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on Wednesday October 21 2015, @11:12AM
from the Henry-Hudson-was-ahead-of-his-time dept.
from the Henry-Hudson-was-ahead-of-his-time dept.
Beneath the Aurora Borealis an oil tanker glides through the night past the Coast Guard ice breaker Amundsen and vanishes into the maze of shoals and straits of the Northwest Passage, navigating waters that for millennia were frozen over this time of year.
Warming has forced a retreat of the polar ice cap, opening up a sea route through the Canadian Arctic Archipelago and connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans for several months of the year.
Commander Alain Lacerte is at the helm as the vessel navigates the Queen Maud Gulf, poring over charts that date from the 1950s and making course corrections with the help of GPS.
[...] Today, taking this route cuts 7,000 kilometers (4,350 miles) off a trip from London to Tokyo, saving time and fuel.
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There *__is* intelligent life on Earth, but I leave for Texas on Monday.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 22 2015, @12:05AM
It's because people presenting themselves as scientists to the public who do not have the proper self-skepticism (climate researchers are far from alone in this btw) are, even if inadvertently, working to destroy a pillar of modern civilization.
Why does the Venus troposphere have the same temp-pressure profile as the Earth once adjusted for distance from the sun?(They claim it is a coincidence) Why do they calculate expected average temperature in the absence of a "greenhouse effect" without first converting irradiance to temperature when Holder's inequality has been known for ~100 years? (They pretend it was never published as more than an algebra lesson) What predictive skill have the models shown? The best prediction out there is Hansen et al. (1988) scenario C, which assumed constant CO2 after 2000 (They claim there is no physical explanation so the model must be wrong).
It just seems like fanatics, political manipulators, and money grubbers trying to pass off sloppy research as science to take advantage of people. Once again, this is not limited to climate research but they are one of the most extreme examples, at least as presented by the media. I say shut down all government funded "science" at this point, nearly every field seems to be getting more corrupt and incompetent every year (particle physics and astronomy are maybe the exceptions).
I am sure there is some effect of humans on the environment, but I doubt anyone knows what it will be or if it would be better/worse than what would happen otherwise.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 22 2015, @01:15AM
Same AC. Another thing is that I agree with conservation and limiting pollution, etc (let's start by transitioning away from an economy that punishes saving because it's based on a ponzi scheme). Even the people pure of heart are misguided here. In an effort to manipulate the average joe with pseudoscientific scare tactics they are alienating people who subscribe to the philosophy they claim to represent.