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Krauthammer:
“The science is unstable. Because in the case of climate, the models are changeable because climate is so complicated. The idea that we who have trouble forecasting what’s going to happen on Saturday in the climate, could pretend to be predicting what’s going to happen in 30 to 40 years is absurd.
And, you always see that no matter what happens, whether it’s a flood or it’s a drought, whether it’s warming or cooling, it’s always a result in what we are ultimately talking about here – human sin with pollution of carbon. It’s the oldest superstition around. It was in the Old Testament. It’s in the rain dance of native Americans. If you sin the skies will not cooperate.
I don't know what Krauthammer is talking about, as to his use of OT examples, but it is a great point, when he points to the inability of science to predict weather days and weeks into the future, yet, pretends its knows with certainty, what will happen in a hundred years. Isn't that what they did with acid rain and the the global cooling "crisis" of the 1970's???? Heck, science doesn't even know how many planets there are, circling out Sun.
ReplyDeleteMore than this, the "models" created to prove global warming are not models, at all, but mathematical formula. There are a number of them forecasting differing levels of warming, and have proven to be extremely ineffective when it comes to specific predictions.
ReplyDeleteMore than this, increasing temp averages prove nothing. The world is divided into 7 regions. If one region has a 2 degree below average, for a period of time, five regions run at historic averages, and a 7th region comes in at 3 degrees above average, the average of the seven will "prove" warming," when such is not the case.
How can you expect idiots to understand science? America becomes more scientifically illiterate as time goes on. Like trying to teach organic chemistry to a 5 yr old.
ReplyDelete“if the general public doesn’t understand science and technology, then who is making all of the decisions about science and technology that are going to determine what kind of future our children live in, some members of congress? There are only a handful who have any background in science at all, and some of them don’t even want to know about it.” – Carl Sagan
Elitism of the worst order. My points concerning temp averages and weather models are as right as rain, and you know it, so you bring up nonsense that has nothing to do with what I wrote.
ReplyDelete"We just can't seem to stop burning up all those buried trees from way back in the carboniferous age, in the form of coal, and the remains of ancient plankton, in the form of oil and gas. If we could, we'd be home free climate wise. Instead, we're dumping carbon dioxide into the atmosphere at a rate the Earth hasn't seen since the great climate catastrophes of the past, the ones that led to mass extinctions. We just can't seem to break our addiction to the kinds of fuel that will bring back a climate last seen by the dinosaurs, a climate that will drown our coastal cities and wreak havoc on the environment and our ability to feed ourselves. All the while, the glorious sun pours immaculate free energy down upon us, more than we will ever need. Why can't we summon the ingenuity and courage of the generations that came before us? The dinosaurs never saw that asteroid coming. What's our excuse?"
ReplyDelete-Neil deGrasse Tyson, Astrophysicist
Yes, Krauthammer, Smithson, and the right wing morons know more than the 'real' scientists
http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/12/us/nasa-antarctica-ice-melt/index.html?hpt=hp_t1
ReplyDeleteSmithson hides his head in denial.