12-10-2008, 03:47 AM
mattkime wrote:
>>I don't spend much time trying to follow or understand the science either...such that we can't have meaningful debate.
Then how do you justify your own opinion aside from a funny feeling in your gut?
As far as meaningful debate is concerned, the truth is out there. If you expect to become informed through TV news then of course there isn't meaningful debate.
the only claim the anti-global warming crowd has against science and academia boils down to name calling.
I base my lack of an opinion on the science and articles that I have read over the years. Whatever else we can say about the science, there clearly is not a consensus, there clearly is not a unified theory, and there clearly are major, significant unanswered questions. The scientific debate on this subject has been contaminated by politics. At some point, that will turn around and we get back to the science again.