Thursday, February 14, 2008 . 2/14/2008

It's really, really annoying talking to a person who denies [insert something scientifically proven here] no matter what evidence you put forward. Not like I haven't already said this a million times before, but in this case it's my dad with human-caused global warming. It's not like he denies global warming is happening, he says it is, but for some reason he still thinks scientists are payed to say it is human-caused. Now I'm not saying I'm smarter than him because in all likelihood I'm not, but when it comes to this I think a lot of people can be fooled by articles like say, on the internet that appear to be legit and scientifically based when in fact they're not. But the thing is he has access to evidence that it's human caused, and to articles that debunk the pseudoscientists. I've showed him one of these but all he said was "well people can say whatever stuff they want about other people". Nice reasoning skills, dad. To be fair though, he was in a hurry to be somewhere so only skimmed it but refused to actually read it later when I asked if he'd like to.

One thing I wanted to bring up here is that he goes on some forum, and recently he posted something like "my daughter gave me this link, what do you guys think of it?" (it was a link directing to questions and common myths about global warming, with evidence it is human caused). One of his online friends, I guess you could say, replied with nothing but insults directed towards the scientists and said something along the lines of "ROTFL, they have to put things point by point now, that just shows how desperate these people are". The first thing that comes to my mind is, well duh. If someone thick-skulled like yourself still doesn't see that human caused global warming is a non-disputed scientific fact, then that is exactly what you need: a point-by-point education on it. I also remember that in his post he asked "since when is it 'unscientific' to be skeptic on something?" Dude, the purpose of skepticism is to question things that have no evidence (that you know of). You are obviously on the internet, a place where you can find tons of evidence for the current global warming, and calling yourself "skeptic" is a cop-out. It is denial, pure and simple.

I'd also like to point out that no one on that whole global warming thread, save for maybe one person, disagrees with each other so I'm guessing all they do is sit around giving each other asspats while they make fun of "those silly scientists that don't know anything".

Despite all this I still love my dad, don't get me wrong. He's just kinda annoying to me sometimes.

Labels: Denialism, Global Warming, Personal

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