Yep. "Toxic" has come to mean "disagrees with liberal left-think." Disagree with the cult of human-caused global warming? You're "toxic." Think having a penis makes you a man? You're "toxic." Think "gender" and "sex" are synonyms? You're "toxic." Try to bring facts and logic into a conversation? "Toxic."
The last bastion of left-wing thought is to try and ban all other ideas, because they know that their ideology does not stand up to rational examination. So the only way to survive is to simply ban anyone po
by Anonymous Coward writes:
on Tuesday April 02, 2019 @12:28PM (#58372194)
Maybe you should actually dive into the literature and the field. I'm not a climate scientist, but a biologist, and have read several papers and several IPCC reports. I often find those who think human made climate change is a hoax are either fairly scientifically illiterate and do not understand thr culture of science, or at the very least have never actually read the papers.
Seems we should all be able to agree that the climate changed from 2 mile deep glaciers covering 2/3rds of North America to a relatively glacier free US and Canada by the time Columbus got here in 1492. That's a whopping amount of climate change and dwarfs the few degrees C (or less) were discussing now. Has climate changed? Yes. Is man made climate change statistically significant? I doubt it.
Either way, i'll take warmer days over a return to miles deep ice in the US.
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I see no problem here (except with some employees who are complaining, who should probably be fired).
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Yep. "Toxic" has come to mean "disagrees with liberal left-think." Disagree with the cult of human-caused global warming? You're "toxic." Think having a penis makes you a man? You're "toxic." Think "gender" and "sex" are synonyms? You're "toxic." Try to bring facts and logic into a conversation? "Toxic."
The last bastion of left-wing thought is to try and ban all other ideas, because they know that their ideology does not stand up to rational examination. So the only way to survive is to simply ban anyone po
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Maybe you should actually dive into the literature and the field. I'm not a climate scientist, but a biologist, and have read several papers and several IPCC reports. I often find those who think human made climate change is a hoax are either fairly scientifically illiterate and do not understand thr culture of science, or at the very least have never actually read the papers.
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Seems we should all be able to agree that the climate changed from 2 mile deep glaciers covering 2/3rds of North America to a relatively glacier free US and Canada by the time Columbus got here in 1492. That's a whopping amount of climate change and dwarfs the few degrees C (or less) were discussing now.
Has climate changed? Yes. Is man made climate change statistically significant? I doubt it.
Either way, i'll take warmer days over a return to miles deep ice in the US.
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Science does not have a "culture". Academia does. It's publish or perish, and get public grant money or get fired.