If we keep using words like

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A: We should never forget that there is no "consensus" in science. Science just deals with facts. We don't have enough knowledge how the climate works, so researchers take guesses to fill in the missing information. If 50.1% of the people they ask say their guesses are plausible, then a consensus is formed. It's political, not science. Denialism is a negative phrase used when one doesn't have the intellectual heft to win an argument. When this happens, the other person results to name calling.

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