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So, it has come to this! Universities are now offering courses on how to argue against climate change denialists! (Note, even mentioning such courses could be illegal in Florida, but fortunately this is in Australia.)
Starting 28 April, 2015, the University of Queensland is offering a free Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) aimed at “Making Sense of Climate Science Denial”.
You know you've made it when they start teaching about you in college! Well done, climate change deniers!!!
And a MOOC? Hmmm, is there a "certificate" one might earn?
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It's not reality that's important, but how you perceive things.
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Monday April 27 2015, @09:21AM
Excuse the cryptic title. It is a reference to the Crocodile Dundee movies, and is meant to convey the idea that Americans, especially Americans of very little brains, should not go up against Australians. And, they might Drop Bears on ya!
This is the submitter, Aristarchus, recently back from the dead. You see, I fell into a pit with a Balrog, who had hit me with an undeserved Spam mod. I said, "You Shall not Pass!!" And then I said, "Moderation is not censorship!". And then I said, "Aieee! Fly, you fools!" But the entire point of this submission, posted prior to my untimely demise, was only to get all our climate change deniers on record, and evidently this has worked exactly as planned.
I see no one has expressed any interest in earning a certificate. Now I may actually have to sign up. A certificate is a good thing to have when a Balrog is coming across the bridge. (And thanks, admins, for saving my life. I promise to live up to your confidence in me. And to my enemies, you stuck me down, but I will only arise more powerful than you could possibly imagine! I am now, Aristarchus the White!! )
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 27 2015, @01:46PM
And as you insist on using the term again, I once again point out the propaganda of attempting to draw parallels between not drinking the "save us from ourselves, mummy gubmit" koolaid and holocaust deniers.
Feel free to post a non-broken climate model, some mechanism which won't instantly return all Western people to cave-dwellers while accomplishing nothing as China et al keeps pumping out burnt coal while snickering behind your cold and shivering Western back, OR get the NRC and related agencies to bugger off back to the rock they crawled out from under and let the modern world move on with zero-emission power technology that wasn't designed for mass murder (ala LFTR and other passive-safe molten-fuel nuclear power generation tech).
... not that I expect anything from you other than calling those who disagree with you "big, smelly poo-poo heads" using only slightly longer words.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 27 2015, @08:51PM
No need for a certificate here - as we have no shortage of wallpaper or toilet paper. This course is another desperate attempt by those with a Lib agenda to push their anti-religion religion under the guise of 'education'.
For those of you having something better to do with the next 10 minutes of your life, you can bypass MOOC and the pseudo-intellectuals and print up your very own 'certificate': http://www.cynicalbastards.com/ubs/ [cynicalbastards.com] ... I now have a PhD in Theoretic Climatology and Basketweaving.
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Monday April 27 2015, @09:08PM
So if I understand you, all certificates are the same? That doesn't seem quite right. Perhaps, however, it lets me understand the climate change denier mindset a bit better. Climate scientists have a degree, and now you have a certificate. Climate scientists have an "opinion", and you have one too! Therefore, your opinion is just as good as the climate scientists! Praise God!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 28 2015, @12:56AM
Your appeals to authority mean nothing until your precious authorities can provide something verifiable to back up their claims. You know, just as expected with actual science and not Orwellian newspeak "science because we say it is science even though it is not testable nor repeatable nor verifiable".
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Tuesday April 28 2015, @01:33AM
Your appeals to authority mean nothing until your precious authorities can provide something verifiable to back up their claims.
Quite. But seriously, "my precious"? I am not citing the Pope or Brittany Spears here! But please, a bit of reflection: the deniers have even less in the way of authority, which as you point out is not necessarily a bad thing, but they also have no science, no data, no serious theory, no testable hypotheses or repeatable experimental designs.
Deniers appeal not to authority, but to nothing, the famed argumentum ad ignorantiam or appeal to ignorance. "Since we don't know for sure, definitively, that Anthropogenic Global Warming is true, we can just assume it is not." I guess we will just have to "teach the controversy" here at Soylent University, at least until there is proof one way or the other..
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 28 2015, @10:39AM
Sorry, the "climate deniers" (a propaganda term used to equate people to holocaust deniers) do not need to prove a negative. All that is necessary is to point to models used by "man-made climate change" advocates and notice that years later the new historical data does not match the predicted results.