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To: LLCF who wrote (15271)7/5/2006 2:34:27 PM
From: koan  Read Replies (2) of 78417
 
DAK, scientific research is exactly the opposite of what you portend.

My SIL and I discussed that last night. Scientists are so scared of being wrong that they UNDERESTIMATE problems not overestimate them!

The global warming issue facts keep turning out to be more dire than predicted, not less. I told my SIL that I felt the reason was because of the above statement.

I worked with a scientifc crew many years ago in the Bearing Sea tracking crab populations. I was doing some simple statistical work.

There are two species of tanner crab, bardi and opilio. It looked like there was also a hybrid. I could see pretty clearly it was a hybrid, but the scientists waited for years to declare it so.

Most scientists are so careful. I can hardly get my SIL to take any solid stand on many issues concerning gloal warming that I think he feels are pretty solid. Like the increase in hurricanes which I said we only need a correlation of .05 not .001-lol.

And he says the methane problem is not as severe as one would expect with the melting of permafrost in the artic for some reason. I think eventually it will be a huge problem.

Scientists understate, not overstate!
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