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    Posted: 08 April 2010 at 6:56am
Hey folks, need a bit of a favor:

I need to give a persuasive speech next week arguing for the removal of all whales from our oceans to make room for predicted sea level rises due to climate change.  I'm trying to look up figures on how much (roughly) is spent annually on whale conservation, anyone have an idea of where I could find a rough figure?

I know, Do your own homework, tec9, INB4, etc, etc; 

I appreciate it fellas
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i can't think of a single good long-term consequence for the side you're arguing. I hope you didn't choose your topic because you'll be laughed out of the room if you were making this argument willingly.
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Well, it was that or clubbing baby seals for sport, but I figured the latter was overdone.  Everyone was picking serious topics and I figured I'd have a bit of fun.

However, I just made the awkward realization that when i did my math originally, I made a rather serious error in units and realized that all my figures on the amount of surface ice were in cubic kilometers, rather then cubic meters.  Needless to say, removing all the whales of the major species would hardly take care of a single cubic kilometer, let alone the 3 million we're talking about. Color me embarrassed Embarrassed 

I think I might transition to my fallback, which was Whaling itself (against, this time, most likely, going to have to ponder a bit), unless the TA lets me revise my topic.  Which means my original request for a site is still valid, so anything you got would be grand.

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I vote for the pro-whale killing topic.
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Me too.

I mean, he's a good guy, but have you seen what the media has done to our country? I'm fairly certain he has a large part to do with that, so he should have to go.
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^^^ Apparently not . . . you're still sufficiently coherent to answer the post previous to yours.
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I read this as "Whale conversion".

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Why not lump the removal of all boats as well. You could argue that the amount of water displaced by each boat has raised it this much, and the subsequent lowering from removing all boats would counteract all the additional air traffic
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How much ice is in the North pole? And how much in the South? Would one's melting and subsequent decrease in displacement not counteract the other?

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Originally posted by Benjichang Benjichang wrote:

I read this as "Whale conversion".


I kept reading it as "Whale Conversation"
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Originally posted by ThatGuitarGuy ThatGuitarGuy wrote:

Originally posted by Benjichang Benjichang wrote:

I read this as "Whale conversion".


I kept reading it as "Whale Conversation"
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I'm assuming this assignment does not have to be undertaken in a serious manner?

Making a persuasive speech about absolutely ridiculous ways to counter global warming has the potential to be epic, even if whaling alone isn't a viable option.  This way you could at least include whaling as a supplemental measure, or what have you.  Also, for the sake of the point not being entirely exorbitant, you could use population numbers from before whaling decimated them.  Using those numbers you could even portray whalers in a positive light and perhaps as unintentional heroes, exclaiming that had they not been so selfless and sacrificing, global warming would be a much more imminent threat than it currently is!
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Ban fat people from ocean swimming as well
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How about drilling through the crust and just turning some of the ocean into steam if there's too much water around?  Granted, then you have to do something with it.  I dunno what that would be.

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Originally posted by Rofl_Mao Rofl_Mao wrote:

Originally posted by ThatGuitarGuy ThatGuitarGuy wrote:

Originally posted by Benjichang Benjichang wrote:

I read this as "Whale conversion".


I kept reading it as "Whale Conversation"
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Some amazing posts in here LOL

Man, reading through this thread has me depressed I blew this chance, there are some epic topics being tossed around ><

Sadly its too late for me to completely switch topics (I was thinking about arguing for lifting out New Jersey and moving it ontop of Nebraska to make room for rising oceans and give people a reason to go to Nebraska), we needed to survey the class earlier to cater our speech to them, and my survey was broad, but not that broad.  Looks like I'll be making a serious argument against modern day conservation groups and how their methods politicize the environmental movement and turn away support.

Ah well =\
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