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Climate change issues: the problem of unwarranted trust : Comments

By David Henderson, published 2/2/2007

There are good reasons to query the claims to authority and representative status made by and on behalf of the International Panel on Climate Change.

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The climate experts seem to be outdoing each other in their diaster predictions. Bit of a laugh really when they can't accurately predict one week in advance. When so many on this forum are quick to point out the gullability of those who believe in God it becomes very humorous to see people willing to embrace anything. I suppose when you reject God you need to hold on to some belief and dress it up as science. In 30 years time we will be laughing once again at this nonsense.
Posted by runner, Saturday, 3 February 2007 12:56:47 PM
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I actually had some hope for the IPCC. In that the forum would be diverse enough that the scientist concerned would bring their best work to the debate. Say man has an impact on his environment and most will not offer any argument. It's not that the average person is unaware of the human impact. But they have no way of quantifying the extent of their impact. That the IPCC and or scientist would use this particular platform to hype and promote fear for political and monetary gain destroys the average persons confidence in sciences ability to remain impartial and deliver the facts necessary to promote change. Why even try to curb your personal carbon footprint it it's just a get rich quick ploy for the eco-scientist.
Posted by aqvarivs, Saturday, 3 February 2007 4:23:24 PM
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There is Climate change, but it is ongoing through out time and will always be that way.

The big difference between now and a thousand years before is Modern Communications and a manifestly abundant commodity of absolute Useless Idiots who are more sworn to destroy man rather than provide Scientific Provable answers; Simply put, they can’t provide any answers so their Pseudo methodologies will suffice., that is because they are frauds and Phonies that depend whole heartily on the Proletariat lobotomization, dumb and Dumber effect.
And the U N; it would be easier just to kick the whole lot of the Looting Liars out of the place;

That’s what you get when Witch doctors are running the place, and science is held in contempt.
If you are frightened now, you should be, not by climate change and Man, but the Idiots that will feed you junk – Doom and destruction. They represent what they Promulgate; Death.
Be careful what you wish for, you just might get it.
Posted by All-, Saturday, 3 February 2007 6:28:33 PM
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I imagine that when there is a bushfire bearing down on your property, you don't really care how it started, you just want to minimise the damage.
Some of the above posters can't see the fire for the smoke.

As for a smoke analogy -

Using their logic, we can now acknowledge that smoking is bad for your health (despite the sometimes convincing arguments against that aspect not so long ago) but you don't need to quit because there is as much danger from second-hand smoke anyway.
Posted by wobbles, Saturday, 3 February 2007 7:47:49 PM
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Shonga: "The world was told in 1992 in a document signed by 1,600 scientists half of which were Nobel Prize winners in the respective fields"

Considering that only 768 individuals have been awared Nobel Prizes in its entire history (which includes Literature, Peace and Economics), your claim is evidently wrong.

Who should we place our trust in? Certainly not you.
Posted by Richard Castles, Saturday, 3 February 2007 9:27:32 PM
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As someone who participates in a number of weather based forums, I wish to add my skepticism of the effects of global warming. I am no weather expert, but I know when something just doesn't add up. The geographic evidence when the Earth was warmer was that Australia had greater rainfall. In fact vast area's of the Australian continent were covered in rain forest. Yet continually we are told that drought will be more common.
I believe that we should be more efficient with our energy resources, that there is nothing wrong with striving for less pollution and in fact using less energy should always be the goal of individuals and companies. Energy savings always flow directly to the bottom line.
I sleep easy at night, there are many things that affect our weather, global warming by man made CO2 is just a minor part of this complex area.
By the way did anyone notice when the world temperature cooled by 0.5c over two years by the Mt. Pinatubo eruption in 1991. ? Natural disasters can have far greater effects than anything man can conjure.
Posted by seaweed, Saturday, 3 February 2007 9:52:27 PM
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