Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.
In the time of Newton, 97% of the scientific community couldn't explain gravity.
And they still can't. Gravity remains a mystery.
Quote:
In the time of Galileo, 97% of the scientific community insisted the earth was
flat.
No way. Scientists have known from ancient times that it is round.
Quote:
In the time of Einstein, 97% of the scientific community thought he was
insane.
Actually, Einstein's radical ideas became accepted pretty quickly.
Quote:
In the Dark Ages, 97% of the scientific community thought disease was caused by
evil spirits.
There wasn't much of a scientific community operating in the Dark Ages. That's why they were dark.
Quote:
In the 1970s, the majority of scientists were predicting the next Ice Age to be
just around the temporal corner.
This is a popular myth. In reality there weren't more than a handful of scientists predicting an ice age. Even in the '70s, global warming was by far the most common forcast.
Quote:
Considering that science is an ever-changing discipline, and scientists are
constantly proving themselves and their predecessors to be wrong, why should we
put any faith in the 97% of the 32% of the people who responded in this
study?
No faith here, just a realization that the scientific method, and the process of peer review, have produced spectacularly good results over the past couple hundred years.
It's actually an excellent question. When virtually all the scientists agree on the basic FACT that climate change is being driving by human pollution then it is a good question to ask why the ignorant pin heads want to ignore all facts and reason.
97% of the scientists have been paid off, that sounds like a conspiracy.
Who paid them off, Illuminati, Obama, Al Gore, liberal media?? That's a whole lot of money to pay off an entire community.
It doesn't have to be a conspiracy to be an opportunity for people with college degrees slightly less marketable than anthropology degrees to experience relevance, provided they go along with the AGW story.
Without an environmental crisis, who needs a climate scientist?
It doesn't have to be a conspiracy to be an opportunity for people with college degrees slightly less marketable than anthropology degrees to experience relevance, provided they go along with the AGW story.
Without an environmental crisis, who needs a climate scientist?
There's lots of money availible from the anti-AGW side. If climate scientists are just looking to line their pockets, why don't more of them grab the oil industry money?
So if only the U.S. is taking action what difference does it make.
The US isn't taking action.
Much of the rest of the world is.
I like to make the joke as I travel throughout the world, that there is no climate change in the US.
The US is known to be a bunch of ideological idiots, it's to easy to confirm.
Please register to post and access all features of our very popular forum. It is free and quick. Over $68,000 in prizes has already been given out to active posters on our forum. Additional giveaways are planned.
Detailed information about all U.S. cities, counties, and zip codes on our site: City-data.com.
Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.
