Warmist Steve Sherwood: Warmists duck debate now because they already allegedly won the debate at some unspecified time in the past, using arguments like (cough-mumble)

Why experts refuse to debate climate science | The Australian

The scientists who work day in and day out to understand our climate system have debated the great and small ideas for decades. They've debated in journals, at conferences, by the water coolers, by email.
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More than 95 per cent of those scientists present at every step of the climate debate for significant portions of their careers agree on at least the basic point that by-products of fossil fuel burning can significantly affect climate.
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But what we are seeing in climate change is that the matters of science continue to be questioned in "debates" long after the climate change trial has ended and the verdict reached. Scientists find themselves in the absurd situation where commentators and politicians are calling on Australians to discard the scientific consensus and decide between mainstream and contrarian views through 10-minute public debates and sound bites.
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Steve Sherwood is co-director of the University of NSW's Climate Change Research Centre and a chief investigator in the Australian Research Council's Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science.