On Wed, 9 Mar 2016 21:45:10 -0800 (PST), whit3rd
wrote:

On Wednesday, March 9, 2016 at 5:27:18 PM UTC-8, Larry Jaques wrote:
On Wed, 09 Mar 2016 07:21:10 -0600, Ignoramus1161
wrote:

I have a question.

If global warming is fake, how come those glaciers are shrinking? And
so does the Arctic ice?

Questions here, too. If Algore is an environmentalist, why was he
spending over $30,000 a year to heat and cool his home?

Not pertinent to global climate. Observations of glaciation and ice ARE pertinent.

Also see these books:
[long list]

Einstein once was confronted with a pamphlet, 'One Hundred Authors Against Einstein',
and mused, "Why a hundred? If I am wrong, one is enough."

He didn't bother to read the material, I trust.

The fact is, you can get a vanity-press book published for a few dollars, and written
for a few cents a word, by a polished prose craftsman. It doesn't have meet
any kind of scrutiny or undergo any fact checking. So, find me a bit of writing
on the subject IN THE PEER REVIEWED LITERATURE, if you expect to be taken seriously.

Uhhh...Larry is not taken seriously when he jumps on one of his hobby
horses, like global warming. Ask him how many of those books he has
actually read. Then ask him how he would evaluate the "evidence" they
present, and how he would evaluate the contradicting evidence.

He has no way of judging either one. Neither does Gunner. As for Tom,
he just likes to stir the pot. d8-)

His list of authors could have been selected from a rogue's gallery of
curmudgeons who spend as much time in litigation, suing people and
being sued, as they do in writing their polemics. Tim Ball, for
instance, is a particularly creepy example. It's worth looking him up.

But I have to object to your characterization of how much people pay
freelancers to write. It's more like 75 cents/word for a
garden-variety freelancer, and much more if they can cook up a good
pile of polemical bull****.

If you really want to know how much the oil and coal companies pay
these turds, read _Blinded by the Right: The Conscience of an
Ex-Conservative_, by David Brock. He was the only "journalist" in
Washington who drove a 600-Series Mercedes Benz.

--
Ed Huntress