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Kasz216 on 12 July 2008
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mrjuju said:

To Bubbles: Kazz is just to dern quick lol

 

No, I am just not so arrogant that I will ignore the work of men and women who have dedicated their lives to researching the climate and the effects mankind has on it just because I don't like what they have to say. Honestly, can you picture doing that to any other profession? Your doctor says "you have an infection" and you say "Nah, feels more like a cold, you don't know anything, you're a liar". An architect says, this wall needs to be at a 92 degree angle to bear the weight and you say "Pssh, I know better, I'm going to put it at a 84 degree angle, stupid architect".

These are SCIENTISTS, not taxi drivers, not pizza delivery boys, not senators, they are men and women of science. They have dedicated their lives to the pursuit of knowledge. If a VAST majority say that there is a damn good chance that we are harming the environment, then I say, let's listen. I mean seriously, what is the worst thing that can happen if we try to lower our carbon footprint a little?

Tell you what, actually read a global warming paper. The whole thing... and if you've had the least bit of scientific training you'll understand they are using a correlational sample without accounting for controls. Even if you don't have scientific training... you should know why that doesn't work.

Besides which... global tempeture change has been incrimental while our CO2 emmissions have been exponential. All it takes is a little statistical training and you should begin to see the problem.

Though as for what's wrong with it? Lets take Smoking. Everyone knows smoking is bad for you... lets say someone along the line said "Smoking causes liver disease".

Would that be ok? To lie to people just so they do something that would be better anyway? I refuse to live by means such as that.

Furthermore you have a problem in that by thinking cigarettes cause liver disease... everyone ignores the actual cause of liver disease... since no further study is allowed on it outside of cigarettes correlational effect with liver disease.

The problem is that nobody is looking at possible factors of global warming like the sun... or the changes in the carbon sink system.

In otherwords nobody is looking for an actual solution.

Science is always this way... there is conventional knowledge based on a best guess, then it is overturned.  However since money and politics have invaded this wing of it, it's impossible to overturn even with the faulty logic beign fairly obvious.