re: #83 Fairly Sure I’m Still Obdicut

There’s a spectrum, but the truth is that he’s a soft denier. And yes, a soft denier does say what you quoted above.

No real clue what you mean by ‘heretic’, since we’re not talking about a religion. Again, is the concept of ‘soft denier’ new to you, do you need it explained?

He’s not a climate scientist. It really doesn’t matter that ‘the kind of sociologist who studies politics’ is called ‘political scientist’. It’s not, as you say, a hard scientist. Who cares that it has ‘scientist’ in the name?

Well, if not me, why not trust the climate scientists on this one? Like the dude who wrote the rebuttal 538 decided not to publish, or the other ones who are criticizing him?

I kind of don’t get why you wouldn’t believe me on this, either: when have you known me to be wrong on climate change stuff?

Maybe you should explain what soft denier means to you in this context. It’s not that I don’t believe you it’s that I’m looking at contrary data and stepping back to see what else becomes apparent.

So a person can admit humans are causing warming, and we should change our ways and still be a denier?