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Originally Posted by Thor
Uggh been debating a friend who's a full out climate change denier, sadly he's been posting watts and nonsense like that, but he linked me this which I haven't seen before in the world of denialism, anyone want to help me debunk this one.
http://www.populartechnology.net/200...upporting.html |
You want to destroy this argument? It's simple. Unified theory. The UPCC presents one and the counter does not. The only thing the counter side can agree upon is their disagreement that climate change is anthropomorphic in nature. That is not a unified theory. A unified theory would present a common cause of the problem, not just a disagreement with the conclusion of the UPCC's findings.
Your friend is trying to get you to chase shadows. The fact that the 1350+ papers are peer reviewed is irrelevant. Peer review only weights the value of the narrow scope of the paper and re-evaluates the findings based on the method. Peer review does not look for data beyond the scope of the paper or the method used to come to its conclusions. Unless these papers are focused on disproving the findings of the UPCC, using the same methods, then they have very little value.