Just to switch gears a little bit, I have been hearing much to much of late concerning global warming. I don’t if it is because I was out of the US for so long or if it is because of recent data, but it sure sounds like the chorus is getting deafening. Could it be that recent data is questioning the idea of global warming?
For example, the last 6 year has seen flat growth in temperatures and now, it has begun to digress with temperatures falling. It seems like I can bring up some interesting facts that I have begun finding.
- Arctic Ice expanded during the last winter making up much of the losses that were so dire not long ago.
- The arctic seal hunt is running into trouble because of heavy ice.
- The scale of temperature increases is much less than even 600 years ago. Do you remember reading about farming in Greenland?
I think the jury is still out on global warming or maybe it is not and the powers that be are doing one last desperate gasp for attention.
I think that you are right in that the jury is still out on global warming. But, only if this was a trial where a unanimous decision was necessary. The thing is all good science leaves the jury out. I think people get confused sometimes over the phrase, “scientific fact.” Ideas like man-made climate change are scientific theories, which scientists test with data and statistical analysis. So the jury is still out on global warming, but the evidence seems to support that it is occurring.
And many would argue that the consequences of global warming are so dire, that all we need is a scientific 2/3 majority in the jury to give us a moral and social imperative to take action to reduce what most scientists believe are the man-made causes of global warming.