I am currently reading True Enough: Learning to Live in a Post-Fact Society by Farhad Manjoo. It is a book that will interest the curious debate student. I ran across this statement, and I thought it would be useful when debating nuclear energy and climate issues in October.
Manjoo in 2008,
Farhad Manjoo. [Author and Staff Writer for Salon.com]. True Enough: Learning to Live in a Post-Fact Society. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2008. p. 23.
Every major American scientific body that has studied the world’s climate has concluded that the planet is heating up due to human activity. In 2004, Naomi Oreskes, a researcher at the University of California, San Diego, surveyed the 928 studies concerned with climate change that were published in peer-reviewed scientific journals between 1993 and 2003. Not a single one, she found, disagreed with the consensus view about global warming.
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That’s mentioned in Gore’s documentary.
yeah, but we can still debate it. Ask Kline!
Its so dumb to run “global warming false” for this topic.
AT all.
A number of people believe that warming is occurring, but deny that humans are the cause.
Know thy judging pool.
This is very true - but to make a carded, legit argument against anthropocentric global warming would take your entire Rebuttal.
You’d have ZERO ref time for anything else - if they made a legit argument and you read more than a card against it - and frankly, no paradigms are posted. You could waste your entire rebuttal pissing off the judge, AND not refuting arguments. Its not possible to know thy judging pool.
The majority of the population accepts global warming as existant, and mildly fewer all accept it as anthropocentric. I don’t think there’s benefits to be gotten at all.