1776 wrote:
BernieSandals wrote:
Like Mar-A-Lago?
A good argument against these climate alarmist:
https://youtu.be/NjlC02NsIt0
Just a little advice: if you want to enter into a debate by citing someone else's opinion, perhaps select a clip in which the person being held out as persuasive doesn't confuse basic scientific facts in the clip. For example, as soon as Dan Pena says that we have been on earth for 13.8 billion years (which is the age of the universe, not the earth), listeners immediately discount everything else he says, such as what he may have heard from a real scientist on his vacation to Antarctica. Even if his facts were correct, his logic is faulty. Just because temperatures changed in the past doesn't say anything one way or the other about the current change in temperature. Just because runners sometimes come from behind to win, doesn't mean the same thing is going to happen in the next race you watch.
The truth is that most people do not have the scientific background to even debate climate change. Most scientists who study it and are qualified to debate it think that humans contribute to global warming. Some may disagree. Citing one of those experts might be a better tactic than a clip of an old businessman with no science background and a tenuous grasp on the basics of science, and, for that matter, logic. Or, take the approach of Bjorn Lomborg, who claims that even if humans were causing global warming, the money that would be required to fix it would be better spent on other big problems currently facing humanity, like wiping out malaria or other diseases that ravage the weak and vulnerable in developing countries. The lives that could be saved by that initiative would be enormous.
But in any event, seriously, this guy just hurts your argument. I am guessing by your name that you are a fan of the founding fathers. Well there is a reason that they chose Jefferson to write the Declaration of Independence, not some clown who likes to hear himself talk even if he doesn't understand what he himself is saying.