Ed Begley Jr. gets it perfectly right here.
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What makes me laugh about the position held by climate change deniers is their claim that global warming is a hoax which somehow has hundreds of thousands of scientists and government officials from around the world working in unison to fool an entire world’s population. The thought process does not get any dumber than this and demonstrates a complete lack of understanding of how the scientific process operates.
As Begley points out, science is all about peer review. No organization polices itself with more rigor and honesty than the scientific community. If a scientist gets it wrong, then you can bet your last dollar that his ideas will be ripped to shreds by other scientists. This is what they do. This is what science does. There is no tolerance for error or conjecture which cannot be supported by scientific fact and/or experiment. To think that a million scientists would choose to deceive the world on climate change is the thinking of fools.
One last point on the dolt’s idiotic rage about the government walking into his home and forcing him to stop using incandescent lightbulbs. As someone noted, did this guy complain when the government outlawed lead in paint or asbestos in homes? Did he shout out, “I don’t want the government telling me I can’t paint my baby’s room with lead paint. Stay out of my house!”
To wrap this up, let me quote myself from a previous post.
Climate change deniers work hard to make it appear that there is a real debate going on within the scientific community on whether or not man has had a significant impact on global warming. There is no such debate beyond the propaganda one hears from conservatives on Fox and elsewhere. The real debate concerns itself with the mechanisms which drive global warming and not on whether it exists or on whether man has had a detrimental effect on climate change.
Unless one is a qualified scientist, all we can do is take a look at who is saying what. On one side we have the UN’s International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) composed of the world’s leading scientists. We have the top scientific institutions from EVERY industrialized nation in the world all on the same page. We have the disciplines of climatology, geology, chemistry, physics, etc. all working independently and coming to basically the same conclusion: man is a major cause of global warming. We have a ton of peer-reviewed articles published in the leading scientific journals to back up their claims.
On the other side we have a handful of scientists (literally, a handful), conservative politicians and industry people who discount the case for global warming. A large number of the denier’s scientists have been shown to be on the Exxon payroll and Exxon itself has spent millions on lobbyists and propaganda campaigns to create the illusion of a scientific debate. There are no peer-reviewed scientific studies to which the deniers can point to to back up their fraudulent claims. This is a faux debate.
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