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Sure, I can find plenty more "experts" who disdain climate change.  He's entitled to his opinion, but he's a geologist, his opinion is no more expert than my own (and I have looked at the Moon often).

(Incidentally, my own opinion is not at all in march step with the IPCC.)

He’s a PhD from Harvard. He may not be an expert in climatology, but I’d say he knows a lot of things. I’m not saying the man is  right, but he’s not the only one. 

I’ve stated it before on here, but I’ll reiterate. I used to work in a olefins plant. We burned more hydrocarbons in one hour, possibly in one minute, than I will burn in my entire life. Hell, I’d bet we burned more in one furnace ( we had 10) than I may burn in my entire life. Now I know it’s additive, and millions of people have an effect. But when I think about my own emissions it’s like the literal drop in the ocean.

I can find you some expert opinions that you will tell you a man can dress up as a woman and cut off their man parts and they're a woman.  So flame me all you want, but I think I'll vet my experts by a different criteria. 

Eh. I kinda take the Thomas Jefferson approach on this one. To paraphrase: "It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are 57 genders or 2 genders. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg."

I know what gender I am. I really don't care what genders most of the rest of humanity are or claim to be.  

If Samuel is serious enough about his gender dysphoria to undergo transition, HRT, dress like a woman and tell me to call her Samantha, I'm gonna be respectful and call her Samantha. Only a jerk would argue with her. 

He’s a PhD from Harvard. He may not be an expert in climatology, but I’d say he knows a lot of things. I’m not saying the man is  right, but he’s not the only one.

The "problem" in my opinion is that usually lay people form an opinion FIRST and then seek confirmation of said opinion, which is not hard to find.  His opinion is no more of value to me than the thousands of climatologists who say otherwise, nor is their collective opinion determinative for me personally.  I do read summaries of what "they" profess is true.  I give it some weight.  I also listen to "climate deniers" who appear to have a rational and "expert" opinion on the topic, and folks kind of in the middle like Judith Curry.  And I have tried to read primary literature on the topic.  Try being the operative term.

It's easy, and facile, to simply point to whoever agrees with what you've already decided.  It's MUCH tougher to read all legit points of view and some literature and come to some kind of probably murky opinion.

Your right. It’s mostly coming from the media, both from the pro and anti crowds. The louder one group shouts, the louder the other group shouts back. I’m tired of all of it. 

If you effectively "turn off the news" in some sense, life goes on a lot better often as not.    

Exactly. If you don't like "the media", turn it off. 

Exactly. If you don't like "the media", turn it off.

But then he can't gripe about it.
Claim he doesn't care one way or the other, but then lets the extremes on both ends irritate him to no end.
Some people who bitch about their arm itching need to stop rubbing themselves with poison ivy.