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Your reaction to this is exactly what is wrong with the discussion: I can stomach the person who talks down climate science because they fear for their job at t
by personZ 12y ago
Your reaction to this is exactly what is wrong with the discussion: I can stomach the person who talks down climate science because they fear for their job at the oil refinery or whatever, but when someone so viciously responds to someone simply saying that the common narrative about climate science is oversold (a simple truth that anyone with any rational sense understands), it is disturbing. It is when it is far past a rational scientific winnowing to an understanding, but instead has become religion.
Wage your religious battle and set up the caricatures of anyone who might disagree, but you sway no one.
- quink 12y ago> climate science is oversold (a simple truth that anyone with any rational sense understands) Now replace 'climate science' with astrology on the one hand or astronomy on the other and you might understand why what you're saying is not at all helpful. That said, if he's bringing something new to the table, then I will lend him three ears. But first the strawman of whether climate science is settled (it won't ever be, just like statistical mechanics won't ever be 'settled', whatever that means), followed by plain wrongness and inaccuracies and only some minor salient points... while calling for what he's calling for is completely out of whack with not only what the IPCC but so many others have determined. No religion here, mate. And no, I don't think that climate change per se will be the extinction of the human race. If nothing else, we might still have the sulphur dim-the-sun kill switch. And yes, climate science is complicated and, yes, nuclear energy everything. Religion? Please...