So Global Warming is a Hoax, huh?

[DeistPaladin]

Strange how there is little debate among climate scientists of we are significantly forcing climate change (Hint: We are) but the public continues to stall.

That's because we live in what future historians might call "The Age of Solipsism".

I'm not sure how it is in other countries but in mine, our media has apparently decided that all knowledge is just opinion and who can say what's "real" anymore. They do little or no fact checking of any statement made by politicians, delegating such dirty work to the bloggers, where fact checking can be ignored.

Instead of acting like a public watchdog and investigating claims made by politicians, our media brings on "both sides" (usually a hard line neo-con on one side and a milquetoast faux liberal like Harold Ford) to debate the issue and allow the viewers to decide for themselves what they want to believe, almost as if each personal reality conforms to one's tastes in belief systems.

Anytime we have a disaster, our media is loathe to pin the blame on one political party, because that just wouldn't be fair you know. Our media doesn't want to appear partisan and reporting facts, if the implicate one person or party, needs to be carefully balanced with an implication on the other side. The "extremes on both sides" are always responsible for everything that goes wrong in America. If you were to record the most often used words in our media, I suspect "both sides" would rank high on that list.

So about this Global Warming, it's a "controversy". On one side, you have scientists and peer reviewed studies that appear in respectable science publications. On the other side, you have conspiracy theorists and questionable claims that appear in self-published blogs. So it's a "controversy" then. And who can say who's right? Let's bring on an accomplished scientist and some-nut-with-a-blog to debate the issue and let the audience make up their own minds what they want to believe is true.

Creationists in America, among other groups, have clearly gotten used to this kid-gloves treatment by our media and been spoiled by it. We could see this in their reaction to the lack of "equal time" on Cosmos.





Yesterday, I had an exchange with one crackpot online who believes there's an elaborate conspiracy where something something global warming hoax so something something international secret cabal something something Barack Obama something something one world global dictatorship. He had a lengthy post with screeds cut and pasted from some conservative blogs.

My response was to simply dismiss him as a science-denying crackpot conspiracy theorist shrieking in hyperbolic all caps what appears on questionable blogs.

He whined that I just insulted him while he was trying to present "facts".

I told him to go submit those "facts" that disprove Global Warming to a reputable peer-reviewed science journal. Until then, I'll continue to mock him as a science-denying, conspiracy-theory loving wackjob. Some people just don't deserve to be dignified with a debate. Some people just need to be laughed out of the room.