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Old 12-06-2013, 04:16 PM
 
Location: Calgary, AB
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Are denialists peddling opinion polls printed in business magazines and calling them science? Again? I'm quite sure it was explained last time that such a poll is garbage.

Now if a denialist could show that the people actually doing the research and analyzing the data supported his claims, that might mean something.

 
Old 12-06-2013, 04:23 PM
 
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Are denialists peddling opinion polls printed in business magazines and calling them science? Again? I'm quite sure it was explained last time that such a poll is garbage.

Now if a denialist could show that the people actually doing the research and analyzing the data supported his claims, that might mean something.
alarmists pedaling polls of only 1372 IPCC scientists and calling the representative of every scientist in the world. so which sounds more accurate to you? i already know your answer, you side with the IPCC against 31,000 other scientists.
 
Old 12-06-2013, 04:23 PM
 
Location: Calgary, AB
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actually i get hammered by the left because i dont buy into their bullcrap on climate change, the right however tends to like what i say.
No no no. It's not "the left", it's "those not on the right". Why only those not on the right can tell the difference between scientific research and, say, an opinion poll in a right-wing business magazine is a mystery, but there it is.
 
Old 12-06-2013, 04:33 PM
 
Location: Victoria, BC.
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These climate change debates are certainly entertaining, but of no use that I can see...What we think will have no effect on climate, as it will continue to warm, or not and only time will tell.
 
Old 12-06-2013, 04:44 PM
 
Location: Calgary, AB
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alarmists pedaling polls of only 1372 IPCC scientists and calling the representative of every scientist in the world. so which sounds more accurate to you? i already know your answer, you side with the IPCC against 31,000 other scientists.
The IPCC report sounds more accurate to me because it is backed by science. What backs your silly Forbes opinion poll up? That they polled engineers? Awesome. I'm an engineer and I think denialists are clowns.
 
Old 12-06-2013, 05:01 PM
 
Location: Northridge/Porter Ranch, Calif.
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The IPCC report sounds more accurate to me because it is backed by science. What backs your silly Forbes opinion poll up? That they polled engineers? Awesome. I'm an engineer and I think denialists are clowns.
More accurate to say it's backed by grants!
 
Old 12-06-2013, 05:01 PM
 
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The IPCC report sounds more accurate to me because it is backed by science. What backs your silly Forbes opinion poll up? That they polled engineers? Awesome. I'm an engineer and I think denialists are clowns.
Awww that so optimistic. No the 31,000 are not polled engineers. It was a open online poll to anyone that apparently required you to select your engineering degree if you wanted to answer their poll. So of course everyone who responded said they had a degree of some sort. Cross their hearts!

Now theres some awesome polling science there for ya!
 
Old 12-06-2013, 05:07 PM
 
Location: Victoria, BC.
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More accurate to say it's backed by grants!
Wrong again....Scientists must squeeze in the work along other obligations. The scientists are not paid for their work on the IPCC.
 
Old 12-06-2013, 05:08 PM
 
Location: Dallas
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These climate change debates are certainly entertaining, but of no use that I can see...What we think will have no effect on climate, as it will continue to warm, or not and only time will tell.
I agree with your first sentence.

But warming has "paused". And that's from the alarmists.
 
Old 12-06-2013, 05:09 PM
 
Location: Dallas
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Wrong again....Scientists must squeeze in the work along other obligations. The scientists are not paid for their work on the IPCC.
And you also probably believe in the tooth fairy.
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