Methane is a much more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide but it differs in one key way: it degrades over a few decades. In the long run, this difference may not make much difference as a matter of policy, but if what is done to limit emissions is ...
The claim that lprent made was a general one. My point is that however doubtful the ideas that any emeritus professor such as Fred Singer (or anyone else) might promote, it does not follow that all professors emeriti are idiots. For each Singer there is a ...
I stand corrected. My point remains. The fact that two (or five if you included those in the quotation) professors emeriti hold views with which you disagree proves exactly what? You cannot generalize from that to justified scorn for the whole class of ...
So four professors emeriti attract your scorn on the basis that that they hold views outside of their nominal areas of expertise and with which you disagree. On this basis you condemn the whole class?
Don't you love ad hominem arguments? Question-begging is pretty fun too. How about some data on what is wrong with the academic standards of economics departments of this country's universities. But wait, perhaps you just disagree with them!
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