Well at least you're honest about your dishonesty, how's that for a backhanded compliment!
So this is curiosity now, not critique. What is something from the regular media (left leaning to the point of WaPo, not Vox) that in your opinion rises to this level of easily disprovable by simply reading the referenced material (that wasn't retracted)?
Just a little gas (coal?) for the fire...
I wouldn't have a good answer for that. But I'm sure Breitbart does (just don't source it!)
My bold. Soes, you're slacking...I was sure I'd have to actually look at sources to discredit the article. The author has kindly obliged and saved me the (distasteful) trouble.
Back when I was a climate change denier (90s) we denied the climate was changing. There was a rather seminal point where a prominent study to show that the climate wasn't warming actually showed that it was and that team had the intellectual honestly to admit their hypothesis was wrong. Some of us, including them, shifted to accepting climate change as an issue. The dogmatic ones switched their stance to admitting that yes the climate is changing, but we can't prove it's caused by humans. That's where they sit now, and the Breitbart article was relatively consistent on that. They just fell down when it came to the actual papers they cited.
I am agnostic as to cause of warming, maybe it's man made gasses and maybe it's more a function of secular climate change which has and will change no matter what man does or even exist....or a combination. The problem I have with the hysteria surrounding the issue is it detracts from the larger issue of our destroying the planet on many fronts. The demagogues and hucksters and grant seekers have figured out how to benefit from global warming but have yet to figure an angle on global destruction which is accelerating.
This one genuinely baffles me. What's the end-game of discrediting someone whose (reasonably self-evident) argument is that pollution is bad? I mean did it become unamerican to leave your home a place that your children wanted to live? And I actually mean that...Living in Denver I see hoards of millennials moving in because they want walkable cities, clean streets, jobs with advancement potential, locally owned shops in their neighborhood, diverse culture... Everything that Trump decries in the changes in America are exactly the things his supporter's children want (and indeed, that's exactly what's driving the demographic shift that bringing this to a head). It's just so self-defeating.
Well read this thread (https://www.elitetrader.com/et/thre...-a-fresh-master-of-physics-grad.313837/page-5) which shines some light on it. There is a sizable portion of the over 40 crowd who are convinced that millennials are all buttercup snowflakes and have carved that into their political philosophy so it is very resistant to reason. So to them, the fact that millennials are moving to Denver for walkable cities, clean streets, jobs with advancement potential....is in and of itself a reason to be against all those things!
