This is pretty much the world at large’s perception to global warming all right. They might gripe about it, but then turn around and not do much of anything to supposedly help correct it.
Personally, I’m of the opinion that global warming is indeed a thing, but I do suspect it’s also gotten somewhat blown out of proportion too. I also have my doubts about humanity really being the cause of it. INFLUENCED it, certainly, but the actual cause of it? Still on the fence about that.
I also think we’ve already passed the point of no return; life on Earth probably will never be quite like it once was in our lifetimes.
Strange… oil companies are spending more money on their anti-science climate denial propaganda than they are spending on their geological scientist payrolls.
Global warming is dead – wake up and smell the roses. Global climate change seems to be alive and well. What it boils down to [no pun intended] . . . it’s a natural cycle influenced by multiple factors of which humans have absolutely no control. Case in point, naturalists speak of multiple ice ages – meaning periods of warming and cooling in the past in which man was not even present. We had nothing to do with the previous climate changes, we’ve had nothing to do with this one.
The negative y-axis is typically the realm of those who claim to “look” at the science, but skip analyzing any in-depth research and can probably not name a single scientific journal. Most of their time is spent time feeding their confirmation bias by reading pre-packaged bites of loosely correlated data, wrapped in the shiny ribbon of pithy remarks or analogies. I have engaged in serious discussions with people who really DO know some science and still doubt the existence of manmade climate change. Unfortunately, not one has persisted for very long with independent thinking. The justifiable science – scarce enough to begin with – runs out quickly, and soon all they have can do is parrot the more common denier tropes. At that point, I hand them a figurative cracker by finding a way to change the subject before they look too ignorant.
KZ71 almost 10 years ago
Or you can look at the science get into the negative y-axis.
scyphi26 almost 10 years ago
This is pretty much the world at large’s perception to global warming all right. They might gripe about it, but then turn around and not do much of anything to supposedly help correct it.
Personally, I’m of the opinion that global warming is indeed a thing, but I do suspect it’s also gotten somewhat blown out of proportion too. I also have my doubts about humanity really being the cause of it. INFLUENCED it, certainly, but the actual cause of it? Still on the fence about that.
I also think we’ve already passed the point of no return; life on Earth probably will never be quite like it once was in our lifetimes.
benbrilling almost 10 years ago
Strange… oil companies are spending more money on their anti-science climate denial propaganda than they are spending on their geological scientist payrolls.
rnmontgomery52 almost 10 years ago
Global warming is dead – wake up and smell the roses. Global climate change seems to be alive and well. What it boils down to [no pun intended] . . . it’s a natural cycle influenced by multiple factors of which humans have absolutely no control. Case in point, naturalists speak of multiple ice ages – meaning periods of warming and cooling in the past in which man was not even present. We had nothing to do with the previous climate changes, we’ve had nothing to do with this one.
hippogriff almost 10 years ago
rnmontgomery52: That’s the party line and the corporate media will echo it or lose advertizing revenue.
Seeker149 Premium Member over 9 years ago
The negative y-axis is typically the realm of those who claim to “look” at the science, but skip analyzing any in-depth research and can probably not name a single scientific journal. Most of their time is spent time feeding their confirmation bias by reading pre-packaged bites of loosely correlated data, wrapped in the shiny ribbon of pithy remarks or analogies. I have engaged in serious discussions with people who really DO know some science and still doubt the existence of manmade climate change. Unfortunately, not one has persisted for very long with independent thinking. The justifiable science – scarce enough to begin with – runs out quickly, and soon all they have can do is parrot the more common denier tropes. At that point, I hand them a figurative cracker by finding a way to change the subject before they look too ignorant.