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en-us-n This user is a native speaker of American English.
 
This user spent 2 years in Purgatory.
This user is a former 2 percenter of Texas A&M University. Gig 'Em, Aggies!
  This user comes from the United States of America.
  This user hates all haters. Don't hate or I'll hate you!
  This user tries his best to abide by the NPOV policy.
  This user believes that meat is tasty and is a Carnivegan.
  This user is a Hospitalist, trained in Internal medicine and a D.O. .
Ironically, this user is a skeptic and thinks all of Medicine should be evidence-based.
Contemporary climate change involves rising global temperatures and significant shifts in Earth's weather patterns. Climate change is driven by emissions of heat-trapping greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane. Emissions come mostly from burning fossil fuels (coal, oil and natural gas), and also from agriculture, forest loss, cement production and steel making. Climate change causes sea level rise, glacial retreat and desertification, and intensifies heat waves, wildfires and tropical cyclones. These effects of climate change endanger food security, freshwater access and global health. Climate change can be limited by using low-carbon energy sources such as wind and solar energy, by forestation, and shifts in agriculture. Adaptations such as coastline protection cannot by themselves avert the risk of severe, pervasive and irreversible impacts. Limiting global warming in line with the goals of the 2015 Paris Agreement requires reaching net-zero emissions by 2050. This animation, produced by NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio with data from the Goddard Institute for Space Studies, shows global surface temperature anomalies from 1880 to 2023 on a world map, illustrating the rise in global temperatures. Normal temperatures (calculated over the 30-year baseline period 1951–1980) are shown in white, higher-than-normal temperatures in red, and lower-than-normal temperatures in blue. The data are averaged over a running 24-month window.Video credit: NASA; visualized by Mark SubbaRao

Burden of Proof

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In cases where prevailing opinion lies in one direction, people with minority viewpoints inevitably have the burden of proof thrust upon them.

Outlook

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DocJohnny is a Materialist. Materialism stresses the essence of fundamental particles. Everything that exists is purely physical matter and there is no special force that holds life together. You believe that anything can be explained by breaking it up into its pieces. i.e. the big picture can be understood by its smaller elements.

Materialist

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Modernist

94%

Postmodernist

75%

Existentialist

69%

Idealist

44%

Cultural Creative

44%

Romanticist

38%

Fundamentalist

25%

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Political Compass

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Economic Left/Right: -1.63

Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.87

Heh, 10 years later

Economic Left/Right: -4.12

Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.56

And 5 years later

Economic Left/Right: -4.88

Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.54

Politicalcompass.org

Wikipedia

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Raul's Laws of Wikipedia


Barnstars etc

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The Ruben Pseudoscience Barnstar (risks toppling off a drooping flat earth). For heroic defence of reality against those who would impose the pseudoscience of their belief system in - Electroconvulsive therapy.


Not just about ensuring SPOV, NPOV or reverting vandalism, but citing & verifying to defend against trivial, but highly vocal, minority viewpoints who often eloquently argue & post large number of references, most of which are selectively misquoted, do not draw the claimed conclusions or are anecdotal reports rather than null-hypothesis statistically-vetted duplicable-research.