100% Clean Coal

[Eddie Teach]

Who's the chick in your avatar?

[Admiral Yi]

I hate to burst your bubble Tim, but CO2 is hardly the only contaminant expelled in coal plants.

Reminds me a little of the old "if you're not going to invade every dictatorship you're not allowed to invade Iraq" argument.

[Iormlund]

I hate to burst your bubble Tim, but CO2 is hardly the only contaminant expelled in coal plants.

Reminds me a little of the old "if you're not going to invade every dictatorship you're not allowed to invade Iraq" argument.

Nah. It's just that I find the fixation with CO2 a little silly.

Who's the chick in your avatar?

The hottest nerd ever.

[DGuller]

The actress who invented some radio encryption technology?

[Fate]

I hate to burst your bubble Tim, but CO2 is hardly the only contaminant expelled in coal plants.

Reminds me a little of the old "if you're not going to invade every dictatorship you're not allowed to invade Iraq" argument.

How about:

"If you're going to deny that anthropogenic global warming exists, you're not allowed to put forward clean coal as a solution."

[Admiral Yi]

How about:

"If you're going to deny that anthropogenic global warming exists, you're not allowed to put forward clean coal as a solution."

That's a good one.

But since neither Friedman or Kosla deny global warming exists (as far as we know), they are allowed to put forward this particular technology as *a* solution.  Right?

[Razgovory]

I hate to burst your bubble Tim, but CO2 is hardly the only contaminant expelled in coal plants.

Reminds me a little of the old "if you're not going to invade every dictatorship you're not allowed to invade Iraq" argument.

You mean the straw man argument?

[garbon]

Nah. It's just that I find the fixation with CO2 a little silly.

From wikilove:

Historically, the primary focus was on sulfur dioxide and particulates, since it is the most important gas in the causation of acid rain. More recent focus has been on carbon dioxide (due to its impact on global warming) as well as other pollutants.

[jimmy olsen]

I hate to burst your bubble Tim, but CO2 is hardly the only contaminant expelled in coal plants.

I am completely aware of that.

[Admiral Yi]

You mean the straw man argument?

No.  I mean the "if you're not going to invade every dictatorship you're not allowed to invade Iraq" argument.  Sorry if that wasn't clear.

[Razgovory]

You mean the straw man argument?

No.  I mean the "if you're not going to invade every dictatorship you're not allowed to invade Iraq" argument.  Sorry if that wasn't clear.

Yes, that's called a straw man argument.

[Admiral Yi]

Yes, that's called a straw man argument.

Meaning no one has ever put forth the argument I described, or are you using an alternate universe definition of straw man?

[grumbler]

You mean the straw man argument?

No.  I mean the "if you're not going to invade every dictatorship you're not allowed to invade Iraq" argument.  Sorry if that wasn't clear.

Yes, that's called a straw man argument.

No, it isn't, actually.  It is more of a reducto ad absurdum argument.  Same genus, different species.

[Eddie Teach]

The actress who invented some radio encryption technology?

And does she have a name?

[grumbler]

I hate to burst your bubble Tim, but CO2 is hardly the only contaminant expelled in coal plants.

Reminds me a little of the old "if you're not going to invade every dictatorship you're not allowed to invade Iraq" argument.

You mean the straw man argument?

Wrong article.  There isn't any such thing as "the" strawman argument.