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All day, the midtown Manhattan traffic swirled unnoticed beneath the windows as these men and women — which included not only America's pre-eminent climate experts but two psychologists and other experts too — wrestled with what they call a crisis.Convened by Yale's Project on Climate Change at the Yale School of Forestry and Environment Studies, its purpose was not to debate global warming science but to figure out how to convey its most important findings to the public "with appropriate urgency and sustained for the long haul."
It is a goal these scientists see constantly thwarted by what they dubbed "the forces of darkness" — a persistent disinformation campaign, waged by some fossil fuel companies and cooperating politicians that downplays the gravity of global warming.
Oh, there might be a few dark scientists in the ranks.
There's a lovely bit in there where they accuse the famously sensationalism-loving media of not being enough of a "bridge" for their views; it seems journalists are being naively "tricked" when they attempt even-handed coverage of the issue -- by the trolls under the bridge, evidently.
By the way, there are 16 supercomputers that support their opinions, so it must be true; the longstanding computer science fact of "garbage in, garbage out" is suspended on this topic and it all becomes gospel.
Posted by floridacracker at November 11, 2006 12:29 PMWas it Galileo that faced burning at the stake for claiming the world was round ??
I am about as certain of global warming as Napoleon
was of the magical powers of the Giza pyramids... I hear it was the quartz impregnated granite that fired him up.
What? You don't believe in pyramid power?
Right down the road from me is a mausoleum in the form of a giant pyramid, so the dead can have their energy field.
As I understand, the overall majority of scientists believe we are busy destroying our own habitat. But even it it were 50-50, what do you suggest ? That we first SEE if they were right ?
Even if it's not as urgent and necessary as some say, I just can't see anything wrong with living in a way that leaves the planet in good shape. It seems to me the ethical thing to do.
You guys seem to put put believers in pyramid power in the same class as scientist that are sincerely concerned about the way we destroy our environment. Not a very strong argument, IMHO.
By the way, although I'm totally uninterested in pyramid power, I know that shapes, like colours, do affect us. If you think that the knowledge of Freemasons etc. is just nonsense coming from misguided losers, well, think again. There are worlds of knowledge that we don't learn about at school. Surely you'll agree that there is no need to have an opinion about things we haven't investigated ?
Posted by: peter at November 12, 2006 10:58 AM"By the way, there are 16 supercomputers that support their opinions, so it must be true"
Shame. The byproduct of computing power is heat dissipation from the chips. They're CREATING global warming by proving it!
Posted by: Radish at November 14, 2006 05:37 PM