Billy_Bob
Diamond Member
Does anyone here know why there are so few people who actually understand the science of climate change posting here these days? It is because the forum has been taken over by right wing political pundants who don't even understand the very simple fact that weather and climate are not the same thing. Talking to these people is like talking to a creationist with the exception that at least a creationist can justify their ignorance on religious grounds. And at least creationists for the most part don't use foul and/or insulting language when you converse with them. I can accept that even if I think their denial is irrational. I can accept that because their belief in creationism mostly doesn't hurt anyone but themselves. On the other hand, right wing political pundants who are actively denying the science are hurting everyone because every day nothing is done to mitigate CO2 emissions, because every day their activism against science affects all of us and pushes us further and further away from our former leadership role in the sciences, the more at risk is our future and that of our children, and their children. It really does border on criminal behavior, IMHO. But who the hell wants to have a conversation with some one like theowl32, or Flash, people who obviously have nothing to contribute to the conversation, or even at least one of the moderators, who apparently feels it to be their place to shut down the conversation of anyone who disagrees with them? I certainly see no point to it. But perhaps that was their aim in the first place: To shut down all reasonable discussion and claim, in their eyes at least, some sort of victory. Sorry, folks. Alienating people doesn't make one superior to anyone. And considering the fact that the only ones who appear to be taken to task on the forum rules are those who support climate change science, such behavior certainly isn't contributing to the conversation. So what's the point? Anyone? Why even have an environment forum at all?
There is no science when data is manipulated to get results. Climategate I and II provided the direct evidence of the manipulation. Did you bother even to read the article posted by the OP about the temperature fudge factors being used? What kind of science is that?
Talk about about children this Left Wing religious like belief in something that has absolutely no credible scientific basis is really comical.
Arguing with these Environmental wacko nutcases about AGW is like discussing Islamic religion with Muslim terrorists. They refuse to believe the facts and they make up shit.
"Climategate I and II were farces played out by people who don't have the public interest at heart, and are doing everything they can do to discredit science and the people who conduct it. No one was charged with any wrongdoing. In fact, the only people who should have been charged with wrongdoing (the individuals who violated national and international law by hacking into a secure government server and disseminating confidential communications over the internet without the authority to do so) have never been identified. But we do know who used that stolen information, and why. And it had nothing to do with protecting the public.
By the way, taking a page from the creationist play book by calling climate science a religion doesn't actually help your argument. It only makes you look desperate.
And finally, as I've already pointed out, Christopher Booker is not a scientist (he is a creationist who happens to also be a journalist - and not a very good one), and has no credibility whatsoever within the scientific community. Next.
SO NOT exposing fraud, waste and abuse are ok with you.. I recognized the foul elitist stench long ago. I find it very disheartening that some one claiming to be a scientist would hang his hat on manufactured data from the CRU and those around them. Rewriting the climate record and then dumping the original empirical data for the manufactured one..
One lie begets two lies and that begets 4 lies and pretty soon your lies catch up with you..