One of the reasons I posted the article about how sat yuga will come because
most of us will die off due to climate change is that I wanted everyone's
opinion on that subject. So thanks for responding. What emerges from the
discussion is that none of us have (nor can have) definitive answers, even if
we are ourselves climatologists. Reading and understanding a peer-reviewed
article in any science is a skill that requires an education in that science.
Even then, there can be disagreements among experts in how to collect and
interpret the raw data. I've been involved in designing scientific studies
myself (on language acquisition) and even with the best intentions, it is
uncommonly difficult to avoid spinning the data. Statistics can be
manipulated to say one thing, and then manipulated again to say the exact
opposite. Add to that special interests, and you can see that peer reviewed
articles in scientific journals cannot always be taken at face
value even among experts in the field. That is one of the major reasons why
you can hardly ever take a single study or a single piece of evidence and base
any conclusion on it. You go with the body of research, and even that is not
100% fool proof ever. If it were, there could be no progress in science.
Like Off, I'm all for science, but the scientific literature on any subject is
no different from any other use of language. It lends itself to truth-telling
equally well as it lends itself to telling lies--unwittingly or otherwise.
Most of the time when lay people in a given field quote an article from a
peer-reviewed journal, it is merely a rhetorical power-play.
And yet, that's the best we can do in discovering truth.
- Original Message
From: do.rflex [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, December 21, 2007 9:03:52 AM
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Global warming hoax
--- In FairfieldLife@ yahoogroups. com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] .. wrote:
_.: U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works ::
Minority Page
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(http://epw.senate. gov/public/ index.cfm? FuseAction= Minority.
BlogsContentRec ord_id=f80a6386- 802a-23ad- 40c8-3c63dc2d02c b)
Excellent summary of Republican Senator James Inhofe's work on the
committee cherry picking of mostly discredited global warming denial
reports.
Wonder why he does it?
Well...
Since 1999, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, Inhofe
has received almost $300,000 in campaign donations from oil and gas
interests and nearly $180,000 from electric utilities. In the 2002
election cycle, he received more oil and gas contributions than any
senator except Texas' John Cornyn.
http://www.prospect .org/cs/articles ?articleId= 7603
And on the experts Inhofe cherry-picked:
Some key skeptics show up again and again in the echo chamber funded
by ExxonMobil.
ExxonMobil has pumped more than $8 million into more than 40 think
tanks; media outlets; and consumer, religious, and even civil rights
groups that preach skepticism about the oncoming climate catastrophe.
Herewith, a representative overview.
The following article debunks the crap Dixon thinks he can fool people
with.
http://www.motherjo nes.com/news/ featurex/ 2005/05/exxon_ chart.html
--After reading the chart it's even more fun to read further about the
desperate bullshit tactics the Big Energy paid clowns on the fringe
right attempt to foster on the public.
Go to: As The World Burns: A Mother Jones Special Report on Global Warming
http://www.motherjo nes.com/news/ featurex/ 2005/05/world_ burns.html
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