Originally Posted by
wrxpilot
Well, that's definitely a strange comment... So you are going to throw your future into the hands of some "scientists" making mysterious calculations that are far and above any of us commoners questioning it? I understand your passion for the climate I think, but I don't understand the apathy...
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some scientists", "mysterious calculations"? That's a politically charged and loaded question and you know it. That apathy lies in your denial, not in my concern.
Originally Posted by
wrxpilot
Regarding my former engineering job, I did a little bit more than sell catalytic converters at Pep Boys. Before working in the power industry, I was working as a stress analyst on turbine blades and disks. Apparently this isn't quite as elite as climate science, but I was working with stress analysis modeling software, we did have to understand the mathematics and engineering concepts behind the code, and we did have to validate it.
Since the black magic that is climate science is apparently beyond my intellectual grasp, please explain how it is possible and wise for us as a society to hinge our future on unverified mathematical models?
Again, your former career does not a climatologist make.
As for "black magic", again, you're putting the cart before the horse. You should learn from Obama's decree about integrity in science policy.
(BTW; I didn't compare your former job to selling, I compared it to replacing......big difference.) (and, I'm not cutting on your expertise in THAT field. I am just saying that it is not climatology)