I fully accept that, but I want to tell you, if you want to
study anything about climate, if you don't study sun - climate, I don't know, what am I supposed to study right?»
Not exact matches
Dan H.'s promoting a notion unrelated to Kahan's
study; Kahan did not compare rational to emotional approaches (nor
anything to that effect — Dan H. appears to suggest concern (
about climate change) is emotional rather than rational.
Read something /
anything from Lindzen if you want to know the real skeptic viewpoint
about climate studies — don't waste time with «skeptic» bloggers who are guessing nearly as much as true believers.
The 20th and 21st centuries are jointly a transition between equilibrium states, which is what we should be
studying if we expect to be able to say
anything useful
about the likely
climate profile of the coming century.
But if the disposition to engage in higher quality, reflective reasoning doesn't immunize people from motivated reasoning, then one can't infer
anything about disputes like
climate change from
studies that correlate the disposition to engage in higher quality, reflective reasoning with ideology.
My hypothesis is that you are scientifically illiterate, and not just that but smugly proud of your ignorance, that you will only ever quote papers that you think support your preconceived views, that you will generally wildly misunderstand and misinterpret those papers anyway, and that you have no capability of learning or understanding
anything about the science of
climate studies.
Perhaps if I make comments
about 30 years as the minimum in
climate studies, you might think
about retracting this comment or at the very least cease complaining that «deniers» need to get their heads around the concept (if you make such complaints), or at the very least, deride anyone who uses < 30 year trends as «proof» of
anything in
climate.