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Can we move on now? Big Oil proves global warming.

Oct 22, 2011 20:03

Massive study concludes: 'Global warming is real'
By Rik Myslewski in San Francisco
Posted in Environment, 21st October 2011 21:43 GMT

A massively thorough study - funded in part by a pair of US oil
billionaires who are opponents of climate-disruption remediation - has
come to the conclusion that the earth is, indeed, warming.

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doesn't change much tho leprofessional October 23 2011, 00:16:21 UTC

they will still say it's not anthropogenic

Re: doesn't change much tho jasonbeast October 23 2011, 00:30:36 UTC

Yeah, that's what all the idiots and assholes on MSNBC have been braying all day long.

Re: doesn't change much tho replyhazy October 23 2011, 00:30:43 UTC

Exactly. The words "since the Little Ice Age" will now appear all over the web.

Re: doesn't change much tho booksforlunch October 23 2011, 01:43:30 UTC

I don't get that line of "thinking". Never gotten it.

Even if it were not CAUSED by us, it's still HAPPENING. And if it's happening then blowing shit into the atmosphere that doesn't belong there will accelerate it. And the faster it happens, the smaller our, or the whole planet's, chances to adapt and prepare.

I mean, if one knows a storm flood is coming, one get's one's shit together and DOES something. Preferably something other then just carrying on.

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sobota October 23 2011, 12:16:46 UTC

wow, a fucking a for andromeda .gif.

and now i'm gonna go sit in a corner that i recognise what that came from.

saintly_heretic October 23 2011, 18:42:03 UTC

lol & :(

alicedear October 23 2011, 00:29:45 UTC

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kidantarctica October 23 2011, 00:49:37 UTC

snarksnarklaugh October 23 2011, 04:12:11 UTC

Sadly that is somewhat an issue in science but not so much in this case. Grant writing is an art and most studies of this size (billion data points takes a lot to run both money and computation power) are either government or corporation funded and have limits in what can be researched and where it gets published a lot of the time. Multi source funding should kind of shoot that propaganda claim down as well as people peer reviewing it. If they realise raw data and program paramatters of the model they used it helps to but people will always switch to critizing the model and/or interpetation of data. Academics are such catty in fighters if that doesn't work they usually pull the "your not qualifed to know what your talking about" card.
Sorry /end rant.

lithiumflower October 23 2011, 01:56:38 UTC

One of my professors legit doesn't believe in it. I'd never met anyone who admitted they didn't in real life, but someone he went from lecturing on circuits to the cyclic nature of Earth's hotspots to "'No, I don't believe in global warming, feel free to argue with me after class." No, ty.