tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7975754875888992251.post5524046220875556159..comments2023-12-20T01:30:25.239-08:00Comments on Climate WTF: posted comment to BBC Richard Black's blogThe Blobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16066953906631389108noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7975754875888992251.post-57158695238249102992020-05-30T15:54:18.196-07:002020-05-30T15:54:18.196-07:00Thank you because you have been willing to share i...Thank you because you have been willing to share information with us. we will always appreciate all you have done here because I know you are very concerned with our. <a href="https://belltestchamber.com/environmental-chamber/walk-in-environmental-chamber-temperature-humidity" rel="nofollow">humidity chamber</a><br />jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16193451090746115366noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7975754875888992251.post-83362254134444087142010-02-22T18:51:44.492-08:002010-02-22T18:51:44.492-08:00From RealClimate -
"... why people with actu...From RealClimate -<br /><br />"... why people with actual, constructive things to add to a discourse get discouraged from wading into wikipedia, blogs or the media. One has to hope that there is the possibility of progress before one engages.<br /><br />However there is still cause to engage – not out of the hope that the people who make idiotic statements can be educated – but because bystanders deserve to know where better information can be found."<br /><br />So just give a mini-comment that gives a link to skepticalscience.com, then go reward yourself for having saved time and aggravation.<br /><br />(2nd try, shorter comment; for some reason my comment got eaten when I submitted it using FF. Talk about aggravation...)Annahttp://warming101.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7975754875888992251.post-28634805228814237242010-02-16T07:04:40.848-08:002010-02-16T07:04:40.848-08:00How recognizable, especially that cartoon (that ha...How recognizable, especially that cartoon (that happens at least once a week in my house). There will come a day when I leave all of this behind, but for the time being I'm dependent on computer work and am thus continuously subject to the Internet's siren call. It's like an alcoholic trying to kick the habit while working in a liquor store.<br /><br />With regards to the pseudoskeptics: I recently had a heated mail discussion with a friend who is very skeptical on every subject, or to quote you: he's of the kind that has opened his mind so much that nothing can be considered be settled. Although this has a certain charm over regular, conventional people, the fact that these people can think out of one box but then not realize they're in another box that needs thinking out of, makes them very conventional in a way as well.<br /><br />Anyway, after quite a while of trying to convince him that yes, AGW looked like it was really happening and could become problematic, and yes, there are parties on the AGW-side that will try to spin AGW for their own agenda, I simply told him that most prominent skeptics lie and distort out of narcissistic, ideological or financial motives. He went completely nuts and started abusing me that I was stupid, narrow-minded, dishonest and apparently didn't have any argument to show what the prominent skeptics said (he never gave an example) was wrong, and so I resorted to ad-hom. <br /><br />I called him up to ask him why this made him so angry, because IMO when people get angry it's better to stop mailing and start talking directly. According to him I smeared and insulted people I didn't know, who weren't any friends of mine, who didn't even know my opinion of them which I spouted in private e-mails, and this apparently was enough for him to smear and insult me some more. OTOH if I say that George W. Bush is a mass murderer, a stupid asshole and perhaps even a reptilian alien that would probably be OK.<br /><br />He completely went hysterical on me, even when I told him to calm down and that I would take everything back I said that upset him so. In the end he hung up on me saying, or rather screaming at a high-pitched voice, that I was a religious fundamentalist and that he didn't want anything to do with me. It has left me very sad and angry too. How to convince the unconvinceable?Nevenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15413215743703093876noreply@blogger.com