My price point for LEDs is under $10. You can find them cheap on Amazon and the reviews help make sure you're not getting low-quality bulbs. I've bought some LED floodlights and some LED ceiling fan bulbs for under $10, and they've been great so far.

Not to mention the isotopic ratios of carbon in atmospheric carbon dioxide show that the extra carbon comes from fossil fuels.

I've seen people complain that physicists are making things up to get more grant money, such as people complaining about hypotheses about multiple Higgs bosons or super-symmetry. This is a dangerous trend. If it becomes a popular notion that scientists regularly publish fraudulent results just to get more money, people will stop accepting the results obtained from science and we'll all suffer. I'm certain that some scientists actually do participate in flagrant fraud, but the worst offenders are caught and their reputations are ruined. I think an entire stem cell research lab is going to be closed because of rampant fraud. Funny thing is, I don't see anyone claiming that means all stem cell research is fraudulent.

My argument is simply that the sun has in fact become hotter during its lifetime, contrary to what the post I was replying to stated. Why try to read something more in to what I say?

It hasn't become hotter in recent decades but it has become hotter over the past 600 million years.

Since its birth 4.5 billion years ago, the Sun's luminosity has very gently increased by about 30%.3 This is an inevitable evolution which comes about because, as the billions of years roll by, the Sun is burning up the hydrogen in its core. The helium "ashes" left behind are denser than hydrogen, so the hydrogen/helium mix in the Sun's core is very slowly becoming denser, thus raising the pressure. This causes the nuclear reactions to run a little hotter. The Sun brightens.

I remember back in 1991, Florida was predicted to be under water by now.

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But, but, but... You forgot the one-world gubment ruled by socialist dictator Obamabot!

If you think an intelligent agent is causing changes to DNA, that is absolutely at odds with thinking the changes are random mutations. When I hear people say that some Christians believe that evolution is how God achieves his goals, I always thought that meant that an intelligent designer set the process in motion and went away and let nature run its course. Are you saying that people who say this believe that an intelligent agent is actively changing DNA? If so, how many changes are due to the agent and how many are natural? And how do you tell?

People who disagree because of their worldview are typically at odds with vast amount of evidence that falsifies their beliefs. From the disagreements I've seen, it generally a two-sided issue with evidence firmly coming down on one side, and the other side unwilling to change their beliefs to fit the evidence. In the case of evolution and AGW, the evidence comes down firmly on the side of natural process without intelligence for evolution, and human-produced greenhouse gases causing warming for AGW.

No, ice at both poles has been melting: Antarctic ice is melting and Arctic ice is melting. Sea level is rising mostly because of thermal expansion and also the previously mentioned melting. You can also just look at the instrumental temperature record. You can see the warming and its effects, right?

Why would there be no deniers if researchers almost unanimously agree? Biologists nearly unanimously agree that evolution is caused by random mutations and natural selection, but there are many millions of people that believe an intelligent agent designed all DNA. Never underestimate the power of a person to disagree if agreeing means that they will need to alter their worldview.

I think everyone agrees abortion should be avoided. The people who want to keep/make it legal know that abortions will happen whether they are legal or not. The idea is that if abortion is legal, it will be done in a properly medically supervised way, rather than with a rusty coat hanger in a dark alley. It's not like anyone is cheering, "Yea! Abortions are great!"

So, sure, everyone agrees that the need for abortion should be avoided. Proper education, easily available birth control, and adoptions can go a long way to reducing the need for abortions. I think if there need to be abortions, the morning after pill or something similar is probably the most ethical way to go about it.

Just to be clear, you're talking about making all drugs, prostitution, abortion, and gambling all completely legal, right?

I believe it to be the heat trapped by greenhouse gases released by humans burning fossil fuels. I don't think there are suddenly volcanoes popping up all over Antarctica, Greenland, and the Arctic.

I wonder what's making all that ice melt then.

I see your dissent and consent, and I raise you a lament!