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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: longnshort who wrote (7304)	8/30/2006 3:44:13 AM
From: maceng2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 36917

I think a good scientist is good at observation. i.e. be able observe and record what he/she sees what the universe does. The observations should be made accurately and without bias to one theory or another. Good observational technique can be developed at school performing experiments. For example, measuring the gravitational constant using a compound pendulum. We think we know what the answer is going to be as it's been measured billions of times but a good scientist will keep an open mind. Same with global warming. Unfortunately I suspect a large percentage of the both "warmers" and the "skeptics" observational groups "already know the answer". The fact is we do seem to be in a warming trend, and there could be factors at play which could cause an interaction effect. That is two or more phenomenon (that cause global warming for example) could interact causing a much bigger effect. Although the Earth has a huge capacity to absorb one change or another, it does have many unstable type characteristics. The giga tonnes of carbon hydrate on the ocean floor is a clear example. When that stuff starts bubbling up (and there are several videos taken near oil platforms where the hydrate has been disturbed on the sea floor and started to evaporate), it really would start a chain of reactions that would cause global warming on a scale that would probably extinguish human life. OTOH I don't pretend to "know the answer already". The theory that "nothing ever bad happens" is erroneous though. As an ex engineer with 20 yrs experience I know that murphy's laws rule with an iron fist. Whether Murphy was a communist or not does not matter one iota, what he observed and said is true. Murphy's first law says that "if it can go wrong it will". An important law if you wish to run an industrial process, build an aeroplane, ship etc. murphys-laws.com Just looking into the origins of "Murphy"... the USA industrial military complex, that have done so much for quality standards world wide, have developed a deep understanding of Murphy's laws. Don't think they invented them though, the laws were discovered about the time Adam met Eve -g- murphys-laws.com The Global Warming debate is most worthy imo, and the view of the both the "warmers" and the "sceptics" welcome. We have a space ship to maintain though. It's called "planet Earth". Lets keep the maintenance procedures up to a good specification!