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What Motivates Climate Change Deniers? [Locked] |
Cawlin  Posts: 1,759
Registered: 2005-2-22 07:58:42
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What Motivates Climate Change Deniers? |
ZigmundZag posted:
Cawlin posted:
MatrexMistwalker posted:
Im a skeptic in that I think a large portion of the change we cant fix, without risking side effects that would make things much worse.
See, my suspicion is that anyone who talks about "climate change deniers" actually also has zero tolerance for your position.
The term "climate change denier" is almost exclusively used by folks who are dead set in the belief that man is solely responsible for climate change. Anyone who does not fully believe, as they do, that man is the sole cause of climate variation is a "denier".
The criteria for being a "denier" is rejecting the science behind global warming, and by extension, believing that 95% of climatologists are either stupid or criminally corrupt.
I rest my case.
FYI, 95% of climatologists didn't even exist as "climatologists" 10 years ago. 
Do you understand how the research and funding world works?
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ZigmundZag Title: Grammar Nazi
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Registered: 2002-3-25 23:03:00
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Rest your case? You made a point, I countered it, you declared victory. That's a formula for stupid, not success.
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Cawlin Posts: 1,759
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ZigmundZag posted:
Rest your case? You made a point, I countered it, you declared victory. That's a formula for stupid, not success.
Were you implying that MatrexMistwalker's point of view on the matter makes him a "denier"?
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ZigmundZag Title: Grammar Nazi
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I was implying that your definition of a denier was overly defensive. Maybe some scientist kicked down your sand castle when you were a child or something, I don't know...but the notion that an entire field of science is wrong about its craft is pretty arrogant, particularly when the best you have in defense is that they have to justify their grant money.
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Cawlin Posts: 1,759
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So I'll ask again: Were you implying that MatrexMistwalker's point of view on the matter makes him a "denier"?
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reesescups Title: //Captain America
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Registered: 2003-5-26 14:45:53
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What Motivates Climate Change Deniers? |
Cawlin posted:
FYI, 95% of climatologists didn't even exist as "climatologists" 10 years ago.
As a field of study climatology has been around for going on about 160 years...
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ZigmundZag Title: Grammar Nazi
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What Motivates Climate Change Deniers? |
Cawlin posted:
So I'll ask again: Were you implying that MatrexMistwalker's point of view on the matter makes him a "denier"?
I didn't think my answer was all that ambiguous, but I'll make it a little clearer - NO. I wasn't replying to Matrix at all.
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Cawlin Posts: 1,759
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What Motivates Climate Change Deniers? |
reesescups posted:
Cawlin posted:
FYI, 95% of climatologists didn't even exist as "climatologists" 10 years ago.
As a field of study climatology has been around for going on about 160 years...
And how many climatologists were there?
I am not arguing that climatology didn't exist, just that there were not so many of them until recently.
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Cawlin Posts: 1,759
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Date Posted:
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What Motivates Climate Change Deniers? |
ZigmundZag posted:
Cawlin posted:
So I'll ask again: Were you implying that MatrexMistwalker's point of view on the matter makes him a "denier"?
I didn't think my answer was all that ambiguous, but I'll make it a little clearer - NO. I wasn't replying to Matrix at all.
So then do you consider Matrix a denier?
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reesescups Title: //Captain America
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Look - we all know deniers exist. I am not questioning their denial, or climate change.
I am talking about motivation.
What motivates someone to deny reality, deny what is happening, deny observable events?
So far all we have been presented with in this regard in this thread is sheer uninhibited ignorance.
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