On August 16, 2016 8:41:03 PM EDT, Zenaan Harkness <z...@freedbms.net> wrote: >On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 06:26:39PM +0000, jim bell wrote: >> From: John Newman <j...@synfin.org> >> >I disagree, vehemently. Global warming is not a red herring. >> > Permafrost is melting, oceans are rising and acidifying, and the >> >future for big >coastal cities is looking very bleak indeed. There >> >is a scientific consensus on this issue. >> >> I don't see how there can be "scientific consensus" unless there are >> accurate computer models which show how up climate temperature >> increases as a product of addition of CO2 to the atmosphere. Both >> qualitatively and quantitatively. How much do these problems >> represent? >> >> From Lord Kelvin: >> >> “When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in >> numbers, you know something about it, when you cannot express it in >> numbers, your knowledge is of a meager and unsatisfactory kind; it >may >> be the beginning of knowledge, but you have scarely, in your thoughts >> advanced to the stage of science.” >> >http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/166961-when-you-can-measure-what-you-are-speaking-about-and >> >> There is also the prospect of adding SO2 to the high atmosphere to >> counteract heating, which could be a very cheap solution. >> Jim Bell > >THANK you!! > >"Global warming" gets bandied around as though it is "scientific" or >even more ridiculously "accepted science". > >And another thing !! <waves old wooden walking sticdk> it was always >called Global Warming, except then it got called Global Anthropogenic >Temperature Changes, except then it got called Global Climate Change, >except before in the 60s or 70s (dang, I can't remember which) it was >called Global Cooling - front page Time Magazine articles an all. Take >THAT yung whipperyschapperies! > >Dang Global Scientific Marketers just can't decide which terms to even >use - that sure gave me confidence in their certinty!
Har har! Dang ol science it must be a CONSPIRACY yeah that's it!! What has science ever done anyway? Fucking ridiculous. -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.