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Fluffeh writes:
"For a few years the National Research Council, National Science Teachers Association, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science have been working to put together a set of standards for teaching science in public education schools. So far, nine states and the District of Columbia have adopted the standards. Wyoming doesn't appear to have issues with evolution. Instead, climate science appears to be the problem. That's not because any of the legislators have actually studied the science involved and found it lacking. The issue appears to be solely with the implications of the science.
State Representative Matt Teeters had this to say '[The standards] handle global warming as settled science. There's all kind of social implications involved in that that I don't think would be good for Wyoming.' Specifically, Teeters seems to think that having citizens of the state accept climate science would 'wreck Wyoming's economy,' which relies heavily on fossil fuel production."
(Score: 0, Troll) by Yog-Yogguth on Monday March 17 2014, @08:21AM
"Nice" ad hominem and association fallacy there, that AC got four for the price of two.
Could those who think they're successfully arguing in favor of anthropogenic global climate change (AGCC) at least please increase their level from "A Guide to 101 Fallacies" up and through the level of gaining an understanding of falsifiability [wikipedia.org] as an important part of the scientific methodology and possibly reach a point where anything they say has a change of becoming mildly interesting?
Am I patronizing? You bet your ass I am, and the "believers" deserve it until they can do the above. Any secondary grade pupil should be failed for the nonsense they espouse and which has been repeated ad nauseam (another fallacy) throughout all of society. The onus is on them; they're the ones who have made extraordinary claims for at least twenty years running and with only failed computer models to back it up.
When people can come up with better stuff as easily as this [coyoteblog.com] the "IPCC acolytes" really ought to die of shame (Gore first please).
Or maybe it just isn't about science after all? Maybe it's all about perception of assumed benefits from rallying around the AGCC banner? Well, if it isn't about the science how would they ever justify that they think they know? At that point they've passed dogmatic religion and gone straight for "benevolent" fascism with themselves (of course) at the helm.
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