Brigitte Bardot, one-time French screen goddess turned animal rights activist seen here in 2007, wants the European Union to institute a "Vegetarian Day" as part of the battle against global warming. (AFP/Eric Feferberg)
Posted on 11/19/2009 9:34:23 AM PST by MNDude
Reality is black or white. Science is the attempt to fit theories to observations of reality. When a theory doesn't account for recent cooling (or they just write it off as a random fluke that doesn't matter), then it's time for a new theory. The new theory will hopefully be a little less gray than the old one, but it won't be black or white (and will never be).
Even the Aztecs came around when the sun continued shinging despite the end of human sacrifice.
“Climatologists” may be baffled, but those of us who majored in those sections of physics where correct answers correlate with us keeping our jobs were not baffled at all.
It was bull Obama then. It’s bull Obama now.
Climate physicists aren’t puzzled at all. It was expected.
I think by “climatologists,” Spiegel meant UN bureaucrats and left-wing fruitcakes.
Um, because they idiots are using junk science that ignores variations in the activity of the big burning ball of thermonuclear fire in our sky?
Nah, that couldn’t be it. Must be GW Bush’s fault, probably for insufficient funding of their junk science. /spit
“Scientific Consensus” up to about the 15th century was that the Earth was flat!
Does this sentence make any sense? Global warming stopped ten years ago but global warming may come to a standstill this year? What?
And by the way... you might look at that bright yellow thing in the sky for your answers “scientists”.
Well obviously all of our efforts in going green are working, dontcha know? /sarc
Its unfortunate, but I think that will be the answer for the whackos
Your answer is obviously more nuanced and I stand corrected. Consensus in science is occasionally essential to move a theory forward but it can also be a cancer that prevents investigation and exploration. Remember it was not too long ago, in earth terms, the “consensus” was the earth was flat.
No, no, no! It’s not about the SUN, it’s about the SUV.
And of course, the many instances in the past where the “consensus” said one thing, and reality said another.
Next semester these experts will be introduced to the sine curve.
They finally admit that there has been no warming in recent years, after lying for 10 years that the warming is “accelerating”.
Stopped rising? Its been falling!
I saw that too. But if the Oceans boil, won’t that stop some other issues, like the sinking cost lines?
Britain's Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research ...the world grew warmer by 0.07 degrees Celsius (Zero, 0.0 degrees Celsius, considering El Niño and La Niña effect) from 1999 to 2008 and not by the 0.2 degrees Celsius assumed by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.LOL
Squiggly light bulbs and “green” products is a multi-billion dollar industry.
They are not going to give up easily.
Yea, we should have less concern about sinking coastlines if the oceans boil but I’m still in a dither and overwhelming distraught how all that affects women.
My wife still wants her steak dinner and if the climate is stable I’ll have to do that but if we are headed for catastrophe then I’ll do my part and tell her no way on steaks.
Oh the conundrum of scamming people on global warming.
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