There is no theory about a coming "mini ice age" that is taken seriously by the mainstream scientific community. It is laughed at by any serious and honest climate scientist and by the peer-reviewed scientific community. It is rather interesting, though, that the groupthink of g****l w*****g skeptics that make up so much of the conservative population here always show 100% gullibility to believe any and all claims by the deniers while showing 100% skepticism to the mainstream science. Even the fact that most of the denier pseudo-science is funded by the F****l F**l lobby doesn't seem to matter to the ignorant morons on the right. They seem to celebrate their anti-science stances in general in many areas.

It is the Religion of Anti-science Skepticism, second only in popularity to the Christian Religion in blind adherence to a dogma. But at least when it comes to Christianity, the followers have been mostly consistent for almost 2000 years with the same material. The Religion of Anti-science Skepticism has no consistently held beliefs or story. It is made up on the fly on a daily basis, with its blind gullible followers willing to grasp onto any and all ever-shifting alternative claims and theories that change by the second, no matter how completely contradictory it might be to what they claimed just seconds ago.

The Holy Scripture of the Religion of Anti-Science Skepticism is produced and published daily from the F****l F**l Funded Disinformation Ministries - Heritage Foundation, ClimateDepot, Wattsupwiththat, etc., and immediately copied and pasted and reformatted and bounced around endlessly in the right wing echo chamber and swallowed up whole by the willing and hungry Skepticism Fundamentalist followers, who have long ago chucked the critical thinking part of their brain out the window...

Zophman: The CDC has published these findings regarding second hand smoke (Google is an amazing tool...you should try it. It's easy!).

Nagy: You really got me now, you sarcastic ass. I never heard of Google before you told me about it. Good thing I have a memory many others mistake for a photographic one, because till this moment I could never have looked anything up. You have really opened my eyes, though. I suspect there may also be some information in these things called books.

Zophman: 41,300 people die each year from second hand smoke. Smokers not only k**l themselves but other innocent victims. Yes, in most communities smoking in public places is illegal or at least significantly restricted.

Nagy: I understand the official figures, but find them implausible, like serious assertions I have seen before that claim secondhand smoke is deadlier than firsthand. That does not mean I am attempting to nullify scientific data about the subject. I have not read enough on it to verify independently that it is really science, and probably accurate. I would be interested in knowing about how secondhand smoke can be that deadly, except in an unventilated environment where the smokers are severe users. I was hoping you would be willing to explain it.

Zophman: So why does the second hand smoke death rate remain?

Nagy: Apparently it remains because smoking is extremely toxic, but not outlawed everywhere, as I think it should be.

Zophman: And does your personal experience regarding lung cancer qualify as scientific study? I doubt it.

Nagy: No, I never claimed that my personal experience is valid science, or nullifies actual studies. If you reread what I wrote, you may find a disclaimer to that effect. I merely expressed some credulousness. If I thought it was important enough to research this, I would educate myself on the number of remaining smokers, and exactly how they k**l those who are just in the same room or house with them. Seems that the toxins emitted from cigarettes, pipes, and cigars should dissipate in the air, at least to a large degree, even if not to the degree I might have guessed.

Zophman: Your premise concerning the proven mortality of fire arms and smoking is without merit as evidenced by studies from numerous organizations including the CDC.

Nagy: What premise is that? I agreed that tobacco use of any kind is a severe abuse that should be outlawed. My conclusion about both guns and tobacco is that they cause great harm without enough good effects to justify either. You seem to agree on the harmful effects of both, but also seem to conclude that neither should be outlawed, or that only cigarette smoking should be, but not firearms. In fact, the harm caused by tobacco has been under legislative assault for a long time. This casts serious doubt on your assertion that its effects are being ignored. Meanwhile the government has done nothing substantial about reducing our firearm deaths.

You seemed to be setting me up to dispute the need to stop the harmful effects of cigarettes, so you could call me hypocrite. When I did not step into your trap you responded as if I had. This is a bit of strawmanism. Apparently your irrational anger is preventing you from making valid observations about what my views are.

Robertjererl: Nope, I believe the question is still unanswered, but that over all mankind only has limited influence compared to the sun's output and other factors.

Nagy: Limited is a relative term. Human influence over climate is limited compared to the long-term effects of the Sun, and to the catastrophic short-term effects of cosmic collisions, but not so limited that it cannot raise global temperatures a few degrees above what can comfortably sustain life as it currently is. Human behavior can create heat that reduces the qualiti of life to the point where tens of millions, or even billions must perish, or live in poverty. None of that has anything to do with your crackpot beliefs, but with reliable science.

If you're going to execute people then it should be in the most gory, cruel way you can imagine. The Guillotine is perfect as is drawing and quartering along with public h*****g. It should be televised on every channel and done at a state fair or carnival every year while people are there to watch it.
The death penalty is barbaric and the best thing we can do is make carrying it out just as barbaric so that people know what they're doing.
Lethal injection is being passed off as humane and being disguised as a medical procedure. It's not. It's murder. Legal murder, but murder just the same.
Remember, the death penalty isn't about justice. It's about state sponsored revenge.