Schaps wrote:This kind of to and fro rant is not a valuable philosophical exercise but merely an irresolvable and risk- free waste of time. I'm surprised that Scott tolerates this nonsense..
This is probably the most important philosophical issue which faces humanity at present. The deception that lies behind it needs to be exposed. If philosophy has no purpose or currency, then it is worthless. Only negative and defeatist individuals would feel that any problem is unsolvable or a waste of time. Note - There is no such word as irresolvable. I have notified Scott of your poor grammar
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The Quirkster wrote:Just before you die of a heart attack from eating your sticky pizza; I would like to add, that consensus is not a scientific method of finding the solution to any problem. The same pie graph could have been used 200 years ago to see how many scientists thought that the Sun revolved around the Earth. There would have only been a small one percent who thought that the Earth revolved around the sun and they would have been labeled as crackpots.
I must say that these are quite persuasive arguments against human-induced climate change, and they lay a bedrock in which it is almost impossible to find any cracks in its foundation.
I have not only found cracks in the foundations, but I have found that the foundations were put in crooked as well. The tall building of climate change science is tilting over it's point of stability and is about to collapse.
The Chinese will not be reducing their carbon output, whereas, the Western countries will be. Result, economic collapse of the Western economies. Communist takeover of Western countries by communist countries. Communist objective achieved. Agenda 21 realized.
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