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Politics : Manmade Global Warming, A hoax? A Scam? or a Doomsday Cult? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: sense who wrote (3718)	2/8/2014 4:56:27 PM
From: sense	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4326

So, how inconvenient is it that none of the models have made accurate predictions... ? "Science" is 0 for 2... having no rational explanations, and having made no valid predictions... so, not remotely close to providing any proof of anything... but, the political advocates are declaring victory, and saying the game is over ? Computer models themselves... are not "science"... but, the claim they are, even when they fail, reveals the obvious logical fallacies being employed in the advocacy. The models are instead merely COMPUTER PROGRAMS. That part of the scam boils down to relying on the argument: "A computer said it, so it must be true ?" Thus far, those computer models have proven roughly as accurate as those computer models that were predicting the overwhelming success of Obamacare implementation. Probably they were programmed by the same people ? But, as it turns out, the failure in having no accurate predictions doesn't matter... if you simply ignore it: "I was floored by how much snow had already disappeared from the planet, not to mention how much was predicted to melt in my lifetime. The ski season in parts of British Columbia is four to five weeks shorter than it was 50 years ago, and in eastern Canada, the season is predicted to drop to less than two months by midcentury. At Lake Tahoe, spring now arrives two and a half weeks earlier, and some computer models predict that the Pacific Northwest will receive 40 to 70 percent less snow by 2050. If greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise — they grew 41 percent between 1990 and 2008 — then snowfall, winter and skiing will no longer exist as we know them by the end of the century." Wow. Terrifying, etc., etc. Let's all panic. But, before we do, inquiring minds might ask, how good are any of those predictions ? Has any one of them ever demonstrated a single reason to think it might be valid ? The correct answer: No.