Originally Posted by
wrxpilot
Well, I have a mechanical engineering degree, which means I took all the same physics, chemistry, mathematics, (calc 1,2,3, diff eq, prob & statistics) as "scientists" and have studied the scientific method. Does that make me a scientist? I have no freaking idea. But do I understand what some of these people are trying to pass on as science? Hell yes I do. Look man, I used to work on pollution controls in the power generation industry!
As far as what kind of validation I want to see, I'd like to see it period! In the engineering industry (whose underpinnings are in hard science) we (myself included) worked with mathematical models on a daily basis. As I said previously, if there was no validation for a mathematical model, there was no way ANYBODY was going to put faith in the results of what we came up with. How could they possibly do so??
You ask "Do the right reasons matter all that much?". The fact that people like you seriously ask a question like that scare me. What is the world coming to where people put up with this kind of reasoning? Wow.
Look, I'm not trying to fight with you. Really I'm not. But you're not qualified to judge the science...you're just not. I have a computer science and a mathematics degree, and have also taken courses in physics, chemistry, all the mathematics courses you listed and more, etc. I don't think I'm qualified to know the answers to this stuff because I've taken some undergraduate level courses, why do you think you are?
Your work with engineering doesn't have any kind of corollary with the science behind global climate change. What makes you think that it does? They're completely different things. So why are you such an expert?
Let me ask you this. What is your answer to the 'problem'? Conservation has got you all in a tizzy, so you obviously think that we can do whatever we want and NOT affect the planet? What would you like to see happen?