I'm not hateful, though I will cop to being a name-caller. It wasn't a dirty name, though.
In any case you have provided exactly one citation in your history of this discussion, at least I can find only one. It was an opinion piece by Tim Ball in the CFP. I am very familiar with Dr. Ball. He is infamous as a quack and a scientific "gun for hire" in meteorological circles. He quit his job as a professor of meteorology to work for the American National Center for Public Policy Research, which is a conservative front group which will support any initiative their financial backers want them to. In other words HE IS PAID TO HAVE THAT OPINION. Later he left to work at Friends of Science, which is an oil industry front group. Currently, he's heading up Natural Resources Stewardship Project, ANOTHER oil industry front group.
In any case, all of that, while it should give you pause in quoting him just because his opinion supports your preconceived notion, doesn't matter in the fact of this:
If Dr. Ball really wanted to get the scientific world's attention, he'd do research and submit a peer-reviewed study to a scientific journal for publication. That's how it works. But that's not what Ball does. He goes around writing opinion pieces denying climate change, pieces carefully crafted to provide easily digestible soundbites to media outlets.
In any case I don't hate you, Warlock, though I do think you and people like you are harmful, dangerous doofuses. I hate your opinion, though. Twenty years from now there will be zero question on this issue, and the only people still denying it will be looked at the same way flat-earthers or Geocentrists are today. But by then it's going to be too late for a lot of species, including, maybe, mankind.
