re: The mass freakout over Bret Stephen's climate change article on NYT

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Well he wasn't writing for a scientific journal to be peer-reviewed, it was simply an opinion article in a national newspaper.

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Even by those standards it's weak. You don't need to be a scientist to understand that "climate change is uncertain and most conclusions are probabilities" implies not one but two fat tails of possible outcomes. You also don't need to be one to understand that "well the science is fine, my problem is with the activists" is just tarted-up tone policing, where someone attacks the manner in which arguments are presented to avoid addressing the argument itself. "Some advocates of X go too far and insult anti-X people" is true of probably every position on every issue in the world.