re: What are your reasons for believing climate change is "a hoax"

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The 'science' being true or not doesn't matter.

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Truth.

Again, all of our institutions are being stripped of credibility.

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I know a lot of it has to do with political and confirmation bias

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Ya sure. No one on the left does this. Ever. What's hilarious is your "observation" of confirmation bias is an good example of... wait for it... confirmation bias.

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It's an educated guess

You're logical enough to where it's the only explanation

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Nope.

You're just basically taking the liberal approach.

"I evaluated the info and came to conclusion X........anyone who evaluates the same info and doesn't conclude X isn't honestly evaluating the info".

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Again let's review the genetically modified food thing. The vast majority of science on the matter concludes it's perfectly safe to eat.

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K

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If I determined from these conclusions that it's safe for me to eat GMO food would you be throwing rocks at me?

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Nope

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Would you be making fun of me saying I didn't come up with the conclusions on my own and am just following what smart people said?

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Only if you claimed that it meant YOUR opinion was more valid because of it. YOUR opinion on the matter is no better than the burger flipper's.

But, let's take this one further.

If, for whatever reason, govt started freezing out funding of researchers who posited that there were issues with GMOs......or, freezing out research into potential concerns with GMOs.........while simultaneously funding in the billions to any and all researchers who already have a body of work demonstrating they are in line with current thinking on GMOs, would you not recognize this as problematic?

What if you learned that this in fact had been happening for the last 20 years? Would this affect how you evaluated what you'd read on GMOs?

If not, why not?

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Right

It leads back to ExxonMobil and Koch industries

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WUT?

Now you're just embarrassing yourself.

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XOM used propaganda to convince people that climate change wasn't real.

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Is that true?

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Now even XOM is on records as saying it is.

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Well, for over ten years it has acknowledged the risks of it. So "now" isn't accurate.

Being a anthropogenic global warming/cooling skeptic doesn't necessitate being a conspiracy theorist.

Climate change itself is real, of course, and pre-dates industrial humanity by billions of years. The forces at work are far more powerful and ancient than humanity could ever hope to be, and despite the fervent pronunciations of scientific certitude from the left, those forces are still not fully understood.

And don't forget the fairly recent leak of emails and data from the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit, which demonstrated irrefutably that the infamous "hockey stick" graph correlating CO2 emissions and a rise in global temperature (and part of the "settled science" we hear so much about) was fudged in an effort to influence both public opinion and policy.

A couple of videos from climate change skeptics with scientific credentials:

MIT atmospheric physicist: LINK
Princeton physicist: LINK

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WUT?

Now you're just embarrassing yourself

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Wait you didn't know this?

LINK

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Another key finding: From 2003 to 2007, Koch Affiliated Foundations and the ExxonMobil Foundation were "heavily involved" in funding climate change denial efforts. But Exxon hasn't made a publically traceable contribution since 2008, and Koch's efforts dramatically declined, Brulle said.

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I do believe the Climate is Changing. The earth's climate has been "changing" for 4.5 billions years. This is a fact. The Climate has Dramatically cooled "ice age" 7-8 times, then Dramatically heated, ending said Ice Age. Just 40 years ago, it was a scientific fact that we were headed into the next Ice Age...what happened? Now the earth is heating, sea levels rising...All because of MAN!! When You and "Scientist/Politicians" change the argument from Man Made Global Warming to Climate Change, I see a problem. Then when I call BS on your "climate change" argument...I get called a Flat Earther, science denier. When I'm not denying Climate Change, I'm calling out your "Cause" of the change.

The "97% of Scientist agree on Man Made Climate change" is thrown around a lot! One very important fact, the "97%" isn't made up of Climatologist. When in Fact, 97% of scientist do agree that man has an IMIPACT on the Climate. I and damn near every reasonable person would agree! However, a Large number of the 97% , which actually are Climatologist, go on to say in their findings that Mans impact is minute in comparison to Natural Climate change...Not all, but a large number. So NO, not all scientist, climatologist agree. Yet, political hacks and Liberals take it to the extreme and call me and others Deniers! All bc we say PUMP the brakes on Man Made global warming.

I believe Man has an Impact, but side with Climatologist, that it is Minute in the grand scheme. The Earth has had 1000s of heating and cooling cycles, Multiple ICE ages...which would put me 30ft under Ice, right now, caused by Natural change. Yet, I am supposed to fall in line and just say "YES" I am the cause of any change, bad storms and hate on Farting cows, big bad Oil companies. Sorry I'm not sorry and don't fall in line. But by my REASONABLE view, You say "I'm
subscribing to a Conspiracy Theory"... you should look in the mirror.

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That's a little disturbing.

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Not really, skepticism is necessary on any subject.

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Should be a little alarming no?

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No. Every major would LOVE a reduction in demand. Helps lower the CAPEX and extend ROI on existing assets.