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I don't click on links.

Of course, I haven't yet located the Internet.

Be that as it may, it is silly to call those who dissent from a theory "deniers" because that makes it seem that the theory is indisputably true.

If Elkin had ever studied the history of science, he would know that Euclid and Newton once held sway, but their dominion changed.

There is a huge difference in the intelligence level between those who acknowledge climate changes as a course of nature and those who attempt to blame those changes on man out of guilt or profit motives.

Yes, those who blame man out of guilt or profit motives are idiots.
They are almost nonexistent.

But you left out all the others; nearly all the scientists in the world.
And there you're right, there is a huge difference in intelligence between you and nearly every scientist in the world.

johnforbes wrote:I don't click on links.

Of course, I haven't yet located the Internet.

Be that as it may, it is silly to call those who dissent from a theory "deniers" because that makes it seem that the theory is indisputably true.

If Elkin had ever studied the history of science, he would know that Euclid and Newton once held sway, but their dominion changed.

And Forbes picks and chooses what he wants to believe.


Namely...the fossil fuel industry.

RealJustme wrote:There is a huge difference in the intelligence level between those who acknowledge climate changes as a course of nature and those who attempt to blame those changes on man out of guilt or profit motives.

The fossil fuel industry stands to lose the most...

Clownkicker wrote:Yes, those who blame man out of guilt or profit motives are idiots.
They are almost nonexistent.

But you left out all the others; nearly all the scientists in the world.
And there you're right, there is a huge difference in intelligence between you and nearly every scientist in the world.

Unfortunately ideology trumps science from time to time.

I'm watching Cosmos, and Neil deGrasse Tyson is methodically obliterating the deniers talking points

Elkin, you've never even heard of Galileo.

You've never read the story of Copernicus.

What you are saying is that a lot of scientist say x, so every rational person ought to believe x.

History suggests a lot more ideational prudence than that.