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• ‘Any Other Multi-Billion Dollar Industry Would Be Treated Cynically By Reporters’: Canadian Pundit Ezra Levant Rips Global Warming Lobby

  May 24, 2012 at 8:38pm

  In reply to wvernon1981.

  Michael Mann was cleared of academic misconduct by several academic panels:

  http://www.skepticalscience.com/Climategate-CRU-emails-hacked.htm

• ‘Any Other Multi-Billion Dollar Industry Would Be Treated Cynically By Reporters’: Canadian Pundit Ezra Levant Rips Global Warming Lobby

  May 24, 2012 at 8:27pm

  In reply to wvernon1981.

  “The peer reviews are only going to researchers who share the same opinion!”

  This claim could be made of any science. Do you think all science should be discredited for this reason?

• ‘Any Other Multi-Billion Dollar Industry Would Be Treated Cynically By Reporters’: Canadian Pundit Ezra Levant Rips Global Warming Lobby

  May 24, 2012 at 8:26pm

  In reply to progressiveslayer.

  It’s a good starting point. Do you have a contention with the content of the article or are you using “wikipedia” as an excuse to avoid the science?

• ‘Any Other Multi-Billion Dollar Industry Would Be Treated Cynically By Reporters’: Canadian Pundit Ezra Levant Rips Global Warming Lobby

  May 24, 2012 at 8:03pm

  In reply to wvernon1981.

  I should have specified: evidence that climate scientists are bought and paid for.

• ‘Any Other Multi-Billion Dollar Industry Would Be Treated Cynically By Reporters’: Canadian Pundit Ezra Levant Rips Global Warming Lobby

  May 24, 2012 at 8:01pm

  In reply to Ben__Franklin.

  You’re not actually understanding my point, I don’t think. I’m not saying climatologists are taking a guess as in an uneducated shot in the dark.

  Second, I’m saying non-climatologists have no expertise in the field. If you were to enter into a debate with a climatologist, as a layman, you would lose hands down. People do not know enough about climate science, in general, to have a valid position on the matter, based on their own understanding of the science. I am not taking the position that consensus makes truth. Only that the public should accept the consensus as the current best understanding of reality in any science all the while advocating mechanisms to prevent corruption of the peer review process.

• ‘Any Other Multi-Billion Dollar Industry Would Be Treated Cynically By Reporters’: Canadian Pundit Ezra Levant Rips Global Warming Lobby

  May 24, 2012 at 7:31pm

  In reply to Ben__Franklin.

  Something I said earlier:

  “97 percent of climatologists accept anthropogenic gasses as the current driver of climatic changes. There is no way for individuals to take a reasonable stance agains the consensus without years of education in climate science. Therefore, as we rely on the climatology community for our understanding of climate science, we need to ensure that the scientists are not allowing bias to creep into their research.”

  I’m all for ensuring the integrity of peer review process. My question to you is how do you know, as a layman (I’m assuming), you are on the right side of the science?

• ‘Any Other Multi-Billion Dollar Industry Would Be Treated Cynically By Reporters’: Canadian Pundit Ezra Levant Rips Global Warming Lobby

  May 24, 2012 at 7:18pm

  In reply to wvernon1981.

  Throw some evidence at me then.

• ‘Any Other Multi-Billion Dollar Industry Would Be Treated Cynically By Reporters’: Canadian Pundit Ezra Levant Rips Global Warming Lobby

  May 24, 2012 at 7:17pm

  In reply to Sue Dohnim.

  Which is why the Chinese are implementing their own limits on CO2 emissions?

• ‘Any Other Multi-Billion Dollar Industry Would Be Treated Cynically By Reporters’: Canadian Pundit Ezra Levant Rips Global Warming Lobby

  May 24, 2012 at 7:13pm

  In reply to progressiveslayer.

  I don’t think you realize that physics dictates that CO2 is a greenhouse gas by its very physical properties.

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenhouse_effect

• ‘Any Other Multi-Billion Dollar Industry Would Be Treated Cynically By Reporters’: Canadian Pundit Ezra Levant Rips Global Warming Lobby

  May 24, 2012 at 6:50pm

  In reply to Ben__Franklin.

  Who cares what Al Gore says about the climate? 97 percent of published climatologists accept anthropogenic causes of climate change to be the best explanation we have right now.