Quote from Arnie:
James,
Sucks being wrong, uh?
Btw, it seems you are guilty of the same sin as the neocon's.......never compromise.
Quote from james_bond_3rd:
I don't know what your definition of "being wrong" is. Your partial list of 17k people have few if any scientists. I'm sure you can come up with far more people in the US who are opposed to climate science. If that is your standard of "proof," then it's not going to convince anyone.
Compromising on what? You're very confused. Compromise can be made in business or in politics, but never in science. There is only one true answer to the question of global warming. But there can be many ways to deal with it. To compromise on the former is sheer lunacy. I'm certainly willing to compromise on the latter (which I have already demonstrated amply on this board).

Quote from Arnie:
Oh come on man! "A few" of them are scientists? Are you for real?
And I love that line....
Compromise can be made in business or in politics, but never in science.
Well, well, then why do we always hear about a "concensus" on global warming. How do you have a "concensus" with FACTS??
Face it man, I OWN YOU!!!!!![]()
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Quote from james_bond_3rd:
Scientific consensus is not reached by compromise. Gravity pulls everything down, whether you agree with it or not. Poison kills, regardless what your opinion is. There are always nut cases who claim that the second law of thermodynamics is false, or that perpetual machine can be made. Those disagreements between real scientists and the fringe do not affect the scientific consensus on the laws of thermodynamics.
You wingnuts are touting a few fringe nut cases as evidence of disagreement. It is irrelevant to the scientific consensus. The only consequence is political. We have in Bush administration a group of nuts who don't believe science, and are substituting religious/political beliefs for science. This may work for awhile. It certainly worked for decades in the former Soviet Union, and in Mao's China. Only in this case, the entire human race will suffer the consquences.

Quote from Arnie:
Please show me wear anyone in the administration is using religous beliefs vis a vis global warming. You're the fanatic! And AlGore is your God.
PS. The Bush administration has spent over 5 billion dollars on climate research. More than all 8 years for Clinton.
Keep it up, you're batting "0".![]()
Quote from ZZZzzzzzzz:
Actually not a strawman, as his credibility is at issue since he is speaking as an expert as relates to global warming and he is challenging the conclusions of other scientists, and if in fact he is being paid by the oil companies, he becomes like an "expert witness" who is appearing for pay.
Knowing who is paying for that witness, and what their track record is does become important in evaluation of their expert status and/or objectivity, especially if they always and only appear on behalf of plaintiff cases, etc.
Since scientists are split on the issue, and since the issue is one to be decided by public policy, ultimately as determined by electorate, knowing the motive of a particular scientist is an important factor.
Same is true for scientists who are fully funded by the global warming activists.
Seriously Mav, imagine you are on a jury in a cigarette causing cancer case...tell me that if the expert witness in this trial is fully sponsored for all their research by R.J. Reynolds tobacco, as a juror, you are not going to have concerns about the objectivity of that expert witness, and thus question their conclusions?
In a trial, both sides put up their expert witnesses, scientists on both sides.
How do you know who to believe?
So, since Dr. Tim is acting as an expert, then it not a straw man. His appeal is his authority as a scientist.
A straw man would be if you presented the same arguments he presented, and I said:
"Mav is just an idiot bears fan, so what he says on global warming is false, and because he is a Bears fan, the arguments he made on global warming are false."
Quote from ZZZzzzzzzz:
"Politicians need crises to expand their power."
There you go, talking about Bush and the neocons again...
Now, if you want to really talk about the right wing republiklans and their method of argumentation, then lets talk about their most common argument:
The appeal to ignorance...
Which worked famously following 9/11 up to the last election...
p.s. This is an appeal to the "authority" of the pilot and TV channel you refer to below:
The Arctic ADDED hundreds of feet of ice from world war 2 until the mid 90's!! I got that from the story
about the guy that went back to get his plane he abandoned in WW2. He had to melt his way down 300 feet to get it!!
it was on the History channel or Discovery or one of those.
ROTFLMAO...The Discovery/History channel is an appeal to authority.
Too freaking funny how you condemn the GW folks for using appeal to authority, then a single paragraph later you do the same thing.
Too freaking funny...
Oh and you don't ever remember which channel it was on...you would make a fine witness for the side you oppose...
Quote from Pa(b)st Prime:
C'mon man. You're smart enough to know that the left's talk about human created climate change is on par with the neocon's "Muslim in every closet" political ideology.
Today's political debate is mindless codewords and catch phrases like those in a cheap sales presentation. Education, guns, Iron Curtain, terrorists, Choice, Warming, pay your "fair" share, blah, blah, blah........
Quote from ZZZzzzzzzz:
My belief systems is however that what goes around eventually comes around, and if we are greedy and ignore the earth, then the earth will eventually come around to let us know that is not a natural way of living...
