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[aussiemandias]

Watch the web for climate change truthsBy Christopher Booker

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[etfb]

You know, if the anti-global-warming crackpots don't want the rest of us to resort to ad hominem attacks, why do they make it so easy?

[aussiemandias]

But we can still be open to opposing viewpoints can't we?

And while we may not agree with them, shouldn't we at least keep our ears open?

Even if not our minds?

[etfb]

It's not enough to have an opinion. It has to have some relation to reality, or else you're just writing poorly-researched, internally inconsistent fantasy with elements of conspiracy theory and whinging, and I'm afraid J K Rowling and Dan Brown have that market sewn up at the moment.

This guy is a particularly egregious example of the trend. Find someone who's done more homework than Ben Stein and more peer review than L Ron Hubbard, then you'll have an opposing viewpoint worth quoting.

Having an open mind is good, but letting it gape is not.

[look_a_unicorn]

There's enough I don't know about what's going on to admit I'm far from certain of my pro-warming (aka human-influence) camp viewpoint, however perhaps some interpretation may be in order

[aussiemandias]

minimise our impact overall- part of that is to minimise our waste and make better use of resources- as a sidebenefit it will make us more of a "race" and less of a "parasite"

In this we agree.

[little_foxy]

The other option is that we have warmed the planet too quickly for nature to be able to deal with it and we are starting to see that effect with the ocean currents starting to switch and therefore put us into the mini ice age that a lot of global warming trends have predicted