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Predicting weather is not the same as predicting climate. Predicting climate deals with statistical trends. It's still difficult to do, but it's not saying that on a certain day in the future it will be exactly this hot. It's saying that over a long period of time, the mean global temperature...

Nope. Old memory came back to me out of nowhere. Funny how that works sometimes, huh?

We can't really even be sure that new oil is being produced anywhere. It seems that the organisms producing it were aquatic plants and plankton, probably not all that different from the ones we have today. And it also seems that the conditions under which the oil was produced are still around...

Before the end of your turn, I declare that Mist Dragon: Gains flying Loses flying Gains flying Loses flying Gains flying Gains flying Gains flying Loses flying Gains flying Loses flying Gains flying Loses flying Gains flying Loses flying Gains flying Gains flying Loses flying Gains flying...

Wait. What kind of women aren't ethnic? :confused:

Well, I'm no climatologist and can't speak for them. I think in general, you're actually right. But sensationalism and alarmism isn't necessarily going to help us. And is that because you haven't looked? I mean, seriously. Look at ice core data, for one example. DF, just because both are...

Didn't I already say we were in a warming cycle? That's not the argument. Science doesn't do "proof." But there certainly is evidence that humans can have serious effects on global climate. Furthermore, this isn't at all farfetched or even new. Other species before us have profoundly affected...

Preach brutha! People keep saying that, and I'm sure in some cases somewhere just that sort of thing has happened. But it's certainly not happening all over the country and I doubt that it's happened as much or been as big of a problem as I keep hearing about.

Aphetto Alchemist + New Thrasher Dude?

Yes, but not nearly crappy enough to be the worst card in Legends. So in that case, it simply wouldn't matter. I actually haven't yet thought of a case where it would. Until one comes up, and it seems very possible, it's difficult to actually talk details.

Goblin Bomb goes boom even faster...

There's also something interesting (and pretty vague) called "timewave zero" that happens to deal with the same date. Only the guy who invented it basically didn't make any claims about what would actually happen. It might be the end of the world. Or it might be absolutely nothing. Or maybe both...

Speak of the devil.

I don't have time to read it right now, but I like this. Seems like a good idea. My only qualm is "mutliverse."

Seriously, Moosey? I don't know if the second one is a joke, but The Blind Watchmaker is a well-known book by Richard Dawkins in which he explains how evolution is able to give rise to the complexity and diversity we see in living things. And Ralph Nader is an opponent of nuclear power. It's...

Psst. Use it with Hermetic Study on Horseshoe Crab and steal everything. Your opponents will love you.

So is TomB the oldest member that still seems to be around (other than the Nightstalkers, of course, who I haven't seen in a while)?

The Earth is about 4.54 billion years old. Climate is a much more complicated system. And because of that, I know that climatologists can be wrong when trying to make predictions about what will actually happen. But they certainly have a better idea about it than anyone else. Better than...

Um, I'm reading The Blind Watchmaker and I think nuclear power is awesome. I'm a different brand of crazy than either of those. :p

Answer #1: 47. Answer #2: Dead. Answer #3: Really, really old. Mooseman is ancient. Did you know that he wrote the Magna Carta?