Blinded with Science

Humans are the top tier of a Liberal's universal food chain. He is proud of this. He revels in his own deified humanity. It is upon "reason and scientific fact" that his Universe is proudly constructed beneath himself. Give him facts he can prove. Give him science he can touch.

Facts like the Arctic was as warm or warmer in 1940?

Facts like the Greenland ice sheet is actually growing?

Facts like the Earth is dynamic and variable over unrecorded time?

Details, details...its still science.

But what of other science you can touch, Mr. Progressive? What of the very flesh of your flesh, bone of your bone?

Primordial Soup. Mere parasitic cell clusters. No matter.

Really? According to your theory of Global Warming, that Primordial Soup coalesced into a force of global destruction. Those cell clusters can, without much help, end civilization with only a few selfish choices.Which is it? Science established by perpetual repetition of political theory, or science established by quantifiable facts?

Of course, for us enlightened types, its always about the facts as they can be quantified...

Well then. How about this for inconvenient truth?

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UPDATE: For the sake of brutal honesty, it looks as if George W. is indeed the "Unscientific" President after all. He is reversing his opinion on Global Warming in his State of the Union speech later this month, trying to bloster Tony Blair's legacy, no doubt.  {tip: Degree of Madness}

Super.

And if she is real careful like, we won't even see Nonni's mouth move when W speaks.

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UPDATE: What I found earlier was a denial, which lead me to the Mail story about the "U turn on Global Warming " in the first place.

But Jane thinks he doth protest to much. If he's in for a penny,  he's in for a pound.

Survey says: "W" stands for Warming Waffler.

Comments

[Kenneth]

"Global Warming" activists confuse a political movement with science. Unfortunately, many anti-Global Warming activists do the same thing in reverse. Anti-science types, which is what you sound like,

[JANE LOUDLY SAYS: I AM MOST DECIDEDLY PRO-SCIENCE. THAT is the point of this "nuanced" post. JUNK SCIENCE---via Algore and his pinhead courtiers-- is an affront to thinking people, like myself. I am OFFENDED that they swaddle themselves in "FACTS" when it suits them, then (if you had clicked the last link, which I DOUBT you did) when it is INCONVENIENT to admit SCIENTIFIC FACTS that we can now quantify---THAT BABIES ARE NOT PARASITIC CELL CLUSTERS----they run and hide behind rhetoric. The rubric only suits them when it suits them. It is intellectually dishonest and beneath all CIVILIZED discourse. But then sucking out a child's brain with a needle ISN'T TECHNICALLY CIVILIZED, EITHER. So if you want to keep your pass to The Realm---DON'T EVER SAY JANE IS ANTI-SCIENCE. xoxoxo Love ya'. Mean it. Come back anytime!]

believe science is weak, or wrong, or inadequate, because various scientists will contradict each other, or because a new scientific discovery will change previously head opinions. But the willingness of scientists to re-evaluate ideas is not a weakness, it is science's greatest strength.

That the earth has been warming over the past 150 years is a measureable fact. The extent and accuracy of those measurements continues to be examined & debated. The cause or causes of this warming is not well understsood. There are several different scientific explanations as to why the earth is warming. Human industrial activity is one expanation. It is not the only explanation.

GW activists (the political movement, not the scientific endeavor) pick & choose the data they like, ignore the results they don't like, and in some cases deliberately distort and misrepresent the data. They do this because they are ideologically motivated to espouse a particular political agenda. Al Gore's psuedo-science musings ridiculous as they are, rely upon the false image of scientists as the new priesthood of revealed knowledge. This image, thrust upon them by political activists is fiercely rejected by scientists. When Gore said recently, "The earth is seriously out of balance with the universe" he was universally ridiculed by the scientific community. "Oh yeah, how did he measure that?!?", was the typical response (a very cutting remark among scientists).

Sadly, many anti-GW activists (another political movement) also resort to picking & choosing the data they like, ignore the results they don't like, and in some cases deliberately distort and misrepresent the data. They too do this because they are ideologically motivated to espouse a particular political agenda.

Science will either prove or disprove the cause or causes of the measure fact of global warming (uncapitalized). Politicians and activists of whatever stripe will argue over what to do about it, or they will choose to ignore science and opt for blind ideology.

[Stealthkix]

I'm all for science, but let's keep it in context. If you know, then you can say you know. If you just think you know, you really need to shut up until know you know. You know?

[JANE SAYS: WHERE IS THAT BLOG YOU PROMISED ME, Stealthy????....HHHhhhmmmmmm????????????? TO IT!]

[jack]

All I know is that it is cold as a witches tit ... RIGHT NOW!

Go outside and take a pee Al ... then tell us how warm it is!

[JANE SAYS: Tipper....honey....can you give AL his penis back for a jif?]

[Stealthkix]

The blog is in the works. While getting my feet wet I tripped, and I'm having issues getting back up. :P

[Kenneth]

Relax Jane. Yes, I did click on all your links & the abortion issue is a very good example of pseudo-science being used to support a highly ideological position. The pro-abortion crowd argues a foetus is just a bunch of cells (pseudo-science), and not a "human being" (pseudo-law) and therefore abortion is not murder (pseudo-morality).

You say you are definately not anti-science, so maybe I misunderstood something in your post. Fine, I'll accept your word on that.

[JANE SAYS: Thank you for caring enough to come back and clarify. Dissent and discourse is the purpose of comments. Love Jane, or hate Jane, civility is welcome here anytime.]

[Miss Carnivorous]

Miss C is no scientist but it seems simple enough to her, the whole planet was covered in ice at one time. Most of the ice melted, except for the poles, both being farther away from the sun.

The poles have always been melting, but slowly. Nothing we can do will stop it, until the sun burns itself out.

Maybe we can make giant sun reflectors that bounce the sun off the poles or something. Short of that the ice is going to become water, like it or not.

[mad_cow]

Nice post, Jane. Have you seen this?

"George Bush is preparing to make a historic shift in his position on global warming when he makes his State of the Union speech later this month, say senior Downing Street officials."

Link:
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0,,1989997,00.html

[JANE SAYS: I was surfing the wires right before I clicked back here for the night---and regrettably, YES. If they thought he wasn't the "Science President" before, this will surely clear up any doubt. Only whether he is or IS NOT will depend upon which side of the table you are sitting on.

THANK YOU FOR THE LINK. Mine was different, but same butt-jamming information. Like yours better. Now I have to update. Dammit. :) I give up...night night all.]

[Bile, Snark, and Sneer]

"Hello. I'm Al Gore. And I'm REALLY boring. The other day, right after Tipper suggested I change the stick up my ass, I said to myself, 'Self, you should be more carbon neutral. You should stop taking private planes, staying in 5 star hotels and riding in limos to the red carpet previews of your bulls**t movie.' I thought for a moment, adopting that pensive, masculine pose that impressed Erich Segal so damn much he wrote a novel around me. 'Self?' I said.

'Yes?' I replied.

'F**k off.'"

[JANE SAYS: Has Tipper given him back his penis yet? (Above) I mean so he can do just THAT...]

[Gary]

I don't doubt that you believe in science. So do I. It's just that I don't think I know more than the National Academy of Science, the Royal Society, and the equivalent bodies of most of the nations of the world. Do you? A small minority of scientists dispute global warming. How do you know they are right?

[JANE SAYS: Welcome! You are new to The Realm! And thank you for your thoughtful comment. You know, I began a reply and it has taken on a life of its own. Please come back on Friday, the 19th and I will respectfully answer you in a post all your own. Let's just go down your path together. Manana, then!]]

[Miss Carnivorous]

If you live long enough just about every scientist turns out to be wrong!