Global Warming - Taking it back
So, this past week my favorite technical website posted several great stories regarding the issue mentioned previously here: Global Warming.
I don't have much to say beyond what was said, but feel the need to spread the word through a couple links.
This article is more technical, and includes many arguments for caution when looking at the evidence for global warming.
This article is less technical, but gives an overview to give non-technical people something to talk about at the dinner table...
This debate is heating up (no pun intended... but secretly chuckling inside about that one.) about this lately. News stories are everywhere with terrible data, and crazy predictions. This article claims that we can understand the temperature a million years ago!!! What? the thermometer was invented in 1592 by Galileo Galilei (my personal favorite scientist name). Alright, more hype from our friends at CNET, and a link to a group of investors that are hoping to cause change by themselves. If you are looking for crazy predictions based on terrible evidence, check out the site's argument for the relevance of their existence. I am just about sick from all the mentions of the 2005 hurricane season as a reason why global warming is so bad. First of all up until 2005 it appeared to be declining, so the gradual change in temps should not produce a dramatic change in storms over the course of 1 season. Next, there is evidence that the only statistical difference in hurricanes recently is in the damage reports probably due to more people building on the coasts, not the number/severity of the storms.
Enough said on this topic. There are lots of links, but again, I am really just trying to show what the media will not. There are conflicting views between people that are much smarter than I am, and the science is not as clear as the media would like us to believe. Read the links if you have some extra time, or maybe to help you get to sleep; which I am about to get. ;)
On a side note, AIG has changed their site, and have categorized all the articles according to the tech level included. For me, this means I can weed out the lower tech stuff, and get to the science stuff. I like to have the best evidence in case the discussion comes up, and appreciate technical arguments.