Well, here you are; I'm a *real* scientist. I'm even a climate researcher.
I think it's fair to say that there no doubht that the climate is warming and basic physics (plus data from the not so distant past) shows that increasing CO2 will warm the planet.
To say that because I think (not believe as I agree that many environmentalists are quasi-religious) that global warming is happening, and thus that I'm an liberal environmentalist, is like claiming that all doctors who care for lung cancer patients are out to get tobacco companies.
Mike.
PS. I've voted just about equally for republican and democrat presidential candidates. In my experience most scientists are politically lazy and don't even vote at all. And note that when given the chance I hunt, fish and the burn trees to cook said victums, but yes I care to have a clean health environment. Scary, no?
"We can't look at 100 years in the life of a billion year old planet and decide how it's going, it just can't happen."
Untrue, indeed the fact we know that "our climate goes through cycles and phases" is because we can in fact tell a lot about climate from our
limited knowledge of it.
Plus of course we have made some progress in understanding and predicting nature via physics. After all, the science that allows for a
prediction of global warming is exactly the same science that allows for the technology being used to hold this conversation, amoung other things.
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Well, here you are; I'm a *real* scientist. I'm even a climate researcher. I think it's fair to say that there no doubht that the climate is warming and basic physics (plus data from the not so distant past) shows that increasing CO2 will warm the planet. To say that because I think (not believe as I agree that many environmentalists are quasi-religious) that global warming is happening, and thus that I'm an liberal environmentalist, is like claiming that all doctors who care for lung cancer patients are out to get tobacco companies. Mike. PS. I've voted just about equally for republican and democrat presidential candidates. In my experience most scientists are politically lazy and don't even vote at all. And note that when given the chance I hunt, fish and the burn trees to cook said victums, but yes I care to have a clean health environment. Scary, no?
"We can't look at 100 years in the life of a billion year old planet and decide how it's going, it just can't happen."
Untrue, indeed the fact we know that "our climate goes through cycles and phases" is because we can in fact tell a lot about climate from our
limited knowledge of it.
Plus of course we have made some progress in understanding and predicting nature via physics. After all, the science that allows for a
prediction of global warming is exactly the same science that allows for the technology being used to hold this conversation, amoung other things.
Mike
Sorry. Mucked up that submission... flames/comments can be directed towards he who is irresponsible mpb20@columbia.edu
--Mike