"Climate porn"
Accept2 said:
Youre right, we did mess it up. We totally turned Egypt into a desert, and we turned the north pole from a rich forest into a frozen wasteland. We did it because nothing is greater than the human race. No other factors but us are responsible...............
Yeah, that's us boomers. We think of the changes in our lifetime as if that was the whole of eternity. Before us was nothing and when we die the world will end...
In the Toronto Sun today there was an article talking about how so many predictions from the 70's turned out dead wrong, like the population explosion and an imminent Ice Age. The author used a term new to me: "climate porn". This refers to the avalanche of claims today where EVERYTHING to do with the climate is a crisis!
I have to smile when I hear some eco spokesperson on the tube refer to how there's an "overwhelming concensus" among scientists. What sort of scientist would ever take concensus as any kind of proof? We've had scientific concensus in our history on how the earth was the centre of the universe and how the world is flat! A fact is either true or it isn't and it makes NO difference whether one person or a billion believes it.
Five billion flies eat crap. So much for concensus. If you're still not convinced then go the newstand and get a copy of "Weekly World". Judging by its circulation figures it's obvious there's a concensus that Bat Boy is indeed the love child of Saddam and Osama...
This doesn't mean of course that there's no global warming happening. It just means that there's a lot of folks that make sweeping claims with poor evidence or reasoning. The kid who cried wolf too often after all was eaten by one so there was indeed a wolf out there. The problem many of us doubters have is that we are not being asked to accept just the idea of global warming.
We are expected to swallow a huge bundle of concepts, namely that not only is global warming real but that it's all the fault of Man and that our only hope is to spend vast amounts of money and effort in the way THEY tell us we must! These are all very separate and distinct things. The globe may not actually be warming, or it may be somthing natural (it seems the eco-warriors flatly refuse to take into account the increased level of radiation coming from the sun. Apparently there are warming effects being seen on Mars as well.) Even if it is a real phenomenon why should we impoverish ourselves by taking advice without qualifying it to see if it's any good? There are a lot of starving people on this world. To divert monies from them on a "maybe" seems awfully cruel...
To go back to my boomer reference, who says the climate of the past hundred years is "normal" anyway? I once read about how when the Vikings first landed in Newfoundland it was warm enough there for grape growing!
Those poor folks on the Rock! They've been waiting 800 years to get warm again!:tongue:
