[mrtesthah]

It’s pretty well established by science that the effects will be overwhelmingly bad. To try to find the “silver lining” in the sixth mass extinction sounds like a pundit’s exercise in devil’s advocacy. You may as well be trying to “look on the bright side” of the holocaust.

[sfblah]

... except that's _literally_ how science works. People _have_ looked into the "bright side" of the holocaust. Refusing to expand human's knowledge and understanding of the world because of political taboos is a mistake. Yes, we wouldn't purposely warm the planet in the interests of "increasing our knowledge," but since the experiment is already underway, there is an obligation to learn from that.

[mrtesthah]

Is this science that we're doing right now? No, this is debate in the service of a particular agenda. No one is stopping you from "looking into the bright side of the holocaust", as you put it, on your own time. There are plenty of holocaust "researchers" who question its place in history. I'm sure they would welcome your company.

But if you were to pose that question in the context of a discussion about a Holocaust survivor's fund, for example, then that's definitely not historical research you're engaging in.

Likewise, when you interrupt discussion about global warming with "maybe there are good sides", without providing any actual evidence for your supposition, then your actions have the effect of redirecting the conversation away from the scientific consensus and casting a shadow of doubt, on the basis of nothing more than speculation.