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By: Dan

Dan

My point in noting Americans’ lack of concern over Global Warming was not in the manner of scientific proof. Popular opinion (or the number of scientists who agree with a UN report) has no more bearing on science than it does history. If 53% of Americans believed that Germany bombed Pearl Harbor, that wouldn’t make it true. But it is relevant when we talk about on which causes we are going to fritter away taxpayer money. Governing is choosing, and it’s a poorly governed country that goes bankrupt spending money on a crisis that its people either don’t believe is happening or don’t believe can be solved by humans. Science is not a democracy, but government spending is subject to one.

The IPCC is not reliable, and you belie your bias by implying there is any industrial pressure applied to the IPCC. What evidence do you have for such a claim–that an inter-governmental panel of the UN is influenced by corporations? In contrary, the East Anglia Climate Research Unit was censured for conspiring to manipulate data and findings on which the IPCC based its report in order to ensure the study would “prove” Global Warming™ exists. In fact, several of the scientists whose names are used to add weight have objected, say the summary is inconsistent with their findings, and they do not support the hysteria. Tom Tripp, the study’s lead author, is just one: http://www.heraldextra.com/news/local/article_fccab79f-0d21-55e2-9dfd-1991fb43ba18.html?

Government sponsored research will never find that a problem doesn’t exist. To think so is to be naive to history and human nature.

By: Pip

Pip — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 22:51:30 +0000

In response to another of your posts, I discussed the role of government investment, but here, I just want to point out that referencing what the American public “believes” as if it has any meaning means based on your resume that you are just being a huge tool. I assume you’re smart enough based on your education and work history that you know the American public is not a reliable scientific source. Go look at the IPCC report, a group comprised of the best and brightest scientists working in fields related to the issue of climate change. It’s happening. The disturbing part is the reports are written in a very conservative way. There’s the gentle pull of industry and politics, but the much stronger pull of the scientific community to not overstate the problem, and so every year, the problem is worse than the report will state, atmospheric changes that they marked a few years ago to occur in a decade, are already here. I don’t want to be negative towards you, but I think you’re smart, and you have to know that the American public is in many situations a poor source of information, and that the form of rhetoric that depends on that statement is in my opinion a lie. It is a kind of lying to knowingly mislead others. The media and the politicians lie in this way all the time, and I’m frankly uncomfortable with it. Tell me the truth, use the truth, and don’t worry if the truth is difficult, or if the outcome of telling the truth is unpredictable.

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