Today I entered the cultural bear pit that is the BBC's Have Your Say and I haven't seen so much bile and drivel punctuated by occasional sense since the debate about whether the mad man in the desert had WMD's.
The subject was climate change, an emotive subject for a Monday morning, and as with such issues such as this and Migration it is those that have the worst uneducated opinions that shout them the loudest
And the problem now with the Internet is that not only do people have opinions they think they have a platform for them without retribution as an example I cite these words of wisdom;
"So-called Man Made Climate Change gives the government the perfect excuse for putting up fuel taxes. To paraphrase Al Gore it's a Convenient Lie."
Or how about;
I suppose that man was responsible for the end of the last iceage.
I did enter the banter and was told I was stupid from somebody with a PhD in physics to which I congratulated them.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-21357520
Stupidity doesn't amaze me anymore what concerns me is that arguments are created in boxes containing 300 letters. No evidence, no data, no facts just playground opinions, I'm right, your wrong.
It amazes me a simple thing like "increased carbon in the atmosphere creates warming of the atmosphere which leads to climate change" can be so difficult to grasp
And all these words will be kept for prosperity. Scary.
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