Quote:Yes I did your link. It reads like a propaganda diatribe which works for you because it confirms your bias. It also does not make your statement any less a clear form of projection. 

 

Listening to experts is what rational people do. Thinking you know more than experts because you did some googling to confirm a bias tied to your personal identity is what irrational people do. 

 

 

Did you read this link I posted?

 

<p style="color:rgb(40,40,40);font-family:helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><a class="bbc_url" href='https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/04/01/how-the-internet-makes-you-think-youre-smarter-than-you-really-are/?utm_term=.efff9a7b5ce7' title="External link">https://www.washingt...m=.efff9a7b5ce7</a>

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<p style="color:rgb(40,40,40);font-family:helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">“… People mistake access to information for their own personal understanding of the information.”

 

Now who's projecting? Just because the study found a subset of bozos who responded that way does not mean that everyone responds that way.


 

I posted that "propaganda diatribe" as you call it because it covers the similarities between climate science and religion better than I could, and there are a lot of them. The one it didn't mention that I observe is that science looks for evidence that a theory is wrong, religion looks for evidence that their dogma is right. If you look at the body of work of climate science, you'll see a lot of the latter and very little of the former.


 

I can draw my own conclusions. The data is out there, and the subject of climate is not that difficult. Don't take my word for it, but don't take the word of someone living off of taxpayer dollars which would go away if there were no implied problem either. Go look at the data.


We're talking about a one degree difference. That's typical of walking from one room in a house to another with a door in between. Severe weather is down, the science agrees with this. The rate of sea level rise has been constant for as long as there have been measurements, well over a hundred years. That is evident in the tide gauge data on NOAA.gov. It doesn't take a PhD in science to look at the data, so go look. Then be skeptical when the tax dollar leeches claim otherwise.

Warming at the current rate is not a disaster. Warmer is better. A lot more people retire to Florida than to North Dakota. Meanwhile, the CO2 enrichment of the atmosphere has increased the land area covered by vegetation (i.e. less desert), and that's a good thing in my book.

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