Scientists Revolt Against Global Warming Fearmongering

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NJ5 said:

appolose said:

NJ5 said:

MontanaHatchet said:
It's really sad that the environment is a political issue, and people will go to any means to deny something significant. Let's just say that global warming is false. Should we really continue doing the things that cause it? Is polluting some kind of pro-conservative way of life?

I completely agree. The safe thing to do is to assume global warming is real... even if it's not, good things will come out of it.

 

I don't think that is necessarily wholly true.

The proposed responses to counterracting "man-made" global warming may be far, far more drastic, expensive, and time consuming (and have completely different methods) than what is needed for lowering pollution levels to acceptibility, I might hazard to guess.  In other words, it would be nice to see how the situation really is, then act upon that.

Furthermore, raising an uproar over what may be a worldwide deception (or, at the very least, horrificly bad science) is not advocating that we go around trashing the planet.  Rather, it means we really need to examine how the scientific and media communities work.

 

Actually it's the opposite from what I know. The things needed to reduce pollution are more vast than those alleged to reduce man-made global warming.

For example... coal-fired power plants can be made with lower CO2 emissions (the so called "clean coal"), but that's not enough to reduce all the pollution they generate. The worst coal pollutants like radioactivity, mercury, arsenium, small particulates aren't captured by the "clean" coal technologies.

Fun fact: a coal fired power plant releases 100 times more radiation than the equivalent nuclear power plant:

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=coal-ash-is-more-radioactive-than-nuclear-waste

 

While that may be true (or not true.  I don't know), my point was to demonstrate that to disagree with global warming isn't to advocate pollution, necessarily, especially for those of us who are uniformed on whats needed to combat pollution or global warming.

But I love nuclear power; I mean, it's nuclear :p