Re: Movie: An Inconvenient Truth

In article <1152580004.830224.85180@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
walketim@xxxxxxxxx says...
Jonathan Cook wrote:

Whether you like or despise Al Gore, he's obviously taken
a lot of time and effort to polish his understanding and
presentation of this issue. The movie is worth seeing.

I'll go out on a limb with an opinion and an OBROFF (though not needed
as this is a valid environmental sbject).

There has been extreme debate over this at the office involving massive
research on the part of many people to try and convince one side or the
other. This is good but I remain unconvinced that the movie is nothing
more than alarmist though I, admitedly, base this largely on a basic,
and very fundamental, premise of not ever, ever getting my facts from
career politicians. In my opinion the scientific community at large has
to share established data and so you hear the same basic 'facts' touted
over and over with, what I see, as very little in the way of original,
exhaustive studies. The politics of science is huge and really
misunderstood, in my opinion and there is corruption after corruption,
changed paradigms after changed paradigms. Research Frederic Sietz.
This coupled with the fact that accuracy of recent data gathering would
show potentially more variance as well as other serious anomolies and
contradictions in terms of times of coincedent global warming with
decreased CO2 'inflation' just, well, bugs me.

I don't doubt that there's something going on, but I don't believe the
scientific studies. It has been a while now, but I knew some of the
scientists who were doing the computer simulation models. Even those
doing the modelling admitted that their models were drastically
inaccurate. Tweaking knobs slightly caused wildly different results.
Their models didn't correlate with the observed measurements.

As I'm sure you're aware, those with the most dire published results
receive the most continuing funding.


OBROFF: I was suprised that a map of the San Juan National Forest I
bought recently did not have terrain elevation contours. I saw a road
following a river for 12 miles before crossing it so I went, assuming
good access. I'm a dilligent hiker who believes one must generally walk
a minimum of 1-2 miles to avoid people on public water

:-) Where I fish, it's unusual to see another human for 1/4 mile in
either direction. Unfortunately it was almost 100 degrees out this
weekend. I took my daughter out fishing Sunday. Every bonehead and
his brother was out drinking and screwing around on my local river.
One guy comes down our section on an inflatable camping mat, climbs out
right in front of my 4 year old. I wanted to go elsewhere, but she
wanted to stay in "her fishing spot." She caught four nice cutts all
on her own.
- Ken
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