draft
Another
letter to my friend Bob who has tried to argue that since Trump has
“forgiven” some people he previously attacked, that he is
suitable to be President of the United States.
Bob
A
climate denier will say that the climate is not warming, see
Antarctica is gaining ice mass for 3 years in a row.
But
we are not discussing whether or not there was a temporary increase
in ice mass in Antarctica (if there actually was, or whether that was
an anomaly of an imperfect measuring system due to budget
limitations on earth science), we are discussing whether or not the
hundreds of indices we have, combined with climate theory that makes
certain predictions about a very complicated and imperfectly
understood topic, global climate, tells us that our release of carbon
into the world is or should affect climate, and yes, the evidence
says that it does.
This
is a well known debating technique when one does not want to
acknowledge that the other side has all the evidence and you are
grasping at straws. So while I do appreciate the compliment I am not
all that interested in wasting my time.
Trump
has been a bully in public, often via Twitter literally hundreds of
times since I have been watching, less than a year. If you pay me, I
will be happy to count the number of times, usually an ad hominem or
a direct and unambiguous lie.
I
thought I was discussing with friends whether or not Trump was in any
way a suitable person to be president of the United States.
To
save you some time, I have enclosed a list of phony and fallacious
debating techniques for you to use in the future.
But
if you would do me a favor, please avoid using them with me. I am a
little busy and I dont respect the arguments so its a waste of both
our time.
Sincerely,
MW
Global
Wahrman
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