re: #441 allegro

If LVQ’s “beliefs” are founded within a large body of sound scientific evidence of the reality of AGW that you seem to claim to embrace, what does LVQ have to “dodge” in regards to IPCC implied mistakes? Are you discounting that body of evidence?

Much of my views are predicated on threads that preceded your registration, if you go back and read those you will see where I am coming from. It involves hundreds of posts, and as I’ve said, it applies to < 5% of his statements.

Science relies of careful scrutiny and honest attempts at falsification, the circling of the wagons, dismissing any critics as “deniers” and “Voodoo” and such does not advance the science, it retards it.

Beyond that we rely on each other to show a minimal level of civility. It is boring and a waste of time to debate with some-one who calls those who disagree with him so many names with such rapidity and repetition. We all slip and snap from time to time, myself included. But once we have descended to name calling it indicates the end of the conversation, only Ludwig demands to then continue the conversation as he believes himself infallible.