Is Global Warming a Hoax?

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The hot cognition portion is very good.

A point I would like to make is that the presenter does the very thing he attributes to others yet doesn't realize it. That thing is presenting the scientific opinion on something but then saying that means something else is true. The example is he says the science shows global warming is happening, but then he assumes the effects of global warming are bad and that we need to do something about it. Somebody on the opposite side can more readily see this, but it is unlikely he or those who agree with him will readily see it.

Agreed. He's making an argument about how we need to be rational but presenting it in an emotional way. It seems pretty common among these internet stars and why I tend to wince when I see guys like him, The Young Turks, etc..

The left tends to like science that backs them up while calling the right anti-science, yet the right does the same thing and likes science on certain issues while claiming the left is anti-science. When I was on the left, I thought it was all one-sided because I had no idea what parts of the left are anti-science like I do today. Implicit in this video is that certain categories of people are better at being rational about science than others. I don't think that's the case. We're all very irrational, yet very great at pointing out the irrationality of others yet not of ourselves.

What parts of the right do you think are more pro-science than the left?

Implicit in this video is that certain categories of people are better at being rational about science than others. I don't think that's the case. We're all very irrational, yet very great at pointing out the irrationality of others yet not of ourselves.

There's some truth in that, but I don't think it's the whole story. Some people just aren't good at logic, and logical arguments they're unable to grasp have no influence on them. And those people tend to reveal themselves by resorting to ad hominen or other types of fail.