I have seen too many good folk both sides utterly convinced, have seen admitted fraud on the alarmist side, and know how the entrenched indoor job types will cook numbers to make their points or bonuses or tenure...the same folk who assure us something is perfectly safe (until you start growing fingernails in ears)...
As Mark Twain opined words to the effect that there are lies, damnable lies, and then there's statistics, I also know the only hard data is only a 100yr run, and the rest is tea leaf reading on either side, and I also know our known climate history for entire world is more famous for not staying in any predictable steady state for long at all...
I recall an unread science fiction work from 30-40yrs back, where the plot was end of world ice age brought on by stopping all petroleum use to stoo pollution, as it turned out we were due for an ice age, and all which had been keeping it at bay was fossil fuel use...
One thing for sure, anyone who pronounces they are irrefutably correct is a liar.
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I have seen too many good folk both sides utterly convinced, have seen admitted fraud on the alarmist side, and know how the entrenched indoor job types will cook numbers to make their points or bonuses or tenure...the same folk who assure us something is perfectly safe (until you start growing fingernails in ears)...
As Mark Twain opined words to the effect that there are lies, damnable lies, and then there's statistics, I also know the only hard data is only a 100yr run, and the rest is tea leaf reading on either side, and I also know our known climate history for entire world is more famous for not staying in any predictable steady state for long at all...
I recall an unread science fiction work from 30-40yrs back, where the plot was end of world ice age brought on by stopping all petroleum use to stoo pollution, as it turned out we were due for an ice age, and all which had been keeping it at bay was fossil fuel use...
One thing for sure, anyone who pronounces they are irrefutably correct is a liar.
The question remains of course: How_should_we then proceed?
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