Yeah, but isn't this the angels on a pin-head argument writ large and blogged?
No matter who skews what data, the incontrovertible fact is that our climate is
changing. I know this is true because the spot where I'm typing this e-mail
was, not so long ago (geologic scale) under a mile-thick sheet of ice.
The argument is how much humanity is contributing. Because we are defined by
our hubris, we think it's all our fault, when, truth to tell, it's only partly
our fault, never mind that because we are as much a natural occurrence as
anything else on the planet, it can be said that global climate change is a
completely natural event. Humanity may not survive it, but, on the cosmic
scale, who cares? If we're stupid enough to do ourselves in, what real
difference does it make? We may fry ourselves, but the Earth will abide. That's
all that matters.
And, eventually, even Earth will no longer abide. Suns going dark or exploding
have a way of messing up ecosystems. Big Time. Now _that's_ climate change.
--A Tongue in Cheek but Utterly Serious Bob
On Aug 4, 2011, at 6:07 PM, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
> Try this instead. It's only 5 minutes. This is physics professor
> Richard Muller of Berkeley talking about what has come to be known as
> the "hockey stick" graph which was featured in the 2001 Third Assessment
> Report of the IPCC and also in Al Gore's movie "An Inconvenient Truth"
>
> Richard Muller, unlike many trusting academics, has actually read and
> understood at least some of the ClimateGate emails. He had been a firm
> believer in the hockey stick and the data behind it. That is, until he
> understood the ClimateGate story and realized he had been had. As you
> can see from this short video he is not a happy camper and no longer
> believes anything coming out of Phil Jones and the Climate Research Unit
> at the University of East Anglia. Likewise Michael Mann of the
> University of Pennsylvania who is the "Mike" of "Mike's hide the decline
> trick".
>
> <http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/03/18/you%E2%80%99re-not-allowed-to-do-this-in-science/>
>
> The good good Viscount Monkton can be a bit tedious at times and it is
> not advisable to get into an argument with him. He can throw statistics
> at you faster than you can duck. Most of them will have some thread of
> truth about them but, being a politician at heart, his truth is, like
> Bill Clinton's, a bit bendable when it suits him.
>
> However, I have actually read nearly all of the 1,000+ emails in the
> Climategate dossier. It is not a pretty picture as Professor Muller has
> discovered for himself.
--
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