> However, when I see skepticism towards man-caused climate change lumped in with believing in lizard people, I can feel myself physically becoming more dug in

> However, when I see skepticism towards man-caused climate change lumped in with believing in lizard people, I can feel myself physically becoming more dug in in my skepticism. There is a benefit of such a thinking btw. It may not be rational based on what you really know, but when someone is attacking you irrationally for 'questioning' something, your response is also to drop the rationality of it and go "Fuck You". I have the same reaction to whenever people started claiming that if you believe that Obama wasn't born in America, then you're a racist, my "Fuck You" reaction is the same, to take a piss in this pissing competition, whereas I couldn't give a rat's ass to where he was born, nor I consider that to be a disqualification of being the President. Regarding Climate Change, I don't believe that the issue of 'Climate Change' is an issue of science. Take for instance this is the first comment on the highly controversial editorial NYT recently published: > Brett Stephens is a smart guy who knows absolutely nothing about the most urgent issue of our time. People are dying now, people are starving now, people are forced to leave their homes and their countries now. Species are dying, forests are disappearing the oceans and coral reefs are being damaged beyond repair. And Greenland and the Antarctica are melting and seas are rising. > Facts, science, not opinions. Mr Stephens should come down from his Ivory Tower at the WSJ and go see the world. If he is one more Republican pawn that has been bought off by the fossil fuel lobby, and Russia, like our Illegitimate President, we don't need him cluttering up The NY Times OpEd page. The guy is claims to be all about science and reason, but is cheering 'emotion'. His 'emotional rhetoric' does not make me wanna embrace 'science, reason and facts', rather to fight his real position: 'Emotional rhetoricism'.