re: #170 Scannit

Why are you talking about Al Gore? He’s not a climate scientist! The global warming debate has been good for the world, I think, because it publicly illustrates just how many people have no idea how science works, and therefore highlights massive inadequacies in the public education system. Here’s how things work. Climate science, at the least, uses a lot of statistics and mathematics, has plenty of fairly-easy-to-obtain data, and leans much more toward being a “hard science”. What that means is that there is a fairly high bar to reach to disprove climate change, because there is a scientific consensus based on several accurate models which use hard data and pretty much agree on the main conclusion. You can’t even see that bar if you’re harping on out-of-context quotes, statistical jargon, or stuff a politician said a decade ago.

It doesn’t matter if the people who came out with these studies murdered a bunch of people and wrote the paper in those people’s blood - they’d go to jail, but their studies would still be right until someone proved them wrong. It doesn’t matter if EVERYBODY IN THE WORLD disagreed with them or was “just asking questions”, because if none of those people can produce a better study that proves it wrong, then it’s most definitely right. If the AGW people are so sure that they’re right, why is it that the few AGW papers have been thoroughly debunked, while the best AGW can do is “just asking questions” and McIntyre using statistics to lie to people who don’t know about things like sample sizes?

In your case, you don’t seem to realize that CO2 is a greenhouse gas - you seem to think that scientists noticed the correlation between CO2 rise and temperature rise and just decided that CO2 must’ve been doing it? No. We KNOW that CO2 is a greenhouse gas. Trapping heat is what it does. That’s common scientific knowledge, and even the deniers accept that.