tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5165450453057285644.post4683577954581894647..comments2024-03-19T00:14:32.863-07:00Comments on 48 Minutes of Hell: The Next New ModelGraydonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07425068982352114271noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5165450453057285644.post-60608317165968885022008-11-20T00:45:00.000-08:002008-11-20T00:45:00.000-08:00You're right broyatlaw, climate change is 100% not...You're right broyatlaw, climate change is 100% not man made. So we should keep doing just what we're doing. Keep burning, using, and throwing away our ecosystem. Even if we completely eliminated the issue of climate change, isn't living in balance with the Earth still a necessary change that needs to be made? The fact is that we all depend on clean air, water and soil. Killing it with our current consumption patterns is insane, whether global warming is real or not.<BR/><BR/><BR/>The NBA and its players could have an important role if they wanted to help change things. We need to make loving Mother Earth cool. Who better than King James or KG to set the example? When Dwight Howard says we need to heal our planet, it's not pansy or hippie anymore. It's cool. We need to get off this idea that caring about the environment is for treehuggers. We're all on the same team on this one y'all: Team Life on Earth.zakkuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10639765336370428903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5165450453057285644.post-73443040202972215242008-11-19T16:31:00.000-08:002008-11-19T16:31:00.000-08:00Crichton's quote is nice and all, but misses the p...Crichton's quote is nice and all, but misses the point and then some. It's not consensus science, in that scientists get together and decide what they will agree to believe; rather it's a consensus that the science points to human-caused climate change. The individual experimenters have found something, and others have reviewed their findings and re-run their experiments. Their results are reproducible, and thus is born a scientific consensus. <BR/><BR/>Those who would tell you that the science is not clear, or that it is born of politics, are ignoring the massive amount of data and experiments around this issue, and they are ignoring this usually for monetary reasons. Don't bother reaching for your wallet, they're already there.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08191418962075736260noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5165450453057285644.post-27695184590275968712008-11-16T07:17:00.000-08:002008-11-16T07:17:00.000-08:00Here's a great quote from the late Michael Crichto...Here's a great quote from the late Michael Crichton:<BR/><BR/>”I want to pause here and talk about this notion of consensus, and the rise of what has been called consensus science. I regard consensus science as an extremely pernicious development that ought to be stopped cold in its tracks. Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled. Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you're being had.<BR/>“Let's be clear: The work of science has nothing whatever to do with consensus. Consensus is the business of politics. Science, on the contrary, requires only one investigator who happens to be right, which means that he or she has results that are verifiable by reference to the real world. In science consensus is irrelevant. What is relevant is reproducible results. The greatest scientists in history are great precisely because they broke with the consensus.<BR/><BR/>“There is no such thing as consensus science. If it's consensus, it isn't science. If it's science, it isn't consensus. Period. . . .Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06454778539482700412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5165450453057285644.post-68710917105047118272008-11-15T08:59:00.000-08:002008-11-15T08:59:00.000-08:00Good information on the Spurs' approach. I take i...Good information on the Spurs' approach. I take issue, however, with the notion that there is real controversy regarding "climate change". <BR/><BR/>Yes, there are ordinary people who doubt the scientific consensus; just as there are others being well-compensated to foster such doubt. Regardless of the origins of this anti-intellectual, anti-"elitist" sentiment, it is not borne out by science.<BR/><BR/>Remember: the Earth is only 6,000 years old; Jesus rode a dinosaur; and evolution is the tinfoil hat worn by the brainwashed masses to keep out the truth-rays sent down from God.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17790316816333461325noreply@blogger.com