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[Jester]

Truth will out.

Funny, talking to you, one almost becomes convinced that whomever this Truth person is, she shares your politics.

I could try to get through as Pete suggested as a Trojan Horse, then reveal my true opinions once I'm securely tenured after a decade or so of pandering to the liberal forces.

Blah blah blah. Talk is cheap. There are scientists actually working in the field who would love nothing more than to overturn AGW and replace it with their pet theory, be it solar variation, distance from the sun, geological change, whatever else. These theories have not done so well so far, we'll see how they do in the future. If you really think one of those was true, and that *millions* will die (your words) if the AGW crowd gets their way, wouldn't it be a whole lot more than a "waste of time" to devote yourself to saying so? I would feel rather ethically obligated, myself. But then again, hot air is just hot air.

I'm not going to give as much credence to a geologists view on photosynthesis, or a meteorologists viewpoint on sunspots, but I will listen to their point of view.

... and accept it if it fits in with your view that global warming is a hoax, and ignore/reject it if it doesn't. Even your (and Pete's) hypothetical "Trojan Horse" strategy is scientifically bass ackwards: No PhD student or researcher should *ever* start from an idea like "I'm going to prove global warming is a hoax" and then go out and try to do it. You study the literature, examine past data, find new evidence, and then weigh it in light of the new things you've learned to judge the theories. The way you seem to have it figured, you already know the truth, wouldn't learn a damn thing doing an advanced degree, and the only question is if your preconceptions would be accepted by the community. Doesn't that seem kind of... intellectually dishonest, or something? Rather cocky, at least.

Genius shouldn't be limited to an ivory tower credential.

These geniuses are who? And how do you judge that they are the geniuses, and the ones with the "ivory tower" credentials (???) are not? You seem to have taken a lot on yourself, to have penetrated so deeply into a discipline that isn't yours. At least I have the excuse that I'm casting my lot with the majority of climate scientists, scientific organizations, and journals.

-Jester