Originally Posted by Donkey_Left

Complete non sequitur.

I remember once my roommate of a couple years ago (then a member of the RCP) saying that someone should be "put in jail" for saying something like the environment wasn't in danger, or global warming wasn't a problem.

Naturally I lit into him (political tiffs were our modus operandi for the entire semester), for obvious reasons.

However, simply because you disagree with his political perspective on climate change has no bearing whatsoever his scientific expertise and opinion. Hitler's scientists were pretty horrific people, but they knew how to use Zyklon B.