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Increased numbers of girls with bikinis must be stopped.

No, you cannot predict the rise in sea level resulting from a 2 degree rise.  The reason is that to attempt it you must presume all other factors are unchanged, such as the ocean currents.   But they would not be the same. 

And there really is not any such thing as a measurable "global temperature", that's a myth and an unscientific jury rigged construction.  Scientific would be to look at increases in latent heat of the ocean mass.

Interesting study.  What kind of people are internet trolls, actually?

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/10/02/and-climate-internet-trols-are-some-of-the-worst/

In this month’s issue of Personality and Individual Differences, a study was published that confirms what we all suspected: internet trolls are horrible people.Let’s start by getting our definitions straight. An internet troll is someone who comes into a discussion and posts comments designed to upset or disrupt the conversation. Often, it seems like there is no real purpose behind their comments except to upset everyone else involved. Trolls will lie, exaggerate, and offend to get a response.

Citizens do not stop such things.  They observe them, and are impacted by them to whatever degree they have not prepared.

However, Cyprus was under the Euro, and Argentina has it's own currency.

So what will happen is the miraculous transformation of the Old, Bad Peso, into the New, Strong Peso at say 50:1 official exchange, rate, street exchange rate....

You may be defining one type of hate, which exists on occasion.  But that is not the whole story.  Hate exists as a human emotion and there are likely good reasons for it, based in our survival as a species.  Thus it is false to consider a lack of hate as making one a better or superior person. 

Of course, misplaced hate would be counterproductive, but so would misplaced love or any other emotion.

 

I know one thing.  And that's that docs bitching about "climate change" are sitting on their fat behinds in smug conceit, while some others are out actually confronting Ebola patients.

A "social scientist" in this context would be one of the many people who are paid, typically by governments, to tailor the lies promulgated regarding climate change, the advertising messages and the narrative.  In order to have the broadest effect.  Essentially this amounts to paid propagandists. 

So more often than not, when I pick through one of the arguments splashed into the news media, I am simply deconstructing spin and propaganda.  Behind that are some actual facts, which may or may not be true, but which typically don't have much to do with the presented imagery and or the intended effect on audiences.

Climate change, actually is a treasure trove of propagandic methods and techniques.  I guess that's why it interests me.  I don't find the scientific issues hard to understand.

Funniest thing...I have an iron helmet too!

Have to admit I was wondering when and how it might, if ever, come in useful.

Oh, and regarding those ancient battles, yes, of course presided over by The Lord up in the clouds....don't forget reading the tea leaves and the chicken bones!  That was some powerful prediction magic, roughly equivalent to today's climate prediction models.

I have.

Maybe you just need to get around more?

It just doesn't get any truer than this.  Unless you want to include big space rocks inbound.  I don't have a baseball bat big enough for those....

I'm going to cite one fact in opposition to a silly article, Willikon.

GRACE gravitational-recovery satellites showed sea-level falling from 2003-2009 (Cazenave et al., 2009).

Now it happens that gravitational measurements are incredibly sensitive.  

But your writers didn't shout "Sea Levels are Falling, Not Rising!"

Nope.  They spun the subject around to make it sound frightening.  But it's the exact reverse.....

When lying is endemic in science (or in reporting of science), we've got serious problems.  But they are problems in malfunctioning human brains, not in Gaia.

Things are somewhat improving though.  This article published in Science suggests dropping the "Global Temperature" unscientific measure for assessing "climate change."

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/10/01/wow-nature-article-suggests-ditch-the-2-c-warming-goal/

As I have previously commented a "global temperature" is not calculable and frankly, does not exist.  Yet multiple trillion dollar public policies are being crammed at populations based on these propagated myths. 

I don't know about that.  That means there is a period of time he stops buying the beer.

(Just kidding)

It's not specifically an error you made.  It is a fundamental error in the "controversy".  BOTH atheists and religious people are actually arguing an incorrectly formulated proposition.

Behind this is the actual question:  Is the universe rich and abundant in intelligence and consciousness, or is in poor in these quantities?  At one far end of this spectrum of possibilities is the theory that in the entire universe, there exists only God, and humans and life on Earth he created.   I certainly reject this theory as anthropomorphically centered and ridiculous.

IF on the contrary the universe is rich in intelligence and consciousness then a range of possibilities exist, from a God which created them all to a a diverse group of levels from something similar to us, to something we might consider weakly godlike, to things we cannot conceive of.  This seems the most likely actual reality. 

I have muslim friends. 

But I suspect that just as many of us who grew up in a Judeo Christian cultural milieu, they don't take it seriously at all.

First of all - I'd be seriously pissed off if I was on such a flight, bunch of old bearded geezers hogging the aisle, blurting out garbage singsong crap, ruining the view of the pretty sights -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuhQ-VbjK3s

Second, given that it's the airline with the absolute least BS regarding security, and a 100% success record on security for more than 3 decades, I don't think you'll get anywhere trying to complain about their lack of political correctness.    The model for US airline security protocol should BE El Al, and the model for El Al is definitely not the US.  They have nothing to learn from our "Airport Security Drama Theater."  Nothing.

Minor issue, there exists an error in the construction of the argument.  Neither evolution or intelligent design proves or disproves a god.

Intelligent design could simply be super smart aliens playing with their toys.  Gamers.

ID does not prove or even buttress the argument for a god.  I understand why believers hold that it does.  They seek proof of words such as "God created (man, woman...).  Then confronted with evolution created man, they devise ID.  The logical fallacy is in believing that ID means "God created..."

ID actually means (set of possible creators and gamers) created (man, woman...)

This cannot be disproven by believers in ID who in fact are creationist religious people.

NEITHER various types of theism (Catholic, Muslim, etc), or atheism (Communist Russia, China, North Korea, etc) seem to do very well when codified into the laws of a country and pushed on the population.

I say let each man or woman pick what beliefs seem to suit them best.

Interesting thing I found just googling "why hate Islam"... this list....

Don't take Jews or Christians for friends. If you do, Allah will consider you to be one of them. 5:51
The curse of Allah is on disbelievers. 2:89
Allah is an enemy to the disbelievers. 2:98
For disbelievers is a painful doom." 2:104
Allah will make disbelievers' miserable in this world and torture them forever after they die. 2:114
Disbelievers are losers. 2:121
The doom of the disbelievers will not be lightened. 2:162
Kill disbelievers wherever you find them. If they attack you, then kil them. Such is the reward of disbelievers. (But if they desist in their unbelief, then don't kill them.) 2:191-2
Allah says that you must keep fighting until there is no more persecution and everyone on earth is a Muslim. Then you can stop killing people. 2:193a

Intermarriage is forbidden. 2:221
Let not the believers take disbelievers for their friends in preference to believers. 3:28
Don't believe anyone who is not a Muslim. 3:73
Don't be friends with non-Muslims. They all hate you and want to ruin you. 3:118
Have no unbelieving friends. Kill the unbelievers wherever you find them. 4:89
The disbelievers are an open enemy to you. 4:101
Do not choose disbelievers as friends. 4:144
Never help disbelievers. 28:86


The disbelievers, they are the wrong-doers." 2:254
Non-muslims will be punished by Allah for their nonbelief. 3:19
We shall cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve. Their habitation is the Fire 3:151
Christians and Jews must believe what Allah has revealed to Muhammad or Allah will disfigure their faces or turn them into apes, as he did the Sabbath-breakers. (See 2:65-66) 4:47
If the unbelievers do not offer you peace, kill them wherever you find them. Against such you are given clear warrant. 4:91
Non-muslims are wrong doers. 5:45
Jews and Christians are evil-livers. 5:59
Those who deny Muhammad's revelations are like dogs. 7:176
Fight disbelievers who are near you, and let them see the harshness in you. 9:123
Allah hates disbelievers. 35:26

And then a comment...

https://malaysia.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20130429050316AAq2MOs

Islam has to eradicate from its codex all notions of killing as a justified means to an end. So long as this sort of 'code' exists the programming is allowed to be carried out by the mules. Then there are the cultural overtones that exacerbate the ability for rational people to accept 'Muslims' since so many practice in country's where people are treated like dirt, especially women. Finally, all religons have a egoist based condition that is problamatic. No prophet would espouse death and destruction much less treating people like dirt. It is the egoists who create these conditions and then hide their despicable behavior behind the cloak of 'religion' or religiosity to justify their actions.


I lean toward agreeing with the above part "eradicate from its codex all notions of killing as a justified means to an end".  If you gave people a "holy book" with this stuff, then some percentage of wackos are simply going to act on it and feel they are justified.  Like they are and have been doing.

Given that the OP is "Why do people hate Islam" I don't think it should degenerate into "Why Jesus is the Savior", unless, of course, that is somehow related to the OP.  I really don't care to get dragged into religion discussion.

We're on the subject of hate.