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posted by CoolHand on Sunday April 26 2015, @01:33PM   Printer-friendly
from the denial-is-a-river-in-egypt dept.

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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  • (Score: 2) by aristarchus on Tuesday April 28 2015, @01:33AM

    by aristarchus (2645) on Tuesday April 28 2015, @01:33AM (#175922) Journal

    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..

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 28 2015, @10:39AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 28 2015, @10:39AM (#176005)

    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.