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Old 01-30-2019, 03:26 PM   #4728 (permalink)
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There is no debate, here. There is data and science, and there are people who think that their denial is an argument against facts.
I follow this thread, but since all the posts are read in the same voice, it's hard for me to follow who's on who's side. If this isn't debate, what is it? Vigorous conversation? Dialectic?

I also follow Scott Adam's investigation of the subject. It's hard to point to since he tags onto the end of his regular vlog. Could you summarize his conclusion? I could.

Snagged this from today's transcript:

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you need to release on the obviously bad
51:38
arguments let me tell you the arguments
51:40
that are good in terms of criticizing
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climate science here's the good argument
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the science is probably pretty solid not
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a hundred percent in my opinion because
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I can't really penetrate it so I can't
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give you an independent opinion but
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probably pretty science meaning that co2
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raises temperatures at cetera but the
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the projection models and the economics
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that they that they do on top of those
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should be seen as marketing not science
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they use scientific thinking to make the
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models but you really have to look at
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the projection models as how the
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scientists are trying to market their
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their their beliefs the things that
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they've discovered
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