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Lordandmaster -> RE: Global warming?? (7/13/2007 9:19:18 PM)
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Heh, if the July issue was bad, the August issue is crushing.
"The Undeniable Case for Global Warming (see page 64)," it says, right on the front cover.
OK, so I turn to page 64, and what's there? An article by five scientists laying out the basis of the latest IPCC report (which says, basically, that global warming is real and dangerous). Where do these guys work, you ask? OK, one's at Berkeley; one's at the Australian Bureau of Meteorology; one's at the Met Office in the U.K.; one's at the NOAA Earth System Research Lab in Boulder; and one's at the University of Washington.
Damn, where oh where can we find good unbiased science confirming that global warming is just a nefarious hoax? Even the scientists don't know how to conduct good science anymore. I say we go back to faith-based scientific inquiry!
Let's see now, marc2b has called me an ideologue, Estring has called me a Kool-Aid drinker, and Sicarius (who seems to have withdrawn) and CuriousLord both calmly declare that the evidence is complex and uncertain. Right. I can believe a senior scientist at the Australian Bureau of Meteorology, or I can believe some guy on the internet who calls me a Kool-Aid drinker.
Guess which one I'm gonna choose.
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ORIGINAL: Lordandmaster
The July, 2007, issue of Scientific American wasn't a good one for global-warming deniers.
First there was a report that a Dutch team has failed to reproduce the controversial results, announced earlier, that plants produce significant amounts of methane, and now dispute the other team's findings (p. 16). Even on Collarme, self-anointed experts have used the methane canard.
Then there's a creepy article about all the hurricanes we've been experiencing (pp. 44-51). What's causing all these strong hurricanes? Warmer oceans. What's causing warmer oceans? You guessed it...
And finally, just in case readers haven't gotten the point, there's an article about what the earth would look like if human beings were removed (pp. 76-81).
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