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You don't sound like a skeptic, but a simple denier. Being a skeptic doesn't mean you automatically disbelieve the consensus - it means you question it and inve
by martythemaniak 14y ago
You don't sound like a skeptic, but a simple denier. Being a skeptic doesn't mean you automatically disbelieve the consensus - it means you question it and investigate yourself.
Richard Muller was a skeptic, then he got a lot of money from the Koch Brothers to rip apart climate science and upon closer inspection he found everything checks out.
http://www.businessinsider.com/koch-brothers-funded-study-proves-climate-change-2012-7 http://www.businessinsider.com/koch-brothers-funded-study-pr...
Your justification (a simple repetition of right-wing talking points) only serves to showcase your lack of reasoning.
- kbutler 14y agoSpeaking of repeating talking points... Muller himself stated he was never a skeptic - he just criticized the shoddy science of the global warming advocates. His BEST project confirmed to him his previous belief in anthropogenic global warming. "I was never a skeptic -- only a scientific skeptic," he said in a recent email exchange with The Huffington Post. "Some people called me a skeptic because in my best-seller 'Physics for Future Presidents' I had drawn attention to the numerous scientific errors in the movie 'An Inconvenient Truth.' But I never felt that pointing out mistakes qualified me to be called a climate skeptic." [Huffington Post - not a scientific source, but probably reasonable to accept quoting a person about himself. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/blackberry/p.html?id=1072419 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/blackberry/p.html?id=1072419] You can read more about his recognized bias and scientific approach in a 2003 MIT technology review article: http://www.technologyreview.com/news/402357/medieval-global-warming/page/2/ http://www.technologyreview.com/news/402357/medieval-global-...