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A favorite researcher clarion call: Throw billions more money at it. All researchers ever demand is money, even if they rarely produce it.
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We've spent now more on AIDS than cancer, so there's politics for you.
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Frustrating for me and others as well. I am pretty much ignorant on the science of all this. The issue has become so political and so alarmist that it is hard to determine the most reasonable course. I had a work colleague predicting a full Greenland thaw in 10 years that will flood New York City based on an article he read in the mainstream media. I'm supposed to believe this stuff?
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I honestly believe that the earth is resilient enough to handle the fossil fuel issue, but that is not a reason to ignore the opportunities to truly develop alternatives. I am afraid however that in spite of the mantra out there and even the so called push by the seven sisters (big oil) to invest in alternative research that the huge reserves in Utah, Wyoming and Colorado will be too enticing to for oil companies to ignore. What really surprises me is why no noise on the clean burn front regarding maintaining the status quo of using fossil fuels, but research technology to clean the burn so to speak. I could get excited about new techniques in distilling or in processing or new motor technology that can convert the burn off into water vapor instead of carbon monoxide. I don't deny the world is getting warmer, I am not sure how much an impact industry really has on creating this situation. I mean if you give everyone on earth a square yard to stand in, the entire earths population could fit in the state of Delaware. I mean if co2 levels get over .04% of the entire atmosphere will that be disastrous? I mean the alarmist mantra really scares people. My friends daughter came home crying because her teacher told her that we are killing the earth and that if we don't act now global warming would destroy the planet. I mean come on, that is just crazy talk. I really like this article in the Boston Globe written by Bjørn Lomborg a Danish scientist who is part of the committee that share the peace prize with Gore. He is a professor adjunct at the Copenhagen School of Business: An Inconvenient Peace Prize |
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The only saving grace is that as much as kids may mouth the rhetoric of the global warming alarmists, they still enjoy their modern conveniences. The same goes for good ole carbon credit Al Gore.
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Another reason to throw more money into science is the lack of jobs available for science PhDs. We can lament losing the science battle and losing our best and brightest to other fields all we want, but the fact is that it's extremely hard to get into a good program, and it's extremely hard finding a job after graduation. It's still better here than just about anywhere else in the world, but this would be yet another great use of government funds that are currently being thrown on the bonfire. Speaking of cancer, we're actually on the precipice of understanding the process of aging well enough to be able to begin drug development that could postpone it. This would single-handedly do more for the fight against cancer, heart disease, alzheimer's, and all the other age-related diseases than anything we've ever done. It's very exciting stuff. |
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The main reason I don't care as much as I probably should about global warming is the fact that almost all of the species that have ever lived on the planet have gone extinct (somewhere between 98 and 99.9 percent. I lean toward the latter figure from what I've seen) and the earth will continue to be inhabited for another 5 billion years or so. Small groups of humans have gone extinct because of their destruction of their environment (chopping down all the trees on their island, for instance) and if we end up destroying our environment, then we'll go extinct too. In the grand scheme of things, no big deal. Still, I don't see that happening, as even Al Gore's version of events has a few large cities being destroyed as the worst that will happen, which would be a very minor inconvenience, again in the grand scheme. Edit: That article that DJ posted is great, and closely mirrors my thoughts. Last edited by woot; 10-24-2007 at 08:30 PM. |
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