Weak anthropic principal at work. Nobody complained during last major ice age because we were not around. We live at a privileged time.
Luckily, black holes suffer from indigestion which is why we are alive today. Stewart Darkmattersalot.com On Tuesday, December 4, 2012, Robert McKay wrote: > On Tue, 4 Dec 2012 10:43:59 -0500, Jed Rothwell wrote: > >> Robert McKay wrote: >> >> I dont doubt that.. the climatologists themselves arent going to >>> benefit much either way (although Im sure many of them make a modest >>> livings out of it - and thats not nothing these days). Theyre merely >>> needed to produce those tedious reports.. they just need to keep >>> churning out talking points to keep the issue alive. >>> >> >> Look, that is ridiculous. People do not act that way! A person does >> not spend 5 or 10 years slaving away to get a PhD without being in >> love with the subject. You dont do that just to get some meaningless, >> dead-end job churning out fake data for corporations for 60 hours a >> week. >> > > I'm not saying they don't believe in what they're doing.. there must be > lots of legitimate data showing climate change.. the climate does change > after all. The point I was making that is that the climate science is > simply irrelevant to understanding global warming / "the climate change > issue" which is better understood as a political and financial phenomenon. > > I'm already regreting entering the discussion.. so I'll drop it, it > doesn't seem like we'll be reaching any kind of concensus. :) > > Rob > >
