re: #247 Kewalo

Just out of curiosity…don’t you bother to check on the websites and authors of the “facts?” Monckton has a degree in journalism, he is not a scientist. If you get info from places like American Thinker…it’s a political site. Why would you just believe anything they post? I just don’t get that.

I don’t think I’ve ever read Moncton, I can only recall reading some criticism of him according to which he was supposed to be some sort of dunce or at least a very bad person. I can personally hardly have an opinion of his writing or whether he makes a compelling case or not before I’ve read him.

My principal problem is that I used to believe without doubt what I was taught at school and was written in various popular science magazines (the dumbed down version of science which I enjoy very much), but very little of the predictions made actually happened (which is good because we were supposed to live a version of Mad Max by now).

Then a few years ago I stumbled on American sites like this here, which were presenting the critique (there used to be very little of that here). Then one day I came to the conclusion that I should stick to what I can know and not try too hard to understand the science which I am not qualified to assess anyhow (and neither are the majority of the people on both sides of the debate). I also decided to stop worrying too much about impending doom for if it comes it comes and based on past experience most catastrophes are much more mundane than floods of biblical proportions. Given where I live, events in Georgia last year and Obama’s habit of ditching allies, I am much more likely die in a war in the next ten years than in a flood or heatstroke.

The above doesn’t mean that I don’t believe that temperatures have risen since 1800s or that human can be a significant contributor to that rise (just look at the population explosion - they are talking about the significance of cow flatulence, but I wouldn’t find it surprising if human flatulence had a part in it too).