A 'little' perspective.
Posted on 05/17/2014 9:49:47 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Yet global warming believers think a computer projection is a legitimate reason to transform of our standard of living dramatically...
A 'little' perspective.
One aspect of humanism, that we’re the center of the universe, so therefore also the cause of everything that can go wrong. It’s actually anti-humanism in the spiritual sense because they believe we’re only animals, just here for instinctive self-gratification.
I think there is excellent evidence mankind is causing an increase in CO2 and other greenhouse evidence. Indeed the evidence for this is indisputable.
But there are (at least) two additional levels of extrapolation from this fact that warmists often gloss over.
1. Since greenhouse gases are increasing, the atmosphere will heat up. The problem with this assumption is that there are many, many feedback systems in the ecosystem, many of which we don’t understand. We probably aren’t even aware of all of them.
Yet warmists make the unjustified assumption that all such feedback will be positive, increasing warming, or at least that the net effect of all the feedbacks will be positive.
It is as reasonable to assume that feedbacks will be neutral or even negative in effect.
2. Massive changes to our way of life is the best, indeed only, way to effectively address the warming caused by an increase in greenhouse gases. And that putting governments in charge of these changes is the only hope for mankind and the ecosystem.
Even if we were to assume that warming is happening exactly as claimed, the universal agreement among warmists that the only solution is to make government immensely more powerful is at the very least unproven.
Yet if you disagree with, or even express a lack of conviction regarding, any one of these points you will be denounced as a “denier.”
>> A climate change researcher has claimed that scientists are confusing their role as impartial observers...
I had no idea where this story was going when I read the opening fragment; however, I appreciated its meaning which speaks to the political exploitation of science and trust — the realm of Climate Politics.
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