I guess if you ignore all the contributions that aren’t an anonymous conspiracy theory about climate science ignoring more plausible explanations and a simple request to join the discourse and address the people you accuse?
I’ll try and break this down into very simple components:
Your original OP posited that “it appears increasingly popular to deny reason and push emotion above evidence!” and “Dr Cox has been vocal over concerns that people seem to increasingly discount experts and evidence in political debate.”
@Rroff then posted, with evidence, why he thinks the example you gave from Dr. Cox makes the task of having a reasoned evidence-based discussion harder — because statistics can be skewed to make one’s argument stronger by changing the frame of reference.
Note that @Rroff isn’t denying climate change, he isn’t discounting Dr Cox as an expert. He isn’t denying reason, nor is he pushing emotion above evidence.
@Rroff isn’t even discounting the evidence Dr. Cox presents in the video. All he is saying is that it doesn’t paint the full picture and because of this, it doesn’t help when one is trying to have a reasoned evidence-based discussion.
My motive for refuting such nonsense is far from ulterior its the point of starting this thread!
Here’s the thing — @Rroff’s post isn’t nonsense, he makes a very valid point and wasting time trying to refute it detracts from the original debate we all thought you wanted to have.
If you had responded with “that’s an interesting point, let’s explore how that pertains to the questions in my OP” we could have all continued with this valid and relevant discussion.
Instead, you’ve turned into a dog-with-a-bone, getting more and more worked up about how @Rroff should put his views directly to Dr. Cox's Facebook page.
That doesn’t achieve anything within the context of this thread, and ironically it comes across as emotive rather than reasoned.
Can’t you see that by getting your knickers in a twist about this single point, the whole thread has become ‘unreasoned’? You’re single-handedly proving your own hypothesis.