Global Warming - A very good POV
I’ve just been forwarded on this video, and well this guy’s standpoint on the Global Warming crisis, it makes complete and utter sense.
I’ve just been forwarded on this video, and well this guy’s standpoint on the Global Warming crisis, it makes complete and utter sense.
June 29th, 2007 at 11:57 pm
(Here via Planet Ubuntu)
This guy has good intentions but a fallacious premise. There’s very little doubt that anthropogenic climate change is real. Of course, the precise magnitude of the change (like weather itself, or any other chaotic system) are not easily predicted, but reasonable estimates exist.
Those with an interest in the status quo are working quite hard to highlight this ‘lack of hard numbers’ and misrepresent it as doubt in the existence of climate change. News outlets dutifully pass on the FUD because a controversy is more interesting and pleasant than general dread about the future–i.e. it sells better.
If real effort was made at enforcing journalistic responsibility, two birds could be killed with one stone. Foot-dragging pundits would no longer be able to ‘creatively interpret’ science, and the general public would be soundly convinced of the need to act.