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Why Scientists Disagree on Global Warming

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Arguing with unreasonable, irrational people fixated on percentages is bikeshedding, a red herring talking-point and itself unreasonable. Breaking through the cognitive dissonance essentially requires taking them to Greenland and showing them how fast the ice is retreating.

As I have said before, if the goal is to convince people who are skeptical of any aspects of the anthropogenic global warming narrative, sites like this are not effective.

> I would also like to point out that the vast majority of money in academia, of course, is pro anthropogenic global warming.

So? The vast majority of money in academia is also pro quantum theory, and pro relativity theory, and pro evolution. What's your point?

> What the press implies - anthropogenic runaway global warming - aside from not even being consistent - is absolutely not a 97% opinion amongst serious mathematicians.

It surprises me that you're picking out mathematicians here. I would expect most scientists working on climate issues to be physicists, geologists, or meteorologists.

Hey punk. This is where the real money is: timestamp 55:26 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IbyiOoVgnQ Cheers

Yup. Merchants of Doubt (2014) is another great documentary to peel back the veil of PR propaganda consultants whom peddle sentiment influence (ie MSM, social media, etc.) to the highest bidder.

Please show me where to get some of that money then. Since obviously you're implying I'm already seeing it. If you're a university student, however, it's usually not too hard to go to the university sponsorships and funding structures and see that the university is indeed funded with pro-global-warming funding.

The situation in practice is, of course, reversed. I know plenty of people who get money because they're climate "activists" (not researchers, that's not to be used anymore as a name).

Because if I want money from the UN, state or federal government to research climate change, I know where to go. Seriously, some research budgets are 50% climate change and funding such gems as "the social impact of climate change on Chicago black persons". I mean, I get it, not all research must be useful. I have no problem with that. But note that while I can't find numbers all of this research spending seems to be going everywhere ... except to climate modeling. It doesn't go to exact sciences much at all.

I wonder how that video of yours was funded. Let's see:

http://www.carbonneutraluniversity.org/-notable-supporters.h...

Heh. Okay. That's of course, very very different from ExxonMobil sponsorship ... very different ... And I'm sure you're about to claim that if this group was found to not help climate activism that funding wouldn't change ...

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