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Very Compelling Youtube Video

#21
Does anyone have 9 1/2 minutes to listen to a guy that no one knows, hyped up on pepsi and mountain dew, (notice the cans in the background during the intro), with nothing to do in the middle of the night but put a video of himself yakking away, hyped up on caffeine and sugar, thinking he's got the answer to all the problems of the world?

Shorten it up and make it pallatable for the average short-interest-span people so the point can be made. Good heavens! I've written all this and he's still rambling on!:rollno:
 
#22
gottawalk said:
Does anyone have 9 1/2 minutes to listen to a guy that no one knows, hyped up on pepsi and mountain dew, (notice the cans in the background during the intro), with nothing to do in the middle of the night but put a video of himself yakking away, hyped up on caffeine and sugar, thinking he's got the answer to all the problems of the world?

Shorten it up and make it pallatable for the average short-interest-span people so the point can be made. Good heavens! I've written all this and he's still rambling on!:rollno:
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Yeah I've had epiphanies like this after about 4 hours on mushrooms. They seemed a lot more fun than this guy's experience.
 
#27
I've seen that video before. It's somewhat logical, but:

I don't believe in global warming caused by humans anymore. There's too many scientists that question the effect humans have on the world climate, and I've even heard that IPCC have fired scientists that have come to the conclusion differing from the general opinion at the institute.

Not too long ago there was a documentary about the science that don't support global warming. I didn't watch it, but a workmate of mine who is older and wiser than me saw it and he said it totally changed his opinion about global warming.

A couple of weeks ago I read an interesting article in the local newspaper about the same subject, and it claimed that we now are in the very end of a natural solar cycle (suess cycle) that have a frequency of 1/210 years. If that is true, the average temperature will drop quickly about 5 degrees C (which is a lot!) in the period 2010-2018, then continue to fall a couple of degrees more for about 80 years and then again slowly rise for another 70 years, and then stay relatively high for another 50 years. Then there are a few other solar cycles that interferes with this big one, making the temperature drop very strong after this decade.

Reliable temperature observations in made the end of the 18th century in Sweden, shows the average temperature 210 years ago, dropped very quickly for eight years and the whole 19th century was really cold... I hope the effect of this solar cycle is not going to be as strong as 210 years ago, but I'm a little afraid it might actually be the case. Then we will not have any nice and warm summers here again until the next century...


Although the human effect on the world climate might be negligible, the oil resources aren't endless. There's no reason not to try to reduce the energy consumption in the world. So in that aspect the guy on that video have a point...
 
#30
Valerus said:
Hmm. He does pose a good argument.
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No, he does not. He ignores anything inconvienient to his argument. This includes, but is not limited to: What if GCC is false and we do "something" about it, but that screws up the global climate worse than the "problem" we were trying to solve? I don't remember that being one of his squares.

The basic premise of his argument is flawed.
 
#31
OKAY .. i will admit that i watched the whole thing ... Bored much? Yeah ...
His "convincing arguement" is anything but ... he did this box that showed pros and cons of acting and not acting and if it were true and false, and then he is like, how could you not choose this stance? ... um, okay, here's how ... my magic eight ball says that we're not screwed ... my OUIJA board says that we will be okay, and my Origmai ask a question, 1-2-3-4 game that a 5 year old little girl made says that i love purple ... okay, so 2 out of 3 reliable sources say no worries, so I am just gonna live life the way that I have been, and if I offend, then scroll down and read someone else
 
#32
I'm sure that a philosophy major knows the exact name for the fault of his logic but let's take his "logic" and apply it to other areas.

1) Since, in the worse case, people who become musicians could become addicted to drugs and then die of overdoses. We should ban all musical instruments thus saving people from the worst case. Yes, there maybe other bad things that happen from the ban but preventing the worst case is worth it.

2) Since, in the worst case, women could be raped on dates, dating should be banned thus saving all women from the possibly of date rape. Yes, there could be other social problem occurring from this ban but preventing the worst case is worth it.

I could go on but for the sake of bandwidth. It seems to me if this guys logic is so bulletproof we could apply it to many other situations and all be happy about the conclusions.
 
#36
Gumby4 said:
I'm sure that a philosophy major knows the exact name for the fault of his logic...
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The logical fallacies he didn't use during his 10 minute presentation make a shorter list than the ones he did use.

# Ad Hominem
# Ad Hominem Tu Quoque
# Appeal to Authority
# Appeal to Belief
# Appeal to Common Practice
# Appeal to Consequences of a Belief
# Appeal to Emotion
# Appeal to Fear
# Appeal to Flattery
# Appeal to Novelty
# Appeal to Pity
# Appeal to Popularity
# Appeal to Ridicule
# Appeal to Spite
# Appeal to Tradition
# Bandwagon
# Begging the Question
# Biased Sample
# Burden of Proof
# Circumstantial Ad Hominem
# Composition
# Confusing Cause and Effect
# Division
# False Dilemma
# Gambler's Fallacy
# Genetic Fallacy
# Guilt By Association
# Hasty Generalization
# Ignoring A Common Cause
# Middle Ground
# Misleading Vividness
# Personal Attack
# Poisoning the Well
# Post Hoc
# Questionable Cause
# Red Herring
# Relativist Fallacy
# Slippery Slope
# Special Pleading
# Spotlight
# Straw Man
# Two Wrongs Make A Right



http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/
 
#37
Barf. I think global warming is a serious issue that needs to be dealt with. But that lame video isn't going to convince anybody.
 
#39
hbarcat said:
The logical fallacies he didn't use during his 10 minute presentation make a shorter list than the ones he did use.

# Ad Hominem
# Ad Hominem Tu Quoque
# Appeal to Authority
# Appeal to Belief
# Appeal to Common Practice
# Appeal to Consequences of a Belief
# Appeal to Emotion
# Appeal to Fear
# Appeal to Flattery
# Appeal to Novelty
# Appeal to Pity
# Appeal to Popularity
# Appeal to Ridicule
# Appeal to Spite
# Appeal to Tradition
# Bandwagon
# Begging the Question
# Biased Sample
# Burden of Proof
# Circumstantial Ad Hominem
# Composition
# Confusing Cause and Effect
# Division
# False Dilemma
# Gambler's Fallacy
# Genetic Fallacy
# Guilt By Association
# Hasty Generalization
# Ignoring A Common Cause
# Middle Ground
# Misleading Vividness
# Personal Attack
# Poisoning the Well
# Post Hoc
# Questionable Cause
# Red Herring
# Relativist Fallacy
# Slippery Slope
# Special Pleading
# Spotlight
# Straw Man
# Two Wrongs Make A Right



http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/
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Don't Forget "I have glasses there for i am smart" fallacy.

Aren't threads like this against TB rules?


What a waste of my time, I feel very compelled that 5 minutes of my life is gone and will never come back...
 

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