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(emphasis mine) I'm not sure how you can reconcile that bolded part with your persistent haranguing of "leftists" and "progressives".

The "Greatest Generation" whittled that debt to GDP ratio down to 31.70 percent in 1974, and has since ballooned to well over 100 under the care and control of the 'boomers. Household debt in America grew from essentially nothing around 1950 and remained around 50% through to the seventies...

Pardon me, but somehow I don't think Millenials who are fed up with neoliberal economics, neoconservative foreign policy and politics beholden to both are on some greasy slope to genocide. Colour me crazy.

Hands up from anyone who thinks Millenials don't already know this, and have known this for years now? And yet we have hundreds of thousands of third world villagers on temporary work visas to fill alleged labour shortages, also something very well known by those whiny, unpatriotic Millenials.

As an Air Cadet and Army reservist in my teens I've always been at least accommodating to the idea of military service, but I've never considered it much of a calling. In the intervening decades I never really gave the opportunity much thought.  But after having lived overseas for most of that...

You're like the chiral version of Walter Sobchak, where instead of everything being about the tragedy of the war in Vietnam everything is instead about the dangers of leftists, progressives and socialists. Which I still find rather funny considering Western militaries are some of the most...

Good point, which as the article spells out explains why Millenials think less of Canada (and globalism in general). It's because they are increasingly worried with good reason that they cannot expect to be as well relaxed nor perhaps even as well fed as older generations.

Which is all well and good for you, but none of which detracts from the points that I've raised here: If most or all climate scientists are indeed corrupted by the "demands and expectations" of their employers, from whence is our scientific skepticism? If most climate scientists are so venal...

Demands and expectations?  I'm genuinely curious, since it's seemingly so obvious where is it explicitly written that governments want to prove AGW exists? What vested interest in government am I apparently completely overlooking does this satisfy? By the way, here's the actual paper that your...

In any debate involving science if the writing is not peer-reviewed I don't tend to give it much of my attention: Too much time and effort to cut through the biases, editorializing, agendas and rhetoric for too little in return. If the numbers provided by daftandbarmy and Oldgateboatdriver are...

What's not to get? The scientific world is not a monolithic entity. There is no licensing, no process of disbarring.  There is just credibility founded on reason and objective or empirical measurement.  Credibility is earned, not bought.  Hence "tobacco scientists" and as far as I'm concerned...

I don't get your point.  Are you suggesting that most or all scientists concerned about AGW are attending these supposedly recurring conferences?  Or are you suggesting that when their chosen representatives use air travel it is indication of indifference to emissions and possibly hypocrisy? ...

As I said, either rationalism and objectivity are paramount concerns of scientists or they are not. If they are not, it would be expected that most or all scientists and scientific bodies would readily prostitute themselves out to the highest bidder. The highest bidder in this debate are those...

"Good science" incorporates relevant new information as necessary. This isn't chemistry or biology, we aren't talking about a branch of scientific inquiry that is entirely reproducible and falsifiable.  So unless the new information renders the old hypothesis entirely untenable it is expected...

Lies and mistakes get outted eventually as a matter of principle in the scientific world. No other institution in the debate surrounding climate change can claim that. No one is suggesting that the process to fulfilling that principle is flawless or efficient, but either you believe that...