Climate Change

[Taem]

I'm not defending at all what they're doing on the law side, but, the science on this is a bit shaky, too. Too much "if the data doesn't fit the model, make the data go away and don't talk about it" going around to make me happy either way.

Which data is this that is being made to go away?

-Jester

There are time blocks (100s of thousands of years) from some geological eras where the carbon dioxide levels are much higher than anything we have now, but evidence points to temperatures in general being lower than now. However, the climate experts who push the climate change don't bring those up, because they don't fit the model that they're pushing on everyone.

Some of this came out when some emails between researchers were leaked several years ago, talking about data they were going to ignore, because it didn't fit their pet theories. No, I don't have links, but it's not hard to find.

Fact is, it's become a political thing more than a scientific one, and, those researchers basically buried the data that didn't fit so they could keep their funding. If the experts on this were more united, I'd give them more credence, but, there's lots of climate experts out there that disagree with the one the news media likes to push.

Perhaps, I've personally always felt that the climate change was going to happen with or without human interference; we only helped it along. So based on what is known about climate change, it makes sense that if global sea levels do rise, that the coastal cities be thinking about the future even if its, ten, fifty, a hundred years from now. But I forget how our legislative process works not only here, but in the world - legislature through crisis, or, out of sight, out of mind. I hate how the social security debacle has shown how inept the current and former motley crew is we have in office; if they didn't touch that money, or better yet invested it to earn more instead of constantly taking out of social security, then the SS system would not be in dire straights. But nobody can see more than one election term into the future, and that's a fact! And this is what makes this entire law a huge cachinnation of imbeciles because if water levels do rise unexpectedly, they will be fully unprepared. "Ten years from now? Let them worry about it then. I won't be in office that long. One-hundred years from now? Well hell, sunny, I won't even be alive then. Who cares?!? I will have used up all the natural resources I wanted to by then anyhow. Makes no difference to me." It's the unwillingness to look into the future that I'm dismayed about.