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DetlefK

(16,423 posts)
Wed May 31, 2017, 12:03 PM May 2017

Apparently, being a climate-change skeptic means not knowing anything about anything.

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/05/ex-gop-sen-tom-coburn-up-to-75-percent-of-scientists-think-climate-change-is-a-hoax/

“If you go and poll, what does the actual data say? I don’t think you’ll see 99 percent,” Coburn said. “You may see 75-25. You may see 25-75. You don’t know that. Nobody knows

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“Here we are some 22 years later, right? And what’s the difference? One millimeter? Two millimeters?”
“Is that it?” Varney wondered.
“I don’t know,”

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According to Coburn, the Paris agreement was an “emotional and reactive” response that did not take into account “all the facts.”




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Lambasts others for for not knowing "all the facts", right after failing to come up with even a single fact.
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Apparently, being a climate-change skeptic means not knowing anything about anything. (Original Post) DetlefK May 2017 OP
There is a general attack on science and all knowledge based disciplines... Wounded Bear May 2017 #1

Wounded Bear

(58,647 posts)
1. There is a general attack on science and all knowledge based disciplines...
Wed May 31, 2017, 12:37 PM
May 2017

mostly driven by the religious right, and at least tacitly if not actively being supported by the industries affected.

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