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Originally Posted by TheU
honestly a few years ago i downloaded 2 movies to watch when i was bored; an inconvenient truth, and, the great global warming swindel. i really liked al gores movie, then, i watched the great global warming swindle (coming into it with a very skeptical mind) and was blown away. it was very convincing because it presented data, graphs, scientists and professors, while truth was a politician selling a point of a view like a politician. after that i did some online reading and i was pretty much sold. this last summer a friend of mine who has a math degree from u of c and now is in UBC law got annoyed with all my chirping and we spent an hour googling data from the last 150 years people have put into graphs and reports etc. he was a staunch climate change guy, i mean hard core. in 60 mins he went from being hard core "this is our problem we made it happen" to "well maybe we didn't cause it but perhaps our co2 is not letting it slow down like it should be". not exactly a huge turn around but when people take the time look at the graphs, data, read about the hockey stick graph, its really hard to say that people are solely to blame (if it all).
and thats really what im driving at here... humans really didnt cause this last warming, imo.
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Interesting - while I'm not a hard-core advocate of either side, I thought "the Great Global Warming Swindle" was even worse than Gore's movie when it came to misrepresentation of data. I gave up watching part way through because all I could see was data being taken out of context or misinterpreted. That's the problem with a lot of scientific debates being brought to the internet these days though - someone can present something and surround it with a bunch of technobabble and the average layman (or even a scientist from a different field) can't readily tell which argument to believe. It takes many years of training and experience to understand a complex science like climatology. Some people say the "University of Google" lets anyone become an expert, but in my opinion most of what people learn there is wrong.