Re:CAN YOU SPOT THE REAL SCIENTIST? (Score 1)

Good grief. Talk about a whole lot of hand wringing by people who have taken 1-2 undergraduate physical science courses and consider themselves scientists..... and then proceed to evangelize on that basis. Give me a break. You all wanna know what a real scientist thinks about this? Well here it is. What we are going through now is an "extinction event". The causes are really a moot point. 50 million years from now, intelligent life (such as it is - speculate amongst yourselves) will look back on this period with the same detached indifferent scientific curiousity that scientists currently view the extinction event in the geologic past (ie. Cretaceous). 50 million years from now, the causes will be irrelevant, since it happened and there's not way to change the fact that it happened. Extinction events happen. Is there truly a difference in the (geologic) long term as to whether extinction events are caused by an asteroid, volcanism, or human endeavors? In the end, not really. We're all gonna die, life as we currently know it will change, and life will go on - and will evolve into something probably much different than what we have now. It's gonna happen, kids, get used to dealing with it. Change would happen with or without human intervention, and no amount of political hand-wringing is going to change that fact. We'll all be long gone by the time it happens - so let's not get all twisted out of shape. You wanted to know how scientists view things? Well there ya go. Flame away, poli-sci majors, flame away. It's not like it's gonna make a bit of difference.