re: #401 Liberal Classic

No trick, because when you wrote “The global warming discussion has passed from the realm of science to becoming a religion. Not a devout practitioner? No grant money for you, you climate change denier.” you are making the exact same arguments that creation scientists do with respect to evolution, i.e. painting agreement with the scientific theory as being a religion, and claiming that there is a conspiracy in science to suppress ideas contrary to the dominant view. Both of these things are demonstrably false. I make the comparison not to suggest that you believe in creationism, but to show you have fallen into the same fallacious and conspiracist thinking as creationists. I suggest that if you are not convinced of the science behind the greenhouse effect and global warming, then you have not adequately studied the subject.

No you are incorrect, there is no valid comparison between the two issues.

Evolution is a mature science, Climate is an emerging field.

There is much to suggest that there is bias in media reporting, funding and publication, dozens of good articles have pointed to this. It is not at all a case of “fallacious and conspiracist thinking.