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You criticize your opponent by saying that they are dogmatic for ignoring data, while yourself totally ignoring the evidence they have just posted. You then po

You criticize your opponent by saying that they are dogmatic for ignoring data, while yourself totally ignoring the evidence they have just posted. You then pour salt on the wound by using lmgtfy for someone who actually went to the trouble of finding a document that refutes your claim. This might not be the forum for you, friend.

coldpie 10y ago
Conspiracy theorists are generally beyond help. It's not worth arguing with them. But if you leave it unchallenged, it might lead an uninformed observer to think, "maybe the truth is in the middle." These kinds of posts are best used as a springboard to point impressionable observers to reliable sources of information to help prevent the spread of nonsense.
- jackhack 10y ago
  One simple question: Did NASA-GISS alter datasets to create a trend that is the opposite of that shown by the unmodified data?
  - coldpie 10y ago
    If they had, and such modification was relevant to the topic at hand, I suspect there would be a discussion about that in the relevant research papers. If the conclusion was as dramatic as you claim it is, it would be mentioned prominently in the IPCC report. It isn't.
jackhack 10y ago
There is no "opponent" here. Is that how you see this, as some sort of confrontation? You're taking this way too personally. There is no opponent, it is just a discussion. I read the document. it is not trustworthy because it uses NASA data, proven to be fraudulent. That is my point.
- Rooster61 10y ago
  In academic vernacular, it is and has been for centuries common for a person who is criticizing a given work or statement to be referred to as an opponent. It implies not malice, but an indication that that person is presenting a view or idea that differs from the original idea of the work or statement presented in a way that questions its validity or veracity. When one is giving a defense of a thesis or dissertation, the professors who hear the defense are referred to as opponents. To suggest that the very professors who one studies and works with throughout ones degree as actually hostile simply because their job is to find flaws in and oppose the points presented is absurd.
- SamPhillips 10y ago
  Why is it then, that there are now cruise ships going through the Northwest passage, roadways built on permafrost melting in Alaska, coral reefs dying worldwide? NASA invented the concept of global warming 40 years ago for political purposes, secretly recruited every other scientific agency-worldwide to collaborate AND coincidentally, unrelated to the billions of tons of greenhouse gasses we release, the world got warmer?

coldpie 10y ago

Conspiracy theorists are generally beyond help. It's not worth arguing with them. But if you leave it unchallenged, it might lead an uninformed observer to think, "maybe the truth is in the middle." These kinds of posts are best used as a springboard to point impressionable observers to reliable sources of information to help prevent the spread of nonsense.

jackhack 10y ago
One simple question: Did NASA-GISS alter datasets to create a trend that is the opposite of that shown by the unmodified data?
- coldpie 10y ago
  If they had, and such modification was relevant to the topic at hand, I suspect there would be a discussion about that in the relevant research papers. If the conclusion was as dramatic as you claim it is, it would be mentioned prominently in the IPCC report. It isn't.

jackhack 10y ago

There is no "opponent" here. Is that how you see this, as some sort of confrontation? You're taking this way too personally. There is no opponent, it is just a discussion. I read the document. it is not trustworthy because it uses NASA data, proven to be fraudulent. That is my point.

Rooster61 10y ago
In academic vernacular, it is and has been for centuries common for a person who is criticizing a given work or statement to be referred to as an opponent. It implies not malice, but an indication that that person is presenting a view or idea that differs from the original idea of the work or statement presented in a way that questions its validity or veracity. When one is giving a defense of a thesis or dissertation, the professors who hear the defense are referred to as opponents. To suggest that the very professors who one studies and works with throughout ones degree as actually hostile simply because their job is to find flaws in and oppose the points presented is absurd.
SamPhillips 10y ago
Why is it then, that there are now cruise ships going through the Northwest passage, roadways built on permafrost melting in Alaska, coral reefs dying worldwide? NASA invented the concept of global warming 40 years ago for political purposes, secretly recruited every other scientific agency-worldwide to collaborate AND coincidentally, unrelated to the billions of tons of greenhouse gasses we release, the world got warmer?