Friday, May 26, 2006
Global Warming - Lots of stuff
If you want a plethora of info on Global Warming, try this website.
All currently published data, methods, and trends, seem to be worthy of dispute.
My summary conclusion is to enjoy your day, and not to worry...
All currently published data, methods, and trends, seem to be worthy of dispute.
My summary conclusion is to enjoy your day, and not to worry...
JunkScience.com prides themselves on debunking bad science. On the subject of global warming, here's their opening in it's entirety:
"Given the number of JunkScience.com readers expressing some confusion over the "greenhouse effect," carbon dioxide, global warming and climate change, we thought it might be a good idea to pull together a page of questions-and-answers, complete with a few nice little graphics explaining the facts."
"We thought that since there is long-standing, intense public interest in these topics and that vast sums of public and private monies are being thrown at the much-dreaded "problem" of "global warming," there should be a wealth of quality explanations and graphics to which we can point readers to alleviate their confusion."
"That was about the time that our quick project and quiet weekend went awry very quickly."
"Who would have thought so many "issue" sites, environment sites and, yes, government sites, could be hosting so much utter garbage on a topic subject to such intense scrutiny? Who could have imagined having to spend several hours wading through searches to find a few simple graphics correctly expressing the greenhouse effect? Who knew that so many blowhards are out there pontificating from complete ignorance?"
"Some of the bad descriptions appear to be poor efforts at simplifying the material to suit grade school course work and the like, but that does not make them any more acceptable. Obviously a slight rethink of this project was necessary. We will now try to deliver an extremely simplified version of how this greenhouse thing actually works and some indication of what might be expected from what is known about the Earth and what has been measured, rather than simply guessed about."
