Yeah, I mean, in science you always need to be skeptical of any one individual data point. Science is littered with studies that were never reproducible for one reason or another.
But when ALL the data points in the same direction, it makes a pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty strong case, even if there’s always cause to keep looking closer.[/quote]
Have you actually looked at some of the stuff the skeptics have produced. This guy went back into old studies and shows how newer studies actually lower the past temperatures to make if look like there’s a larger warming tend then there really is. The past temperatures didn’t change. There’s no reason to adjust them unless you are trying to make you CO2 model work out when it isn’t working out.
He provides links to the actual older studies so I don’t think he’s just making this stuff up, but who knows. Climate change/global warming is becoming a religion or belief system. Not believing in climate change is blasphemous. I want real science not people with agendas screwing with the data to fit their models to keep the grant money rolling in.
We should put some significant effort into Thorium nuclear. It’s clearly the best option in the short term. I agree that we shouldn’t just use more oil for the sake of using more oil, but oil based products are really hard to beat for travel purposes. Electric cars can be good for commuting, but considering most people are going to be plugging them in when they get home from work it’s getting it’s electricity from a fossil fuel power plant somewhere. Public transportation is good as well but the west coast just isn’t that well designed for public transport.
The bottom line is there’s a huge economic investment that has to happen to do any of this and in most cases it will hit the lower middle class and poorest the worst. A new car payment, a new gas tax, higher electricity prices all hit them harder than it would hit me or you.
