pseudoscience homework

I asked my students in my non-majors biology class to find examples of pseudoscience and explain why they are pseudoscience as a homework assignment.

This is what I got from one student, verbatim:

"Global warming"

"Recent year's people have witnessed a series of over the top pseudo-scientific methods. Few scientists would dispute the fact that climate is changing on a huge scale. There are good reasons to believe that some of the changing features are not part of a natural variation, but consequences of man made pollution. What many scientist will dispute, is whether this is a on going change. Scientist believe that one, there's an upward change in the atmosphere's mean global temperature. Two, whether the mechanism is responsible for the CO2 fossil fuel combustion. Today climatology is vulnerable to these kinds of faddist dogmas. They are pushed forward to the political and media driven agenda. Because it lacks a functional, broad, orderly and unified understanding of the nonlinear system formed by the atmosphere. The oceans, the land mass and the biosphere, provide inroads towards developing such an understanding. Starting with the sun and the solar radiation in the weather patterns over short and long term scales."

For those uncertain about this, I have no clue as to what they were trying to say here and now that I've met with them to go over it, it's clear they didn't either.