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Old 02-18-2012, 08:50 PM   #116 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by jamesqf View Post
True skepticism is a good thing. The problem here is that the climate "skeptics" want us to go on believing that the world is flat, and ignoring all that pesky science that says it's round.
Link to proof of this claim about climate skeptics ?

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Only if you a) don't have a clue about the science involved; and b) refuse to learn. We might, by exactly the same logic, claim that because the roll of any one die is very difficult to predict, the house doesn't have the edge in craps, yet somehow casinos still make a profit :-)
Actually the logic of the fact that any roll of die is unpredictable is exactly why the casino makes the profit. It does not suggest that the casino somehow has a superior ability to predict the outcome. It's just that the casino is betting against your ability to predict successfully.

The "warmers" have used this same sort of reasoning to the effect that if they cannot scientifically prove what is causing the warming, then skeptics are unable to disprove their claims. This is not science folks.
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