Right On The Right

Update: For idiots that disqualify FOX News simply because they're... well... FOX News, Daily Tech has all the information on the study you should need.

There's a huge concensus in the scientific community that humans are causing global warming and that global warming is going to destroy the world, in like 11 minutes or something like that. By huge concensus I mean Al Gore and people who get grants for supporting that theory. A reader with a solid scientific background e-mailed the following:

Sadly, the general public and the college/university students and professors in their scientific communities are woefully ill prepared to think critically (rather than be brainwashed) about most things political and scientific as of now! That has to change! Many of my colleagues and I are doing our best to aggressively address the misinformation campaign by the media and, sorry to say, unethical spokespersons on the global warming Issue. (We need common sense celebrities, I guess! Are there any? We're looking! Really!)

Emphasis hers. We do need some common sense in dealing with the global warming issue, and we do need to analyze reports for what they are, scientific theories with evidence. We also need to analyze reports with conflicting theories and evidence. The huge 'concensus' on the issue isn't that huge at all. In fact, the issue was addressed on the show Special Report with Brit Hume:

Earlier this year the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said it was "90 percent likely" that man was having an impact on global temperatures. And dailytech.com reports an analysis of scientific papers in 2004 concluded that a majority of researchers supported what it called the "consensus view" that humans were effecting climate change.

But now a study of all research papers between 2004 and 2007 indicates only seven percent give an explicit endorsement of that so-called consensus. Forty-five percent give an implicit endorsement. But 48 percent of the papers are classified as neutral — neither accepting nor rejecting the hypothesis. And only one of the 528 papers reviewed makes any reference to climate change leading to catastrophic results.

That one paper was the script for the movie The Day After Tomorrow. I'm joking of course, but the lack of concensus is something more people need to know about. It's now assumed that human-created global warming and climate change are legitimate scientific fact. It's simply not true. The verdict from the scientific community is still out, and the issue is beyond being politicized. Let's get a common sense concensus before putting on our Doomsday hats.

A few readers (some jokingly and other seriously) have been asking for some more discussion on climate change and the global warming issue. I've decided to repost a video I've posted before on this site: