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Originally Posted by Zythryn
Great editorial and valid questions (if a bit misleading).
Many answers to the above program are addressed at The great channel four swindle
Personally I am very much looking forward to all the research being done this year at the poles. Should get some interesting answers, one way or the other. |
Thanks for the link. Still much confusion and misleading information. It can be argued that money is being paid on both sides and that what we are left with is an "outcome based science". That is what is so frustrating. It has been said that if you torture the numbers or the data enough, they will confess to anything. One of the things that struck me in reading the links provided in the rebuttle is the "vast" amounts of Co2 that we humans put into the atmosphere.
"Vast amounts", compared to what? If simply injecting relatively moderate amounts of Co2 into the atmosphere is all that is required to heat the planet then every time a volcano goes off the planet should heat up. Or every time there is a huge forest fire, the planet should heat up. I am not at all convinced that Co2 alone will do it. And none of that is even taking into consideration the warming of the oceans themselves by purely natural causes such as under sea volcanos and or thermal vents.
It shouldn't be that difficult to demonstrate a cause and affect relationship yet that is what is lacking in a convincing way. I remain open minded on this topic. I am very concerned however that the rhetoric of human caused global warming is far too strong for the supposed scienctific data that supports it.
I also fail to see how simply studying the poles will provide a comprehensive picture of what is going on at a global level. Should we not also look at our immediate solar system to see what is going on? Politics and money appear to have a more profound affect on what we are lead to believe than is healthy for human kind.
My concern is that if we convince people that global climate change can be regulated by human activity, we set ourselves up for failure as a species. It seems to me that our long term survival depends largely on our ability to do the things we can, and know the things we cannot do, and prepare accordingly.
