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Evidence for man-made global warming hits 'gold standard'

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Re: Evidence for man-made global warming hits 'gold standard'

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Take two parts physics, four parts advocacy science, and two hundred parts advocacy journalism, and what do you get?

In Christian circles, you get creation science.

It's cute when climate scientists pretend their work is on the level of finding the Higgs boson. Advocate science is garbage.

Re: Evidence for man-made global warming hits 'gold standard'

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post #3

Take two parts physics, four parts advocacy science, and two hundred parts advocacy journalism, and what do you get? In Christian circles, you get creation science. It's cute when climate scientists pretend their work is on the level of finding the Higgs boson. Advocate science is garbage.

What makes you think it's 'advocacy' science? How would climate science have to change to convince you otherwise?

Re: Evidence for man-made global warming hits 'gold standard'

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post #3

Take two parts physics, four parts advocacy science, and two hundred parts advocacy journalism, and what do you get? In Christian circles, you get creation science. It's cute when climate scientists pretend their work is on the level of finding the Higgs boson. Advocate science is garbage.

It's amusing to me that this comment went from 5 votes over minutes to 0 in a second.

Downvotes - not for use if you don't agree... unless of course the comment disagrees with someone's deeply held beliefs on climate change.

Re: Evidence for man-made global warming hits 'gold standard'

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post #4
post #3

Take two parts physics, four parts advocacy science, and two hundred parts advocacy journalism, and what do you get? In Christian circles, you get creation science. It's cute when climate scientists pretend their work is on the level of finding the Higgs boson. Advocate science is garbage.

What makes you think it's 'advocacy' science? How would climate science have to change to convince you otherwise?

I'll gladly respond - once someone stops deleting comments from other posters that they don't like.

Manipulating the forum is WRONG.

Re: Evidence for man-made global warming hits 'gold standard'

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post #3

Take two parts physics, four parts advocacy science, and two hundred parts advocacy journalism, and what do you get? In Christian circles, you get creation science. It's cute when climate scientists pretend their work is on the level of finding the Higgs boson. Advocate science is garbage.

Creation science is a purely religious viewpoint with basically zero physical evidence.

Climate science has a clear physical mechanism (CO2 traps more solar energy than N2, O2, etc.) and quite a bit of observation confirming the effect. It's simple to do an experiment showing that increasing CO2 increases a primary mechanism of the greenhouse effect. It's really pretty simple. The only debate is just how significant the effect will be, how rapid, and whether it's linear or there are thresholds.

The only reason this is a politicized issue is that the fossil fuel industry is wealthy and powerful and aligned with numerous interests including major nation states where petroleum makes up a huge percentage of export revenue. If it were not such an economically significant issue there wouldn't be any debate.

Re: Evidence for man-made global warming hits 'gold standard'

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post #3

Take two parts physics, four parts advocacy science, and two hundred parts advocacy journalism, and what do you get? In Christian circles, you get creation science. It's cute when climate scientists pretend their work is on the level of finding the Higgs boson. Advocate science is garbage.

Personally, I'd like to see a financial market develop that allows people to predict future global temperatures in short, mid and long term time frames. (let's say 5 years, 10 years, 30 years).

That market would reveal humanities unbiased view of climate change predictions. It would give us a great tool to put things in perspective.

Re: Evidence for man-made global warming hits 'gold standard'

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post #3

Take two parts physics, four parts advocacy science, and two hundred parts advocacy journalism, and what do you get? In Christian circles, you get creation science. It's cute when climate scientists pretend their work is on the level of finding the Higgs boson. Advocate science is garbage.

Attempting to debunk legitimate science without evidence or citation is garbage.

How typical that it's the first comment on the story.

Re: Evidence for man-made global warming hits 'gold standard'

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post #3

Take two parts physics, four parts advocacy science, and two hundred parts advocacy journalism, and what do you get? In Christian circles, you get creation science. It's cute when climate scientists pretend their work is on the level of finding the Higgs boson. Advocate science is garbage.

Attempting to debunk legitimate science without evidence or citation is garbage. How typical that it's the first comment on the story.

How typical that the downvoting standards are selectively applied.
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