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    Would you agree that the term "climate denier" is stupid?
    Obviously not. It is the nominalization of the word 'deny' and there are people such as yourself who deny the science of global warming and instead revert to sophistry.

    What is stupid is crying about it. If you don't like being labeled as such most intellectually honest people I know stop the behavior. Not you though.

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    Good read OP. Thanks for sharing.

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    The Ugly: Environment and Public Works

    The Environment and Public Works Committee stands at the helm of climate change legislation and funds the Environmental Protection Agency. The current chairwoman, Barbara Boxer, famously pulled an all-nighter back in March to publicize the threat of climate change. Need we say more?

    If Republicans win the Senate, James Inhofe will likely take charge of Environment and Public Works. That would be disastrous for science.

    Inhofe is one of the loudest climate deniers in the senate, as evidenced by his book The Greatest Hoax: How The Global Warming Conspiracy Threatens Your Future and many other public and written statements. If Inhofe gains control of the Senate committee in charge of climate change legislation, that’s probably the end of climate change legislation (not that great strides have been made in the past seven years of Democratic dominance). And, global warming aside, it’s probably not a good idea to put someone who calls scientific consensus a “hoax” in charge of a Senate committee that holds the purse strings for scientific funding.

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    Would you agree that the term "climate denier" is stupid?
    Nope.

    There is a difference between a rational consideration of available evidence, and the kinds of irrational pseudoscientific bull that people like you engage in.

    This requires a term to differentiate between the two.

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    How are my posts on the political forum on ST going to change policy? I don't even care if I change minds on the subject. If you want to be an advocate for catastrophic climate change, that's your business.

    Fuzzy has been obsessed with that issue of the BEST data and some graph I posted as if he scored some major victory. To this day, I still don't know wtf he is talking about. If I give 10 people a dataset and they each make an excel plot with various scales, limits on axes, les, watermarks, etc., it still doesn't change the data.

    As for who is a shill, I give you...

    http://www.spurstalk.com/forums/show...=1#post5910380
    I will simplify it for you.

    The graph you posted was dishonest, and you did not really apply enough reasonable skepticism to be able to figure out that it was dishonest, but rather accepted the lie at face value, and parrotted it without questioning.

    Major victory? no. Par for the course? yes.

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    I will simplify it for you.

    The graph you posted was dishonest, and you did not really apply enough reasonable skepticism to be able to figure out that it was dishonest, but rather accepted the lie at face value, and parrotted it without questioning.

    Major victory? no. Par for the course? yes.

    Where is this so-called "dishonest" graph?

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    No. Behaving like a shill whose goal is to thwart policy changes regarding carbon emissions regardless of data is not satisfactory. You will say anything that lends to said goal and have demonstrated that quite clearly.

    You have no credibility on this subject and have intentionally misled people on this board as to where you get your information from. Claiming that stuff was from BEST when it was really from a GWPC mailer was just the first of many times I've seen you do that.
    You are the shrill. You cannot debate me with any intelligence on the subject. All you do is appeal to authority.

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    Would you agree that the term "climate denier" is stupid?
    Absolutely, but then it's stupid people using the term.

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    climate change, and climate denier are framing propaganda.

    people poll much worse on "global warming" than on "climate change"

    anthropogenic global warming denier is specific.

    btw, BigCarbon-puppet Inhofe to Senate science committee is as bad-faith, -all-y'all inflammatory as sending war-monger/neo-con/UN-hater John Bolton to the UN.

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    climate change, and climate denier are framing propaganda.

    people poll much worse on "global warming" than on "climate change"

    anthropogenic global warming denier is specific.

    btw, BigCarbon-puppet Inhofe to Senate science committee is as bad-faith, -all-y'all inflammatory as sending war-monger/neo-con/UN-hater John Bolton to the UN.

    "Climate denier" and "climate skeptic" are both idiotic because they imply someone denies there's a climate. The correct terms would be "climate change denier" or "climate change skeptic".

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    "Climate denier" and "climate skeptic" are both idiotic because they imply someone denies there's a climate. The correct terms would be "climate change denier" or "climate change skeptic".
    Even those terms imply that people don't believe the climate changes and ignores the theory that people are skeptical of. Really should be "manmade global warming denier/skeptic" to be correct.

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    "Climate denier" and "climate skeptic" are both idiotic because they imply someone denies there's a climate. The correct terms would be "climate change denier" or "climate change skeptic".
    you've been framed, willfully, by Luntz and BigCarbon.

    climate change is neutral, ANTHROPOGENIC GLOBAL WARMING, AGW, is the correct phrase and em PHA sis.

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    Even those terms imply that people don't believe the climate changes and ignores the theory that people are skeptical of. Really should be "manmade global warming denier/skeptic" to be correct.
    Even that doesn't go far enough, because pretty much everyone knows that climate changes and that humans cause some of it. Should be "we're all gonna die if we don't drastically reduce carbon dioxide emissions skeptic/denier". Has a nice ring to it.

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    You are the shrill. You cannot debate me with any intelligence on the subject. All you do is appeal to authority.
    I don't just namedrop UW or PSU. I pull the relevant material from the articles and studies and post it. You used a solubility chart of seawater in beakers to describe the behavior of the ocean. I used the PSU engineering model as a compare and contrast tool to show your Dr EZ-Bake analysis for what it is.

    I have a very very good memory, dip , and then of course there is the search function. You really want to be embarrassed again?

    What do feedback mean?

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    Even that doesn't go far enough, because pretty much everyone knows that climate changes and that humans cause some of it. Should be "we're all gonna die if we don't drastically reduce carbon dioxide emissions skeptic/denier". Has a nice ring to it.
    This is horse and the insurance risk assessors are beginning to put actual dollar amounts to things. It's why they are so adamant about getting done.

    You keep spamming this about climate denier meaning 'denies climate' demonstrating your willful ignorance. Someone with a bit of nuance and not regurgitating shill takes would note that it could be a denial of a facet of climate ie the human factor.

    You aren't even arguing the central theme. You are ing about window dressing. Just like a sophist piece of .

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    Wait, insurance companies are using climate change as an excuse to raise rates? Say it ain't so.

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    Where is this so-called "dishonest" graph?
    Please explain the source of the second graph and how it was plotted as the values do not correspnd to the same data points.

    Here is NASA's



    Here is the explanation of their methodology.

    http://www.giss.nasa.gov/research/news/20110113/
    The source of both graphs is Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature project. They do not correspond to the same data points because the aren't. The second graph is the last ten years. And you call other people dumb?F
    You gave unlinked charts, head. The only stupidity was that.

    Now that i know the source I feel that more explanation is in order. Which study is that chart from? The reason is clear as for example http://berkeleyearth.org/Resources/B...Variations.pdf this study only analyzes urban surfaces and not the aggregate. Note how the GIS chart clearly labels land/ocean.

    You gave us some random chart, head. What do the temperature points actually reflect?
    You ignore try to ignore this for a bit then. . .

    You ever going to link the study that you pulled the graph from? This may come as s surprise to you but no one other than WC takes you at your word here. So you can circle jerk with him or justify a single thing you say.
    Berkeley


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    Temperature


    If you weren't so busy having tantrums, you'd notice the answers to several of your questions were easily gleaned from info on the graphs.
    Just to point out further how disingenuous you are. Here are three studies submitted for review done at Berkley over the past month. They all look at particular subsets and if you look inside of any of them they all have arbitrarily labeled graphs too.

    http://berkeleyearth.org/resources.php

    What is the context of that graph? You don't know do you?
    What do you mean by the "context" of the graph?
    Dumb noises. its not hard to figure out.

    HERE is an example study from BEST. It is looking at the SUBSET of variations within LAND surface tempurates. If you look in the link you will see similarly arbitrary labeled axes with the idea that if you know the study you have the appropriate CONTEXT of wht you are looking at.

    If for example the data from the graphs was pulled from this study then it would obviously indicate that only about 25% of the Earth's surface is being discussed.

    We have no context. We just have you giving vague directions as to where the data came from because you got your information from a mailer and lack critical thinking skills.

    Where is the data from the graph from? Do I need to put it plainer so your dumb ass can figure it out?
    So you get the same mailer. Now that we have clearly established that the source of the graph was not in fact from BEST that serves to underscore the need to determine what BEST study, news release, data set etc that the graph was actually taken from.

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    Wait, insurance companies are using climate change as an excuse to raise rates? Say it ain't so.
    You are aware of that all 50 states have insurance commissions that insurance companies have to justify any rate hikes with actuarial proof (re: quantified risk assessment from real data)?

    They are using that as the basis to raise rates and that is literally where the rubber meets the road in getting red states along the coasts to finally see the light. More and more areas are being deemed uninsurable further underscoring the point.

    There has been quite a bit of pushback from deniers especially in Florida and the Carolinas yet the claims being paid are what they are and the rates were upheld. When you are forced to move or get a denial of coverage on your homeowners policy because you are on the coast, it is very compelling.

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    Yes, Fuzzy, I misspoke when I said the GRAPH was from BEST, but the DATA is from BEST. Both the source of the DATA and the source of the GRAPH (nothing more than a specific presentation of the DATA) are clearly displayed on the graph.

    Seems that all your ing about that graph was misplaced.

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    Wtf are "climate deniers"?
    The lib term for "realists who haven't fallen for the scam."

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    Yes, Fuzzy, I misspoke when I said the GRAPH was from BEST, but the DATA is from BEST. Both the source of the DATA and the source of the GRAPH (nothing more than a specific presentation of the DATA) are clearly displayed on the graph.

    Seems that all your ing about that graph was misplaced.
    No, when I asked you where you got it from you told me BEST. This was after pointing out that it was from some mailer.

    You do this all the time when you present a source that you know is biased but you want to be accepted. When you do it I come out with the sophist piece of angle.

    You can characterize it however you like but it is what it is.

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    That "good, bad, ugly" theme is worn out completely. People need to get some new .

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    That "good, bad, ugly" theme is worn out completely. People need to get some new .
    agreed, from the Repugs, there is only bad and ugly.

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    agreed, from the Repugs, there is only bad and ugly.
    Too bad they took over eh?

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    Too bad they took over eh?
    yep, they'll up everything they touch, and up everything the Dems have done, and up everything Obama will do in the next two years. They've been doing since 1994. up everything except that which protects/enriches/enables the 1%/BigCorps.

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