re: #74 schnapp

The thing that pisses me off about climate sceptics is that they are not scientists or experts of any kind in climate science but thay refer to their “evidence” which they get from fringe scientists and accept it as fact because they want to believe it. They haven’t done the research, they don’t know jack sh*t about science, they’re not climate scientists or geologists or anything like that, they just don’t want to believe the science. I used to be one of them because yes, I would prefer it if climate change wasn’t happening, but now i believe, as I’m not a scientist, I can’t have an informed opinion on it and in the possibility that it is true, despite what the sceptics say, it will be worth it in 100 years time if we invest today in saving the environment from the possible effcts of global warming. But maybe the scientists are wrong. Maybe climate change isn’t happening. But I am a conservative, and being a conservative I believe that we should take the precautions in case it is true, and the world is warming, because if we aren’t conservative, and don’t look at the effects of what will happen if we take no action, then we are pretty much f*cked. And this relentless denying of climate change by non-scientists has started to put me off people like Andrew Bolt, who I like and generally agree with. I’ll stick with Charles who I have been reading every day without fail since January 2007.

And Stephen Hawking’s qualifiations in climatology are ???