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He's catering to an obvious audience by skip 05/20/2017, 4:32pm PDT
instead of reality wrote:

blackwater wrote:

There are a lot of bad effects from global warming
Which the author of Dilbert does not deny this likelyhood.

It's not about economic issues, as you stated, but confidence in [economic-style] models. Great at showing us a trend of the the past, but not necessarily useful at being predictive (Hence the ever present digs at Mr. Silver). Of course, this does not negate anthropogenic climate impact. I didn't claim that, neither did Dilbert, nor Scott Adams.


People like Adams get off on the "implication." He's never said that he endorses climate change and wrote a strip for denialists. Look, if someone keeps giving evidence of what they think, everyone else is allowed to fill in the obvious gaps.

Adams: Evolution uses economic models, which have never been right.
Everyone else: Intelligent design and creationism have more problems. Are you saying you don't believe in evolution?
Adams: I DIDN'T SPECIFICALLY SAY THAT! LOL COGNITIVE DISSONANCE
Everyone: So you do believe in evolution? We have good evidence like the fossil record.
Adams:
If you are new to the Dilbert Blog, I remind you that I don’t believe in Intelligent Design or Creationism or invisible friends of any sort. I just think that evolution looks like a blend of science and bullshit, and have predicted for years that it would be revised in scientific terms in my lifetime. It’s a hunch – nothing more.

The bottom line is that DNA tests (which do not set off my bullshit detector) have shown that you can’t really tell what set of bones begat other sets of bones just by looking at how they differed and how old they are. Apparently evolution is more complex than imagined, and there were lots of ape-people varieties wandering around at the same time. Some had modern features that they weren’t supposed to have. The so-called modern features apparently popped up and disappeared more than once, and in more than one species.

My bullshit filter accepts this new information. I was having a hard time with the idea that some goober in tan pants would dig up a bone fragment in Africa and know it was his own (great X 1,000) grandmother. It just didn’t feel right. And now we know, assuming the DNA evidence is solid, that the guy in the tan pants was full of shit. All that the fossils show is that there used to be ape-people who are not us.


Ape-men. Archeologists who think neanderthal fossils are their grandma. Do you really want to die on this hill, dude?
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Dilbert explains climate science denialism by blackwater 05/16/2017, 11:32am PDT NEW
    This is photoshopped right by Rey Mysterio Jr. 05/16/2017, 12:14pm PDT NEW
    If we evolved from monkeys, why are there still monkeys? NT by Dilbert 05/16/2017, 1:16pm PDT NEW
    I'm just asking questions, dude! All dumbasses hide behind that. NT by skip 05/16/2017, 2:10pm PDT NEW
    Dilbert expresses criticism of econ models by Nate "2%" Silver 05/16/2017, 9:49pm PDT NEW
        There are a lot of bad effects from global warming besides economic issues by blackwater 05/16/2017, 10:27pm PDT NEW
            Methane Hydrate is like Red Mercury, Peak Oil, and John Titor threads by GARY JOHNSON 2016 05/17/2017, 8:17am PDT NEW
            Found arguing with your own assumptions by instead of reality 05/18/2017, 12:07am PDT NEW
                "We put that data into dozens of climate models and ignore the ones that look NT by wrong to us" 05/18/2017, 6:00am PDT NEW
                He's catering to an obvious audience by skip 05/20/2017, 4:32pm PDT NEW
                    Guess I've been PERSUADED, KID by Ape-Man 05/20/2017, 7:59pm PDT NEW
                    He's an evolution denier as well? Nice. by blackwater 05/21/2017, 12:23am PDT NEW
                        At least you can have some respect for someone if it's religious reasons by Worm 05/21/2017, 9:31am PDT NEW
        Why can't we all just respect the people who want lead back in gasoline? NT by Worm 05/17/2017, 4:12am PDT NEW
        The reason Scott Adams is retarded is this: by Mysterio Lollerson 05/17/2017, 8:35pm PDT NEW
            The punchline concerns kneejerks against critcism of models by not impact of CO? increases 05/18/2017, 12:14am PDT NEW
                That isn't correct and you're not worth my time educating. NT by Mysterio Lollerson 05/18/2017, 10:39am PDT NEW
                    Come on, guys. Surely Scott Adams has earned the benefit of the doubt. NT by lol no 05/18/2017, 10:50am PDT NEW
                        Re: Come on, guys. Surely Scott Adams has earned the benefit of the doubt. by Mysterioso 05/18/2017, 1:10pm PDT NEW
                            Tristan Farnons parodies were better by Rey Mysterio Jr. 05/18/2017, 2:11pm PDT NEW
                                Dilbert is our generation's Beetle Bailey. Working in an office is NT by our generation's Vietnam. 05/19/2017, 10:45am PDT NEW
                                    Diblert is our parents generation's xkcd NT by new smug same as the old smug 05/19/2017, 11:13am PDT NEW
                                        Your generation's Vietnam is the time you tried to piggyback on my observation NT by and got run through with a bayonet. 05/19/2017, 12:59pm PDT NEW
 
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