Oddball
Unobtanium Member
Anybody lurking wanting to learn ways to tackle the hoaxers take note. The great thing about analogies is they pin these guys down.Any lurkers wanting to learn ways to tackle the skeptics take note. The great thing about analogies is they pin these guys down.
The fact is that climate skeptics generally put the climate subject in a special box where they invent their own special rules and logic to address it. They are often sensible people in other walks of life, but become raving buffoons when they go into climate skeptic mode, pulling out the oddest and weirdest logical contortions known to man.
The way to expose them is to break the confines of that box so they (and others) are forced to see their illogical arguments in light of subjects outside the box. In this case none of the skeptics are so mad as to dismiss the need for testing drugs before they are released. And therefore this is a fine anchor to compare their claims about CO2 against.
The analogy about drugs, as being currently invoked by the haoxer in question, is completely fallacious on numerous levels.
1) It begs the proving of a negative.
2) It claims the completely unquantifiable as unimpeachable scientific "given".
3) It uses this questionable "given" as a basis to use the entire planet as a suitable guinea pig.
4) It uses a foreign object (i.e. an opioid drug) placed into the body as a suitable analog for something that is entirely natural and elemental in the atmosphere (CO2).
Tell us, s0n, when do you get into high school?