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Is Global Warming A Thing? (Hurricane Sandy Spinoff)
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<blockquote data-quote="George Friedman-Jimenez" data-source="post: 67474" data-attributes="member: 1115"><p>Re: Hurricane Sandy</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>JR, I absolutely agree with this statement. I would include burning of fossil fuels as one contributor to actively altering the global temperature. Carbon tax is only one of many proposed approaches to the global warming problem, and should be well down on the priority list, below development of all the alternative renewable sources of energy, improvement of efficiency, and other approaches. </p><p></p><p>Hurricane Sandy is just the latest in a series of "freak" weather and climate events, and chance is rapidly becoming a highly implausible explanation for this emerging trend. The problem is real, not a statistical fluke, and neither you nor I have the scientific expertise to say what a "cautious" approach should be. There are many people who have dedicated their lives to scientific study of climate and its determinants. Of course none of them can say with complete certainty what is happening, but making decisions under uncertainty is a reality of science and of life. The problem is that along with scientific uncertainty comes the process of political decision making. The decision makers with political power have been influenced much more by business lobbies and politics than by the really very good science that has been done and is ongoing to help us on planet Earth decide what is in our best collective interest for long term survival and prosperity. </p><p></p><p>Some scientists, mainly but not exclusively those who work directly for industry or are funded by industry, have a huge conflict of interest and have become unable to break away and do good objective scientific research and interpretation of results of scientific research. There needs to be a system set up to address this problem of conflict of interest, maybe similar to the peer review process that the National Institutes of Health use to guide some of the best medical research in the world.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="George Friedman-Jimenez, post: 67474, member: 1115"] Re: Hurricane Sandy JR, I absolutely agree with this statement. I would include burning of fossil fuels as one contributor to actively altering the global temperature. Carbon tax is only one of many proposed approaches to the global warming problem, and should be well down on the priority list, below development of all the alternative renewable sources of energy, improvement of efficiency, and other approaches. Hurricane Sandy is just the latest in a series of "freak" weather and climate events, and chance is rapidly becoming a highly implausible explanation for this emerging trend. The problem is real, not a statistical fluke, and neither you nor I have the scientific expertise to say what a "cautious" approach should be. There are many people who have dedicated their lives to scientific study of climate and its determinants. Of course none of them can say with complete certainty what is happening, but making decisions under uncertainty is a reality of science and of life. The problem is that along with scientific uncertainty comes the process of political decision making. The decision makers with political power have been influenced much more by business lobbies and politics than by the really very good science that has been done and is ongoing to help us on planet Earth decide what is in our best collective interest for long term survival and prosperity. Some scientists, mainly but not exclusively those who work directly for industry or are funded by industry, have a huge conflict of interest and have become unable to break away and do good objective scientific research and interpretation of results of scientific research. There needs to be a system set up to address this problem of conflict of interest, maybe similar to the peer review process that the National Institutes of Health use to guide some of the best medical research in the world. [/QUOTE]
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