Every now and again something really interesting and useful about climate change comes up, but I miss the people who could look at the actual issues and analyze them.
RE your dispute with Sagebrush...I'd just let it go if I were you, but I'm not sure I could take my own advice if someone was interfering with my constitutional right of free association on the basis of a claim related to another constitutional right, which is of course freedom of speech. If it is any consolation, in that conflict and based in constitutional law, you would almost certainly prevail.
EDIT: Your point about the passivity toward the systematic and deliberate interference with the purpose of this category is well taken but there are multitudes of examples of it throughout history. Most recently in the U.S. political process, which is being very clearly mirrored here in the Global Warming section of Y/A and obviously so, since the ones who are practicing it are also generally of the political persuasion trying to regain power in this country. Interesting how select constitutional rights are so often trumpeted without any apparent consideration of the inherent conflicts-the exercise of one constitutional right does not trump another when they conflict. Your right to free association is not trumped by the right to free speech if your rights are compromised by that exercise, particularly deliberately as is being done here. Thanks for making the point-I have no answer to solve that one.
You'll have to be more specific. If you mean people who have an earthly education in science then there are probably a handful. If you are including people who had supernatural scientific knowledge bestowed upon them miraculously when the Climategate emails were released in November 2009 then the number is several times greater.
Members of the latter group can be easily identified by their similarity to General Jack D Ripper:
Well... I'm a scientist by Oregon petition standards (I have a BS in biology). I suspect several, possibly many others are similarly qualified.
And the patient explanations may not change the minds of the denialists, but they at least hopefully convince any confused children who wander by to lazyweb their homework.
The genuine science questions have been answered and are on the record. Scientists have other priorities in the real world and need to ration time. Thanks for keeping the zombie denialists penned up.
? Option 1 adapt.
Option 2 die.
Don't be such a drama queen, this issue should be well studied and planned out, I'm more interested in not rushing into things blindly and forming a plan that takes into account the individual's self interests, panic finger pointing and political games will not produce the results we need.
Calm down.
Well, at least we're documenting the deniers' stupidity for future generations to study when Y/A is archived away.
I guess that's multiple thumbs-down for me from the deniers.
i dont know who are they but i believe in the cause and effects of cholofloroucarbone. we must change now drastically before its too late. i can feel it. i live in south east asia, the tropics and its freaking hotter.
Or can we change the name to Global Warming Deniers-in-training.
Dana, gone.
Trevor, gone.
Dawei, gone.
Linlyons, Joe, and other informed non-scientists also gone.
Thanks folks, for training ignorant crackpots by patiently explaining over and over and over how to be less stupid with their copy-pasted Marshall-Crichton-Heartland disinformation, for not reporting their violations, for not starring legitimate science questions (if you even bother to look at them at all) and for never blocking the anti-science denialists. Half the top 10 answerers are deniers. Congrats, now we can continue ignoring real issues and failing to exchange real information about climate change.
I wonder which denialists will get best answer from Sagebrush on this one? Be sure to not report his plagiarism, so we can continue to get both "sides" of the "debate." All students deserve their "uncensored" As on science exames, and whether people landed on the moon or not is theory which everyone deserves the right to make up his or her own mind about.
"You don't really know what the square root of 16 is, no one does." See 1:06-12 here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QBv2CFTSWU
