Environmental scientific "consensus
Remember DDT. The scientific consensus was that we had to ban DDT because it did too much damage to the environment. Well, maybe the scientific concensus was wrong.
About thirty years ago, the scientific consensus was that we could use old tires and tankers and other "garbage" as the base for rebuilding reefs and it would not damage the environment - it would actually SAVE the environment. Guess what...
"A well-intentioned attempt in 1972 to create what was touted as the world's largest artificial reef made of tires has become an ecological disaster. The idea was simple: Create new marine habitat and alternate dive sites to relieve pressure on natural reefs, while disposing of tires that were clogging landfills. Decades later it's clear the plan failed miserably. "
Today, the scientific consensus is global warming. However, there are several people who are finally speaking out about the global warming consensus.
"Czech president Vaclav Klaus has criticized the UN panel on global warming, claiming that it was a political authority without any scientific basis, Czech media reported Friday.Klaus told the Hospodarske noviny daily that the panel did not include "neutral scientists, a balanced group of scientists."
Last Sunday I recorded a program on the Research Channel on DishTV. The program was a panel discussion hosted by Fred Gadomski and Paul Knight who are both Senior Lecturers of Meteorology at the Penn State University. The program was titled "Spin Cycle:How the Media Portrays Climate Change"
"One study revealed that the 1930s played host to not only hotter and more extreme summers than the current decade, but also to some of the warmest and coldest winter months on record. A similar cycle emerged in the late 1960s, which--compiled with other data--has led meteorologists and researchers to notice a cyclical pattern of climate change about every 30 years.
It is all too easy to misinterpret data, said Knight and Gadomski, pointing to the supposed sharp increase in tornadoes in the mid 1980s. Meteorologists now link this statistical spike to the birth of home camcorders, which captured these natural disasters on personal video for the first time, and the recently-perfected Doppler Radar System, two tools which allowed unprecedented documentation of these occurrences. While the number of tornadoes may have stayed the same, the number being noticed and reported jumped dramatically. In fact, observed Gadomski, it seems that strong tornadoes actually decreased during that decade, further discounting media reports from that era, claiming that "weather has snapped." (emphasis mine)
I have long said, and this program validates it, that more research is necessary before we can claim with absolute certaintude that global warming is a man made phenomonon. When will our reactionaries in St. Paul and D.C. come to that common sense realization?
Hopefully the next time you hear someone like Heidi Cullen speak about the "reality" of anthropogenic climate change, you will have a little more of a rational view of the subject.
About thirty years ago, the scientific consensus was that we could use old tires and tankers and other "garbage" as the base for rebuilding reefs and it would not damage the environment - it would actually SAVE the environment. Guess what...
"A well-intentioned attempt in 1972 to create what was touted as the world's largest artificial reef made of tires has become an ecological disaster. The idea was simple: Create new marine habitat and alternate dive sites to relieve pressure on natural reefs, while disposing of tires that were clogging landfills. Decades later it's clear the plan failed miserably. "
Today, the scientific consensus is global warming. However, there are several people who are finally speaking out about the global warming consensus.
"Czech president Vaclav Klaus has criticized the UN panel on global warming, claiming that it was a political authority without any scientific basis, Czech media reported Friday.Klaus told the Hospodarske noviny daily that the panel did not include "neutral scientists, a balanced group of scientists."
Last Sunday I recorded a program on the Research Channel on DishTV. The program was a panel discussion hosted by Fred Gadomski and Paul Knight who are both Senior Lecturers of Meteorology at the Penn State University. The program was titled "Spin Cycle:How the Media Portrays Climate Change"
"One study revealed that the 1930s played host to not only hotter and more extreme summers than the current decade, but also to some of the warmest and coldest winter months on record. A similar cycle emerged in the late 1960s, which--compiled with other data--has led meteorologists and researchers to notice a cyclical pattern of climate change about every 30 years.
It is all too easy to misinterpret data, said Knight and Gadomski, pointing to the supposed sharp increase in tornadoes in the mid 1980s. Meteorologists now link this statistical spike to the birth of home camcorders, which captured these natural disasters on personal video for the first time, and the recently-perfected Doppler Radar System, two tools which allowed unprecedented documentation of these occurrences. While the number of tornadoes may have stayed the same, the number being noticed and reported jumped dramatically. In fact, observed Gadomski, it seems that strong tornadoes actually decreased during that decade, further discounting media reports from that era, claiming that "weather has snapped." (emphasis mine)
I have long said, and this program validates it, that more research is necessary before we can claim with absolute certaintude that global warming is a man made phenomonon. When will our reactionaries in St. Paul and D.C. come to that common sense realization?
Hopefully the next time you hear someone like Heidi Cullen speak about the "reality" of anthropogenic climate change, you will have a little more of a rational view of the subject.
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