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Global Warming Endangered by Hot Air?
oldwindways writes "The BBC reports that leading climate researchers are concerned that the tone of speculation surrounding many reports (scientific as well as in the media) could be making it more difficult for legitimate science to make a case for the future. Is Hollywood to blame? Have we 'cried wolf' too many times with global warming? Or is this just a case of some researchers who are not ready to face the truth? Either way, it raises the interesting question of how greater public awareness of Global Warming might be affecting the course of research and vice versa. Not to mention what happens when public awareness is shaped by factors other than scientific findings. This is especially troubling during what some are calling the warmest US winter in years."
Like what, might I ask? They've reduced funding to public education, environmental programs, (non-military) research, social welfare, public works, medicine, and many other core "socialist" measures. The only things have been expanded are military and police funding, but even there, the emphasis has been invariably on expanding operations and increasing numbers, and pay and benefits for soldiers and police have generally been cut. Some socialism, huh?
Try not to take me more seriously than I take myself.
Not only does it fail the Occum's Razor principle.
The description is obviously simplified and leaves out the full details. You can't apply Occam's Razor without having a full understanding of the situation.
It also doesn't manage to explain why CO2 drops 800 years after the warmth peak.
Do you have a citation for that actually happening? The comments have similar statements, with the response that this is a misinterpretation of the data and that no such lag exists in the drop.
Oh, right, yes, brainwashed. Yes. Obviously. If I'm telling people to ignore the nonsense being blasted on all sides in the media, I am brainwashed. If I tell people to listen to scientists instead of journalists, I am brainwashed.
You are making a whole lot of sense there.
Remember the hysteria from the 1980's? Weren't we all supposed to be dead from AIDS by now? Unless of course, it actually turned out to be a disease almost exclusively associated with risky behavior, that is.
And speaking of behavior, homosexuality is a one-hundred-percent behavior-evidenced phenomenon. Tell me which part of the brain was identified as causing homosexuality? Or which sequence of DNA? Which hormone? That's right. Homosexuality, much like stealing or race-car driving, is only proven through behavior. Unlike, say, race or sex, which are quite clearly immutable genetic characteristics.
And before you get all smack-down on me, at least do it for the right reason. I am NOT anti-gay, but I am pro-truth. And saying that any of these things are settled matters of science is simply dishonest.
Why is it that the solution for global warming is the same as it was for global cooling? Why is it that all of these supposed disasters share this feature alone: that the solution is always a wish-list of leftist political, social, or economic theory imposed by force of law upon as much of the world as possible? Meanwhile, there is a real war going on which gets less coverage than dead white women, when there are dead white women to be had, anyway.
The left is distracting itself from the real problems we face in this world which are indeed man-made, but have nothing to do with the weather. Who is Bjorn Lomborg? Who is Omar Hassan al-Bashir? Which name should you recognize?
Global Warming, if it is a real problem, is being obscured by a genuine epidemic: Global Wanking. Finish this quote: "All sound and fury..."
Don't trust anyone under thirty.