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  1. The error in this thinking is many people vote on the basis of more than one issue. There are those who might agree that the climate issue is like women’s rights issue and would therefore agree with the approach being suggested to help Trump win. I think you will need more than this to overcome the negative aspects off a Trump administration identified in Woodword’s book “Rage”.

    1. Dear Neil,
      Every issue is one issue. Your “negative aspects” is one issue. No one decides how to vote based on one issue.

      Here’s how I think of the climate issue in the election. Each side has locked in about 45 percent of the vote. Those most concerned about the “negative aspects” will vote for Biden. The remaining 10 percent will decide the election.

      Who are these remaining 10 percent? Obviously, they are on the fence and not concerned about the “negative aspects.”

      Polling data show climate is a key issue in this election. Since 2016, about 20 percent of Republicans decided the government should stop human CO2 emissions to save the planet. These are some of the undecideds or leaning to vote Democrat.

      Those are the people I think will change their vote to Trump if we can show them that our CO2 is not causing the climate change the Democrats are claiming we do.

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  3. “Anyone who tries to be his own lawyer has a fool for a client.”
    “Anyone who tries to be his own climate debate expert has a fool for an expert.”
    Anyone who has not studied how to win a climate debate will end up trapped.

    It’s arguable, but it is basically all bullshit, as the following correction will easily demonstrate:
    “Anyone who *chooses* to be his own lawyer *arguably* has a fool for a client”.
    Anyone that is too dim and cowardly to challenge lawyer is a arguably a fool of a client.

    Richard Feinman once said, apparently: “Science is belief in the ignorance of experts”.
    …he *nearly got it right: “Science..” is actually “…*ignorance* of the *beliefs* of experts”.
    Experts are good at findings (when they are not “cooking” them to suit themselves) but are lousy at conclusions.
    …and anyone who has no appetite for getting details like these right is a fool in any event.

    The fundamental problem, of course, is that with all knowledge comes bias, and for many experts with more knowledge comes more bias:
    “The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion (either as being the received opinion or as being agreeable to itself) draws all things else to support and agree with it. And though there be a greater number and weight of instances to be found on the other side, yet these it either neglects and despises, or else by some distinction sets aside and rejects, in order that by this great and pernicious predetermination the authority of its former conclusions may remain inviolate.”

    I appreciate the expertise of lawyers, teachers, scientists like yourself, and even the pseudo-scientists of the IPCC; but favour my intellect over their biases any day; and if I’m right, you would not want us any other way.

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