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There is the total delusional faction that claims there is no warming -- the "warming hiatus that the liberal media won't talk about" blah blah blah. "The temperature measurements are skewed by the urban heat island effect", blah blah, whatever they find on the Internets and the webs. Sea level isn't rising because if you put ice cubes in a glass of water, the water level doesn't rise as the ice melts, blah blah.
For an example of this level of idiocy, there's an entertaining little dialog with Donna and Richard that I've posted here before https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1059&pid=7016
Most climate denial idiots do acknowledge warming is happening, but then argue that it's not human - caused but rather by increased solar activity or something else.
(Please see https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1059&pid=7017 for a short 6 minute video and "transcript" for some of the evidence that the warming is human-caused)
Then there is a third faction, who posted here in E&E a few days ago that says, yes, warming is happening and it's mostly human-caused. But but we've had lots of climate changes in the past thousands of years, it's more common than most of us were taught in school, some species do better and some worse, and blah blah, and besides it may be more good than harmful etc. etc.
Lots of excuses to go buy our Ford F150 Super Cab trucks (and never use them to haul anything except a bunch of junk that's stored in/on them year round, hurting gas mileage some more, but it makes us feel like a "real man" ), or running our air conditioners when it's one degree above perfect.
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