Global Warming Scientists Have Nothing to Lose
It has become almost a fashion trend in the Western World to be of the opinion that Global Warming is a man made phenomenon and needs to be stopped. Those who snicker and sneer at the idea are in turn snickered and sneered at by these nose up environmental whack jobs. Just today, NASA scientist James Hansen told us:
“We’re toast if we don’t get on a very different path,” Hansen, director of the Goddard Institute of Space Sciences who is sometimes called the godfather of global warming science, told The Associated Press. “This is the last chance.“
This is such a spineless position. It’s easy to see why the opposing position is harder to stand up and proliferate. If you’re a scientist on the Global Warming side, you can keep spewing your “research” and scarring people on to your side. When governments around the world join to spend billions, if not trillions, on research and development in lowering greenhouse gas emissions, you can sit there and baste in your glory. If everything goes well, as it likely would have even without any intervention, everyone will sing your praises. If not, you can sit there and tell everyone they didn’t act fast enough. Either way, when it comes to government contracts you win.
If you’re on the other side, what incentives do you have to speak out? You’re vastly criticized despite your research and specialization; despite your dedication and hard work. Your opinion is not profitable. This is why your arguments will never gain any traction.
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Middle O road
The key here really isn’t about global warming, it’s about climate change. The likelihood is that as humans, we have an impact on our planet. Scientists are mostly talking about climate change and not global warming, but climate change doesn’t sound as sexy to say. Our climate is changing, as it always has. It’s a cyclical system, for us this doesn’t bode well. We’ve established our society based on the current climate, current ocean level, current severity of storms we’ve experienced. Well, things change. Let’s get real. We’re screwed if it gets hotter or colder, we’re screwed. Colder and hello ice age, warmer, goodbye glaciers and goodbye ocean currents, goodbye Europe as we know it.
I guess, my point is, the key isn’t to complain about who is right or wrong, how about a solution. If you want to complain, complain to someone that you’d prefer things stay the same and preach sustainability and instead of just hoping someone is wrong, why not make changes toward stabilization?
Jul 6th, 2008
bavalova
You certainly have a point but the response to your statement lies within it. Our climate, by many estimations, is cyclical. That statement alone absolves us as humans of responsibility; that is, nothing we do on a day to day basis will change the climate’s cycle in the long run. Sustainability is impossible lest some major scientific breakthrough; but that breakthrough isn’t the hybrid car or energy conservation.
My point is, you cannot be a “pro-climate change” scientist. Climate change happens; it’s a given. Taking a contrary position would be as ludicrous as denying some other scientific observation (e.g., claiming objects near the earth don’t “fall” at 32ft/s/s). Global warming via human energy consumption and/or pollution requires you to take a stance on evidence that isn’t quite convincing.
If climate change is cyclical, preaching sustainability would be as pointless as swimming against a tsunami’s current, to use a crude example.
I look forward to reading your response.
Jul 7th, 2008
ThatsWhatSheSaid
Brilliant!
Aug 7th, 2008
ThatsWhatSheSaid
Fantastic!
Aug 7th, 2008
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