Richard94611 wrote:
So without knowing any of the curcumstances, you condemn college courses. Ignoramus you ! I will tell you something: the reason you see colleges as being predominantly liberal (with the definite exception of religious colleges) is because liberals are a hell of a lot more tuned into facts, and you conservatives find facts a nuisance that impedes your backward thinking.. FACTS, Larasi, facts. Something heavily into facts that doesn't accept your fantasies you then call "Liberal."
Just when I was beginning to believe you aren't a crackpot liberal you go and say some things that could be interpreted this way, "...liberals are...a lot more turned into facts and you conservatives find facts a nuisance that impedes you backward thinking..." This is the sort of thing someone with imprecise thinking would say. How can it impede backward thinking? I think you probably meant to say it "promotes or advances" backward thinking.
Liberals can never adequately argue an issue because they are driven by emotion and have to resort to virtue signaling, implying that they are smarter than everyone and the rest of us don't know what we are talking about, "I think that taking several college-level courses on aspects of the subject, as I have, makes me enormously more qualified to evaluate the data than you are. And I don’t have your bias." You are right you don't have our bias. Yours are much worst and are the elitist kind that thumbs your nose at everyone else because you think they are inferior to your superior intellect.
Make no mistake about it, you think conservatives are inferior. Do you even know a real conservative? You probably never met one teaching at your university where you were so well indoctrinated into liberalism. So you think you've taken more courses and that makes you eminently more qualified to speak about the subject. Another elitist assumption on your part. I not a doctor but I can tell when I'm sick. I'm not an accountant but I can balance my checkbook and file my own tax return. I'm not an auto mechanic but I can fix my car. Maybe not as efficiently, but the work is as effective. An expert is someone who knows more and more about less and less.
How do you know you've taken more courses on the subject? Many of the scientists who question the science of global warming have studied and researched this topic in much more detail than you have with your " a few more classes" than the hoi polloi you disdain with such contempt.
Here's an example of something you said, "By the way, the arctic is melting at a rate previously unheard of. The amount of ice in the Arctic Ocean is rapidly diminishing." So what?
Ice in the Arctic Ocean that is melting will not raise the sea level one drop higher, even if every bit of ice in the Arctic Ocean melted! I want to see if you can explain to me in your own words why you believe the previous statement is true or is not true in your view. You said, "You would prefer to have Miami and a lot of other cities just sink beneath the waves?" No one wants that to happen. Well, maybe the Greenies do so that they can stand and announce, "See, we told you so!" That would make them ecstatic.
At the beginning of this thread, I gave you several links that are easy to understand, even for someone with your intelligence. I'll bet you never looked at any of them or if you looked at one you discounted the rest as more propaganda because it doesn't support your conclusion. Why don't you go back and read, with an open mind, all the previous threads posted on OPP about global warming, which has been discussed ad infinitum? Then come back and rebuke some of the arguments presented. So far, all you have done is to bully anyone who disagrees with your thesis. You have not presented any evidence to show this is what is happening.