On 12/01/2013 8:24 PM, Craig Sanders wrote:
which I personally and strongly believe to be false.
the trouble with faith-based reality is not only that wearing blinders a fucking stupid thing to do, it's also flat out wrong - and easily proved so.
It's not just faith based; there is debate, even between those with significant scientific background. I expect that both sides misrepresent the facts to suit their arguments (including or excluding data to suit). Just the same, both sides still argue -- and I am not talking about lay people whom have no idea as to the truth or otherwise of the presented facts (no matter how much political and/or media hype is involved), but arguments by those in the scientific community itself. Many here take the view of the apparent majority of scientists to be fact, that's okay. Clearly, I don't. As I've said before some of those scientists have their own agendas. Some of my views comes from the real plausibility of the video documentary about the "global warming swindle" [1]. In the said documentary, scientists had trouble getting their names removed from the IPCC report [2]. The list of names included in the IPCC report included many non-scientists just to make up the numbers. It was asserted in the documentary that those scientists wanting to be removed had to make legal threats to ensure their names were not associated with the affirmation and false assertions of the document. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtevF4B4RtQ [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtevF4B4RtQ#t=2m20s -- listen to at least 6 minutes in, better to see the entire program though. Cheers A.