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Some great posting!

However, it is unlikely that the links will ever be read. I am one to post the text of the links. It's clear that what I have posted has not been read. There is no conversation whatsoever, just a series of instructions: 'you should check out this or that'. (I do think Pixel is using SkS as a source for his talking points, oddly enough. Some of his posts are word-for-word from the Skeptical Science site. It's a game.) There is never any elucidation of the science he seems to feel is lacking - by him. How about he supplies the links - why all the instructions? Very strange. It's actually kind of creepy when you really think about it - for in the course of someone's day, out in the world doing business, the time is taken to text a one-liner that is often venemous. What kind of person is that? What kind of life can tolerate that kind of toxic excess in acidic drops? Cannot be happy. I worry for him and those in his world.

It has to be clear what is going on with Pixel. I have watched him do the exact same thing to other posters time and time again. He has never been able to hold his own in any science debate - it's usually a series of ad hominem, baiting tactics - you've seen the sum of his efforts. In fact, I have not really been in conversation with him but he can't figure that out. Generous posters such as you and Muadib (and others) have given him the time of day on this and other Global Warming threads. The best that has come out of it are the great posts that everyone can read.

Burnt, you have given an outstanding rebuttal. 'Nuf said, but it's really a waste of time. I have found that the denier world is an Alice-In-Wonderland experience and a genuine waste of time. There are people throwing out what amounts to 'intellectual trash'. There exists an intellectual equivalent of the Pacific Gyre extant on the internet regarding Climate Change science. It's also wound up with the most despicable racism and  unfounded, personal assaults on people - it's really ugly. (Pixel has illustrated this, sadly). Those speaking the science have a lot to contend with on a personal level - it shouldn't be happening 'in this day and age'. This is all the denialist camp can appeal to however, because the denialist position cannot stand on any science - so the appeal is to demagoguery (emotionalism and prejudice).  It should be so clear. Sad situation.