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...We have just received a request from an Italian scientist, and a Czech scientist to join the 650 dissenting scientists report...
Ivan Seeking said:Recall that I already posted a link showing that there are more scientists than this who refute evolution theory.
drankin said:So, maybe we shouldn't be listening to all these scientists because a bunch of other scientists from an unrelated field refute evolution?
Andre said:Before all, science should be about science, the art of finding out how things really work, and not pursuing political goals.
wolram said:Andre, who would gain from AGW...
Ivan Seeking said:I would say that 650 scientists amount to nothing more than a fringe element.
I can probably find 650 scientists who think ET is visiting us as well.
drankin said:I guess we need to compare the scientist counts. How many are for and against. And what constitutes as a "fringe".
Ivan Seeking said:Who stands to gain by arguing against it? Could it be big oil?
Ivan Seeking said:Are scientists who refute evolution theory fringe, or mainstream?
drankin said:I don't know and I don't care, it's not the topic.
drankin said:I don't know and I don't care, it's not the topic.
Ivan Seeking said:It sure is; it speaks to the issue of consensus vs fringe.
cristo said:Indeed.
I would agree that you certainly can't compare numbers in one field with numbers in a completely different field, without giving any data on the relative size of the communities.
Andre said:anybody bothered to google for Enron + kyoto?
wolram said:
seycyrus said:Remember, the current view on AGW is supposedly supported by a "consensus" of scientists. That's why the relative size of a dissenting group could be important.
seycyrus said:Remember, the current view on AGW is supposedly supported by a "consensus" of scientists. That's why the relative size of a dissenting group could be important.
The Dagda said:... In the case of AGW we have that I think.
seycyrus said:I don't think we do.
After sifting through evidence including a fair amount of information gathered from this forum, I am less convinced than I once was.
As to the "consensus"... I am certain about that. There *never* was a consensus. Maybe a consensus of people who already believed...
I still remember the uproar at the APS social policy meeting several years back when the statement reporting the "consensus" was read out loud.
You are dragging this thread off topic with irrelevant posts.Ivan Seeking said:Are scientists who refute evolution theory fringe, or mainstream? What about ET believers?
Show me a crackpot group that doesn't claim a few scientists. Woud you like to talk about magnet therapy?
The Dagda said:Evidence from where and whom and were they specialists in the field can I ask? Even the IPCC was anti global warming until the early 90's, what made them change their minds do you think? Funding? political agendas?
established in 1988 by two United Nations Organizations, the World Meteorological Organization and the United Nations Environment Programme to assess “the scientific, technical and socioeconomic information relevant for the understanding of the risk of human-induced climate change.”...
The First Assessment Report (FAR), completed in 1990, played an important role in establishing the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee for the UNFCCC which provides the overall policy framework for addressing the climate change issue. In its scientific findings the FAR concluded:
“Anthropogenic climate change will persist for many centuries.”
The Dagda said:Evidence from where and whom and were they specialists in the field can I ask? Even the IPCC was anti global warming until the early 90's, what made them change their minds do you think? Funding? political agendas?
The Dagda said:Anyone who basis his opinion on a forums evidence is sadly neglecting to look into it themselves, if all you are getting is the contrary opinion then you aren't getting anything balanced.
The Dagda said:It would be nice to think that those who shout the loudest and most ardently for or against are right by default of persistence, but then we have Gore and Bush...
Ivan Seeking said:Recall that I already posted a link showing that there are more scientists than this who refute evolution theory.
seycyrus said:Remember, the current view on AGW is supposedly supported by a "consensus" of scientists. That's why the relative size of a dissenting group could be important.
Evo said:I believe that the truth lies somewhere in between. I don't agree with the gloom and doom alarmists, and I don't agree that humans aren't responsible for pollution. For me, the question of what human agriculture, building, deforestation, and fuel burning are doing remains to be accurately answered, but should continue to be studied, realistically.