Yes, the Earth’s Climate Never Stops Changing, But….
“Well, the Earth’s climate is always changing.”
True.
I guess we could fit that in the “a little knowledge is a dangerous thing” department, as it’s used by uninformed people as a reason to do nothing about the abrupt change in the Earth’s climate in the last couple of hundred years.
Here’s a wonderful graphic that makes that point. I urge you to check it out, as you’ll learn some things about Earth’s history that I bet you didn’t know. I sure did.
Craig,
Oh dear that poor Polar Bear, what ever will he do ?
How sad, he’ll obviously starve to death or drown in the icy waters. No more Polar Bears, tey’ll become extinct.
Hmmm, except it ain’t true ! It’s a hoax !
Poplar bear numbers have never been greater and far from being in difficulty the lonely bruin can (and do) swim easily long distances sometimes covering hundreds of klm’s, so he’s not in any danger. Much less danger than whatever he’s looking at for lunch!
Likewise, your graph is, while not a hoax, based largely on speculation and conjecture.
This kind of simplistic emotive propaganda is unhelpful.
Well, it’s a good thing that the world has you, a lawyer, to help us sort out the complex issues of physics and biochemistry.
Craig,
“complex issues of physics and biochemistry”.
Well, it true I’m not a physicist or a chemist, but as the old saying goes, you don’t need to be a master carpenter to know when a table has one leg shorter than it’s others !
I don’t see the analogy.
I cringe when I hear plumbers or real estate agents arguing about climate science, or particle physics, or third-world politics. It makes me embarrassed to be a member of the human race. There’s a reason I don’t weigh in on 17th Century European history: I don’t know anything about it. Talking about it authoritatively would only be an embarrassment.
But just perhaps rather than spout an ego driven verbal essay it is possible to enjoy the example of Socrates and simply ask questions. It doesn’t take a lot of expertise to inquire and maybe a just a bit more to make the inquires lead to positive results.
While I am not particularly enamored with RE agents a plumber, like many of the trades can be a problem solver. While climate change may be outside their area of expertise a good listener should detect their use of a problem solving capacity or a bit of bluster that is not purely the province of practical artisans but also perhaps a professor or two.
Craig,
While I do have a law degree, I also have degrees in Jurisprudence,Economics and Behavioral Science in addition to an MBA.
I have other qualifications in Finance and analytical research methodology.
While that may not qualify me a chemist or physicist, my qualifications are some small assistance when confronted with propaganda in the form of an emotive image !
I don’t think it’s unreasonable to ponder why a physicist or chemist would need to use an emotive, but inherently disingenuous image, to ‘sell’ a scientific concept ?
Nor do I think it unreasonable to question the validity of the author’s scientific rigor and standards if he needs to employ such dubious methods.
Of course, as you say, those of us lacking sufficient qualifications in physics or chemistry are probably too stupid to grasp any concept without a graph and a picture of a Photo-shoped bear, but again it raises the question of why a confident expert would reply when challenged, “you’re too stupid to understand”!.
Plumbers and real estate agents, may not be Nobel prize winners, but they’re the citizens being asked to pay for the proposals of physicists and chemists, so yeah, I think they have a right to opinion and participate in any debate.
Curious about the footnote regarding the extinction of mammoths, that they did not die out until the “time of the building of the pyramids.” It might be a bit misleading as they basically seemed to have gone extinct everywhere else 7000 years earlier. Unless that is you accept a minor position. The “sleeping prophet” Cayce puts pyramid building 7000 years earlier which concurrently allows for more consistency with celestial markers.
From this crack you could begin to find all sorts of archeological inconsistencies until you start start spouting creationism with a touch of quantum physics as your “scientific” basis. This is not to say that such “info-graphics” are wrong, but only that they reiterate a perspective and attempt to weight the climate issue with “evidence” when the dispute is essentially about “belief.”
Sorry, I was so enjoying the contrarian vista that I forgot there might be a few with a profit rather than a prophet perspective.