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Originally Posted by Burninator
The biggest problem I see with the global warming debate is that it is happening too much in the wrong places. It is not a public debate, it's a scientific one. We can set up a poll in this thread and vote on whether or not we believe humans are causing it, and it will mean jack squat. We are not experts, we are not the ones to decided the facts of the issue. It would be no different that if we voted and decided that the sky was green. Sure we would believe it was green, but that doesn't change the fact that the sky is blue.
The debate is getting so clouded with other people's unscientific reasoning and agendas that it's polluting the science itself. The politics in global warming are getting out of hand.
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I am concerned at the pedestal that scientists are put on. It's like people believe their dedication to science somehow shields men from pride, greed, and plain old human error. There is also a tendency to see human thought and reasoning as somehow inferior if the person doesn't belong to this fraternity. We even had a poster on this thread declare that he studied global warming in university and knows for a fact that is caused by man. One wonders if he studied under a prof who dismissed the notion that human activity was the cause would he then embrace the other position so positively.
I for one am not going to trade my own limited human reasoning in for faith in any man(scientist or not); Nor will I surrender it to mere majority opinion.