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The Lessons of 'Climategate'

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b_sharp3/01/2011 6:42:17 pm PST

re: #425 prononymous

What a load of ignorant bullshit. The first thing that jumps out is that this is a thinly veiled argument from ignorance, a type of logical fallacy.

We don’t know what we will know tomorrow…therefore AGW is wrong? *bzzzt* wrong. Go back to school and come back here when when you can frame an argument in a way other than a flagrant violation of logical principles.

Secondly, your points are factually invalid, as others have pointed out. People thought the earth was flat because they ignored the evidence and measurements in favor of dogmatism - as you are doing here. By the 6th century BC, B fucking C, Greek philosophers such as Pythagoras, Plato, Aristotle (maybe you have heard of them) had already claimed the earth was spherical based on basic observation. And in around 240BC Eratosthenes measured the earth to a remarkable degree using the angle of shadows.

Go get a new education because the one you have now isn’t serving you very well.

He was also mixing ideas without an evidentiary basis with an idea, AGW which does have a basis in evidence in order to poison the well.