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Honestly - I find it difficult to take you seriously when the initial section of your comment is bashing his opinion. If you have a competing opinion or just do

Honestly - I find it difficult to take you seriously when the initial section of your comment is bashing his opinion. If you have a competing opinion or just don’t like their’s you can then make a rebuttal (as you did in section A). Your entire initial comment and then section B makes your argument no better than his. Let’s stop bashing and be constructive, regardless of whether you like/agree with someone’s comment or not

defterGoose 7y ago
The high level of snark was intentional. Although that tends not to be super popular around here, being scientifically precise does seem to be. I generally feel that my comment style straddles the line between snarky and civil. Although it's probably true that my attitude here isn't the most constructive, it's also true that for some people (I'll yet withhold final judgement regarding OP), any attempt to educate or have dialog falls on deaf ears. This gets really tiring when online forums are replete with people willing to espouse opinions based on incomplete or distorted understanding with little more than an offhand remark. So if I come across as frustrated, well, maybe you can try to forgive that. It's harder for me to forgive pseudoscientific evangelism.
- chrisco255 7y ago
  Your comment just underscores the religious devotion that alarmists have to their shaky hypothesis that the world faces imminent doom at the hands of man-made climate change. The sea level has been rising for over 20,000 years. Just to give you perspective on the changes since the Halocene era began, here's more documented evidence for you to snark about: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_Holocene_sea_level_rise#/media/File%3APost-Glacial_Sea_Level.png https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_Holocene_sea_level_ris... This shows 20K years of sea level rise since the end of the last glacial period. Numerous centuries in that time contain more rapid sea level rise than present. So, all of that hundreds of feet of rise for the past 20 millenia were natural...except for the past few dozen centimeters of rise? That's all man-made? Give me a break. It's really frustrating when history deniers like you try to act like you're more educated than the people you're debating when you have a huge gap in your knowledge.

defterGoose 7y ago

The high level of snark was intentional. Although that tends not to be super popular around here, being scientifically precise does seem to be. I generally feel that my comment style straddles the line between snarky and civil. Although it's probably true that my attitude here isn't the most constructive, it's also true that for some people (I'll yet withhold final judgement regarding OP), any attempt to educate or have dialog falls on deaf ears. This gets really tiring when online forums are replete with people willing to espouse opinions based on incomplete or distorted understanding with little more than an offhand remark. So if I come across as frustrated, well, maybe you can try to forgive that. It's harder for me to forgive pseudoscientific evangelism.

chrisco255 7y ago
Your comment just underscores the religious devotion that alarmists have to their shaky hypothesis that the world faces imminent doom at the hands of man-made climate change. The sea level has been rising for over 20,000 years. Just to give you perspective on the changes since the Halocene era began, here's more documented evidence for you to snark about: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_Holocene_sea_level_rise#/media/File%3APost-Glacial_Sea_Level.png https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_Holocene_sea_level_ris... This shows 20K years of sea level rise since the end of the last glacial period. Numerous centuries in that time contain more rapid sea level rise than present. So, all of that hundreds of feet of rise for the past 20 millenia were natural...except for the past few dozen centimeters of rise? That's all man-made? Give me a break. It's really frustrating when history deniers like you try to act like you're more educated than the people you're debating when you have a huge gap in your knowledge.