Here's a recent statement from the scientists "There is mounting evidence that climate change is triggering a shrinking and thinning of many glaciers world-wide, ..." but no conclusive evidence as far as they are concerned. I wonder when they will be sure. When the last one has gone, perhaps? http://www.grid.unep.ch/glaciers/
On Mar 10, 10:17 pm, oku <[email protected]> wrote: > I recently found a nice definition for superstition > fromhttp://blog.evangelicalrealism.com/2009/03/04/superstition-and-science/: > > "Rather, I am compelled to use the term precisely because it does > refer to a practice that constitutes erroneous reasoning. I need to be > able to say that it is fallacious “to claim to have found the cause of > X when all you have really done is to attribute X to Y, via some kind > of magical version of cause and effect, without showing any > demonstrable or even describable connection between X and Y.” > > Now, spot the difference between the reasoning of the people of the > Rolwaling Valley and climate scientists. > > Oliver > > On Mar 3, 2:59 pm, Alastair <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Quote "Locals are superstitious, and say climate change is a result of > > the gods > > being angry. They have no idea that it is all a result of fossil-fuel > > burning by the rest of the world." > > > Interesting. The scientists must be superstitious too because they > > have no-idea whether it is all the result of fossil fuel burning > > either. > > > Cheers, Alastair. > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Global Change ("globalchange") newsgroup. Global Change is a public, moderated venue for discussion of science, technology, economics and policy dimensions of global environmental change. Posts will be admitted to the list if and only if any moderator finds the submission to be constructive and/or interesting, on topic, and not gratuitously rude. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/globalchange -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
