Recently in the US,the United States’ largest business lobby is pushing for a public trial to examine the evidence of global warming and have a judge make a ruling on whether human beings are warming the planet to dangerous effect.
I wrote an article on global warming earlier which can be found here .
A few comments which i thought were nice and witty …Mostly from Slashdot
C02, something we exhale with every breath you take. Without this gas life on earth would not be possible. Plants require this gas to live, indeed when this gas is abundant plants thrive. This gas is given off by all animals. A gas that is turned back into O2 by the plants, plants which we require to survive. All these things are well established facts, as valid as the earth is round.
Now a group of people (they are just people after all, not gods) come along and literally say "We may not have all the data, we don’t even know if the data we have is valid, in fact we know we don’t have all the data, and what we do have is invalid or at the very best incomplete, and even if we did have all the data we haven’t a clue how this "weather" thing works anyway, but we put this partial and incorrect data into this computer (apparently called deus ex machina) and it says that C02 is actually bad for the environment because we predict it will alter the weather! Even though our predictions thus far are incorrect, just take our word for it. And anyone who does not believe us or pokes holes in our data or logic is a stupid AGW denier that also believes the earth is flat."
Anyone want to explain why I should believe someone who would say such a thing? If that isn’t the AGW argument, perhaps someone can explain what part is inconsistent with the AGW argument. And now the government and politicians wants to grab the helm of this out of control religion (after all it does require a degree of faith) and start telling people what they can and can’t do "because of global warming" while they (the politicians) make millions of dollars by robbing us blind. This whole thing stinks! And if that really is the AGW argument, why on earth would anyone, without some ulterior motive, believe such a thing.
There is still very little _EVIDENCE_ of mankind-created global warming.
You have Al Gore and his people making money by owning companies that sell exhaust rights.
You have oil companies making money out of ignoring or pushing the issue forward.
What we don’t have is a consensus, as the OP points out.
For example, right now (since 2000) we have global cooling (around 0.5 degrees). We are also heading towards a small ice age, our eliptical orbiting around the sun is about to change as it does "frequently" leading to us being further away from the sun in the coming millennias.
The IPCC still refuses to provide either the data from which they created their apocalyptic graphs from, or the models they used to do the predictions. This goes massively against the scientific standpoint of providing an open view into research to allow valid verification or falsification.
And what most people are forgetting: There is a climate change going on, it has always been going on and it will always do so. The question is how we are to adopt to it, not if we are disillusioned enough to think we can stop the planets natural processes and freeze it in something that we right now think is a global optima.
The whole global warming issue has been presented in a manner that
a) It’s mankind’s fault and
b) We have to throw money at it to fix it because it was caused by man kind.
See,Science does not go hand-in-hand with majority opinion – neither does science require consensus, nor does consensus imply any connection to reality.
Just because majority of people believe that global warming is happening it does not mean that it will happen.
Not long ago there was once a time when people thought that the Earth was flat and Earth was the center of the Universe .What happened to them now.?
Now if at all it is proved that global warming is false i wonder what impact it will have on Al Gore’s Nobel prize.
I, personally, believe *most* of the ‘Global Warming’ rhetoric is nonsense and there simply isn’t enough data to support Humans are the primary cause of any major changes and that the ‘science’ fails to take a lot of other things into account.
That does *not* mean I support destroying the environment!
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