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Title: Take the "Global Warming Test" if you think you are educated
Post by: Ripsnort on July 03, 2001, 02:19:00 PM
You've read my post called "Tree Hugging Hippie Crap"...now, time to test yourself.

Be honest, and post your scores, liberals too!
 http://www.geocraft.com/WVFossils/GlobWarmTest/index.html (http://www.geocraft.com/WVFossils/GlobWarmTest/index.html)
Title: Take the "Global Warming Test" if you think you are educated
Post by: Ripsnort on July 03, 2001, 02:23:00 PM
10 of 10 here. :D
Title: Take the "Global Warming Test" if you think you are educated
Post by: JimBear on July 03, 2001, 03:06:00 PM
9 of 10, I am so embaresked   ;)


Did you ever read an book I believe called "Fallen Angels"?   It told the story of a future where all enviormental issues were addressed and the manmade pollutants were reduced to next to nothing, the result was an Ice age swept the earth.
  :D
Title: Take the "Global Warming Test" if you think you are educated
Post by: Mickey1992 on July 03, 2001, 03:09:00 PM
I got an 8.

I would like to know the source for this statement: "Termites release 10 times more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere annually than all fossil fuel burning combined."
Title: Take the "Global Warming Test" if you think you are educated
Post by: Eagler on July 03, 2001, 03:10:00 PM
8 out of 10

but then again I live in Florida, I demand a recount  :)
Title: Take the "Global Warming Test" if you think you are educated
Post by: AKDejaVu on July 03, 2001, 03:13:00 PM
10 out of 10.

Though.. I had to laugh at the CO2 question.  That one cracked me up.  I didn't know people were touting carbon dioxide as a problem nearly as much as carbon monoxide.  I wonder how much plants like carbon monoxide?

AKDejaVu
Title: Take the "Global Warming Test" if you think you are educated
Post by: NATEDOG on July 03, 2001, 03:18:00 PM
9 outta 10. and I answered too fast on the one I missed, I knew the freakin answer.
Title: Take the "Global Warming Test" if you think you are educated
Post by: buhdman on July 03, 2001, 03:32:00 PM
8 out of 10, but I'm still going to enjoy watching Mother Nature ream all those "ostriches"  ;)
Title: Take the "Global Warming Test" if you think you are educated
Post by: Sparks on July 03, 2001, 06:06:00 PM
8 here
Title: Take the "Global Warming Test" if you think you are educated
Post by: Karnak on July 03, 2001, 08:39:00 PM
10 out 0f 10, but much of it is misleading in its language and conclusions.
Title: Take the "Global Warming Test" if you think you are educated
Post by: john9001 on July 04, 2001, 12:17:00 AM
carbon monoxide is unstable , it wants another oxygen atom to make carbon dioxide, which is stable.

thats why carbon monoxide will kill you , it takes the oxygen out of your blood.

plants take in carbon dioxide, use the carbon and give off the oxygen
Title: Take the "Global Warming Test" if you think you are educated
Post by: flakbait on July 04, 2001, 04:22:00 AM
4 out of 10 and damn proud of it!!  :D


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Title: Take the "Global Warming Test" if you think you are educated
Post by: StSanta on July 04, 2001, 07:21:00 AM
10/10 but agree with karnak.

It's relatively easy to create tests that further one's agenda; being selective about the questions is all it takes.
Title: Take the "Global Warming Test" if you think you are educated
Post by: Nash on July 04, 2001, 07:47:00 AM
A scientific test that comments on Dan Rather and the media? Come on...  :)

You know about the bad polling done in elections... ie. "If you found out that Bush was a actually a wife beater, would you be less likely to vote for him?"

Same thing.
Title: Take the "Global Warming Test" if you think you are educated
Post by: Nifty on July 05, 2001, 09:37:00 AM
I got 0 out of 10!!!!  However, I think the test was on to me;  here's what it said after one question...

 
Quote
Sorry...that is incorrect.
Hey! You're just being silly now, aren't you.

That was in reference to me saying the Renaissance was responsible to global cooling.    :eek:
Title: Take the "Global Warming Test" if you think you are educated
Post by: Yoj on July 05, 2001, 11:12:00 AM
8 of 10.  Problematic test though.  Among other things, it states theories as facts. For example, it presents the idea of regular cycles of warming and cooling based on astronomical regularities.  The generally accepted theory is that these are not natural "cycles" but are the damping of oscillations left from the "nuclear winter" effect of the KT impact.  (That's the one 65 million years back near the Yucatan that smacked down the dinosaurs).  The "Little Ice Age" was the last dip and any such move towards cooler temperatures should be so small as to not be noticeable.  Meaning there is, in fact, no future cooling effect to be expected that might counter a warming trend.

Aside from the obvious bias in the "test", it really begs the point of whether there is danger of human activity triggering a runaway greenhouse effect.  It simply makes some points about scientific facts and then assumes common sense will bring you to a specific conclusion (at least, that's what I think the creator of the test expects).  The problem with "common sense" is that it is seldom common and often does not make sense.

- Yoj
Title: Take the "Global Warming Test" if you think you are educated
Post by: ispar on July 05, 2001, 11:35:00 AM
Didn't count... but I think I got a 6/10.

And I agree with Karnak, StSanta, and Yoj. That "test" definitely had an agenda.
Title: Take the "Global Warming Test" if you think you are educated
Post by: Ripsnort on July 06, 2001, 09:19:00 AM
Sure, the test had an agenda, like the national evening news across America does, difference being, this one had all the links to scientific information, whereas the eveniing news just gives you 'their' opinion, and in most cases, only give you half the story.  :)
Title: Take the "Global Warming Test" if you think you are educated
Post by: Yoj on July 06, 2001, 11:43:00 AM
I don't disagree Rip - anyone who gets his facts from TV gets what he deserves anyway.  However, the "test" also didn't give all the information.  In fact it gave very little.

- Yoj