The Tipping Scale
This is only big news to science and/or political nerds right now.
I'm super-duper excited to see what happens in the next 2-3 years as it starts to seep into public knowledge.
Especially in Hollywood. I can't wait for this to happen like I used to wait for Christmas when I was 8.
Now, I know the Chicken Littles will not eat their well-deserved shit sandwich without protest. They were lied to. They were mislead.
I know I shouldn't be excited about just being right. I should be happy that we can now direct the energy, money and effort towards something that will actually have a positive affect on the world. Not that this will happen, but it's a lovely thought.
PS- I hate MTV.
posted by Mikey Y at 3:58 PM
3 Comments:
Er, I don't think you should place very much stock in that study. A lot of the 650 people are not climatologists, but meterologists.
For a thorough debunking of the study, see here:
http://climateprogress.org/2008/12/11/inhofe-morano-recycles-long-debunked-denier-talking-points-will-the-media-be-fooled-again/
9:48 PM
Has there been a debunking of Reid Bryson's opinion on the warming trend?
Admittedly, I only read the data/names on the front page, as I thought the reasons had much more to do with us emerging from a little ice age and all that.
Really, what I have the most faith in, is that people who keep politicizing science scares have been wrong, oh...roughly 100% of the time.
The alar (spelling?) on apples, silicon breast implants, the extent of the global AIDS epidemic, Bovine growth hormones in milk, second-hand smoke risks, and so forth.
A history professor at Wright State told me this began (in his opinion) with the "lead poisoning theory" about the fall of Rome that was popular in the 60's.
We come across genuine health-risk fuckups like using Agent Orange in Vietnam, sure. But by and large, it seems like every time there is a media rally around a public health risk, they end up having it totally wrong, or greatly exaggerated (oh! Like asbestos...another one).
I guess I've really proved my point that we will -not- start putting money and energy into things that really need addressing (possibly like the coral reefs) but work ourselves into a frenzy mostly because journalists aren't scientists, but they think they are.
12:09 PM
also...did you blow up your old blog?
email me how to find it if you're still updating, I know you didn't want your name on it.
12:11 PM
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