Go Al Gore Go! Don't let the facts get in your way.

[MacMagus]

> What is an established model? It is not fact. Just another theory.

We've already discussed the differences between the way that lay-persons throw around the word "theory" and the way that scientists use it.

Let's not rehash that now.

[x-uri]

[quote MacMagus]> What is an established model? It is not fact. Just another theory.

We've already discussed the differences between the way that lay-persons throw around the word "theory" and the way that scientists use it.

Let's not rehash that now.
Could be a corollary to Godwin's Law: As a discussion of climate change (or evolution, or cosmology, etc.) grows longer, the probability of a definition of "theory" or "scientific theory" approaches unity.

We could make it a rule that the first person to say "its a theory, not a fact" has lost the argument and close the thread.

[Jp!]

Minty, you like abuse, don't you?

I refrained from posting that article.

[Seacrest]

[quote voodoopenguin][quote spearmint]Are not personal insults supposedly not permitted?
I do not agree with you left wing wacko garbage.
?
It's not an insult if it's true.
You people really are left-wing wacko garbage!

[voodoopenguin]

[quote Seacrest]

It's not an insult if it's true.
You people really are left-wing wacko garbage!
OK, I was just checking. That has reassured me now.

[Effin Haole]

[quote spearmint]Are not personal insults supposedly not permitted?
I do not agree with you left wing wacko garbage.
?
It's not an insult if it's true.


OK, anything you say dipsh!t.

[x-uri]

You do have to give the Heartland Institute shill some credit for chutzpah. He responds to Al Gore's book about corporate shills working for fake institutes who distort and misrepresent and lie about science by distorting, misrepresenting, and lying about science.

[RgrF]

Hutzpah; it took a generation or so to Anglicize it; now you want it back?

[vision63]

That's "Gar-BAJE" to you mister.

[RgrF]

Yeah right.

Next you know it'll be called Chunnaka.