Bridging the gap between left and right. I came across this clip showing Glenn Beck and Samantha Bee, and thought that this SoylentNews story / comment thread should be stickied till the new year so we have an ongoing conversation. It's a short clip from her show where Glenn Beck is a willing guest; the key point is they are trying to find common ground. Beck points out that Bee is following some of his own patterns of crying "catastrophe" but they really don't provide much insight beyond the significance of their little coming together moment.
The divide is clear and present on this site as most everywhere else, I would like to see a meta discussion where we fact check each other and drill down through the rhetoric until we get some straightforward lists and proposals on how we can move forward together. What are the fundamental blockers? Which ideas do we consider to be too outrageous for credibility? Many here are guilty of attacking each other — can we try and Spock it out for about a week?
I'll start us off with my supposition:
Climate change is real and human activity has an important effect on it. We must agree on this point in order to move forward, and social/economic issues must be handled after needed environmental changes."
If you post as AC — try and behave as if you were logged in — reduce the flames for better quality discussion.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 24 2016, @04:46AM
Very few people deny climate change occurs and there's no "consensus" required when scientific evidence supports a theory with 5 sigma certainty. Unfortunately, the IPCC AR5 requirements to label something "more likely than not" indicative of anthropogenic climate change were 50%. That was not science, it was a fucking coin toss. I gave up attempting to discuss any of this a decade ago when it became apparent that the best case response from most individuals was cognitive dissonance and vitriolic, incoherent rants about "holocaust denial".
Yes, and primates shake their fists at the sky during storms.