While I try not to subscribe to «an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth» or to descend to
the lower debating tactics, I will admit that I failed on this occasion, just as the original poster did, not that that is an excuse for my behaviour.
But as ugly, pointless and as unpleasant for those involved as it was, if there is something to be said about the character of the
debate about climate change, it is that raised passions and
low tactics are not unique to either putative «side».