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Originally Posted by Pinner
I agreed with you that people confirm their own personal beliefs, not just the global warming deniers, but also the people that think greenhouses gases are to blame.
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Nonsense, that makes it sound like there is no right answer and that everyone's opinions are equally valid. Clearly not the case though, do you agree that there is an objective truth that in principle can be determined?
The conclusion that is supported and properly reasoned is the one that prevails, regardless if individuals on either side are subject to cognitive biases. Science by its nature works despite those biases.
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Originally Posted by Pinner
This climate change was happening before man created any significant greenhouse gases, right ?
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Sure, but that doesn't mean anything more than climate change was happening before. To insinuate that since climate change occurred in the past without humans therefore current climate change is not caused by humans is flawed reasoning.
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Originally Posted by Pinner
18,000 years ago the N.Atlantic ocean was frozen, 1,000 years ago the planet was warmer than it is now.
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So? "There was change in the past therefore current change is not caused by human activity" is flawed reasoning.
If use up all the water in a river, causing it to dry up, you can't say "rivers have dried up in the past without human intervention, therefore this river drying up is not caused by human intervention".