It all started with hackers hacking into emails and came out with these:
If you have the time(and interest)and want to find out the source of these email, to recognize their authenticity, here are the e-mails, hacked from University of East Anglia. Read them yourself and decide, whether this whole Global Warming is a hoax or otherwise. All of them are in HERE.
I belong to the "boring" side ... i.e. those who belive that the planet is warming and we need change our ways to prevent major disruptions to our way of life. On this boring side are also > 1000 of the best brains in climatology, meteorology,physics, oceanography, ect, etc who have synthesised all findings of the peer-reviewed scientific literature and the peer-reviewed global circulation models and published them as the IPCC 4th Assessment Report which is available on the web. Being a person of science, I tend to agree with them... because the synthesis process has been very robust and has been subjected to thousnads of reviews at various fora.
On the other hand, the claims that global warming is not true or not man-made have not been subject to extensive peer scrutiny nor have these claims been backed by robust analysis.
The analogy is similar to modern medicine vs. alternative medicine. Modern drugs are subject to entensive reviews and clinical trials before they are deemed fit for human beings. Where else, alternative medicine, tongkat alis, quacks, etc do not undergo such stringent tests... hence when I am sick, I will come to see you (a scary thought) rather trusting some quacks.
This is not to say that the climate-change-non-believers and medical quacks are liars. Their reasoning has not been really tested.
I've taken a hole post to respond to your comment :)
As for non conventional medicine, i've long observed that the reason for the failure for more research to be done on preventive medicine is because,preventing diseases causes big losses to present giant drug companies not to mention not economical savvy for the future income. Well, the truth hurts. That is why I am normally not too keen to attend lectures conducted by drug companies. I am not the only one with this sentiment.....
If you have the time(and interest)and want to find out the source of these email, to recognize their authenticity, here are the e-mails, hacked from University of East Anglia. Read them yourself and decide, whether this whole Global Warming is a hoax or otherwise. All of them are in HERE.
When the world turn their back on you, you show your butt to them...
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I belong to the "boring" side ... i.e. those who belive that the planet is warming and we need change our ways to prevent major disruptions to our way of life. On this boring side are also > 1000 of the best brains in climatology, meteorology,physics, oceanography, ect, etc who have synthesised all findings of the peer-reviewed scientific literature and the peer-reviewed global circulation models and published them as the IPCC 4th Assessment Report which is available on the web. Being a person of science, I tend to agree with them... because the synthesis process has been very robust and has been subjected to thousnads of reviews at various fora.
On the other hand, the claims that global warming is not true or not man-made have not been subject to extensive peer scrutiny nor have these claims been backed by robust analysis.
The analogy is similar to modern medicine vs. alternative medicine. Modern drugs are subject to entensive reviews and clinical trials before they are deemed fit for human beings. Where else, alternative medicine, tongkat alis, quacks, etc do not undergo such stringent tests... hence when I am sick, I will come to see you (a scary thought) rather trusting some quacks.
This is not to say that the climate-change-non-believers and medical quacks are liars. Their reasoning has not been really tested.
I've taken a hole post to respond to your comment :)
As for non conventional medicine, i've long observed that the reason for the failure for more research to be done on preventive medicine is because,preventing diseases causes big losses to present giant drug companies not to mention not economical savvy for the future income. Well, the truth hurts. That is why I am normally not too keen to attend lectures conducted by drug companies. I am not the only one with this sentiment.....
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