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ORIGINAL: KenDckey

TK Off topic is common.

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ORIGINAL: Tkman117

Exactly, so if the others agree then maybe we can get back to the discussion on the science of climate change. To the deniers out there, you can go ahead and make your points. But please keep it scientific with actual peer reviewed research, no political websites, blogs, or organizations that have a clear bias towards big oil or those who profit from denying climate change.

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SXSW: Gore says climate-change deniers should pay political price

AUSTIN, Texas — Former Vice President Al Gore on Friday called on SXSW attendees to punish climate-change deniers, saying politicians should pay a price for rejecting “accepted science.”

Gore said smart investors are moving away from companies tied to fossil fuels and toward companies investing in alternative energy.

"We need to put a price on carbon to accelerate these market trends,” Gore said, referring to a proposed federal cap-and-trade system that would penalize companies that exceeded their carbon-emission limits. “And in order to do that, we need to put a price on denial in politics."

http://www.chicagotribune.com/bluesky/originals/chi-sxsw-al-gore-penny-pritzker-bsi-20150313-story.html

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ORIGINAL: bounty44

remember that any researcher, regardless of their qualifications as an expert, the quality of their research, and the integrity of their character, if they fall into the camp of an opposing position, they are a "denier" and are ipso facto in the pockets of "big oil."

there is absolutely no talking to people who hold to that...

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ORIGINAL: Tkman117

No we call them deniers because they're denying the existence of observable and measurable changes to our climate being caused by human produced increases in green house has emissions. We're calling a spade a spade, nothing more, nothing less. Now if you got some actual scientific research to back up your claims, I'd personally love to read them. Or are you just gonna continue bitching and trolling?

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The San Jose Mercury News reported on June 30, 1989 that a “senior environmental official at the United Nations, Noel Brown, says entire nations could be wiped off the face of the earth by rising sea levels if global warming is not reversed by the year 2000.”

Brown, who was the director of the New York office of the U.N. Environment Program, warned that “[c]oastal flooding and crop failures would create an exodus of ‘eco-refugees,’ threatening political chaos.” Brown added that “governments have a 10-year window of opportunity to solve the greenhouse effect before it goes beyond human” ability to stop it.

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ORIGINAL: Tkman117

Still throwing around insults Bounty? If you got something constructive to say, say it, because some of us would rather have a civilized debate as opposed to both sides whining about each other.