The Science Is Settled, Dammit! (v3)

Talk about screams of denial. Two views, both mentioning the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

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First, from the brilliant, all knowing, scientific Warmies:

"The American Association for the Advancement of Science came as close as such a respectable institution can to screaming an alarm ( http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/mar/18/climate-change-world-risk-irreversible-changes-scientists-aaas ) last week. "As scientists, it is not our role to tell people what they should do," it said as it began one of those sentences that you know will build to a "but". "But human-caused climate risks abrupt, unpredictable and potentially irreversible changes."

In other words, the most distinguished scientists from the country with the world's pre-eminent educational institutions were trying to shake humanity out of its complacency. Why weren't their warnings leading the news?"

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/mar/22/climate-change-deniers-have-won-global-warming

Read the whole thing...make up your own mind.
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Second, from the troglodyte, science hating, earth destroying Deniers:
"Climate scientist Dr. Roger Pielke, Sr. recently posted ( http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/03/18/to-aaas-what-we-know-earth-hasnt-warmed-significantly-in-over-a-decade-climate-models-failed-to-predict-this/#http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/03/18/to-aaas-what-we-know-earth-hasnt-warmed-significantly-in-ove ) that the AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science) has ignored “the recent recognition of the heightened importance of natural climate forcings and feedbacks” and condemned AAAS media release as “an embarrassment to the scientific community.”
It is not just natural climate forcings that the AAAS ignored. As a biologist who has studied the impacts of regional climate change on wildlife in California’s Sierra Nevada for 3 decades, the AAAS’s simplistic and misleading discussion of extinctions and ecosystem collapse is simply shameful fear mongering. I agree wholeheartedly with Dr. Pielke. It is an embarrassment to the scientific community."
Read the whole thing...make up your own mind. http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/03/23/the-aaass-lost-climate-integrity/ But this article and presentation does at least show there are two "sides" of the issue...and neither are scientifically "settled."

Oops, guess I've outed myself as a denier. The warmies may have their hearts in the right place, but they are devout followers of their religion. One that will only be found true in a hundred years. Never mind that they didn't call the last 20 years correctly. Gaia and Science will out.

Oh...FYI...I've become to distrust, if not despise, appeals to authority rather than a reasoned argument or statement of opinion.