> Michael Tobis wrote:
>> Oog. This is coming up pretty high in Google searches for me. That
>> could turn out to be awkward.
Are you saying that you are a new denialist? What do you think
a new denialist is? Where does Google fit into this?
>> Let me add, in the interests of being perceived as an honest and fair
>> person, that I have equally little patience for people who have made up
>> their mind and use science selectively to advocate the other "side" of
>> this question. They tend to be a little less sophisticated and less
>> funded on this particular issue, but they are equally unhelpful.
It sounds like you are accusing me of having made up my mind and
of using science selectively. Why not respond with science used
unselectively rather than with oblique ad hominem attacks?
>> Advocacy isn't science. That's the problem.
Denying the evidence that the Greenland ice sheet has passed its tipping
point and that rapid climate change may be about to happen when the
Arctic sea ice disappears, because they are too horrific to contemplate
is not science either.
Cheers, Alastair.
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