling back the progress of the last 100 years.

Figure out a way to save the climate that doesn't involve starving billions, and I'll get interested. In the mean time, we have much more pressing problems to solve than the weather 100 years from now. For instance, there are still about 15,000 nukes pointed at us that could end ALL life on Earth over a computer glitch.

How about a little common sense for once?

Originally Posted by ElDiabloJoe (Post 2403365)

Some posters, regardless of how much one wishes to ignore them, are like watching the inevitable train wreck. One just cannot peel one's eyes off the impending calamity. However, your point is duly noted. Is there a way to "Ignore Topics" and entire topics can be ignored. Ya know, like climate change or politics or gas vs electric? Now THAT would be a cool forum feature.

Originally Posted by mtdjed (Post 2403360)

PLease Mr Moderator . Please put a stop to these self declared experts. Let anybody say anything about water and we get the same lectures.

Originally Posted by ElDiabloJoe (Post 2403365)

Some posters, regardless of how much one wishes to ignore them, are like watching the inevitable train wreck. One just cannot peel one's eyes off the impending calamity. However, your point is duly noted. Is there a way to "Ignore Topics" and entire topics can be ignored. Ya know, like climate change or politics or gas vs electric? Now THAT would be a cool forum feature.

Originally Posted by sounding (Post 2402147)

The Villages Philosophy Club will examine this issue at 4 PM on Jan 17 at the Lake Miona Recreation Center.