Climate scientist faults Obama science advisor for 'Zombie science'

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  1. Subdermal

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    Why are you unwilling to be more specific with this sort of proclamation? I don't know of ANYONE who doesn't think that the climate changes. The issue is if it (a) is bad; (b) if man's input makes it bad.

    Derp.
     
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    Uh-huh, no doubt you find corporate paid shills posing as scientists to be compelling.
     
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    Perhaps then you shouldn't repeat it again. Just a suggestion for you to mull over during your times of quiet reflection.....or when you've had too much to drink, like now.
     
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    So then, whoever has the most "shills" wins?

    The contributions of living organisms to global climate is miniscule compared to the larger driving climate factors, and the contributions of human activity are miniscule compared to the contributions of the all of the other living organisms. For me, it's not matter of majority opinion. It's not even a matter of scientific credibility. It's a matter of scale. We are simply not all that.

    Anthropogenic-catastrophic-global climate change is an anthropocentric arrogance peddled to the scientificly ignorant.

    However, this is not the first time some experts, in some narrow field of expertise, have been left to believe that their field of expertise is the most important thing in the world and that life on earth, as we know it, depends upon their contributions. I have personally heard politicians and preachers make the same claim.
     
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    Yup the man made climate change crowd gets so mad when folks attack there religion.

    They can not figure out that the written word is only around 6 thousand year's old. The thermometer? We'll only was invented in the 1700's

    But man made climate change is a fact good golly

    Don't mention those facts because they hate it
     
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    Credibility not an issue? Really? Because the climate change deniers all seem to have bought into a wacky conspiracy theory. They apparently believe that a massive, diabolical, global conspiracy of scientists and governments is hard at work trying to destroy democracy and take our freedom. A rather crude preemptive tactic designed to distract from the obvious fact that corporations pay so called scientists to say whatever....they have investments to protect. Corporations have a long history of manipulating opinion. Remember the good old days....so different from now.

    [video=youtube;cKMn-_aQoPk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKMn-_aQoPk[/video]
     
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    I wouldn't say that credibilty isn't an issue. I would say that the majority has no credibility. I don't 'pick a side' based upon who I believe.
    I think for myself.

    In theroy, the motivations of governments are different than the motivations of corporations; however, in actuality, those employed by government are motivated by the exact same spectrum of incentives that motivate those employed by corporations.
     
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    Complete and absolute nonsense.
     
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    Those who govern are no better than those they govern. They are motivated by the exact same spectrum of incentives that motivate the governed.
     
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    I asked the bricklayer, not the brick.
     
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    And the brick don't care.
     
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    No, I find the logic that man cannot mathematically be a large enough contributor to GHGs to make any difference worth mobilizing for...compelling.

    I also find the AGW threat to be far too convenient to the goals of liberals and socialists to be a coincidence.
     
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    Sounds like the advertising works.

    [video=youtube;BYgLAPhbyKg]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYgLAPhbyKg[/video]
     
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    On weak-minded liberals, perhaps. On people like me?

    No. You, perhaps, could eat a Big Mac a day, and think you'll look like the models in McDonald's ads. Me: I can figure out what that food does to you.
     
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    Since it's pretty obvious that you are no scientist I'd say advertising is all you have to work with.
     
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    Is it pretty obvious that you are a scientist? :lol:

    You forgot something. I have common sense and wisdom. I find it funny that you must rely on advertising to know truth. I'll take a different path, thanks.
     

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