Have you read this little item?
Pictures of glaciers getting smaller represent the thesis that the earth is in a warming phase. This phase has been ongoing for approximately 18000 years.
What bothers a lot of people is the linking of this warming cycle to the efforts of man. It hardly seems logically to convict the human race of a warming trend that began thousands of years ago.
Question: Why haven't the inherent safeguards of the scientific method prevented the nearly wholesale adoption of such a ludicrous thesis as the theory that man ended the last ice age?
Answer: Peer review is not working.
Over the past 40 years the colleges and universities have been overrun by people who teach well to the left of common sense, vote well to the left of john kennedy and are never burdened with the consequences of their agenda.
From alar in apples and wolves in yellowstone the establishment scientific community ruin the lives of ordinary people and then runs quickly to the next vogue crisis without so much as saying a single sorry to their victims.
Are the scientists who 'get it wrong ever' held responsible by their peers? Never.
So here we are with the present intellectual fiasco: Man is the inexorable reason we are experiencing global warming. Anyone who offers a differing opinion is either a fool or in the pay of Exxon.
This walks hand in hand with the larger progressive scientific rule: Any thesis that imagines a cause for any problem observed on planet earth that doesn't originate with man is quickly attacked as the ranting of horrible neocons.
The real question is how much of the present 'science' is contaminated by popular political 'progressive' fashion.
At the very least let us recognize there is the need to offer culturally acceptable (vogue) thesis to make sure one receives plenty of grant money.
The skepticism demonstrated by the 'earth first' crowd in respect to scientific research funded by industry is intense. This skepticism would be best spent turned towards itself.
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What bothers a lot of people is the linking of this warming cycle to the efforts of man. It hardly seems logically to convict the human race of a warming trend that began thousands of years ago.
Question: Why haven't the inherent safeguards of the scientific method prevented the nearly wholesale adoption of such a ludicrous thesis as the theory that man ended the last ice age?
Answer: Peer review is not working.
Over the past 40 years the colleges and universities have been overrun by people who teach well to the left of common sense, vote well to the left of john kennedy and are never burdened with the consequences of their agenda.
From alar in apples and wolves in yellowstone the establishment scientific community ruin the lives of ordinary people and then runs quickly to the next vogue crisis without so much as saying a single sorry to their victims.
Are the scientists who 'get it wrong ever' held responsible by their peers? Never.
So here we are with the present intellectual fiasco: Man is the inexorable reason we are experiencing global warming. Anyone who offers a differing opinion is either a fool or in the pay of Exxon.
This walks hand in hand with the larger progressive scientific rule: Any thesis that imagines a cause for any problem observed on planet earth that doesn't originate with man is quickly attacked as the ranting of horrible neocons.
The real question is how much of the present 'science' is contaminated by popular political 'progressive' fashion.
At the very least let us recognize there is the need to offer culturally acceptable (vogue) thesis to make sure one receives plenty of grant money.
The skepticism demonstrated by the 'earth first' crowd in respect to scientific research funded by industry is intense. This skepticism would be best spent turned towards itself.
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