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Looks like they're debating whether the "pause"in global warming was real or not. I'd say it doesn't matter to the overall debate since the last two years have consecutively set records as the hottest in recorded history.
Except in most datasets, without adjustments, we didn't. Which is the problem, they adjust the numbers and blame some correction mechanism for the reason.Looks like they're debating whether the "pause"in global warming was real or not. I'd say it doesn't matter to the overall debate since the last two years have consecutively set records as the hottest in recorded history.
nvm, not even worth it.
\Global Warming has become a quasi-religious issue featuring lots of magical thinking on both sides.
#bothsidesdoit, #whatconsensus
Yes because no matter what the two respective sides would never change their positions. Global Warming has become a quasi-religious issue featuring lots of magical thinking on both sides.
I disagree. One side tends to believe in fairy tales much more than the other.
That's your religious faith talking.Yes because no matter what the two respective sides would never change their positions. Global Warming has become a quasi-religious issue featuring lots of magical thinking on both sides.
If it's important for your mental well-being to believe that so be it. The MMGW side has plenty of fairy tales of their own including everything from physics/engineering advances that don't yet exist, a remarkable inability to do honest cost-benefit analysis, willful blindness to simple real-life questions such as base-load power generation adequacy, and belief that others will simply live in poverty forever so to enable their war against fossil fuels.
Hope to gain? Keeping energy cheap and plentiful.What do you stand to gain even if you could somehow prove
It isn't. Period. Science settled. Stop being willfully obdurate. Although I don't expect anything else.
You can believe in the broader scientific consensus that human-influenced climate change is real, or you can be wrong. Your choice.
What do you stand to gain even if you could somehow prove it was a hoax, anyway? Fossil fuels still produce smog and other tangible forms of pollution, and they're a finite resource that leaves us beholden to other countries' exports. And the only reason why Republicans defend coal and oil is because they're being paid to look the other way.