Originally Posted by
N2264J
We’ve basically decided to keep pumping greenhouse gases into Mother Nature’s operating system and take our chances that the results will be benign — even though a vast majority of scientists warn that this will not be so. Fasten your seat belts. As the environmentalist Rob Watson likes to say: “Mother Nature is just chemistry, biology and physics. That’s all she is.” You cannot sweet-talk her. You cannot spin her. You cannot tell her that the oil companies say climate change is a hoax. No, Mother Nature is going to do whatever chemistry, biology and physics dictate, and “Mother Nature always bats last, and she always bats 1.000,” says Watson. Do not mess with Mother Nature. But that is just what we’re doing.
As to the first bolded section, I have seen plenty of surveys of "climatologists" that splits the opinion about 50/50. If we use the generic term "scientists," then that opens the door to all manner of branches of science. Where does the line get drawn? Environmental scientists, Archeologists, Chemists, Social Scientists, or Physicists? Just because someone is a "scientist" doesn't mean that they are an expert in climatology.
The second statement is misleading as well... If Mother Nature is going to do what chemistry, biology, and physics dictate then why does she continue to astound all manner of "scientists" with her capabilities? Take for example the Gulf oil spill, at the beginning of the "crisis," people couldn't stop themselves from predicting the doom and gloom that would come for years (if no decades) to come from the spill and how the slick would be impossible to clean up. Fast forward to the present, where the fleets of boats are having trouble even FINDING any oil to filter out of the water.