The general public gestalt thinks scientific knowledge is either Gospel truth (because it's Science, duh!) or a bunch of lies concocted by the Godless liberal conspiracy (because they have their own Gospel truth, duh!).
Peer review, experimental design, reexamination of evidence in light of new discoveries, these things don't even enter into the worldview.
Huh, with data dating back to 1880, 5 of the ten warmest years show up in the first sixty years, 5 show up in the 66 years since then? Sounds about right. Wonder what that does to the projections--is the average trend less steeply upward than they thought?
It also calls out the gotchas in calling the phenomenon "global warming" instead of referring to global climate change, which is what's really happening, and what's really important--the redistribution around the calendar and around the globe of rainfall and dangerous storm activity, and the resulting effects on our ability to produce enough food to feed us all.
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Date: 2007-08-10 05:51 pm (UTC)Peer review, experimental design, reexamination of evidence in light of new discoveries, these things don't even enter into the worldview.
Huh, with data dating back to 1880, 5 of the ten warmest years show up in the first sixty years, 5 show up in the 66 years since then? Sounds about right. Wonder what that does to the projections--is the average trend less steeply upward than they thought?
It also calls out the gotchas in calling the phenomenon "global warming" instead of referring to global climate change, which is what's really happening, and what's really important--the redistribution around the calendar and around the globe of rainfall and dangerous storm activity, and the resulting effects on our ability to produce enough food to feed us all.