Are we heading for a mini ice age?

[d000hg]

Censored? I genuinely have not got a clue what you are on about.

[s]he is a troll. If you look back the last couple of weeks you'll see [s]he suddenly took an interest in climate stuff as a change from how [s]he is looking for minimum-wage jobs

Again...the entire 'span' of that graph is only 1.2 degrees celsius.

Show me a graph which has ZERO in the bottom left corner.

You don't understand maths/statistics if you think that makes a graph more valid. Plot a graph of the human body temperature showing 0 Kelvin and it'll show the same thing... 'insignificant' differences when we 'claim' the person has fever or hypothermia.

[d000hg]

The biggest problem that the Global Warming Taliban face is this;

The common man went to school, and he was taught basic science and arithmetic.

Even the most lowly of us know the fundementals - if not the fine detail - of how the physical universe works.

I cannot help thinking that, given the choice, they would make 'global warming denial' a crime...in the same way that 'holocaust denial' is a crime in some countries.

There is one big difference....

Unless six million missing jews are all hiding behind a tree somewhere in Poland waiting to jump out and shout 'BOO!', then the holocaust undoubtedly happened.

Man-made global warming is a THEORY. Although a very convenient and lucrative theory for cash-strapped politicians.

This could be framed as a "trolling 101" guide. Align the theory you want to discredit with the holocaust and then draw an 'obvious' link between the two.

EO you strike me as the type who would know the names of these bogus tactics... ad hominem, ad absurdium, etc... which is this one? I know you are anti AGW but no matter which side we're on, letting this kind of bilge go unpunished is intolerable.

[KimberleyChris]

EO you strike me as the type who would know the names of these bogus tactics... ad hominem, ad absurdium, etc... which is this one? I know you are anti AGW but no matter which side we're on, letting this kind of bilge go unpunished is intolerable.

It's 'Ad Nausiem'.

I never realised that holding a different viewpoint to you made me a troll.

[d000hg]

It's 'Ad Nausiem'.

I never realised that holding a different viewpoint to you made me a troll.

Ah, response #2 from Idiot's guide to trolling.

[KimberleyChris]

Ah, response #2 from Idiot's guide to trolling.

Well, you bought the right book.

Keep studying it, and you could one day become a troll too!

[d000hg]

It says something that someone found a way to make pj's threads more ludicrous and less informative.

[KimberleyChris]

It says something that someone found a way to make pj's threads more ludicrous and less informative.

Yes, the bar is so high.

[pjclarke]

They're not my threads.

All I do is point out that the balony is, in fact, balony. Sometimes it takes a while, particularly when the same old nonsense is endlessly recycled ......

We could put a stop to the tiresomeness if people just stopped pasting up the latest denialism from the DM .....

[pjclarke]

Or, whisper it quietly, if someone posted a solidly-referenced scientific basis on which to deny the existence of a cause for concern .....

[EternalOptimist]

This could be framed as a "trolling 101" guide. Align the theory you want to discredit with the holocaust and then draw an 'obvious' link between the two.

EO you strike me as the type who would know the names of these bogus tactics... ad hominem, ad absurdium, etc... which is this one? I know you are anti AGW but no matter which side we're on, letting this kind of bilge go unpunished is intolerable.

maybe. but it's also a parallel argument that he is making.

i.e one is known to have happened, one is feared will happen. why should we treat them in the same way