--- In [email protected], "shempmcgurk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Chill out over global warming > By David Harsanyi > Denver Post Staff Columnist > > Admittedly, I possess virtually no expertise in science. That puts > me in exactly the same position as most dogmatic environmentalists > who want to craft public policy around global warming fears.
Thats the attitude of many, it apepars,who know nothing. They can only assume others are as uninformed as they are. "I mean all those big words. It must be bogus gobblygook. Its just those knucklehead geeks from high school who think they are SOOOO smart. Lets pants 'em! " > > The only inconvenient truth about global warming, contends Colorado > State University's Bill Gray, is that a genuine debate has never > actually taken place. Hundreds of scientists, many of them prominent > in the field, agree. Out of the 50,000 that don't agree.Who have been debating the issue for years. And have come to a close, growing consensus. > Gray is perhaps the world's foremost hurricane expert. As am I, perhaps. > His Tropical > Storm Forecast sets the standard. Yet, his criticism of the global > warming "hoax" makes him an outcast. > "They've been brainwashing us for 20 years," Gray says. "Starting > with the nuclear winter and now with the global warming. This scare > will also run its course. In 15-20 years, we'll look back and see > what a hoax this was." Maybe. Maybe from 10 feet underwater. :) But anyone who equates global winter with global warming, IMO, is probably a charlatan, or a highly paid consultant to heavy CO2 producers. > Gray directs me to a 1975 Newsweek article that whipped up a > different fear: a coming ice age. Which is coming. Between now and 20,000 plus years. In fact, we are still in a major ice age, just a relatively short, 50,000-100,000 year interglaciation period -- a plateau of warm weather. > "Climatologists," reads the piece, "are pessimistic that political > leaders will take any positive action to compensate for the climatic > change. ... The longer the planners delay, the more difficult will > they find it to cope with climatic change once the results become > grim reality." And his bad research 30 years ago proves current research is bogus? Oh my! > > > Another highly respected (by the oil industry?) climatologist, Roger Pielke Sr. at the > University of Colorado, is also skeptical. > > Pielke contends there isn't enough intellectual diversity in the > debate. He claims a few vocal individuals are quoted "over and over" > again, when in fact there are a variety of opinions. Which are converging. Only a few are left on the radical tails of the distribution. Its a fairy tight "bell", hoovering around the mean of concensus. > > I ask him: How do we fix the public perception that the debate is > over? > > "Quite frankly," says Pielke, who runs the Climate Science Weblog > (climatesci.atmos.colostate.edu), "I think the media is in the ideal > position to do that. If the media honestly presented the views out > there, which they rarely do, things would change. There aren't just > two sides here. There are a range of opinions on this issue. Which closely converge. Not all over the board. >A lot > of scientists out there that are very capable of presenting other > views are not being heard." Good. lets hear them. And If they are not the few in fringe tails, differences with most cliamate scientists is relatively small. Their differenes with cowboy yahoo journalists who admit to knowing nothing may be large. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Protect your PC from spy ware with award winning anti spy technology. It's free. http://us.click.yahoo.com/97bhrC/LGxNAA/yQLSAA/UlWolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
