Best potholer54 video so far

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Best potholer54 video so far

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"Response to Bill Whittle's "Is climate change real?""
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7aZ6vqCk2E
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I love potholer. But you have to admit, pointing out how conservative science deniers misunderstand the evidence, misrepresent the evidence, or just plain lie, is like shooting fish in a barrel. in my opinion, potholer54 is the best at it.


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Yep. :biggrin:
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Yup. Careful and ruthless dissection of the case presented by a clever but evidently unscrupulous climate denier.

No abuse. No indignation.

Just constant mild-mannered citation of evidence, and pointing out the huge flaws and omissions of his opponent. Nothing more is required.

I like this from the comments:

I love the whole "The temperature has all ways been changing" argument
Taxi passenger 1: "Looks like the driver has floored the accelerator, has a crazed look in his eye, and is heading for that cliff"
Taxi passenger 2: "Nothing to worry about, taxi drivers change speed and direction all the time"
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I love potholer54 too, but Peter Sinclair's Climate Crock of the Week is also very good.
He does a good job of demolishing one of the climate deniers' favorite arguments that there is "No such thing as a scientific consensus."
“There’s no such thing as settled science” and “science does not work by consensus”, are things we commonly hear from people who really should know better.

The earth revolves around the sun. Apples fall down. Oceans expand when warmed.
These are in fact, examples of “settled science” – accepted by consensus. We don’t re-litigate them in every paper about gravity or astrophysics.

If you google “climate, 97 percent consensus” or some permutation thereof, you’ll be treated to page after page of climate denial nonsense, some elaborately produced, some not, seeking to knock down the idea, essentially, that scientists believe in science.
Climate deniers understand that the scientific consensus is a critical gateway belief, one that most Americans are still unaware of, that makes citizens much more likely to understand the gravity of climate change, and support efforts to curb it.

So a lot of effort goes into attacking this idea.

While the “97 percent of climate scientists agree planet is warming and humans are the cause” meme has gotten pretty good penetration in the main stream media – most talking heads are aware enough to include that in any discussion of climate – in the social media sphere, the National Academy of Science does not have as strong a presence as jackasswithablog dot com.

I love this video by John Oliver imbedded in Sinclair's site about the prospect of coal mining jobs coming back. One of the funniest ironies he mentioned was that the Kentucky Coal Mining Museum has installed solar panels and now is mostly, if not entirely, powered by solar energy.
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Gunnar wrote:I love this video by John Oliver imbedded in Sinclair's site about the prospect of coal mining jobs coming back. One of the funniest ironies he mentioned was that the Kentucky Coal Mining Museum has installed solar panels and now is entirely powered by solar energy.


I watched that last night! John Oliver is the only thing keeping me sane while all this junk is going on.
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