From the DenverPost.com comes this illuminating article entitled
"Chill out over global warming" where Bill Gray of the Colorado State University, perhaps the world's foremost hurricane expert, discusses the bad science surrounding the global warming "hoax" that has been perpetuated on the American public.
The way I see it is this. Science should strive for apolitical results and should never be bent to fit a political agenda. Dr. Gray agrees with me.
12 comments:
Amen, brotha'.
I'd like to see the word get out about the warming trends and weather cycles over the years. What we are seeing now has happened before, and that was before there were so many cars on the roads and before we horrible humans had a chance to destroy everything good on this earth. We don't deserve to even be here!
We should all just kill ourselves and let the plants and animals live in peace. Oh, how I wish I were a turtle.
Well, cube.. I hear this "University" where Dr. Gray works is merely a front for the Halliburton Company and Dick Cheney's money-making oil machine.
j-d, I'm sure some other animals would take up the slack if we were gone. And I doubt animals really want peace anyway. (Who is that comedian that says "all animals would eat us if they could"? I'm a believer in that concept.)
The problem is that if you can make your science public-saavy, you get a lot more funding. My advisor back in grad school days was BRILLIANT and his work phenomenal, but grants were big work. His arch-nemesis was not as brilliant, and his work had some serious flaws, but he could capture public imagination (got published in scientific american and new scientist even), so he got better grants.
he's still publishing theories. my old advisor has patents that are actually in use now.
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I really dont think all the hype about global warming will hit home with most people until we get hit in the head with it. Some weather patterns are cyclical obviously. To me the real test will be when animal species begin to disappear. We have already seen changes in some due pollution and other environmental conditions. Nature can only show us what we have done, it is up to us to fix it.
Of course it would behoove the globe to pollute less and consume less finite resources. That should be a no brainer. But reports based on faulty science don't benefit anyone. And I'm sick & tired of seeing politicians use psueduscientific scare tactics.
I'll worry when I'm building an igloo in Arizona.
BTW that's pseudoscientific (Yes, my typing can use some work.)
My point is that this stuff isn't accurate just because celebrities and politicians say it is. How can you base any opinions on inaccurate data? Your premise will be false from the get go.
When are people going to wake up and start asking questions about the garbage that they're being fed?
It's just sooooooo popular to be a hysterical environmentalist right now.
By the way, having a premise presupposes logic--something of which many politicians and stars are of short shrift.
voracious: point taken.
I don't pay any attention to what greenies, famous people, politicians, or lay people have to say about climate change, I only pay attention to the scientists. Alas, with few notable exceptions, scientists across the world have, indeed, reached a consensus - based on objective data and decades of study - that the problem is real, and the problem is caused by our noxious output - which will not diminish, unless we and all stop consuming and unless all developing nations agree to never develop (in other words, agree to stop aspiring to the life styles that we have enjoyed for all of the last century).
The damage cannot actually be reversed.
Of course, what I do find intriguing is that, when growing up, scientists then were issuing dire warnings that the planet would collapse if people didn't stop breading. Remember the hysteria about over-population? Okay, a few things have helped, like AIDs killing off millions, but, the planet is holding up pretty well as it heads towards 7 billion people.
Dumb luck, or other factors may avert the current climate predictions, however, more likely, is that the predictions will prove to be wrong in some key respects, not because of politics or bad science, but simply because even the very best scientist can't actually tell us what WILL happen. All they are doing is doing their best to model what MIGHT happen.
In the meantime Jill - yes, species are already disappearing, it's being documented with increasing frequency each year.
I'd rather listen to the scientist too. I wouldn't listen to Al Gore's advice about which width of scotch tape to buy much less a non-linear problem like global climactic change.
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