• Pat Sajak comes out as a Climate Change Denier
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[IMG]http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/files/2014/05/wheel.png[/IMG] [quote=WashingtonPost]Here’s one puzzle from Wheel of Fortune’s Pat Sajak I doubt anyone can solve: Why in the world he said this: I now believe global warming alarmists are unpatriotic racists knowingly misleading for their own ends. Good night.[/QUOTE] [url]http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/wp/2014/05/20/pat-sajak-global-warming-alarmists-are-unpatriotic-racists/[/url] Thread Music: [video=youtube;9h74DTdTlCk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9h74DTdTlCk[/video]
"unpatriotic racists" what
[QUOTE=CommunistCookie;44862656]"unpatriotic racists" what[/QUOTE] You're an unpatriotic communist you wouldn't understand.
um i can't solve this puzzle
[img]http://puu.sh/8Uqcr.png[/img] Dude. Not cool. Don't play with me like that.
Would he be considered hiding in the greenhouse?
[QUOTE=FunnyStarRunner;44862730]Would he be considered hiding in the greenhouse?[/QUOTE] yeah but see he would be hot in there. more like hiding in the house with central cooling.
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/TjzbDrG.png[/IMG] Urgh.
Here are some more of his tweets: [URL="https://twitter.com/patsajak/status/468828847337512960"]https://twitter.com/patsajak/status/468828847337512960[/URL] [URL="https://twitter.com/patsajak/status/468808923039158272"]https://twitter.com/patsajak/status/468808923039158272[/URL]
Would you trust a man who looks like [I]this?![/I] [img]http://img3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130203084655/rugrats/images/9/9a/Vlcsnap-2013-02-03-03h45m04s47.png[/img]
I think some damage was done to the climate change movement in the public's eyes when it was most commonly known as "global warming", whilst an accurate term some people(lets be honest, too many people) act like having a cold winter is proof global warming isn't real. I wonder if having just always called the effect and movement "Global Climate Change" or something rather than referencing hot or cold if there'd be a bit more public support for it.
[quote=Sajak]unpatriotic racists[/quote] Racists?! How does viewing the evidence automatically = being racist?!
[QUOTE=HumanAbyss;44862798]I think some damage was done to the climate change movement in the public's eyes when it was most commonly known as "global warming", whilst an accurate term some people(lets be honest, too many people) act like having a cold winter is proof global warming isn't real. I wonder if having just always called the effect and movement "Global Climate Change" or something rather than referencing hot or cold if there'd be a bit more public support for it.[/QUOTE] And a large part of it is the media unashamedly harassing everyone to 'be green [b]or else[/b]'. Recommending people don't waste resources is one thing but the media, and in particular advertisers, hammer on about buying all these 'miracle green tech' items. Priuses, fancily labelled overpriced appliances, $12 light bulbs, shit like that. Yelling at people and ordering them to spend money they may or may not have is a pretty good way to alienate them from your cause. It's a large part of why I'm completely apathetic about it.
[QUOTE=HumanAbyss;44862798]I think some damage was done to the climate change movement in the public's eyes when it was most commonly known as "global warming", whilst an accurate term some people(lets be honest, too many people) act like having a cold winter is proof global warming isn't real. I wonder if having just always called the effect and movement "Global Climate Change" or something rather than referencing hot or cold if there'd be a bit more public support for it.[/QUOTE] But now I've heard people say "now it's climate change, what happened to global warming?! Even they aren't sure what it is! Idiots!" It's global warming no matter how you spin it. [editline]20th May 2014[/editline] [QUOTE=TestECull;44862911]And a large part of it is the media unashamedly harassing everyone to 'be green [b]or else[/b]'. Recommending people don't waste resources is one thing but the media, and in particular advertisers, hammer on about buying all these 'miracle green tech' items. Priuses, fancily labelled overpriced appliances, $12 light bulbs, shit like that. Yelling at people and ordering them to spend money they may or may not have is a pretty good way to alienate them from your cause. It's a large part of why I'm completely apathetic about it.[/QUOTE] I agree that there are a lot of knee jerk reactions and profiting off "green" products and such. Though apathy is not a good reaction to have. You shouldn't have to tell me this version of your product with its green colored label and feel-good "eco" name is good for the environment because your standard product should be that by default. I don't care that you drive a prius that displays it's a hybrid in big proud letters along the bottom. You should be able to get every model of car in hybrid or electric drives without displaying to the world that you drive a hybrid. Can't wait for a time when "being green" is not a status symbol and just normal life. I don't even like the word "green" everything should be green by default! And oh yeah Pat is grossly misinformed I guess.
[QUOTE=OvB;44862954] I agree that there are a lot of knee jerk reactions and profiting off "green" products and such. Though apathy is not a good reaction to have. [/quote] I'd be apathetic anyway. But I'd be a bit more sympathetic to the cause if it wasn't abused so heavily to try to sell me on shitty electric cars that don't do a single thing I need in a vehicle and don't scratch a single itch I want in a vehicle. And they never will. The sound of a burbling V8, that peace-of-mind that a lazy, big inch Detroit I6 brings forth, they're irreplaceable for me. Even if it's running on eco-fuels like alcohol I [i]will[/i] have that [del]noise[/del] music in my life. [quote]You shouldn't have to tell me this version of your product with its green colored label and feel-good "eco" name is good for the environment because your standard product should be that by default. I don't care that you drive a prius that displays it's a hybrid in big proud letters along the bottom. You should be able to get every model of car in hybrid or electric drives without displaying to the world that you drive a hybrid. Can't wait for a time when "being green" is not a status symbol and just normal life. I don't even like the word "green" everything should be green by default! [/QUOTE] The worst part about the sweeping majority of those 'green' products is that they're objectively inferior to their 'not' green counterparts. CFL light bulbs last half as long as incandescants in my room. Green cars aren't very well made, tend to be boring as all hell, are a bitch to work on and cannot haul or tow a goddamn thing. Green toilets can barely handle the 'load' presented to them. Green appliances often have to make two or three attempts at something, especially things like washing machines. It's not really very green if I have to run the same load of laundry through three times to get it as clean as the 30 year old Maytag I just replaced could do in one pass, now is it?
Eh, I'm an LED bulb guy myself. Expensive but they're supposed to last forever. Guess we'll see. They're getting cheaper gradually, too. Cree is going to make a killing. As for cars, to each his own. We should be able to manufacture carbon neutral gas so enthusiasts can enjoy their sports cars.
[QUOTE=OvB;44863978]Eh, I'm an LED bulb guy myself. Expensive but they're supposed to last forever. Guess we'll see. They're getting cheaper gradually, too. Cree is going to make a killing. As for cars, to each his own. We should be able to manufacture carbon neutral gas so enthusiasts can enjoy their sports cars.[/QUOTE] Stick with LED's. The film industry is starting to look at LED lights as a replacement for the large HMI's and other various tungsten lights we use. There's a few companies looking into the technology trying to make better versions of it for film use. Those improvements will probably help out with LED technology in homes.
[QUOTE=OvB;44863978]Eh, I'm an LED bulb guy myself. Expensive but they're supposed to last forever. Guess we'll see. They're getting cheaper gradually, too. Cree is going to make a killing. As for cars, to each his own. We should be able to manufacture carbon neutral gas so enthusiasts can enjoy their sports cars.[/QUOTE] You can get Walmart ones for $8 so they're not even really that expensive anymore. You're not going to get good performance if you want to dim them and they might not be rated for outside use but for 9/10 applications they work great
[QUOTE=wickedplayer494;44862823]Racists?! How does viewing the evidence automatically = being racist?![/QUOTE] Racist against green-house gases.
He sounds like an indie game developer. Saying something incredibly stupid and then saying that you're just doing it to make people mad.
Wasn't it discovered that the super-rich and their relevant industries were basically bankrolling the entire denier movement?
The fact that he was formerly a weatherman makes this even more pathetic.
[QUOTE=WhollyRufus;44862793]Here are some more of his tweets: [URL="https://twitter.com/patsajak/status/468828847337512960"]https://twitter.com/patsajak/status/468828847337512960[/URL][/QUOTE] ah yes, my favorite "dipshit who realizes he can't actually back an argument he posed on facebook" tactic, "lol I was just trying to see how people would react"
Fucking Niggers and Orientals ruining our country by not making an effort to reduce their carbon emissions by resorting to alternative fuel sources and buying energy efficient cars.
[QUOTE=WhollyRufus;44862793]Here are some more of his tweets: [URL="https://twitter.com/patsajak/status/468828847337512960"]https://twitter.com/patsajak/status/468828847337512960[/URL] [URL="https://twitter.com/patsajak/status/468808923039158272"]https://twitter.com/patsajak/status/468808923039158272[/URL][/QUOTE] [quote]Hawaii trip gave me great business idea. Edible leis! Instead of flowers, use raisins or small sausages. Can't miss![/quote] The monster
wheel of fortune fucking sucks every show: "Your clue is THINGS", and the answer is something vague like "DINGERS AND DONGERS"
[QUOTE=TestECull;44863452]I'd be apathetic anyway. But I'd be a bit more sympathetic to the cause if it wasn't abused so heavily to try to sell me on shitty electric cars that don't do a single thing I need in a vehicle and don't scratch a single itch I want in a vehicle. And they never will. The sound of a burbling V8, that peace-of-mind that a lazy, big inch Detroit I6 brings forth, they're irreplaceable for me. Even if it's running on eco-fuels like alcohol I [i]will[/i] have that [del]noise[/del] music in my life. The worst part about the sweeping majority of those 'green' products is that they're objectively inferior to their 'not' green counterparts. CFL light bulbs last half as long as incandescants in my room. Green cars aren't very well made, tend to be boring as all hell, are a bitch to work on and cannot haul or tow a goddamn thing. Green toilets can barely handle the 'load' presented to them. Green appliances often have to make two or three attempts at something, especially things like washing machines. It's not really very green if I have to run the same load of laundry through three times to get it as clean as the 30 year old Maytag I just replaced could do in one pass, now is it?[/QUOTE] I like LED bulbs... I've had the two in my ceiling fan for about a year now, whereas I went through incandescents once or twice a month. I think they're the "cheap" GE bulbs, $10 or so. What's bad about the whole greenwashing movement, though, is that it's going to do almost nothing in the US's net greenhouse gas output. A lot of that comes from industry, utilities, resource extraction, that sort of thing. You're not going to fix climate change by replacing your bulbs with CFLs or driving a Prius, no matter how hard you try. You will, however, fix it by taxing and pushing the big polluters. Clamp down on coal and oil-fired power plants, make an incentive to switch to natural gas or another domestic product like Methane. Incentivize renewables, like wind, water, tidal, solar, and geothermal. Enact higher efficiency standards for vehicles (There has to be a reason most European cars get so much better gas mileage than ours. Oil's cheap here.) The overall majority of our country's net GG output comes from power generation and industry. If you can fix that, residential energy use is gravy.
[QUOTE=Mr. Someguy;44865258]Wasn't it discovered that the super-rich and their relevant industries were basically bankrolling the entire denier movement?[/QUOTE] When have climate change deniers ever let facts get in the way?
[QUOTE=CommunistCookie;44862656]"unpatriotic racists" what[/QUOTE] yeah seriously, everyone knows that patriotic red blooded americans hate blacks, yellows and redskins it's those communists who think everyone is equal
[QUOTE=PSI Guy;44866075]yeah seriously, everyone knows that patriotic red blooded americans hate [B]blacks, yellows and redskins[/B] it's those communists who think everyone is equal[/QUOTE] by their powers combined, I am Captain Godwin [t]http://www.birkenheadschool.co.uk/sites/default/files/depts/modlang/German%20flag.gif[/t]
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