Koan, you need to gain some understanding of science. <YOu really need to gain some respect for science! >
Science isn't a matter of respect. Plenty of so-called science is dopey people doing dopey things. Especially in "social science".
Statistics, statistics ... < The statisticians say it is a statisitical ceertainty if we keep nuclear weapons we wil use them. >
As with science, you need to read numbers for meaning and causal relationships.
It is NOT a statistical certainty that nuclear weapons will be used again to kill cities of people.
You might recall "statisticians" saying that there is a one in 10,000 year chance of a nuclear reactor going bung. Let's assume that they meant for their good designs rather than Chernobyl efforts, but that was before Chernobyl which was also no doubt considered safe.
You don't need to be much of a statistician to know that such a number as 1:10,000 years is silly. Human history took place in half that time and that included a LOT of wars, bombings, fires and destruction of an active, enthusiastic and wanton nature.
"The Science" which the Greenhouse Effect doomsters refer to is not science, it's computer models designed to produce the results they want. They collect a bunch of data, poke it into a computer which they have told to process in a particular way, and, not really any surprise at all, the computer does exactly what it was told to do and produces the answer they told it to produce.
They then compare the output with what really happens in the real world [which includes clouds, sun spots, chlorophyll which absorbs a LOT more light than snow or desert does]. When reality [as usual] fails to match their computer programme's prognostications, they say they need to just tweak their models a bit more.
They might as well just put squiggles and arrows on a piece of A4 paper with the data written down at the top and the words "Global Warming" coming out the bottom.
So far, my 1987 climate model is giving better results than their's and mine was a LOT cheaper. Mine has worked for 22 years. Mine included clouds, chlorophyll, desert cover way back then. They are just figuring out that they need to include clouds in their models.
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