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The commentator to whom you're replying isn't denying climate change. He's proposing that the insect die off is happening on too short a time scale to attribute
by quotemstr 8y ago
The commentator to whom you're replying isn't denying climate change. He's proposing that the insect die off is happening on too short a time scale to attribute it entirely to climate change. That you're attacking him as if he were a climate denier is an example of the sort of behavior that creates climate deniers.
- erikpukinskis 8y agoThe intellectual hostage taking you’re doing is a sad trend I have seen more and more of lately. “This horrible feminist said bad things and FORCED me to become a sexist” kind of thing. I don’t buy it. If one idiot on one side of a debate like that causes you to pick the opposite side, it’s because that’s the side you wanted to pick. There are plenty of idiots on either side to support whatever choice you want to make.
- eesmith 8y agoI was specially referring to the comments the g'parent poster made concerning climate, in a paragraph starting "As to climate". It happens that the statements made are not only incorrect, but aligned with common talking points which are predominantly made by climate change denialists. But you'll note that I carefully did not say that the poster was a CCD. I said the arguments were those used by CCD and which have been well-demonstrated to be invalid, so the poster needs to use better arguments to be convincing.
- campercoder 8y agoYes, but the rest of his posts proves he has a brain.
- eesmith 8y agoI can't figure out what you are trying to say. I think climate change denialists have a brain. I think people with a brain are perfectly capable of making bad arguments. I think that just because someone is knowledgeable and even an authority in some areas doesn't mean that knowledge or authority extends to other areas, nor even the ability to recognize the limits of one's knowledge.