Quote:Why do some people deny AGW?
There are many and varied reasons why some people deny AGW. Even on this forum the reasons are varied.
There are people like the Mechanic. He has no idea about science but rejects AGW on purely political ideological grounds. Right wing conservative commentators tell him to deny AGW, so he does. I would suspect the vast majority of the deniers would fall into this category.
Then there are people like Ajax. He is a conspiracy theorist who believes the moon landings were faked and the new world order is taking over. The AGW "conspiracy" just forms part of that paranoid narrative.
Then you get people like lee.
Of his 8000 posts I would estimate that 99% are anti AGW. Usually within half an hour he will respond to any AGW post with a rebuttal. The rare non AGW posts he makes are brief and lame. Clearly the sole reason he is on this forum is to counter AGW posts.
lee's posts suggest that he does have an understanding of science, but he uses that knowledge to deliberately, deceive, cherry pick, obfuscate and confuse. He has been caught many times flip-flopping to suit his position.
Clearly there can only be 2 reasons why lee denies AGW.
1) he is a paid shill to monitor internet forums and make AGW denying posts
2) he is a troll who enjoys wasting the time of genuine debaters.
+1 on this. Lee knows enough about science to bullshit idiots. personally i'm leaning towards a professional, trolls usually spread their trolling around, Lee is extremely focused.