Sell your sailplane before 2030

On Wednesday, July 22, 2015 at 5:37:30 PM UTC-7, Dan Marotta wrote:
See, I told you the liberal mind cannot tolerate argument.* "Accept
my hysterical claims or I'll call you names."* Call me all the names
you want, I don't care.* Neither do I believe any of the so called
"science" behind all the claims that we're going to sizzle soon.*
I'll bet you nothing bad climate-wise happens in my life time.* If
I'm wrong, I'll give you my glider!* BTW, you should get a new spell
checker.

I'll be first to admit that there's a LOT of politics here because the only way to get a big chunk of the world's population to start planning for the upcoming changes will need governments to "force" us to use more expensive energy and plan ahead for the potential starvation and flooding events that will be caused by *miniscule* changes in our global temperature.

I also agree that most scientists are poor communicators, as am I, so the message may be poorly presented. While most of the opposition consists of smooth talking politicians and marketing professionals (think tobacco).

So is the "science" behind our medicine and technology also being performed by "amateurs"? Why are climate scientists, who have spent decades to learn how to interpret new data as it comes in (and change their interpretation and models as necessary) too "stupid" to see the "questions" that doubters pose? Is it perhaps that nearly all these "questions" have been rebutted to death?

When some pedestrian insists that we stay up because of the wind and refuses to understand how soaring really works, might you eventually shrug and walk away. Perhaps many climate scientists feel the same way to the doubters?

Dan, I consider you a good friend, but please consider taking a look at some of this (horrors) "liberal" rhetoric and give it some thought without letting someone else filter it for you.

5Z