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tro4130
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San Diego, CA
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Jul 21, 2014 - 04:02pm PT
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The island of skepticism is getting smaller and smaller...
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rick sumner
Trad climber
reno, nevada/ wasilla alaska
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Jul 22, 2014 - 09:54pm PT
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That quote is attributable to Jack Kerouac, not Beck dumbfuk.
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Wade Icey
Trad climber
www.alohashirtrescue.com
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Jul 22, 2014 - 10:05pm PT
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That quote is attributable to Jack Kerouac, not Beck dumbfuk.
Kerouac would kick your ass in a new jersey minute, dumbfuk. while beck would likely fondle it.
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rick sumner
Trad climber
reno, nevada/ wasilla alaska
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Jul 22, 2014 - 10:28pm PT
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Okay, ill concede Beck as the originator. I apologize to Mr Beck and his uncommon wit.
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Mark Force
Trad climber
Cave Creek, AZ
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Jul 23, 2014 - 04:39am PT
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"At either end of the social spectrum is a leisure class."
~Eric Beck
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k-man
Gym climber
SCruz
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 26, 2014 - 11:20am PT
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Great, Sketch once again posting climate change "debunking." This is a great video of lemmings eating up Heartland Institute gruel.
From wilbeer's post above:
I attended their 2012 conference of the Heartland Institute, an oil and tobacco funded free market think tank that spends a lot of time and effort trying to call bullshit on what is clearly not bullshit – the science of climate change.
Sketch, did you post that because you believe what they're saying, or just to troll (again)?
I have to wonder, why do all your posts have the same slant, when you like to pretend that your posts don't actually covey your point of view?
The very first quote from the video you posted is bunk; why do you post such BS:
In the last 18 years, there hasn't been even a slight rise in temperature.
My hunch is that you eat this stuff up like it was top sirloin.
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k-man
Gym climber
SCruz
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 27, 2014 - 08:12am PT
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Study: 'Shocking' Water Loss in Western U.S.
Satellites show groundwater supply at greater risk than previously thought
The drought-stricken Colorado River Basin has experienced rapid and significant groundwater depletion since late 2004, posing a greater threat to the water supply of the western United States than previously thought, according to a new study by NASA and University of California, Irvine.
The research team used data from NASA's Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellite mission to track changes in the mass of the Colorado River Basin, which is the water source for more than 30 million people and 4 million acres of farmland. The satellites showed the basin lost nearly 53 million acre feet (about 17 trillion gallons) of freshwater between 2004-2013 — almost double the volume of the nation's largest reservoir, Nevada's Lake Mead, which itself recently fell to its lowest level since the 1930s. More than three-quarters of the total water loss in the Colorado River Basin was from groundwater. The basin has been experiencing the driest 14-year period in the last 100 years.
Where's The Chief; we need him here to tell us, "There is no drought."
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Jul 27, 2014 - 11:58am PT
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Where's The Chief
probably drilling a new well...
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Jul 27, 2014 - 12:12pm PT
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Just returned from a field trip to northeastern Oregon, where economic and environmental changes (including insect and fire risks to the forests) are a serious concern. I'd heard there were climate connections but hadn't seen the data, so I sat outside one evening, built a dataset, and drew a few graphs. The results were unexpectedly striking. Here are fire-season temperatures in our study region, on a century scale,
and a closer view of just the last few decades,
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TGT
Social climber
So Cal
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Jul 27, 2014 - 03:00pm PT
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monolith
climber
SF bay area
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Jul 27, 2014 - 03:02pm PT
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TGT keeps forgetting that the US is less than 2% of the world area.
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TGT
Social climber
So Cal
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Jul 27, 2014 - 03:11pm PT
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k-man
Gym climber
SCruz
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 28, 2014 - 07:14am PT
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Hehe, The Chief. Nice to see you're OK and are able to respond right on queue. Pretty pictures, you're a lucky one to get out in them thar woods.
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Wade Icey
Trad climber
www.alohashirtrescue.com
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Jul 28, 2014 - 08:53am PT
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My hunch is that you eat this stuff up like it was top sirloin.
more like a sponge; no muscles, no heart, no brain.
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HighDesertDJ
Trad climber
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Jul 28, 2014 - 09:55am PT
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TGT- I'm not clear where that graph was sourced from or what it's supposed to represent. Does it exclude days greater than 100 degrees? Also, do you understand what an average is? You can have fewer "hottest" days but if you have far fewer "coldest" days your average will still go up and your environment will change. Looking at the pure number of 90 degree days in one area of the world seems more than a little odd.
You are a rare breed. While the majority of climate deniers have narrowed their criticism to "there's nothing we can do about it" or "it would be too expensive to do something about it" because the evidence, both in raw data and in observable changes to our environment, is overwhelming and unignorable, you maintain a razor focus on "it's not actually happening." As if the expansion of countless plant and animal species into terrain that was previously too cold for them or the massive reduction in global ice wasn't enough.
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k-man
Gym climber
SCruz
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 28, 2014 - 03:01pm PT
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Seems like two of the biggest issues for many of the well known skeptics are how the problem is constantly overstated.... and how failed predictions are quietly brushed aside or excused.
Indeed, that is what non-scientific blogs would have you believe. Oh, and those employed by the non-profit Heartland Institute.
Sponge it up Sketch!
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