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Quote from: hofor on April 13, 2015, 12:41:30 AM

Can you name a single respected scientific organization that rejects anthropogenic global warming or the reports from the IPCC?

Surely you see the problem with this question?

Not really. Care to explain?

You have respected scientific journals like "Nature" and "Science" that have published scientific breakthroughs in many fields of science for decades. Are they suddenly wrong on climate change, after even the computer you are using right now is a result of research being published in those and other journals? Is all science just a scam (despite all the things it has done for you)?

But "science" is not a deity. It becomes one when you stop thinking...

I never claimed that science is a deity, but science does have respected organizations that are well known for their contributions to the progress of our species. It is when you automatically discount and reject the scientific findings of respected scientific bodies that it becomes almost like religion.

And the fact is that science is hard to understand. You have the experts who have spent a lifetime trying to understand their field, and then you have a random person who think he knows it all and claims that the science is wrong because of some obviously misleading argument he read somewhere.

Do you visit the doctor or the carpenter if you get sick? I'm guessing the doctor. Similarly, you don't ask, say, an engineer, to tell you about the climate. You ask the people who actually know what they're talking about, and who have put in countless hours of research into their area of expertise.

Science never becomes a deity. It is the people who reject the science because it doesn't seem to support their ideology who have stopped thinking.

If I don't visit a carpenter when sick why should I accept your assumption everything scientists are saying is always true? Are you a scientist? To have an opinion is not scientific proof. To call anyone who does not believe in you, calling them deniers, is a religious act.

Do you believe the science behind putting satellites up in space to be real science or evil science? Do you believe data coming from a satellite to be good science or evil science? Do you believe a computer model predicting future climates that has been wrong to be less evil than satellite data or more evil than satellite data?

Obviously I respect your opinion... As much as you respect mine.

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