On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 12:51 PM, Gar Lipow <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 3:41 AM, Laurent GUERBY <[email protected]> wrote: >> Some common sense hopefully appears, in recent news: > > How about some common sense on your part. Regardless of whether 4 > scientists did something just awful, the ice caps are still melting. > We still have winter cannibalism among Polar Bears. The fucking world > is (metaphorically) on fire, and we should not be distracted by > whether estimates of the size of the flames are as accurate as we'd > like them to be. Why do people who would recognize this kind of > quibbling as bullshit in any other field find it of paramount > importance in climate science?
It'd help if you stopped exaggerating. The world is NOT on fire, metaphorically or otherwise. Yes, the world may be facing an environmental disaster. But temperatures are not the only symptom of that. I wish environmentalists would adopt more nuance in making their case. It is not quibbling to ask for more details when (a) even small average temperature difference can make a big difference in climate outcomes, (b) the accuracy of the models and data is not orders of magnitude higher than the temperature variations in consideration. Please stop insisting that climate science be treated on a par with gravity. That is simply absurd. -raghu. -- "I used to do drugs. I still do drugs. But I used to, too." - Mitch Hedberg _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
