Conspiracy Theories...

[sarahwilliams]

Ten conspiracy Theories...
http://www.newsweek.com/id/233518?GT1=43002

This one I liked though:

2. Anthropogenic global warming is a hoax. Proponents of the theory that the earth's temperature is rising-especially Al Gore and the United Nations-are trying to pull the wool over the world's eyes. Some believers say that warming is negligible in the

Comments

[izuko]

"the science still stands." In the face of evidence that the science is flawed or faked, in the face of evidence that there's been no global warming for fifteen years, in the face of evidence that the airborne fraction of CO2 has NOT increased based on real data (as opposed to computer models), and in the evidence that warming prior to 1998 can best be explained by other models, the science still stands.

We could enter another ice age and the science would still stand. One has to wonder exactly what it would take for the science to be disproved.

And yet WE'RE the ones who are evading the truth?

[izuko]

I see nothing but invective there. You ignore the many scientists who have always been about it. You ignore the research that's been out, all along that suggests that the science is not settled. Instead, you go for your own conspiracy theories about tea party types and big oil. You question the intelligence of anyone who opposes you on the issue. And you throw around childish terms like tea-bag and "climate deniers" (shades, of course, of holocaust deniers

[izuko]

NASA's data has been found to be questionable before. I remember a big doozey of a correction, back in 2007, and then there were "errors" at the outset of climategate. They see what they need to see to keep their research going, but they don't give me any confidence.

Are we going to jump on the data and say it disproves AGW? Of course. That's one SHOULD do when they find evidence of fraud. Complaining about us trying to take the facts where we believe they lead is like complaining that a cop will use your words against you in court. Of course he will. Doesn't make him wrong to do so.

You ask why I originally did this. I assume it's for the same reason you did. I looked at the evidence on both sides and decided that it wasn't convincing. Unless you had simply bought into the rest of the left-wing mindset.