The current favorite argument of those who argue that climate changes isn?t happening, or a problem, or worth dealing with, is that global warming has stopped. Therefore (they conclude) scientists must be wrong when they say that climate change is caused by humans, worsening, and ultimately a serious environmental problem Full Story »
Posted by Harry A Farr - via Google News (Climate Change)
A remarkably superficial story that is guilty of the same type of data cherry-picking that it so blithely criticizes.
this article, along with one linked to it in the daily mail, illustrates the complexity of how science works, and the difficulty those of us have, who are not scientists but would like to see ourselves as able as they, to interpret the data. each of these stories has incomplete data being used to convey the writer's point of view. as in most science, climate change data relies upon both observation and mathematical models and more observation, and so on..., to determine, until some other established data is complete enough, what appears to be the reality. clearly the factors discussed in these articles are all real factors, but without the scientific knowledge to interpret them, we leave it to the bulk of the scientists ... More »
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