National Geographic Releases Alarming Climate Change Movie 'Before the Flood' On YouTube (youtube.com)

dryriver writes: National Geographic's Climate Change movie "Before The Flood," featuring actor-activist Leonardo DiCaprio, can now be viewed freely on Youtube. One of the most interesting points in the movie comes at around the 23 minute mark. At 23 minutes, scientist Michael E. Mann, famous for co-discovering the "hockey stick graph" via eigenvector based climate field reconstruction (CFR), recounts how media like the Wall Street Journal demonized him for his research, how he received death threats from unknown sources, how Congress grilled him about whether his scientific methods are credible, and how he even received an envelope in the mail with strange white powder in it. The movie is worth watching because it shows very clearly that a) man-made climate change is happening and that b) the negative effects of climate change are already impacting many areas of the world.

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Re:And I keep coming back to my same question

[NotInHere]

Just dropping three points here:

* Sea levels *are* rising, and its negatively impacting the lives of people already, today: http://www.newyorker.com/tech/...
* greenland ice is melting http://www.independent.co.uk/e...
* glaciers are melting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

All three of these things are hopefully undisputable.

Yes, science isn't sure about everything, but it is quite sure about this, sure enough that it should be trusted. And please do base your political decision on what the scientific consensus provides, everything else would be totally irresponsible.

Re:Wikipedia is not a credible source

[asylumx]

There are literally 303 references to back up the information in the article linked by GP. I'd say there's a lot more credibility there than there is in your random internet comment.

Death threats are never an appropriate response

[Geoffrey.landis]

... recounts how media like the Wall Street Journal demonized him for his research, how he received death threats from unknown sources, how Congress grilled him about whether his scientific methods are credible,

Yes, and those are entirely reasonable things to do when people come up with "new statistical methods" and demand immediate action.

I'm sorry, but no.
Death threats are never an appropriate response.

If your side thinks that they need to issue death threats to rebut a scientific argument, this is basically evidence that they are not arguing with the science.