Climate change denier James Delingpole doesn't do science

Highlights from last night's BBC Horizon programme.

Result: Science 462. Delingpole/Voodoo 0.

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[Femfikon]

I don't care about consensus. I think it is sad that scientists have to use their *numbers* as an argument when their science is solid enough to be alarming.

Why are scientists forced to use their consensus as an argument? Because the public is so idiotic and low of mind.

If Delingpole doesn't have the time to read the science, where does he get time to slander and monger rumors about the scientists? What an inbred little cunt.

[paultaw]

Anyone with half a brain can guess that man's destruction of the forests and burning of fossil fuels in such quantities MUST have some effect on the climate. It would be amazing if this were not so. It seems to me that Delingpole must be either deluded or in the pay of Big Oil.

[StargateMunky]

snake oil salesman HO!!!

[FatherTime89]

@Lightf00t1 No that would be people who want to believe in the conspiracy.

You know the people who don't use experts or scientists.

[Lightf00t1]

@FatherTime89

Meanwhile people like you believe everything you're told. lol

[georgeigler]

Delingpole is right to pick Nurse up on this analogy. He is being polite rather than angry. Not non plussed.

Cancer medicine is based on rigorous experimental practise: trials, double-blind placebo groups etc: they can provide an end test of effectiveness. Climate modelling can do NONE of this, and can provide no comparable "proof" of effectiveness. Nurse knows this.

He is trying to portray Delingpole as a "doubter of science", whereas sceptics believe in science, and that AGW is BAD science.

[ZOMGitsJesusCriss]

@hookalakah Hey dumb-ass Fox News graduate: The science isn't controversial just because some snake-oil salesman and Fox news says it is. 

[ZOMGitsJesusCriss]

"Sleep now in your fire". I guess we pretty much get what we deserve. We pissed the bed and now we have to sleep in it. Fools like this will be the first to die when the humanoid lemmings finally realize how dire the situation is. The rich, the politicians, the deceivers...they will pay the ultimate price (hopefully it will be a long slow torturous death), and our planet will recover some eon from now and be ready for the next bed soiling experiment.

[ZOMGitsJesusCriss]

Humans are fucking stupid lemmings.

[JRCrowley]

@Femfikon "What an inbred little cunt."

I agree with you. The intelligence of your last sentence sealed the deal for me. /sarcasm

[hookalakah]

"Progressives' faith-based devotion to government is far more consequential than Perry's faith-based position on evolution.

Despite the rare political dispute, in the real world, science--real science--is rarely controversial. . ..Maybe if schools began teaching students that "life" begins at conception and that each zygote, embryo and fetus is a unique human being in some early stage of development just waiting to be born, liberals would see the point." --David Harsanyi, Real Clear Politics

[FatherTime89]

So many scientific organizations say they agree that AGW is happening, practically none of them say it isn't but meanwhile shmucks like Delingpole claim the science isn't settled.