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[deathboy]

The Wall Street Journal vs. The Scientific Consensus

A WSJ editorial seems to fly in the face of scientific consensus, painting a much watered down picture of the global climate problems, and attempting to discredit those who say we're heading for a man-made catastrophe.

[link nicked from malcubed]

Comments

[miss-soap.livejournal.com]

Yeees. This would be related to recent evidence of tampering by the Bush administration, trying to remove all suggestion that global climate change has already started, or that it's even a problem on a global scale from G8 documentation, and similar.

[celestial-fluke.livejournal.com]

hey there scott. my email has been broken and i have been offline for a bit anyway so i am a little out of touch. have you got any gigs coming up in london soonish?

fuggit, who cares?

[burket.livejournal.com]

Am i the only one actually looking forward to the end of humanity?

[failed-bard.livejournal.com]

With all the bizarre requirements in order for a temperature to be concidered official, I'm amazed the US govenment acknowledge that there even has been warming.

We have two different thermometers here on the farm, both in the shade, and both put the temperature here at 34c two days ago. I just checked environment Canada for the two closest centers, and they both had the high for the day at 28c (one 28.3, one 28.4).

While I was still living in Edmonton, the oficial temperature was never what the temperature actually was. Not that the forecast low for the city center has any bearing on the temperature outside the head island all that concrete causes, but the highs should have been the same in the suburbs.

wwm.

[siani-hedgehog.livejournal.com]

you know, there isn't really scientific consensus on the degree, speed, or cause of global warming. it's just that one group of scientists has announced that there is, and that all the other scientists don't count.

[failed-bard.livejournal.com]

My problem with the kyoto accord, apart from the lack of legitimacy to the claims, is that it ignores the fact that the increase in co2 levels has more to do with global deforestation (and the loss of algae due to oceanic pollution) than it does with fossil fuels. Even without gas, the worlds 6+ billion people are still going to breathe, and every time they do they make it worse.

So, the real solution involves either reforestation or genocide, your pick.

wwm.