there are many issues where the liberals are likely saying that specific scenarios are more likely than the IPCC assumes.
Could be. As I've said elsewhere in the thread, I think the relevant question is not "is there misinformation on both sides?" (the answer to that is likely to be yes on almost any question) but "how do the quantity and severity of misinformation differ between sides?". My impression is that it's not at all symmetrical, but of course I might think that even if it were (it's much easier to spot misinformation when you disagree strongly with it). Do you know of any nonpartisan studies of this?
There was a letter by Nobel Laureates that suggested the probability of global warming is in the same class as evolution.
Given the probability I have in my mind for evolution, that's off more orders of magnitude from the IPCC number than the positions of global warming skeptics.
Do you know of any nonpartisan studies of this?
Who would have to fund a study like this to be nonparitsan?
My impression is that it's not at all symmetrical, but of course I might think that even if it were
How do you make that judgment? Did you read the IPCC report to have t...
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