One thing about scientific data is there is enough of it to garner any conclusion that you want to make of it. The earth's is a living "creature" and the variables of the total entity are far too complex to jump to conclusions based on even good evidence, much less the over abundance of fallible or misinterpreted "evidence". I guess I have a lot of faith in the earth and its ability to "heal" itself. Yes, mankind is making its indelible mark upon the land and will continue to do so. The ever increasing population growth is only going to make things progressively worse and o matter how hard we try to "go green" and protect the earth from ourselves, it will always be too little too late. I'm not preaching doom and gloom, actually quite the opposite. As long as mankind is on this earth we will find some way to deal with the problems we create. The USA had done a great job of cleaning up its act and it was quite simple in fact, we just moved the pollution to China! Now the big question is- Where is China going to move it? Ok, I'll turn the soap box over to someone else now! :) -Barrett www.FallenStarHunters.com www.BarrettsCustomLeather.com -----Original Message----- From: Utah-Astronomy [mailto:utah-astronomy-bounces@mailman.xmission.com] On Behalf Of Nancy Matro Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2014 10:38 PM To: Brent Watson; Utah Astronomy Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] An interesting article I'm not sure if anyone has provided the link to this article that was in Scientific American April 2014. My husband just read it and we were discussing it earlier tonight. http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/earth-will-cross-the-climate-dange.... It addresses the slowing rate at which the earth's average surface temperature has been increasing. Nancy Matro On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 2:39 PM, Brent Watson via Utah-Astronomy < utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> wrote:
This article points out a common occurrence in science. Models that are used to predict the future are notoriously fallible. They must be continually tweaked to make sense. This is the essence of science and the scientific method. Rarely do we get it right the first time.
I bring this up so there can be an intelligent conversation about the topic. There is always way too much name calling and innuendo made by commenters, as can be seen in the comments section of this article. Please, lets have a civil conversation. Without civility there can be no unemotional, fact based debate. I for one would really like to hear the rational facts from both sides of this (unfortunately) hotly debated topic.
Again, please no name calling, and only rational fact based debate.
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