06-23-2006, 09:57 AM
Quote:The opinion of Michael Crichton is based upon three years of study. He is an author second, a researcher first. In fact it is as valid as any other person, entity or website that did not perform the research themselves, which would be most. [...] The consesus of the public is that reducing our emissions, alternative fuels, yada yada yada will prevent global warming. There is absolutely nothing scientific that will support this.Hi,
Michael Crichton makes money selling his fictional books. Don't give me any s** that he's a researcher or even scientist.
Dan Brown for sure doesn't inquire his backgrounds badly, either. That doesn't mean there's any relevance to his opinion.
It's not a consensus of the public (the public is a dumb, stupid mass drooling over flesh), but a consensus of the scientific world.
I must however tell you that the "There is absolutely nothing scientific that will support this" fits perfectly on your p.o.v.: nobody can support the opinion that mankind had/has no influence on greengas emissions and the heating up of the world climate. I'm linking a few more sources. You can also read the sources I linked in my lower post.
link 1 - Oak Ridge National Laboratory
link 2 - National Center for Atmospheric Research
link 3 - longish from the National Academic Press
>>For more than 420,000 years the CO2 abundance in the atmosphere was bounded, oscillating between about 180 and 280 parts per million (ppm) over the glacial and interglacial periods. However, since the Industrial Revolution, the CO2 abundance has risen to 375 ppm and continues to rise according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC, 2001). Research suggests that most of the observed global warming of the past 50 years, including the increase in atmospheric CO2, can be attributed to human activities (IPCC, 2001; see Box 1-1)<<
- from the last link, the national academic press
To me, it seems like many of the citizens of the U.S. (due to bad information and a certain human 'it can't be that bad. That would be tragic, so it can't be that bad.'-attitude that preserves mental sanity) are unwilling to accept new scientific research findings.
Too bad that the last people that firmly stated 'the earth is a disk' looked like a bunch of dumb monkeys later.
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