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What you are really saying is that it helps to speculate about the motivations and inner workings of someone else. But it doesn't. What good does it do to suggest that someone is motivated by something other than what they say they are? The only thing it lets you do is to dismiss and explain...

That would be to question a persons integrity and sincerity though. Is there any good reason to do that, beyond the fact that their opinion is different? I always think it's better to not make assumptions about peoples motives, and infact, assume everyone to be sincere. Not everyone will be...

The world was flat by scientific consensus, remember. & Just like with this debate today, to suggest otherwise could get you in a lot of trouble, just ask Galileo.

Well projecting motives on people will get you nowhere, and the truth is that you do it to make it easier to dismiss what that person is saying. You didn't respond to what he said, you called it drivel and went on to talk about your own view. I can't actually deal with the arrogance in your...

This is the honest position people should take. Environmentalists have embraced the "precautionary principle", which means we don't know for sure, but it may be too late when we do, so we have to act - despite not knowing for sure. Whether or not people would agree with that, it's the honest...

What you are doing is attacking the character of the poster, rather than addressing what he said. I sympathise strongly with people who believe we should protect the environment, I believe that as much as anyone. But you cannot influence other people or bring them around to your thinking by...

The climate of this planet has changed throughout history, it's been much colder and much warmer than it is today. When you look at global temperature trends those trends express themselves over hundreds and thousands of years. If we want to be able to say whether or not human activity is...