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How Journalists Distort Science with Balance
The scientist's job is to discover truth about the natural world, and the journalist's is to report the world's events accurately. Why are these two professions so often at odds? Chris Mooney discusses how journalism fails science in this month's Columbia Journalism Review. If you applauded Jon Stewart's plea to "stop hurting America," Mooney's analysis will strike a chord; the he-said-she-said approach to truth fails in all kinds of venues. (via: WorldChanging)
All this is just liberal stuff, cuz I got a book what was wrote by neolithic sheep herders what says it's the truth. Besides that, journalists are the people who couldn't pass calc, chem or physics 101.
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> The theory of global warming is one century old, it has been predicted,
> and it is measured
No reliable tempretaure measurements exist from measuring stations which are not now deep inside the heat domes of major population centers so I'd like to know how it has been 'measured' reliably enough to state with a high degree of confidence that global tempratures are up 1 degree.
Then, even if you can properly document a temprature change you have to be able to prove the cause. We do know with a high degree of confidence that both the global average temprature and localized regions have shown large variablility over recorded history, long before the industrial age where man's influence would have been large enough to account for the changes. Greenland's name isn't just some sick joke, there was a time when it WAS green.
For example, the 'ol folks around here (Beauregard Parish Louisiana, USA) recall that we used to get snow around here on a fairly regular basis. There are even a few old B&W photos that pop up showing snow on local landmarks. Hasn't really snowed here in my lifetime though. Is that Global Warming at work or a localized climate change? Which was the aberation from the longterm average? Considering there were no people here two hundred years ago and only a couple of farmers, etc one hundred years back it would be hard to collect enough data to say.
There is pretty good historical correlation between solar activity and global climate, and considering Mr. Sun has been very cranky of late, perhaps you need look no farther for your cause than the sky above.
Face it, the case for global climate change is still largely unproven but a lot of so called scientists believe in it with a fervor not normally seen outside a Pentecostal church or a Howard Dean rally.
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