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Expert Wants to Decertify Global Warming Skeptics

Posted by samzenpus on from the believe-it-or-else dept.

Penguinisto writes "Apparently in the Senate, at least one scientist wants to put a permanent stop to any arguments over Global Warming. The Weather Channel's most prominent climatologist is advocating that broadcast meteorologists be stripped of their scientific certification if they express skepticism about predictions of manmade catastrophic global warming."

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  1. you sir.. by Turn-X+Alphonse · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    "You sir are a fucking nutjob!" is what I would say to that man if I ever met him.

    People need to believe fictional things are real just as much as we need to believe the truth. While we may not like people pointing it out things only advance through ignorant, debate and insightful driven by these debates. With these debates we currently discuss if global warming is real, what's making it happen and how we fix it. If we get rid of the nay-says we end up with "It's real guys, humans did it, we must stop doing EVERYTHING because we're not sure what the hell is going on".

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  2. Re:Um by Umbral+Blot · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I have a hard time believing that the above was modded up to 4 given all the typos I made in my rush to say the obvious first.

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  3. Re:Um by MrAnnoyanceToYou · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Gah. I have so much karma to burn that it's amazing, and I like to think it has nothing to do with how fast I post. I'm delusional, yes, but if you really want to get that 'first actually well prepared post' in, you might as well just shell out twenty bucks and do it for a while until it gets old. Eventually, you just shrug it off and say, "Man, someone's gonna say THAT."

    I only karmah0 when I'm really tired or bored, now. Which is good, I shouldn't be doing it I should be doing the physics lab I'm avoiding.

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  4. Flawed analogy again. by spineboy · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Your analogy would be closer if it said surgeons who believed faith healing was possible were barred, regardless of their ability to conduct surgery.

    I would say your analogy is flawed - perhaps better would be if a surgeon didn't believe antibiotics prevented infection - they could get thru the procedure, only to later have problems. Thus it's appropriate that they lose their license.
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