Reply To: Bill Gates

[Viking Coder]

Are you even trying, or is a press release from an oil company funded, directly (ExxonMobil) & indirectly through foundations such as the Scaife Foundations (Gulf Oil Corporation), think tank the best you can find?

Scientific rebuttal is valid regardless of the source, so I was going to give it a read-though. However, I didn’t make it past the second paragraph of the summary before encountering blatant sophistry that denied scientific research & compared it to New York Times headlines from the early 20th century.

The entire composition is a piece of sophistry in that it compares social science forecasting, e.g. “How many babies will be born in Pittsburgh, PA in each of the next five years?” or “Will a 3.5% pay offer avert the threatened strike?”, to climate sensitivity projections based on independently, repeatedly validated scientific research.

When you can’t refute the science of a matter, create a strawman & thrash it.