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Anybody ever see a spoiled little kid who.......?
is being told something that they don't want to hear? They put their hands over their ears and start humming and making nonsense noises in order to drown out what they don't want to hear. Does anyone else who participates in the global warming forum find that an apt description of Hey Dook? After I had responded to 2 or 3 of his questions he decided he didn't like my answers or opinions and blocked me from being able to respond. How many of you other skeptics has he blocked from responding to his questions simply because you don't agree with his views? How many of you skeptics find his claims that the people who would disagree with his views are either ignorant or liars, and probably both, to be rather insulting? Do you find it astounding that he believes anyone who is intelligent and educated MUST therefore be in agreement with his positions on climate change? Has anyone ever heard him propose a detailed plan for counteracting AGW, AND give a detailed explanation of what the economic costs, both direct and unintended, will be to implement his proposed solutions? I for one am tired of being labeled a liar by this name-calling alarmist. To be a liar you must be promoting things that you KNOW to be false. I have never written a single word in Yahoo Answers that is a lie because I don't know that any of it is false and quite to the contrary I believe what I believe just as firmly as he believes what he does. There are a whole range of questions about the "science" of global warming that never been answered but anyone who dares to challenge it is instantly labeled as a liar, ignorant or someone who has their head stuck in the sand. Most of the other alarmists in this forum, while seemingly unable to accept that anyone would disagree with their "science", do not make their attacks on skeptics as intensely personal as Hey Dook seems to enjoy doing.
For general information so as to avoid incorrect labels from being applied to me.
1. I am a registered democrat and have been my whole life.
2. I do not now, nor ever have worked for an oil company, coal company, or energy company of any kind and neither have any of my friends or family. I do not have any financial investments with any such companies either.
3. I am a college graduate with a GPA of 3.5, while that is not necessarily genius material I think it realistically puts me somewhere north of "ignorant".
4. I HAVE made it a point to determine all I can about what the economic cost will be of doing something such as shutting down all coal-fired generation of electricty in the US and replacing it with renewable solar generation. Not only the economic costs of it but also the unintended consequences. If you want to learn something scary, THERE is where the frightening future really lies. Anybody else out there tired of the "liar" label?
No one is blocked from MY question.
12 AnswersGlobal Warming1 decade agoWhy is this happening in yahoo messenger?
Whenever I answer a question in Yahoo Answers a box pops up on the computer screen of one of my messenger friends and tells them that I have answered a question and then shows what the question was along with my answer. While I don't necessarily have any problem with my friend seeing my Yahoo Answers activity neither one of us knows why or how this is happening. I have to assume that one or the other of us must have clicked button somewhere without realizing that it was going to create this situation, only we can't figure out how to undo it. If someone could tell me what happened and how to rectify it I would appreciate it.
1 AnswerNotices and Errors1 decade agoIs this crazy.......or not?
I am a 56 year old man who is falling in love with a 44 year old woman in South America. Now for the details. I am twice divorced and she has never been married. I live in a rural area that can have very cold winters, she lives in a city with a constantly mild climate. I am quite large at 6'3", she is 4'11" and petite. Where I live being able to drive is almost a necessity, she has never driven a vehicle in her life. We have been chatting for over 5 years now, there was a break after the first 15 months when my "head" started telling me that there were just to many differences between us for a relationship to ever be able to work. I dated another woman for a while during that time but always in the back of my mind was the lady from South America. Several months ago I had reason to email her but I sent the email without any expectations of us starting back up where we had left off before. However after we traded a couple of emails she said she would like to start chatting again and I was elated over her saying that as I was not really expecting a second chance with her. But now here we are, chatting nearly every evening with webcams (no, nothing naughty) and voice chatting and my heart is telling me that this is the woman I have been waiting all of my life for.....but there are still the little voices that say there are simply to many differences between us for her to ever be happy here. I messed up once before when I listened to my head and I really want to follow my heart this time. Is this crazy? Am I crazy? I could use some well thought out opinions on this. Thank you to all who tackle it.
1 AnswerSingles & Dating1 decade ago