Clippo

I will shortly be taking a break - from this sub-forum particularly. I will still read the threads occasionally but only comment or post on ‘rational’ ideas.

Now that the cheers have subsided from those posters who I have continually exposed as ‘crackpots’, I will say why.

I have never considered the quality of debate here very good. On the one hand there have been a few individuals, like myself, who have tried to post factual, scientific information to back up our beliefs and then there are those who have tried to avoid the consensus truth of GW for ‘political’ or 'conspiratorial' dogma.

I have stated several times that all of the ‘real’ evidence is in favour of Anthropogenic reasons for the latest phase of GW. However, the contrarians keep quoting debunked mantras which echo around the right-wing blogosphere like a dying thunderclap.

The debate on the whether there is GW now and it’s causes is over – has been for a decade. There is a simple reason why the vast worldwide consensus of scientists, politicians, and ordinary people believe in AGW – that is because it is the recognised truth.
Even the US libertarians who initially attacked the basic ideas have now conceded that GW is Real and caused by Mankind’s activities. There are just a few residual opponents who have been left behind by the tide of human thought.

I found this about ‘deniers’ arguments a long time ago :-

The atmosphere isn’t warming,
And if it is then it’s due to natural variation,
And even if it is not due to natural variation then the amount of warming is insignificant,
And if it becomes significant then the benefits will outweigh the problems,
And even if they don’t then Technology will come to the resecue,
And even if it doesn’t, we shouldn’t wreck the economy when many parts of the science are uncertain.

I will leave you with those thoughts