Friday, February 9, 2007
skeptics are us
I simply do not believe that hairspray users and SUV drivers and manure-expelling cows have utterly changed the planet in such a small percentage of the planet's millions-of-years life. The planet is not that delicate. It just isn't. Besides, if it was us, then we could fix some of it but the "humans-caused-it" believers say we can't. Why aren't the changes cyclical, not man-made? Why aren't the changes simply the "course of things"? Why isn't this something to adjust to - like 100 inches of snow in Oswego - rather than a disaster that spells the end of life as we know it? Sure, it was a warm December on the US's east coast and a blazing hot summer in the UK in 2005 and a wet spring in 2004 in most of the US. And there was Hurricane Katrina (although its impact had far more to do with the Army Corps of Engineers and appalling politics than weird meteorology). The ice cap may or may not be melting and Idaho may or may not be becoming the west coast (buy your seacoast property now!) but the last weeks have been "brutally cold and icy" in the Midwest and along the Great Lakes (I'm quoting several-times-daily mainstream news reports) while the Alps don't have much snow. Is this global warming or is it climate change or is it a centuries-cycle or is it nothing? Given the heavy-handed politicos on each side, who seem to have many axes to grind and pork to seek, I don't feel that facts are at all clear (despite Ellen Goodman's nasty column today). The headlines after the UN report were released, for example, said the report was unequivocal; when you read the actual text, there was simply no such assertion. Come on! This is nuts. We really need to toss politics and rhetoric and figure out what's really happening.
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jau — at 9:30 AM, February 10, 2007:
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jau — at 9:30 AM, February 10, 2007:
Very interesting articles. Thanks!
It's not exactly useful to scientific inquiry or even general human progress if one can't ask questions without being branded a "denier" and tarred and feathered.
It's not exactly useful to scientific inquiry or even general human progress if one can't ask questions without being branded a "denier" and tarred and feathered.
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The National Post has run an excellent series on 'Global Warming Deniers', you can find it here.
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