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Global Warming is a fatuous coterie of illusionary legedermain?

Agree or disagree. Please explain your answer.

Update:

Castlehill - You apparently have no knowledge of linguistics (which makes me question your knowledge of other things). If you did, you'd know that language is ever-evolving (like the earth for example) and that written language rules always follow the spoken word trends (just like CO2 follows temperature change), not the other way around. Therefore, there are no strict rules for usage. There are only trends. Prescriptionists like to live in such coccoons as yours but, just like the way English has evolved from its Anglosaxon roots, it will keep evolving. Thus, my question is perfectly apt no matter how you analyze it! Isn't that cool?

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  • J S
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago
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    Disagree.

    Clearly global warming has resulted in a statistically significant increase in the use of long words, creating concerns over possible global shortages in resources such as letters, paper, black ink, and dark computer screen pixels, and eventually, it is feared, entire phonemes, threatening the very foundation of the spoken word.

    As "get me a beer" and "take out the trash", disappears from the parois of local dialects, the stability of

    Using "CO2" can provide excellent mitigation opportunities, but "chlorofluorocarbon" has 18 letters, and therefore over 6X the effect. Fortunately it is much less common. One proposed solution is to take typewriters and computer keyboards away form people with small hands and large pickup trucks, both of which correlate with hypersyllabic expression.

    The Dutch are particularly threatened, because the hydoelectric power needed to support handboogschuttersmaatschappij and thoraxchirurgeneconcurrentieverhoudingencommissie contributes to sea level rise. Clearly we need the oceans to absorb more CO2 to compensate.

    I don't know if my response covers all of the subtleties of the question, but is there perhaps a better translation into English? I suspect you may find some relevant information in an Internet search on "vacuous pomposity".

  • 1 decade ago

    Oh it is very real, but has nothing to do with human kind. Global Warming and global cooling occur in cycles throughout the Earth's life. In the past 750,000 years the Earth has had 7 ice ages. Each of those ice ages were followed by thousands of years of warming. Then there is another ice age. Unfortunately we can only go back that far, but this has probably been going on for billions of years. We have only been around for about 30,000 years. It's very hard to believe we have anything to do with the natural cycle of the planet.

    Oh yes this interglacial period is slowly coming to an end!

    Mark my words!

  • 1 decade ago

    If you are going to use long words to try to give the impression that you are clever then you might at least make sure that you get your grammar right and also your standard word usage.

    Global Warming cannot be a "fatuous coterie" as it is a singular concept. I assume, therefore, that you must be referring to "Those who believe in Global Warming"? Illusionary legedermain is tautological and clearly shows a desire to bolster the content without adding any value - rather like most of the skeptics' posts on here!

    I have not criticised your use of the word illusionary per sé, as opposed to illusory which many people might normally employ, as it appears to be both a popular and an American usage. The choice of the old fashioned legedermain as opposed to legerdermain does, however, tend to illustrate a somewhat confused approach - again rather like most of the skeptics' posts!

  • 1 decade ago

    Global warming is in fact real. As we consume more and more oil we are burning more and more fuel which inturns puts the bi-product C02 or carbon monoxide or dioxide in the atmosphere, china is pushing its economy all the time, more and more people are living in china. They have the 2nd largest C02 output in the world, the u.s. has the 1st.

    The polar ice caps are melting at an even faster rate now than they were 100 yrs ago, the earth should be in a cooling stage right about now, but we are only heating up, the summers have been hotter and drier every year, the polar bears are eventually going to die out, and the ice caps will eventually be gone.

    We are causing our own demise, we are the enemies to the planet, we are causing our own destruction, unless we act and do something now in about 50yrs we won't be able to, the planet will be in 2nd stage of global warming, runaway melting. When this happens We can do nothing about it, it will mean a difinitive end to mankind.

    As a result of the runaway melting, more storms will be severe, such as hurricanes tornadoes, even the seasons will change, spring will come early, winter will be shorter and more severe, summer will be hotter and drier than we've ever seen before. Global warming is no myth.

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  • 1 decade ago

    I think this question expresses the honorificabilitudinitatibus attitude of certain individuals. More so as an expression of demur then fact.

  • BB
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    No, there are too many 'followers' in the AGW cult to qualify as a "coterie".

    I wouldn't go so far as to describe ALL of the followers as "fatuous", but I do see a large number of educated/well-meaning individuals who have blindly bought in to the cause.

    Again.... only a relatively small percentage are knowingly attempting to deceive the masses. The fault of the masses is that they are too trusting or naive (in the case of school children currently being brainwashed in the classroom).

  • gcnp58
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    Sesquipedalianism isn't a substitute for understanding the science.

  • davem
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago

    Hmmm...I don't know if I agree or disagree.

    For some of us...could you please reword your question?

    Thanks.

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