Wind turbines causing rain? [Split from Mossdale.]

[Cantclimbtom]

There is an arrogance in trying to argue that an entire field of research is wrong without years of study in that field...

My personal opinion is that climate change is indisputable and that the human contribution is hugely significant is entirely plausible to the point of making other explanations highly unlikely.

That said, although *not* actually from Aristotle (as many would have you believe) it's a good quote from someone or other anyway "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it"

Given that there are some people who have researched for years (albeit a very small minority!) who disagree that human contribution is significant, you can't say that disagreeing with human-caused climate change must be arrogance.

Although to restate... Disputing human caused climate change isn't a view I hold myself!!

Enjoying liberty requires occasionally defending the rights of people you don't like (not the case with OP) or people's rights to state views you disagree with (which is the case with OP)

 

[andrewmcleod]

Given that there are some people who have researched for years (albeit a very small minority!) who disagree that human contribution is significant, you can't say that disagreeing with human-caused climate change must be arrogance.

That's my point (which is to say that I think we agree) - if you are one of the very small minority of climate scientists who have spent years in the field and are doing actual science but who don't, do a lesser or greater degree, believe that anthropogenic climate change is significant, then that's fine
It's important to have counter-arguments in science and since an awful lot of science is trying to prove other people (and sometimes yourself) wrong, this is an important part of the process.

People who aren't climate scientists trying to argue that climate science is poorly understood when they have no real idea of even the basics of the field is just embarrassing.

Not all opinions are equal or valid.

 

[Samouse1]

I've a mental image of you as a small child sitting in semi darkness in a cave, gnawing on a large femur. Hopefully this isn't an accurate description of your childhood 😁

Of course my childhood didnt look like that, it was ripping into blind cave fish like Gollum!