Comment Science REQUIRES differing opinions.... (Score 1) 836
I think a lot of people are completely missing the point of the article. The hysteria around the Human-Influence Global Warming THEORY (and it IS ONLY a theory at this point), has a huge problem: people are getting so emotional, and so politicized that they are not entertaining the views and opinions of others. String theory in physics is another area science where this is occurring. People become so convinced, so enamored with an idea or concept they lose sight of the fact that it is only a *theory*, and not a proven fact/law. In doing so (as in the case of string theory), we run the risk of going many years/decades without any real progress in solving the problems in the knowledge domain.
That is to say, IF humans didn't influence global warming and we cut emissions back to the cave man days, and the temperature STILL goes up....we have really just shot ourselves in the foot. If however, we foster more opinions, and theories; possibly disproving competing ones we can then be either more certain or more doubtful of the current leading theory in the area of interest. Competing theories in science are a must, and shame on us all for not allowing them in the global warming debate.
Personally, the hysteria around Global Warming has me highly dubious of the entire movement, as many scientists and individuals are being attacked and discredited merely for doing what they are supposed to be doing. Being scientists and looking at the world in a variety of different ways, each applying their life experience and individual creativity to learn/hypothesize about the problem at hand. I really do hope our kids won't be laughing at us or worse yet angry at us (for screwing them over because we chose to buy into the WRONG theory) in the future.
Rich...
That is to say, IF humans didn't influence global warming and we cut emissions back to the cave man days, and the temperature STILL goes up....we have really just shot ourselves in the foot. If however, we foster more opinions, and theories; possibly disproving competing ones we can then be either more certain or more doubtful of the current leading theory in the area of interest. Competing theories in science are a must, and shame on us all for not allowing them in the global warming debate.
Personally, the hysteria around Global Warming has me highly dubious of the entire movement, as many scientists and individuals are being attacked and discredited merely for doing what they are supposed to be doing. Being scientists and looking at the world in a variety of different ways, each applying their life experience and individual creativity to learn/hypothesize about the problem at hand. I really do hope our kids won't be laughing at us or worse yet angry at us (for screwing them over because we chose to buy into the WRONG theory) in the future.
Rich...
