Sunday: Questioning the science of Climate Change - Part I

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On the show; 29th June, 2008 (AEST)

The theory of anthropogenic, or man-made, global warming has become an unchallengeable fact, a piece of black letter law almost unique in the world of science.

Proponents of the theory say the time for scientific debate is over. It would irresponsible to fund any further research into counter views on the relationship between elevated levels of carbon dioxide and a rise in temperatures since the mid-1970s.

It's regarded as career suicide for scientists to advocate any counter view of the causes of global warming, let alone deny the orthodox consensus view as adopted by the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

However, there is a school of thought that our knowledge of climate systems is as yet insufficient to be so conclusive on the causes of global warming.

Today Sunday examines the political consensus building that has portrayed global warming as the most urgent crisis humankind has ever faced.

Skeptics point to the gaps in the knowledge base and the flaws in the measurement of vital climate and weather data upon which the consensus is based.

Social researchers also highlight the dangers of conducting science as a form of religion, divided into believers and deniers.

They warn that as governments prepare to make expensive policy decisions, such as carbon emissions trading schemes, this consensus may not reflect the best science.

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[sixbillionmorons]

We DID the empirical inquiry, gathering irrefutable evidence and they say, "Where's the consensus?" So we get consensus and they say, "Having scientific consensus is bad for real science." I really wish these industry-paid denial-mongers would stop babbling like the cretins that they are.

[mranderson1986]

Oh you mean to link climate change denial to holocaust denial to invoke an emotional response making sceptics seem like incompassionate murderers of future generations?

[EmmaRose55]

Hmm... This makes me wonder. I should really ask my friend Lewis about it....

[TRUMPHENT]

Ignore Al Gore. Below are a few of the real scientists that can explain how the scientific community views global warming, studies it, reports it.

Stephen Schneider, Richard Alley, Richard Somerville, Veerabhadran Ramanathan, Michael Oppenheimer, Ralph Keeling, Miriam Kastner, John Holdren, Steven Chu, Ralph Cicerone, Scamboz, Serreze etc.

The above all have lectures available here on YouTube. They have websites that list their credentials and work.

[owlsayssouth]

interesting video. there is an Arrogance to think that we understand what is going on with the weather when we do not have the data. i always found it interesting that the temp data for AL's movie, only talked about the ice ages, and didn't go back to jurasic and beyond tempretures. the planet went through a cycle of cold phases, now it has started to heat up, out of the ice ages. do we affect it? mabye. but if we are, we would need to kill ourselves to stop our affects on the planet.

[WellSightedGentleman]

the crisis is already here. Not wanting to be an alarmist, i am compelled to report what it going down. This hype is a distraction from the genuine perpetrators of atmospheric destruction. Weathermodification is killing off our children now.

Who is gonna stop the jets disbursing chemicals to invoke weather modification.

Heads up all this politics is a lie to take you away from the truth and even take responsability for it yourself.

thats what the power of deliberate propoganda can do.

[stewstudboy]

i'd prefer to keep my $15 thanks

[WeAreChangeBrisbane]

Google Global Warming or Global Governance

[stewstudboy]

the problem here is, what's the harm? whats the harm of doing something...did it harm us when we were concerned about y2k...of course not. this issue of not doing something about it is more likely to be harmful.

[stevenrszabo]

Great video. I'd like to see a graph of Y2K, global warming and other mass-panic phenomenons. That pattern probably follows a more steady trend than global warming evidence.

[warren52nz]

Perhaps the best thing we can do to try to stop GW is to stop cutting down trees (Amazon Basin especially) and plant more trees.

Trees (and all plants but especially trees) gobble up CO2, turn it into wood and give off oxygen.

And reduce car emissions of course.