Hey lindsay! glad to hear you've chosen a career...
I promise i wasn't trying to offend anyone with this post; i'm glad you didn't take it personally! I suppose i should have phrased it differently... When I said "this is great" i didn't mean it in the sens that it is a good thing for me or anybody, i mean it in the sense that i find it incredibly comical. Because you have to admit; it's a pretty funny and blatant example of how politics works these days (on both sides).
Now on to global warming... Now when I say I'm a skeptic, I'm not saying that no matter what I don't believe in it. I'm saying that I haven't been convinced of it yet. Yes, the majority of the scientific community claims that global warming is human caused and a very real threat, but it's very likely that a large number of them have been bullied into holding that position. A scientist who questions the mainstream view on this particular issue runs the risk losing his credibility... There have been calls to revoke AMS certification for meteorologists who are skeptics. Skeptics are compared to holocaust deniers, and those with state titles risk losing them. Here's another good article that sums up my point. Basically, politics is seriously interfering with the scientific method. A scientist should not be attacked for questioning a scientific theory, especially one that hasn't been proved yet.
And it hasn't been proved. In fact, there's a decent body of evidence against the mainstream view... For example, the recorded rise in temperatures could have been caused by a change in solar activity as stated by this article. And apparently in the past several years temperature averages haven't changed much... see here.
haha, i guess i explained it. To put it shortly, my position is that many scientists have a vested interest in supporting the man made global warming theory, and there is still a good deal of evidence that contradicts that theory. That makes me a skeptic, not a hater!
I promise i wasn't trying to offend anyone with this post; i'm glad you didn't take it personally! I suppose i should have phrased it differently... When I said "this is great" i didn't mean it in the sens that it is a good thing for me or anybody, i mean it in the sense that i find it incredibly comical. Because you have to admit; it's a pretty funny and blatant example of how politics works these days (on both sides).
Now on to global warming... Now when I say I'm a skeptic, I'm not saying that no matter what I don't believe in it. I'm saying that I haven't been convinced of it yet. Yes, the majority of the scientific community claims that global warming is human caused and a very real threat, but it's very likely that a large number of them have been bullied into holding that position. A scientist who questions the mainstream view on this particular issue runs the risk losing his credibility... There have been calls to revoke AMS certification for meteorologists who are skeptics. Skeptics are compared to holocaust deniers, and those with state titles risk losing them. Here's another good article that sums up my point. Basically, politics is seriously interfering with the scientific method. A scientist should not be attacked for questioning a scientific theory, especially one that hasn't been proved yet.
And it hasn't been proved. In fact, there's a decent body of evidence against the mainstream view... For example, the recorded rise in temperatures could have been caused by a change in solar activity as stated by this article. And apparently in the past several years temperature averages haven't changed much... see here.
haha, i guess i explained it. To put it shortly, my position is that many scientists have a vested interest in supporting the man made global warming theory, and there is still a good deal of evidence that contradicts that theory. That makes me a skeptic, not a hater!
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