Thread by @clim8resistance

Famous for kicking a ball.

I don't begrudge him his wealth or fame for being good at kicking a ball. Nor do I believe that anyone can kick a ball so effectively.

But I've been on both sides of the putative 'debate' since he was a ball-kicker, and I know that he knows nothing.

https://twitter.com/GaryLineker/status/1422838145494753280

This is profoundly wrong, you see:

"The scientific evidence is indisputable."

*NO* 'scientific evidence' is 'indisputable'.

To claim that 'the scientific evidence is indisputable' is to deny science.

That is how we know that climate change is bullshit, even if it's real.

It is a rookie -- which is to say deeply and wholly ignorant -- mistake from the outset.

We can know that it is wrong before we even get to the detail of what precisely is supposedly 'indisputable'.

The fact that the 'scientific' claim is unstated is equally problematic.

And then we get to the problem of what to do about it.

But Gary, the ball-kicker, has:

* Failed to understand what science is

* Failed to state what the scientific claim is

* Failed to state what the evidence is

But wants to influence people's minds, all the same.

So Gary, the ball-kicker claims that there are people who 'deny' science, I point out that Gary the ball-kicker doesn't know what science is, either to deny or affirm it, that seemingly makes me a 'climate change denier'.

No.

I am a Gary Linker's bullshit-denier.