How I Was Not Al Gored Into Submission

With Apologies to Rhymin Simon.

The inspiration for CEIs experiment in skeptic rock is Paul Simon's Dylan-spoofing, cut-the-hype 60s protest ballad, A Simple Desultory Philippic (Or How I Was Robert McNamarad Into Submission), which is also available on Youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txE7RZNQY_w .

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[OmahaNan]

Remember Kids: If it's too hot, too cold, too much rain or not enough, 6 feet of snow or not a flake -- it's Global Warming! (or "Climate Change," or whatever the next empty catch-phrase will be).

[deadhorseman]

First off, you write like a retard. Secondly, Global warming is obviously a scam. Do you really believe Carbon dioxide is bad for the enviorment? I also find it funny how Al Gore says would should all drive special cars, special cars that he sells himself, yet he flies all over the world in his private jet convincing gullible assholes that Cap and trade is the best way to help the enviorment.

[sethcressey]

al gore is a puss

[topologyrob]

Sorry mate, the data (and those who actually know something about the topic, you know, scientists who publish in peer-reviewed journals on the subject) says very clearly that your denial is wrong. Maybe it's time (past time) to face up to your fears and start being part of the solution instead of part of the problem.

[katubl]

The Earths atmosphere weighs in at 5 quadrillion tons. Five times 10 to the 15th power. A billion is just 10 to the 9th power.

Carbon dioxide is a minor component of the atmosphere and we are not changing it by much at all. We are just feeding the plants, and thats a good thing.

[yalocin1]

Fantastic Marlow - The Pluckers' will be Proud!

[pluckerdude]

Marlo, great tune, and absolutely right on.

[FrogJacuzzi]

I do so love YouTube as a debating forum.

[FiendsInRedSatin1]

nospace, that's exactly what I am pointing out here. Scientists sometimes get it wrong, and it doesn't make someone (and I'm not accusing you of saying that but I have heard others say it) stupid or evil or (to quote Bill Nye recently) "almost unpatriotic" to question scientific theories like man-made global warming. If scientists (and people in general) didn't question the status quo, science would never advance. That's all I'm saying.

[FiendsInRedSatin1]

Huge amount? I invested only a small amount of my time (I don't have that much to begin with) and only perused two journals that I thought would have material about climate change at my library and only from 1970-1975.

The point is that the ice age scientists were there. Furthermore, as I mentioned from "Aerosols and Climate", the author referenced earlier fears about aerosols causing an ice age. That shows that ice age fears were there.

[nospacesallowed]

Let's assume for a second you are right. Scientists at one time thought that the earth was heading into another ice age. So what? Science is a self correcting system, when they get something wrong, Evidence of there error comes to light and they change their minds. This is how science works and why it works so well. In fact it points more to scientists being more willing to change their minds.