Seraph wrote:Long story short, mankind's influence on climate change is not a hoax, and the common rebuttals against it are basically always founded on ignorance.
I don't travel much in Global-Warming Skeptics circles, so I had to nose around a bit to find some names of a few notable G-W Skeptics:
S. Fred Singer
Patrick J. Michaels
Joe Bastardi (I hope this doesn't trigger a foul language filter)
The "always founded on ignorance" line doesn't really work with them, as you'll see if you check their bios. Now as for Al Gore, the face and mouth of Global Warming advocacy:
Al Gore
He has a BA from Harvard, no major noted in the article. After serving in Vietnam, he attended, but did not graduate from, Vanderbilt University Divinity School and Vanderbilt University School of Law. A Harvard BA is nothing to sneer at, but "founded on ignorance" seems a better fit for Mr. Gore than for Singer, Michaels and Bastardi.
Of course, you could take refuge in the well-poisoning argument that G-W Skeptics who do have the relevant education backgrounds have been bought off by some Warmistas'
enviro-bogeyman, but as you can see, that argument may not be well received.
Personally, I have an AS degree from De Vry, so I have no credentials. But over the past 4 or 5 decades I've seen enough wackiness - at least one has an ongoing huge human death toll - from the enviros to be reflexively skeptical of their every cause-of-the-year (or -decade).
Soapy Pete's Box
So I'll stand // With arms high and heart abandoned
In awe of the One Who gave it all -
The Stand, Hillsong United
"To a world that was lost, He gave all He could give.
To show us the reason to live."
"We Are the Reason" by David Meece
"So why should I worry?
Why should I fret?
'Cause I've got a
Mansion Builder
Who ain't through with me yet" - 2nd Chapter of Acts