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Points made by Ivar Giaever at a 2010 speech https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXxHfb66ZgM ____________________________________________________________________ global warming sites: http://planetsave.com/2010/08/13/119-one-liners-to-respond-to-climate-science-myths/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evOy3e4tNQU&feature=youtu.be&t=16m58s http://www.skepticalscience.com/argument.php __________________________________________________________________ notes and paraphrazing: *"Global Warming has become a new religion" because you can't discuss it. [Reply: what about whether there was a holocaust? or whether sex with children should be a crime? These "can't be discussed" either.  Is it because belief that there was a holocaust and molesting children is evil is a "religion"?  or that appeals to "an open mind" on some issues are just  too creepy?  When fossil fuel industry billionaires are spending money to influence th...

2010 Giaever speech, "Global Warming is Pseudoscience"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXxHfb66ZgM&feature=youtu.be Nobel Laureate in Physics; "Global Warming is Pseudoscience" Ivar Giaever speaking at 2010 meeting of Nobel Laureates. (before a large denier crowd who laugh appreciatively at his witty remarks.) 32:21 notes and paraphrazing: "Horrified by what I learned about global warming", made him famous. "Global Warming has become a new religion" because you can't discuss it. [COMMENT: what about whether there was a holocaust? or whether sex with children should be a crime? are they "religions"? or are some things just  too creepy to be talked about with an open mind? When fossil fuel industry billionaries are spending money to influence the political discussion and succeeding, scientists get touchy.p] Pathological science, fradulent science, junk science, pseudoscience (where you only look for things that confirm the hypothesus) *Average temperature of the earth increased 0.8 de...