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Nov 29, 2009 9:48 pm |
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35 Inconvenient Truths > more Climategate fallout |
John Stephen Veitch
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Hello Everybody
As James Booth said, and I agree, "I do like where this is going !"
The addition of several new voices has improved the quality of the debate. There is a tendency to adopt entrenched positions, which apparently cannot be challenged.
When that position is challenged, an attack on the individual follows. (I've deleted one post.)
According to Sir Karl Popper the essence of science is that every scientific theory MUST be "falsifyable" or it's not scientific.
I'm surprised that nobody who is a strong advocate of the standard scientific practice has appeared.
My position for Ben Simonton's benefit is that I'm a conservationist for more than 50 years. Since high school when I was asked to study a running stream for a science project. The stream closest to my home, was so polluted it had no living things I could find, except tiny round thread worms in the bottom mud.
Here in New Zealand, I've witnessed the decline of our many glaciers in the Southern Alps, an unwelcome fact for all of my experience. A NZ scientist said last week, that NZ glaciers have lost 50% of their mass in the last 30 years. That's a FACT I have to deal with.
I see how willingly we have trashed the environment in the name of "economic growth", and our unwillingness first to recognise what we are doing, and secondly once there is recognition, the way we seek to find a "costless" remedy. Generally that means no effective remedy at all. Human beings have been irresponsible stewards of the Earth.
I think standard science explains well what I've seen and experienced. Even if the theory is WRONG, and it might be, it's still a theory that has not been falsified in my unscientific opinion.
The whole world environment has been transformed by the activities of people. The clear development of monocultures we call farming. The destruction of biodiversity we often call economic progress, the destruction of rivers as living systems, the pollution and over fishing of the oceans. That is self evident to anyone with eyes who chooses to see.
Given the above, it seems entirely probable that human activity is directly responsible for the increase in global temperatures, and the effects of that on the world. I think, given the position of standard scientific theory, that those who believe HUMAN activity is not responsible for global warming need to do much more to build their case.
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