This post contains zero personal opinions. I am adding this post in the hopes that people will use it to comment on my new permanent Global Warming links located directly to the left of this post.
Have you taken the Global Warming Quiz? Comment on this post with your thoughts.
Have you visited the climatologists' website? Leave a comment with what you think!
I'm interested to hear all of your reactions. So, please, use this for its intended purpose:
Comment, comment, comment!
9 comments:
Thanks, Marc, that's the first science test I've ever gotten 100% on!
fascinating...
a very helpful and user-friendly website that clearly demonstrates the considerable lack of consensus in the scientific/meterological community about climate change.
Thanks Marc.
6/22/07: Happy 1st birthday to your little guy! Ok, the last & only pic I saw was his hospital pic when he was born. Surely you have an updated pic you can share by now... you know my email...same as always...
Here's something to make us (you, me, and Jenna) old... Creation was TEN years ago right about now! What an eventful trip...
More later~
Hey -
Happy Birthday to the "full house" as you inssit on calling him! I 2nd 2-10s comment about an updated pic. Surely, someone you know has taken a pic with a digital camera that you could share?
A few thoughts on the global warming post. Let's assume that your "scientific" sites are all 100% accurrate, and there's nothing more to this global warming phenomenon than natural causes and media hype. Here's my response:
So what?! What's so wrong with people being thoughtful and aware about the state of the world? I mean, can anything bad come from this -- us creating cars that get better gas milage, use less (or no) oil, light bulbs that don't uses as much elec and burn longer, people using cloth bags instead of plastic bags at the store? Seems to me that there is only a positive effect from this hype. Sure it can be a bit extreme, but if the end results are good, why do you have be so anti-global warming? I mean, aren't all the things that people are doing making the world (we hope) a better place for your son? Aren't we making it a better world for us? Even if global warming is all a fluke??? I say we should be celebrating this mdedia hype not disproving it!
But, maybe I'm the only one that thinks that? And maybe, here in Kenya I'm not so exposed to the hype, which is why it doesn't bother me as much...
what do others think?
Ok, in response to Jenna's comment, Marc, and everyone else on here, watch this video.
http://noimpactman.typepad.com/blog/2007/06/the-climate-cha.html
What say you? What is there left to say? -OR- What is there left to do?
I'm sorry, I just can't get over the fact that the global warming "quiz" website that you linked has the STAR WARS theme on its homepage. (!?) Suddenly it all made sense to me that you put a link to that website on your blog.
http://www.geocraft.com/WVFossils/
HOMEPAGE5.html
And plant fossils of West Virginia?? I've gotta ask cuz I'm dying to know: how in the world did you find this website??
I would suggest going to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's official website:
http://www.ipcc.ch/
I would hazard to guess that perhaps the IPCC has a bit more credibility, expertise, and peer reviewed data backing up the scientific research concerning the complex issue of global warming, than Mr. Plant Fossils of West Virgina Guy Monte Hieb's self-made looking website. But that's just me.
On the main IPCC page, click the "PLAY" button within the "Climate Change 2007" box to see the stats of what went into formulating the latest reports on climate change. Clearly it was no fast, easy, hyped-up-by-the-media task. We're talking thousands of people over the course of several years working on these reports.
Read also the IPCC's About page as well as any of their publication summaries. You can also go here
http://www.ipcc.ch/about/faq.htm
for fact sheets and a user guide with faq's that is very informative.
The amount of reports and literature on the IPCC website is incredible. There is SO much on there. It's pretty overwhelming, but very informative. I challenge you to research their site if you are at all interested in looking for reputable information on the climate change issue.
Just found these links about the IPCC:
http://environmentaldefenseblogs.org/climate411/
2007/02/05/what-is-the-ipcc-anyway/
http://noimpactman.typepad.com/blog/2007/05/
a_vision_of_wha.html
http://grist.org/news/maindish/2007/02/02/ipccI/
index.html
I'll shut up now.
"If you want to think about Global Warming . . . I suggest you take a flight from Europe to Los Angeles over Greenland on a fine Summer's day--sit on the right hand side of the aircraft--
and you will see how Greenland is changing." ~ Brian M. Fagen, emeritus professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA.
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