global warming = lies?
As a science buff, and a scientist (albeit computer scientist) I like to see things in fair light. One of the things I like to do is see both sides of an argument and determine for myself what is going and who and what say what and not just blindly follow things that journalist as saying as most journalist are just after a “story” and are full of themselves pretty badly and when it comes to science and the internet they almost always get the story wrong because they don’t have the foundations of science and technology to know what to include, and what to cut.
Given this I found the movie “an inconvenient truth on demand on my cable and watched it, and I really liked it, I thought there was some good stuff there and Gore (who was voted president but screwed by the courts) was clear and had a lot of good points, however, I had some questions about the scientists involved and was wondering just who it was and so I checked out the site, they have some blurbs and quotes taken by scientists but I didn’t know the context of the quotes.
I started poking around looking for information on the “global warming deniers” as I know that any scientist who says anything against the current global warming are summarily and publicly shamed. I found this interesting and some guys in the UK put together a scientists speaking on global warming documentary called “the great global warming swindle” which you can watch online a few places) which is basically the major guys in climatology and climate research at NASA, MIT, Cambridge etc etc.. saying that global warming as we know is more political chaff than fact and that most of the real science is ignored in favor of fantastical things. Much of the current global warming political rhetoric is based on the mistrust the west has with the middle east and the need for a push/incentive to move away from reliance on foreign oil. If you watch one side of the story, you owe yourself a gander at what scientists are saying vs. politicians and journalists.
It is interesting to see both sides if anything, and responsible to yourself.
As always there is disputing sides to every story .. Still it is good for an informed choice.
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April 15th, 2007 at 4:27 am
Were you hiding in a cupboard when punctuation was handed out?
April 15th, 2007 at 10:40 am
yes
April 15th, 2007 at 11:01 am
As a note, if you have a picky issue with punctuation here, copy and paste this whole entry into a grammar checking editor such as MS word and run it through. What ‘you’ are noticing is probably some strange choices in terminology that I tend to use.
I also directly enter all posts on this blog without the assistance of preview in editors, if you look at the quick-about on the main page you can see that I most always post late at night when I need to jot something down and this is more for me to look at stuff later (like a compiled del.ico.us with commentary) and to send coworkers and friends to when I bring something up.
Anyway, I did check in case I had done some massive punctuation blunders, but no.