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I find it interesting how many people here are apparently smarter than the rocket scientists who compile the data…
climate.nasa.gov/
(Hi 4Elise! Happy Thanksgiving!)
I find it interesting how many people here are apparently smarter than the rocket scientists who compile the data…
climate.nasa.gov/
(Hi 4Elise! Happy Thanksgiving!)
No one here objects to investigating new forms of energy production. No one here supports pollution or environmental destruction, but if CO2 is not causing global warming then taking steps to reduce CO2 emissions will have zero effect on future warming. Your concern, however, is not with the theory or even whether or not warming is occurring; you don’t care if the theory is true or not because reducing CO2 emissions will require that other things be done that you do care about … e.g. abolishing nasty, filthy, limited supply, pollutive methods of creating energy.Anyway,… seeing as it is part of my morale baseline to be a good steward of the planet and to care about God’s creation, it seems obvious to me that nasty, filthy, limited supply, pollutive methods of creating energy need to be abolished. New clean, sustainable, and environmentally friendly forms of energy need to be investigated.
Humanity rolls the dice in everything it does. But in the case of manmade global warming (yes, I know it’s now “climate change” because it’s cooling, so the name needed to change) there really isn’t any certitude, and there are a lot of reasons to be very suspicious of those who want to effect drastic societal changes in order to “correct” it.The only scandal is the attempt to confirm that all is well. Sure we can’t pollute, destroy land, extinct wildlife, deplete resources because the magic machine called earth will just grow back. Surely there are no consequenses for our action? Right?
But there are consequenses and they can be catastrophic. If scientists are correct, we will be rolling the dice on our lives if we take the wait and see approach. Either way it is rolling the dice, but I would rather roll them in our favor. .![]()
What exactly is MMCC?so I would be surprised if this event moved you toward a position of belief in MMCC -
Very true. It actually just sounds like more paranoid ultra conservative conspiracy theory to meNo one here objects to investigating new forms of energy production. No one here supports pollution or environmental destruction, but if CO2 is not causing global warming then taking steps to reduce CO2 emissions will have zero effect on future warming. Your concern, however, is not with the theory or even whether or not warming is occurring; you don’t care if the theory is true or not because reducing CO2 emissions will require that other things be done that you do care about … e.g. abolishing nasty, filthy, limited supply, pollutive methods of creating energy.
It is my belief that many of those who are pushing the theory of enhanced greenhouse warming don’t care whether it is true or not either; what is important to them is what the fear of global catastrophes will allow them to do. If the science of the theory was important then comments like yours would never be part of the discussion, but where it is not the science that is important but the changes that populations can be tricked into supporting, that’s when the talk shifts to what the brave, new world will look like when the changes have been implemented. The science does not support the theory. Don’t accuse anyone of being a bad steward of the earth for recognizing that.
Actually, I did include a link to Nasa a few posts back. But, I suppose that they are not intelligent enough to be worthy of serious consideration.Ender
Of course, it’s a government PR site, not a site where “rocket scientists” trade technical information. What did you expect it to say “Obama dead wrong about global warming”??? It does tip its hat to the concept of MMGW. Nevertheless, it also says this about CO2, among other things that it thinks “might” contribute to global warming. (also things that it thinks might have contributed to global cooling)I find it interesting how many people here are apparently smarter than the rocket scientists who compile the data…
climate.nasa.gov/
As far as I understand it , the climate fluctuates periodically as a matter of course. As I interpret the evidence it seems that it gets a little more extreme each time. I am no rocket scientist. Just a curious person who is a bit on the nerdy side.I’m sceptical, seems like a licence for Governments to print money, (scare them with global warming)
Anyway, what caused the ice age, was it Global Warming ? or was it the Suv’s, oil, what, volcanoes ?
You haven’t heard it from America’s mainstream media yet – even Fox News hasn’t covered it – but the director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, Dr. John P. Holdren, is a key player in the Climategate e-mails flap, which is shaping up as the biggest scandal in the history of modern science.
newsmax.com/insidecover/climategate_holdren_email/2009/11/27/291545.htmlBut the Canada Free Press this week revealed that the former Harvard professor and Al Gore global warming adviser features prominently in the thousands of e-mails and other files made public after the hacking last week of a computer server used by the University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit.
The most embarrassing item for the Obama Administration may be a 2003 exchange between Holdren and TCSDaily.com editor-in-chief Nick Schulz. Schulz challenged Holdren on whether downplaying the significance of the Medieval Warm Period required “what lawyers call the burden of proof.”
Holdren’s retort contained a remarkable assertion coming from a scientist: “In practice, burden of proof is an evolving thing – it evolves as the amount of evidence relevant to a particular proposition grows.”
Canada Free Press columnist and Canadian climatologist Dr. Tim Ball says of the correspondence with Schulz that Holdren’s “entire defense and position devolves to a political position.”
The CRU documents also find Holdren disparaging solar physicists Sallie Baliunas and Willie Soon, contrarians regarding surface temperatures over the past millennium, who were colleagues of Holdren at Harvard, and Ball wonders if Holdren may have intimidated the two scientists before they “suddenly and politely withdrew from the fray,” as Ball describes it.
As Newsmax has previously reported, Dr. Holdren has a history of alarmingly extremist views. He co-authored a 1977 book, “Ecoscience: Population Resources, Environment,” advocating compulsory abortion for purposes of population control, mass sterilization, government-dictated family size like China’s one-child policy, and a “planetary regime” to be policed by the United Nations.
Not long before the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade ruling legalizing abortion-on-demand throughout America, Holdren co-authored “Human Ecology: Problems and Solutions,” which seems to argue that even years after birth a baby is not yet a human being.
“The fetus, given the opportunity to develop properly before birth,” claims the book’s “Population Limitation” section, “and given the essential early socializing experiences and sufficient nourishing food during the crucial early years after birth, will ultimately develop into a human being.”
Holdren’s “Human Ecology” warns of large-scale disaster that might require “involuntary fertility control” to stop population growth. “Compulsory control of family size is an unpalatable idea, but the alternatives may be much more horrifying,” the Holdren book suggests.
HiyasIf you have about 45 mins then watch this documentary on google videos called “The Denial Machine”
video.google.com/videoplay?docid=522784499045867811&ei=S3UQS7H2JpHUqwKAxODwBA&q=the+great+denial+machine&hl=en&client=firefox-a#
“The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is arrogance.”Republished from New York Times Reporter Andrew Revkin’s Dot Earth:
Dot Earth: Insights from Mike Hulme at the University of East Anglia, which was the source of the disclosed files. Hulme, a climate scientist at the University of East Anglia and author of “ Why We Disagree About Climate Change,” has weighed in with these thoughts about the significance of the leaked files and emails. In November 2009, Hulme was listed as “the 10th most cited author in the world in the field of climate change, between 1999 and 2009. (ScienceWatch, Nov/Dec 2009, see Table 2).
Hulme Key Excerpt:
[Upcoming UN climate conference in Copenhagen] “is about raw politics, not about the politics of science. …] It is possible that climate science has become too partisan, too centralized. The tribalism that some of the leaked emails display is something more usually associated with social organization within primitive cultures; it is not attractive when we find it at work inside science. It is also possible that the institutional innovation that has been the I.P.C.C. has run its course. Yes, there will be an AR5 but for what purpose? The I.P.C.C. itself, through its structural tendency to politicize climate change science, has perhaps helped to foster a more authoritarian and exclusive form of knowledge production – just at a time when a globalizing and wired cosmopolitan culture is demanding of science something much more open and inclusive.
**Full Hulme Statement: **
The key lesson to be learned is that not only must scientific knowledge about climate change be publicly owned — the I.P.C.C. does a fairly good job of this according to its own terms — but the very practices of scientific enquiry must also be publicly owned, in the sense of being open and trusted. From outside, and even to the neutral, the attitudes revealed in the emails do not look good. To those with bigger axes to grind it is just what they wanted to find.
Not a significant amount to warrant remaining uninformed.Hiyas
Thanks for the link…but to minimize my carbon footprint…I don’t do utube or videos.
They waste to much energy…don’t you think?
No no no no no.“The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is arrogance.”
—Albert Einstein
emphasis mineNot a significant amount to warrant remaining uninformed.
No no no no no.
The Greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.
–Stephen Hawking