10-12-2009, 04:05 PM
Thank you Peter.
As you know, science isn't driven by consensus. I happen to find the arguments and data of people who are working in various scientific fields and who oppose the theory of man-made global warming much more compelling than any of the arguments or data I've seen from the proponents. There might be a consensus within a narrowly-defined new field called Climate Science, but there is a heterogenaity of views among scientists in a variety of fields that study the same things--astrophysics, meteorology, thermodynamics/physics etc.
Just so we're on the same page, so to speak, I do expect rapid climate changes within our lifetime, I just don't think CO2 will have much to do with them. I think CO2 as a generator of global warming is a sort of canard so the vested interests can continue with other types of real pollution that is probably causing the dead zones in the oceans, the North Pacific Garbage Continent, species extinctions in some cases (although the majority of that has to do with land use, as I understand it, not point sources of pollutants).
Astroturf was clever but Pelosi ruined it for me
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As you know, science isn't driven by consensus. I happen to find the arguments and data of people who are working in various scientific fields and who oppose the theory of man-made global warming much more compelling than any of the arguments or data I've seen from the proponents. There might be a consensus within a narrowly-defined new field called Climate Science, but there is a heterogenaity of views among scientists in a variety of fields that study the same things--astrophysics, meteorology, thermodynamics/physics etc.
Just so we're on the same page, so to speak, I do expect rapid climate changes within our lifetime, I just don't think CO2 will have much to do with them. I think CO2 as a generator of global warming is a sort of canard so the vested interests can continue with other types of real pollution that is probably causing the dead zones in the oceans, the North Pacific Garbage Continent, species extinctions in some cases (although the majority of that has to do with land use, as I understand it, not point sources of pollutants).
Astroturf was clever but Pelosi ruined it for me