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Originally Posted by TheDoc
Don't spout about being qualified or not, when you yourself post nothing to prove your opposition of the argument.
And Minority? I think you may want to stop listing to Gore and group.
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Again... I doubt anyone with sense would say that there aren't opportunists in just about every facet of life.
But on both sides of the fence, I think it's the people that don't understand the matter that are most politicizing it.
I've asked this before, I'll ask it again: If you're able, please provide peer-reviewed sources that assert that global warming is a myth... because there's literally shelves and shelves of peer-reviewed articles and other scientific publications that assert it's a reality.
In the meantime, I'll just copy/paste myself from last week, since no one seems to be addressing that point... and, frankly, I tire of typing out a fresh post on the subject every time someone decides to ignore all the old discussions, and start up again.
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originally posted: 03-26-2008, 11:05 AM
I guess I was incorrect in saying I'm not an alarmist... because, in a sense I am... it bothers me, to a significant degree, that people seem to disregard peer-reviewed articles on scientific matters over that of what a blogger or start-up program or even single scientist (often sponsored by big oil) might have to say on the matter... and, being a scientifically-minded individual interested in the acquisition of knowledge, I feel it's my duty to sound the alarm when I witness what I consider the dispersal of blatant misinformation, contrary to what science is really telling us.
Though I've been keeping an eye on the science of global climate change for well over 20 years now (the subject first struck my interest as a kid in Jr. High), I've recently done some extensive old-school fact-digging on the subject: I went to the Los Angeles Central Public Library to perform research on an scientific research paper I was writing in relation to the status quo of the Polar Bear a few years ago (before Mr. Gore's movie), and the amount of data that's there - in their science department - on the subject of global climate change, collected over the last few decades, fills up shelves upon shelves upon shelves. I also skimmed over countless periodicals: papers and articles published in peer-reviewed journals - many of which touched on or dwelt on the idea that the climate is currently in a state of change and, overall, is engaged in a warming trend. All in all, I must have spent some 120 hours in hard research.
In all that time, honestly, I can't recall a single paper or shred of peer-reviewed information that said the Earth was not warming, or what mankind is doing is having no affect on the state of his environment. However, as I said, there was plenty of information saying things are getting warmer, and even more saying that man is affecting his environment _at least_ to peril of other species.
One downfall of the internet, I think, is it spreads disinformation just as quickly as it can spread any other type of information. Much as I intend to go over those articles you linked, I'd encourage you to find peer-reviewed sources that back up the assertion that the climate is not in a state of significant warming...
or simply go to a central library and check the experience out for yourself.