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FBaggins

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4. You shouldn't be surprised. Look up "concern troll"

Reply to LouisvilleDem (Reply #3)

Thu Sep 11, 2014, 08:07 AM

Sep 2014

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You aren't playing the part well. You're supposed to wait multiple replies before you shift from "I'm having trouble refuting this... please help!" to active defense of the piece.

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Disturbing review of the Cook et al. (2013) 97% paper [View all] LouisvilleDem Sep 2014 OP

Whether or not Anthropogenic Global Warming is reality, we need to fucking stop. NYC_SKP Sep 2014 #1

Gosh! Thanks for you're sincere concern!1!!1 dpibel Sep 2014 #2

Interesting Reply LouisvilleDem Sep 2014 #3

You shouldn't be surprised. Look up "concern troll" FBaggins Sep 2014 #4

Reading comprehension problem? LouisvilleDem Sep 2014 #5

Cook's paper doesn't bear on the reality of human-caused climate change caraher Sep 2014 #6

Agreed LouisvilleDem Sep 2014 #7

Then do what every other scientific discipline does, and do a replicate study NickB79 Sep 2014 #8

On a cursory review, I find the Duarte article untrustworthy. Old Crow Sep 2014 #9

BRAVO! NickB79 Sep 2014 #10

Thanks! Old Crow Sep 2014 #11

A excellent and valiant effort! It appears not to have helped, unfortunately. GliderGuider Sep 2014 #13

A man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest. LouisvilleDem Sep 2014 #14

The technical name for what Paul Simon described in that quote is "confirmation bias" GliderGuider Sep 2014 #15

Yup, we all suffer from it LouisvilleDem Sep 2014 #16

Thank you LouisvilleDem Sep 2014 #12

Skeptical Science: Is there a scientific consensus on global warming? NickB79 Sep 2014 #17

Then you should have no problem denouncing it LouisvilleDem Sep 2014 #18