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Whither Global Warming?
I really like Michael Crichton. I linked to a speech on environmentalism a while back. Here's another one on global warming.
Nobody believes a weather prediction twelve hours ahead. Now we're asked to believe a prediction that goes out 100 years into the future? And make financial investments based on that prediction? Has everybody lost their minds?
which is soon followed by
Let's think back to people in 1900 in, say, New York. If they worried about people in 2000, what would they worry about? Probably: Where would people get enough horses? And what would they do about all the horseshit? Horse pollution was bad in 1900, think how much worse it would be a century later, with so many more people riding horses?
It's a very interesting article to read. He talks alot about consensus in science. He also talks about second hand smoke. The more I've read about the second hand smoke the less I believe it causes any health problems. I'm certainly in favor of reducing smoking in public places but I don't want to twist science. We know now that silicon breast implants don't have major health problems. What's next for scientific consensus? (I also like where he compare SETI to religion.)
posted on Thursday, December 16, 2004 9:57 PM Print
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# re: Whither Global Warming?
John
2/2/2005 8:32 AM
have you seen this <a href="http://www.realclimate.org/index.php?p=74">scientific response</a> to Crichton's novel?
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