# Do global warming "skeptics" honestly see us as a benign species? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [January 5, 2014, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-global-warming-skeptics-honestly-see-us-as-a-benign-species/677984 "2014-01-05T23:18:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 499
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2014, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-global-warming-skeptics-honestly-see-us-as-a-benign-species/677984/499 "2014-02-16T16:15:44Z")
> [@watchwolf49](#): > > Thank you, **Gigo** , for answering my second question, what is your answer to my first please? I already did, doing a good thing is ok and there is no hate coming for that, but it is relatively useless when conservatives help elect deniers to congress. > [@watchwolf49](#): > > Looks like Phoenix get’s [over 60% of it’s electric power](http://www.aps.com/en/ourcompany/generationtransmission/generation/Pages/home.aspx) from fossil fuels. Over half Arizona’s Congressional Delegation is Republican. I think you go to far accusing me of voting for the nasty, anti-EPA, kill-the-trees Democrat Sen. Ron Wyden … then hold up that Flake as a model of Green Liberty. Timelines are always a problem for conservatives it seems, the trend is to precisely change that percentage, once again you are pressing on the problem, not the ongoing efforts to solve it. > [@watchwolf49](#): > > “Everything is connected to everything else” … this is true for Ecology, and mostly true for Climatology. Your fallacy is picking just one component and saying it’s the only thing that matters, and without really understanding why that could be. Of course you’re entitled to your opinion, but I don’t think your entitled to spam every climate discussion. We all know what you think, give everyone else a chance to say what they think. Wrong, this is not what I think, as usual I defer to the experts, and when even experts that have been called to congress by the Republicans like Pat Michaels can not deny the basics it is then really silly to claim it is just what I think, it is much more than that, research evidence and the experts agree that we have to control our emissions, I still remember how even lukewarmers linked to scientific papers that showed that the climate sensibility was in reality a low one for CO2, but the author concluded that we could only expect the low end of the predicted warming is we controlled out emissions ASAP. > [@watchwolf49](#): > > Maybe read a textbook … Sure, the text book group FX linked to has textbooks that also advises students to check the IPCC for more information, I have to insist that almost all experts in the sciences, academia and the ones that for a living check for what it is pseudoscience or not agree that we have to control our emissions. We have to prevent even more warming than what is established will more likely come as a result of dumping CO2 and other global warming gases in the atmosphere. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-global-warming-skeptics-honestly-see-us-as-a-benign-species/677984)._