I still have bookmarked on my FR homepage all of the articles I wrote disecting Algore's book. (Although I do need to update it based on new information about the thermohalene cycle, which I debunked yesterday.)
The thing is, you really don't need to be a scientist to throw these crackpot statements where they belong. It requires an ounce or two of the uncommon quality called common sense and merely thinking the proposition through.
The leftist nutcases get the backing of a scientist or two or three (or maybe 1,000) who don't really care to think it through but would rather bask in the notoriety of the moment, and use the "authority" to support their position.
It's a common debating technique, and if you're "sourceless" you are supposed to bow.
Well, I'm not completely sourceless, and it has been demonstrated that no matter what source I throw out there is some marginal element wrong with it. That's another fine debating technique: if the source is disagreeable, attack the pedigree of the source, not its content.
Then, of course, there's the time old technique of suggesting "secret" sources that are assumed to be in the hand of the opponent (which, of course, cannot be produced because they don't exist or, if they are secret, really cannot be produced--great catch 22) and when they are not used, then the opponent is called a fraud. That's another fine old debating technique: it's called lying (it's actually called something else, but because I don't want to get banned and I am now pursuing a time honored bully pulpit technique--addressing one, speaking to all, but playing to a single third party, I'll be nice, but we all know what it is).
Just for the record, even if events of the next half-century prove me wrong (I don't think they will), I will admit it. But the left be warned, I WILL NOT COMMIT RITUALISTIC SUICIDE--I HAVE GOTTEN UNDER YOUR SKIN AND I WILL CONTINUE TO DO SO.
I intend to continue to be that itch that nags and will not go away as long as you, the leftist, are around. I will not submit to your clap trap, and I will not surrender my freedom.
I will die first.
Bravo!
When I was debunking the false claims of the left that there was no relationship between Al Qaeda and Iraq, I noticed the first thing the dolts on the left did was to attack the authors and reporters who were writing the stories. It was all they had.
And it didn't matter that in the 90's, before that issue became a political football, the MSM wrote dozens and dozens of articles about the world's alarm at the growing relationship between Saddam and Osama.
You keep being that itch that nags...we all have our key issues and know who we can turn to for resource information and I thank you for your attention to this matter.