08-17-2011, 01:23 PM | #171 |
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Re: New NASA Data Debunks Global Warming
What it would do for me personally would be to give me satisfaction in the knowledge that common sense wins in the end, that we don't waste our lives reacting to a handful of "what if" scenarios and actually deal with reality as it exists.
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08-17-2011, 01:37 PM | #172 |
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Re: New NASA Data Debunks Global Warming
Chicken Little is not the only cast member in this drama. His role is a minor one, but easy to exagerate out of proportion.
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08-17-2011, 04:34 PM | #173 |
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Re: New NASA Data Debunks Global Warming
But unfortunately in this scenario, you will be long dead before you find out for sure and experience any satisfaction in the knowledge that you beat the scientists.
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08-17-2011, 04:42 PM | #174 | |
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08-17-2011, 05:59 PM | #175 |
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I'll just leave it in my will to hold seances every 5 years so people can keep me up to date on the latest happenings in the land of the living...or I'll go the Vanilla Sky route and have science clone my body and perform a full brain transplant.
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I don't feel any fear from their prediction either because I'm skeptical of the research that has been done rather than following it blindly. It also isn't completely true that the scientists do not demand anyone believe them. If they truly didn't care, then there would be no reason for them NOT to share their data with other scientists for testing. The fact they did refuse such a request, and openly admitted the other scientists "just want to find something wrong with it", calls the validity of their data and subsequent research methods into question. Re-testing of data by other scientists is one of the foundations of science. And even if another group IS trying to prove the data is flawed, the initial scientists should have no concerns unless there is some basis to the allegation. If the data is true and the research was solid, then testing of the data should yield the same results. Again, this is Science 101. When I took computer science in college, our professor would give us the parameters the program was supposed to meet. After we wrote our programs, he would deliberately enter invalid parameters to see if our programs rejected them or if they crashed. The point is that, IF our program was written well enough, it would not matter how hard the professor tried to "find something wrong with it", because his attempts would fail and the program would still work. Same thing with science. IF the data and research is valid, then re-testing of that data should yield the same (or very similar) results. I have trouble simply accepting the word of the scientists that their findings are correct when they take measures to prevent anyone else testing their data. As you have said yourself, they should say "Absolutely, test it for yourselves and you will see our conclusions are correct." Instead, they seem to be saying "We've already done the testing so there is no need to test it again. Just take our word that our conclusions are correct".
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4x facepalm...LOL...Sometimes I wish I could do that for real. Looks therapeutic.
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Or you could become like Lord Soth. Doomed to live out his days as one of the undead, tortured by banshees that recount his mistakes over and over, because he failed to do the will of the gods and avert the cataclysm. Either one.
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