Originally Posted by
JohnBurke
Any time I hear someone start barking about denying global warming, I can reliably count on them to be a few bricks shy of a full load, hold a healthy share of internal redneck, and I think less of them. A lot less.
Yes, some winters are more intense, some summers more intense, and fire seasons get longer and more severe, but the larger picture, irrefutably backed by science, notes a continuing trend which is not cyclical, but due to human intervention and poor environmental stewardship. There is zero question of that, and to deny it, much like the ostrich with head below ground, is idiotic, ignorant, and short sighted. Very, very short sighted.
Yeah, I reserved judgement for a very long time, in part because I have many older relatives and family friends in science academia and they were very outspoken about the gross departures from established protocol on the part of many climate science types (weak science, biased documentation, outright data manipulation, rush to embrace political positions, etc).
They probably would have made more progress faster if they hadn't pushed the boundaries so hard and rushed to promote their ideas, but even a broken clock is right twice a day. I've even been involved in DoD climate change mitigation planning. It's happening.