Rigged for Hillary wrote:
Fat hurts wrote:
It's not a side. It's science.
Scientific findings must be repeatable: refusing to provide the underlying data is tantamount to confirmation that the findings are not repeatable. Michael Mann is a fraud who has perpetuated a falsehood. That is NOT science. It is a hoax.
The basics of global warming and climate change have been verified and reverified over and over and over for more than a century.
The scientific community overwhelmingly accepts anthropogenic global warming.
Given that fact, there are three possibilities:
1) The scientific community is made up of stupid people.
2) The scientific community is engaged in a global conspiracy.
3) The scientific community is made up of smart people who know how to do their jobs and are therefore very likely to be correct.
Those who think they know better than the scientists are picking #1. For example, you might hear someone say something to the effect of "Don't you know that some of the thermometers are in urban areas? It's hotter there."
Those who are paranoid are picking #2. For example, on talk radio I often hear, "The global warming crowd is out to destroy capitalism. It's all a hoax!"
Those who are well grounded in reality choose #3.