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by piotrjurkiewicz 3497 days ago
When I wrote my comment, all previous ones were attacking her personally and none of them referred to the actual content of report.

Such an attitude and existence of sites like that confirms that 'climate science' isn't science anymore. It is more like a religion.

There are heated scientific debates in many fields, especially those ones depending on complicated models (e.g. quantum physics). But 'climate science' is the only one field where those ones who even slightly question the consensus are being witchhunted, their employers are being pressured to fire them and media to ignore them.

Just take a look on the site linked above:

- personal records of 'denialists'

- a counter in the sidebar saying "Our climate has accumulated 2,421,220,822 Hiroshima atomic bombs of heat since 1998", what is pure sensationalism and populism, and reminds me this counter, which I saw in the sidebar of some another site: http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/TROP.jpg

- in the same sidebar it links to the "Climate Science Legal Defense Fund" website, which says: "Our opponents won’t go quietly."

This is not a scientific debate anymore. This is a religious war.

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If you were convinced that the data and physics undeniably show that we're headed for a point where the global food supply system will collapse.

And you believe all previous criticism has been adequately answered as nauseum.

And you expected your children and even yourself to see the day of the collapse.

And most other industrialized nations are already taking real steps to mitigate, convinced that it's real.

But, somehow, your own country, where media and politics are more controlled by money than anywhere else, is doing nothing.

What would you think the right thing to do would be?