Because you are so desperate that you back the words of a man who thinks the world is 6000 years old over the vast consensus of scientists including pretty much every legit scientific association.
You mean the kind of people who would award themselves fake "Nobel Peace Prizes."
Except that's not what I posted, but you've never been gods at reading and comprehension. Notice how you avoided answer the Wright brother, and penicillin question. No one can correctly measure a string until the can see both ends, which you can't at this time.
At least they when called on it, they admitted their mistake, and it was corrected.
Five years later. And "mistake" is a dishonest characterization of what was occurring.
Then again you've never been that either. It looks like you've decided, after running out of legit defendable points and opinions, to put your Spelling Nazi pointy helmet on and be the class clown. you're not good at that also. I'll help you out, knowing your handicap, if you didn't realize it, the word should have been 'good'.
Seems that you keep talking about empirical evidence but choose to ignore the empirical evidence. Just like you agree that 'human activity' is causing global warming but claim it's not anthropogenic.
The "vast majority" of 79 carefully selected responses to a misleading question.
Then again I suspect these association have more than 79 members, certainly more than 49 retired NASA employees, and they agree.The "vast majority" of 79 carefully selected responses to a misleading question.
I don't know why you keep saying that I don't want to "accept" what the science is saying. I do accept it. I accept the results -- reported (although downplayed) in the IPCC's fifth assessment report -- that showed the IPCC's predictions were spectacularly wrong.
It tells me that we should prefer empirical evidence over computer models and mathematically fabricated claims of a "consensus."
I keep telling you: I fully accept that.
(Rather than talking about the Wright Brothers, maybe you guys should look up Galileo.)
Galileo -- and many others who followed -- proved that empirical evidence is vastly more important than claims of a "consensus."
Isn't a consensus of scientists different than a consensus of die hard clergy?
Not to mention rising sea levels from the melting of ice caps and the impact or consequences to coastal cities.
If that's the case, then a warming trend is inevitable and irreversible no matter what man does (he may accentuate the reversion to how things should be pre-ice age), no?
I realize that but he's using scientific sources, although he doesn't appear too objective when he makes his 'Red Star' references.
It's worth repeating Albert Einstein's response to the Nazis publishing a book called 100 Authors Against Einstein: "Were I wrong, one professor would have been quite enough."
You missed the point. Few people dispute that mankind's existence on the planet affects the climate (although there are researchers who dispute that).
It's worth repeating Albert Einstein's response to the Nazis publishing a book called 100 Authors Against Einstein: "Were I wrong, one professor would have been quite enough."
A so-called "consensus" of scientists doesn't mean anything if the scientists are wrong.
Furthermore, the mathematically contrived "consensus" is a political talking point. It is not evidence. It is not even statistically accurate. It is used to try to steer the conversation away from the evidence (as we have seen in this thread).
Ultimately, the premise that man-made CO2 emissions are a primary driver of increases in the Earth's temperature will be determined by evidence. At this point, the evidence shows we have no idea if there is any merit to the premise. Nor is it likely we will know the answer anytime soon.
There is good reason to be skeptical, given that many of the predictions were spectacularly wrong. And leading climate researchers (eg., Phil Jones) refused to concede there was a "pause" in warming until it became irrefutable (and then they claimed they knew the "pause" was possible all along. :biggrin1
