Reply #5: Well pronukes - all of whom have scientific training - find it rather annoying [View All]

that a topic as important as Energy and Environment is open so many people whose most sophisticated response to important issues consist of internet giggly smileys.

In general the number of giggles so posted are most commonly found with the highest distribution among those who, having never opened a science book in their lives, do not now how to frame a scientific question, respond to one, or perform even the simplest task in analysis.

When they're not posting giggles, they're posting stuff put in the news by reporters who approach their own level of confusion, or else repeating verbatim some marketing hype they've heard on some advertising show or seen on some advertising writing.

I can't say I enjoy these people exactly - and in fact I hold them more or less responsible for the 390 ppm we're at right now with dangerous fossil fuel waste.

But it is probably a good thing that they do things like come to the internet to display their puerile obliviousness so that it can be exposed for what it is.

It is not fine to accept ignorance or tolerate. Ignorance must be shown for what it is, because ignorance is not neutral, not benign. On the contrary, ignorance kills.