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FirmhandKY -> RE: Global Warming Strikes Again! (1/12/2008 6:39:38 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Zensee
It's not semantics, it's misuse of terms. And it's yet another case of Firm twisting sources to say what he wants them to say (like he has a few times recently), an intellectual sin he delights to roast others for. I'm just doing my part to keep him honest.
The term Global Warming is inadequate and misleading, especially since it has been co-opted by some people to draw eronious and simplistic conclusions like - it's colder than normal in Baghdad, so the world can't be heating up, lol!
Z,
Actually, I know what you mean. You are the only person on the left side of the equation that is "catching" what I am doing, even if you misinterpret it.
What I am doing is poking fun at ... making fun of ... the way that many, many people on the left side present their "information".
In other words, I'm being tongue-in-cheek for a reason. To point out absurdity by being absurd.
In this case, no, in the article I quoted, there was nothing about global warming. But, as Sanity quickly pointed out, in another article about the event, global warming (changing world wide climate, whatever) was quickly latched onto as the reason.
"Global warming" has become a simple, catchy and ubiquitous reason given for absolutely anything out of the ordinary that occurs today. Right up there with "an Act of God", but by believers in a different "church".
So ... it's not that I'm "twisting the facts" in an unconscious way in order to deceive, or in order to actually convince anyone of anything ... its simply a rhetorical mirroring device. In this case, when Sanity quoted the second article, it simply validated my approach.
Firm
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