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I DO! ALL OF YOU PUNY MORTALS SHALL FEEL MY WRATH AND SUFFER FOR ALL YOU HAVE DONE!

Are we even remotely still talking about climate change research and lessening our industrial footprint? I have known my share of climate change researchers...I am pretty sure most of them are not Doctor Doom.

Yes, we're still talking about climate change research.

And, sadly, I'm not so sure most of them are not Doctor Doom. So much of the conclusion of climate change research seems to focus on doom and despair that it sometimes comes across as the scientific equivalent of a supervillain's victory speech. Which, really, it kinda is... the supervillain being humanity's damage to the planet, though.

Wait, I have a sock puppet for that...

I WILL WIN, PUNY MORTALS!

Like seriously...as a publishing scientist...scientists are...people. They have the same ratio of personality quirks as the rest of the population, and the idea that somehow we harbor a greater percentage of genocidal psychopaths than the normal population actually makes me angry.

Then feel free to be angry. It won't do you any good.

Unfortunately, the higher ratio of mental disorder among intelligent people is established science. It is primarily linked to creativity, but they've also established a link to other intelligence as well. And science itself, as a profession, tends to attract people who are far higher in intelligence.

It's one of those cases of scientists shooting themselves in the foot. In this case, it's a Catch-22 situation; there's no good outcome from from their announcement.

If you want a climate science example, all I have to do is cite James Hansen. The same guy who, as of 2009, shouted we only had 4 years to avert catastrophic climate change, eventually had to quit, and was arrested outside the White House protesting several times before finally being shunted aside by many of his former supporters, including those within climate science. The same guy who publicly endorsed a book calling for us to completely abandon modern civilization and go back to nature. And, yes, that means everything: scientific research, computers, automobiles, health care... That's the kind of crazy James Hansen subscribes to.

I'm always for heating things up, so why not let them figure it out?

As long as they don't metagame, the players figuring it out doesn't mean anything.

I SAID YOU ARE GOING TO GO EXTINCT, MORTAL!

WE HAVE A VERY HAPPY MARRIAGE.

THE NEXT POSTER IS FACEPALMING AT THIS POST.

Granted. The sword is covered in explosive runes.

I wish people would stop trying to stop me.

Willy Wespenspinne wrote:

I wanted to clear up some misconceptions buzzing around the web, as it were.

First of all, we only target criminals. Y'know, murderers, tax collectors, and the criminally delicious. It's why we look so hideous, to strike fear into the hearts of wrongdoers. So, despite the reputation, we're actually bene...

Oh, excuse me, that elf throwing flowers on the ground is littering.

<flies off>

Sir or madam, you have been found guilty of deliciously littering. I'm afraid I must sting you now.

YOU! YOU MUST KNEEL BEFORE ZOD!

I KNEEL BEFORE NO ONE! YOU MUST BOW BEFORE MY MIGHT OR I WILL FLOOD YOUR CITIES AND TURN YOUR FARMLAND INTO DESERTS!

ELECT ME PRESIDENT! I CARE ABOUT THE ENVIRONMENT! I WILL BRING CHANGE!

I DO NOT APPROVE OF THIS PRODUCT! IT SHOULD NEVER BE SOLD!

Irontruth wrote:

Maybe if we can't see it, it'll think it can't see us.

Oh crap! I see it! I see it! I can't stop seeing it! It's charging! Run! RUN!!!

RUN! RUN ALL YOU WISH! YOU CANNOT ESCAPE ME, MORTAL!