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Does it bother climate change skeptics that the skeptic society is no longer skeptical of climate change?
6 Answers
- 6 years ago
Climatic conditions all over the planet change all the time. The changes can be trivial like the weather from day to day or drastic like a long drought or really drastic like an ice age.
Our human view of things is quite short termed. Tortoises live for centuries, some trees live for thousands of years.
Current scientific thinking is that we are polluting the atmosphere enough to affect climate by retaining heat.
I don't see the point of delighting in a point won or lost-or in thinking there is some kind of game at all.
- Orange BearLv 66 years ago
There are few climate change skeptics, but plenty of climate change deniers.
When someone is so ignorant of science that they think it is a government hoax, they are unlikely to be bothered by reality. Climate change denialists are sunk into their ways, and anything that goes against their opinions is rejected.
Its ironic that they have no doubts about information from people who spout an anti-climate science agenda, but scrutinize every detail from a reliable source. Willful ignorance is a travesty, and that's the problem with deniers.
- Anonymous6 years ago
Climate skeptics never believed that the climate didn't change. They are only skeptical as to the severity of an overall atmospheric change of 0.012% (CO2 rise from 0.028% to current levels of 0.04%) causing a 0.87C temperature change in over 350 years of human industrialization. We are about 200 years into a natural warming trend (The Little Ice Age ended not long ago). Deciphering what is natural and what is man-made is still an important focal point with most all of climate science and science in general.
Alarmists still use any natural and ever occurring disasters as evidence and they use a conformist media and environmental advocacy groups to perpetuate their misinformed viewpoint.
- JimZLv 76 years ago
The article you linked to isn't skeptical. In fact it isn't science. It is just a bunch of opinions by Dr. Tapioca something . I get irritated when someone suggests something like atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations are higher today than at any time in at least the past 650,000 years. It is possible, but a real scientist would at say based solely on ice core data, ignoring other data, etc. You people really need to learn what science is and what it isn't.
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- ?Lv 76 years ago
Not really "climate change skeptics" are just denialists, they ignore any facts that conflict with their delusions.
- 6 years ago
The web site in the question makes an interesting pair with this one that has banned articles from pause deniers.