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What I Learned about Climate Change: The Science is not Settled
Medium ^ | Oct 16, 2015 | David Siegel

Posted on 10/17/2015 6:32:08 AM PDT by Izzy Dunne

What is your position on the climate-change debate? What would it take to change your mind?

If the answer is It would take a ton of evidence to change my mind, because my understanding is that the science is settled, and we need to get going on this important issue, that’s what I thought, too. This is my story.

More than thirty years ago, I became vegan because I believed it was healthier (it’s not), and I’ve stayed vegan because I believe it’s better for the environment (it is). I haven’t owned a car in ten years. I love animals; I’ll gladly fly halfway around the world to take photos of them in their natural habitats. I’m a Democrat: I think governments play a key role in helping preserve our environment for the future in the most cost-effective way possible. Over the years, I built a set of assumptions: that Al Gore was right about global warming, that he was the David going up against the industrial Goliath. In 1993, I even wrote a book about it.

Recently, a friend challenged those assumptions. At first, I was annoyed, because I thought the science really was settled. As I started to look at the data and read about climate science, I was surprised, then shocked. As I learned more, I changed my mind. I now think there probably is no climate crisis and that the focus on CO2 takes funding and attention from critical environmental problems. I’ll start by making ten short statements that should challenge your assumptions and then back them up with an essay.

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41 posted on 10/17/2015 12:45:39 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Democrats and GOP-e: a difference of degree, not philosophy)
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To: DH
Give it a “wedgie” and simply walk away. You will save yourself a lot of misery.

Give me a break. I'm not as stupid as you seem to think, nor am I miserable reading somebody else's justifications for calling shenanigans on the whole scheme.

42 posted on 10/17/2015 1:00:09 PM PDT by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: Lisbon1940
He will never convert to full-on conservatism.

Maybe not, but he might just blow a few head gaskets around the liberal world, and all without being paid by the oil companies, like you and me and the rest of us "deniers" are.

43 posted on 10/17/2015 1:02:51 PM PDT by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: Izzy Dunne

Flag for future reference. Amazing that a liberal wrote this.....but will probably lose a lot of his liberal friends.


44 posted on 10/17/2015 4:16:39 PM PDT by Vineyard
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To: dsrtsage

Read u loud and clear re communicating on any level with Liberals. Living in the Austin area the past half century, I am forced to. In that vast experience with liberals, I have learned that THE ONLY communication method that works is just DON’T !!!!

One good example is one of my lawyers. He really is not a Liberal but his lawyer wife is and his two teenage daughters are so he is just to survive. But, despite being a Liberal he is a damn good lawyer and trustworthy. Finding a trustworthy lawyer is like winning the lottery. So, he keeps his opinions to himself and I do the same. It works.


45 posted on 10/17/2015 4:28:10 PM PDT by Cen-Tejas (it's the debt bomb stupid)
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To: garyb
Your are right about the gratuitous, and wrong, reference to El Rushbo. But, to give the “devil” his due, that allusion could help draw a liberal into giving the article itself a reading. In that sense, it’s sorta a shame it’s not the lead.
46 posted on 10/17/2015 6:10:55 PM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion ('Liberalism' is a conspiracy against the public by wire-service journalism.)
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To: Izzy Dunne

Bookmarked. Here, in one handy place, is a compendium of arguments any one of which challenges the GW orthodoxy and in toto, demolish it. I don’t think the adherents would be resorting to petitions demanding the jailing of skeptics if they weren’t starting to feel desperate. To the author: well done.


47 posted on 10/17/2015 6:23:28 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Izzy Dunne

Two words...Freeman Dyson


48 posted on 10/18/2015 4:49:39 PM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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