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Ill you have no idea how horribly misinformed and in the dark you are. I don't even have time to address every single distortion, half-truth, and half ass pseudo "skeptical" and oil-industry-concocted talking point you've espoused here. But you obviously have not even researched or grasped what climate change is about, and I'm pretty sure you probably got your info from some bullshyt ass libertarian bloggers and sites that are scientifically illiterate and hide behind a veneer of mere skepticism, which you uncritically parroted here. I've read every single one of these asinine talking points you've mentally copy/pasted here and debunked every single one of them several times over already on sohh. It's sad that 4 or 5 years later, this exercise is still necessary.
First, you start off erroneously claiming that there is equal science for "both sides" of this debate, which isn't even a debate amongst scientists and hasn't been for years. Then you attempt to cast aspersions on the idea of anthropogenic global warming by saying it's a fraud perpetuated by Al Gore. Like there wasn't a strong scientific consensus on AGW since before Al Gore started making an issue of it, that has grown even stronger since then.
Let's just ignore that 98% of climatologists conclude that AWG is real, as strong of a consensus that you'll get on the existence of any causal process in science, it's just Al Gore.
http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/22/evidence-for-a-consensus-on-climate-change/?_r=0
Let's just ignore 34 scientific academies and societies in the world, everyone worth their salt, say AWG is real, it's just Al Gore.
Then you go on to cite the bullshyt claim about 30,000 scientists who are supposedly suing Al Gore over climate change, a ridiculous hoax that climate change deniers moved off of years ago. You were late getting the memo. This mythical 30,000 "scientists" that were going to sue Al Gore was a fraudulent claim made by some guy named John Coleman, which was nothing more than a list some professor made in 1998, falsely claiming it came from the National Academy of Sciences, where he got a bunch of people to sign a petition against global warming. The "scientists" on the list were actually just people who had at least a bachelors in Science. So some 22 year old with a B.S. in nutrition could've just signed a piece of paper they received and supposedly this is an endorsement of a "scientist." And many of the names on the list were found out to be people who were dead people who don't exist, Star Wars characters, members of the Spice Girls, and other made-up people. The names on the list were never authenticated or verified.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregon_Petition
But it gets worse for you...you embarrass yourself more. Now who was the person who issued that petition you might ask? The same person who you then post an article--not a peer-reviewed scientific journal--but a flimsy data-devoid opinion piece article--from in your next post. And that person is Frederick Seitz. This man.
Now who is Frederick Seitz? He is the physicist consultant HIRED BY THE TOBACCO COMPANIES TO HEAD THEIR MEDICAL RESEARCH COMMITTEE TO LIE ABOUT THE HEALTH EFFECTS OF SMOKING!
This is with whom you place your faith?
There is a clear consensus among scientists on global warming.
http://www.theguardian.com/environm.../may/16/climate-change-scienceofclimatechange Because one can search the ends of the Earth to find a handful of scientists who claim they still remain skeptical does not change that just like because you can find a few of crackpots like Peter Duesberg, the biologist who think AIDS is caused by behavior and environmental conditions doesn't change the scientific consensus that AIDS is caused by HIV.
Now that we've established that your "both sides have equal evidence" false equivalency is rubbish, we'll move on from scientific opinion to the actual science itself. But I gotta give my dog his medicine and bath and some other shyt around the house. I'll be back a little while later....