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by guscost 4896 days ago
When you're invoking doomsday to obtain grants or subsidies:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_burden_of_proof

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Indeed. Anyone asserting that the current body of science is wrong about climate change should be able to back that up with data from non-questionable sources.
When you understand that there are no "non-questionable sources," you'll understand the point people are trying to make in this thread.

Extraordinary claims may or may not require extraordinary proof -- at least one famous environmentalist said so, anyway -- but extraordinary demands most certainly do.

>When you understand that there are no "non-questionable sources"

Rubbish. Are you seriously telling me that nobody has done critical analysis of the data who wasn't associated with the energy industry?