In my relatively short lifetime the scares have already been through a 'coming ice-age' to 'catastrophic warming' to 'climate change' cycle. The latter being a good catch-all I suppose.
This is more logical fallacies. Just because some very small percentage of scientists talked about global cooling doesn't discount the overwhelming current consensus going on now.
Yanno, some people lose at the stock market.. and they might say they were winners.. What does that say about Buffet?
Just a random analogy to try to get it across.
This is an example of exactly what the paper talks about. The paper Spendulus lies about not being able to read to maintain his cognitive comfort.
I'm not a troll. I wish you guys had solid convincing arguments that I am wrong. You don't and your hodge podge logical arguments are damaging to where we need to move. You need to realize that libertarianism and market solutions fail time and time again when presented with problems that have a tragedy of the commons issue. Soften your views on life and you'll get more people believing. We need to get rid of the bullshit laws to make fewer laws.
It sucks that physics works out the way it does, but you have to get past this blindingly narrow ideological approach to life. Inaction now is blatant violence towards those who have no say in having their environment turned upside down and destroyed in some ways.