Agreed. After reading the other comments all I can do is shake my head. It only takes a couple hours to pull the 'studies' down and do the basic 6th grade math. Done it. There is nothing there. I can see the knee jerk issue however from those born after 1990(ish). If you were told from the day you were born from the 'wise ones' (politicians, lib teachers, etc) that climate change is real it is like telling the rest of us that smoking is bad for you.
Is smoking really bad for you? I smoked for 10 years, no issues. Yet I have never bothered to pull any studies and look at the research for myself. Mainly because I quit smoking and secondly because I was told alllllllll my life it is bad. Now its too damn expensive so a moot point but same phenomena I believe.
Another great point, science is never 'settled'. The whole point of science is to learn, test, re-test, and see if you can break prior beliefs and learn more.
Oh the memories. I remember using Excite, AltaVista, Lycos, and Yahoo. You would start at one and search, then pull up the others in different windows and by the time you got back to the first query it was finally finished loading at 2800bps. Those were the days for sure.
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Agreed. After reading the other comments all I can do is shake my head. It only takes a couple hours to pull the 'studies' down and do the basic 6th grade math. Done it. There is nothing there. I can see the knee jerk issue however from those born after 1990(ish). If you were told from the day you were born from the 'wise ones' (politicians, lib teachers, etc) that climate change is real it is like telling the rest of us that smoking is bad for you. Is smoking really bad for you? I smoked for 10 years, no issues. Yet I have never bothered to pull any studies and look at the research for myself. Mainly because I quit smoking and secondly because I was told alllllllll my life it is bad. Now its too damn expensive so a moot point but same phenomena I believe. Another great point, science is never 'settled'. The whole point of science is to learn, test, re-test, and see if you can break prior beliefs and learn more.
Oh the memories. I remember using Excite, AltaVista, Lycos, and Yahoo. You would start at one and search, then pull up the others in different windows and by the time you got back to the first query it was finally finished loading at 2800bps. Those were the days for sure.