Politicised Science
Politicised Science
by Ivan from Oregon
(Libertarian)
The Costs of Politicised Science
The latest scam to come down the pike to enslave us and make more money to those that are already rich is the whole "global warming" issue. Now, this is not an article trying to deny that there's global warming going on - there is some of that. What is at issue is whether this trend is caused by man, and what we should do about it, if anything.
At what I think is the most authoritarian study of the matter by one of my neighbors here in Southern Oregon, Art Robinson, (my PH.D is in Electrical Engineering, so I don't really qualify) whose extensively research study ( almost 200 references) comes to the conclusion that; man's contribution has nothing to do with the normal cyclic temperature of the earth, and we couldn't do anything about changing it if we wanted to. In fact, he comes to the conclusion that the current warming trend is good for us and the miniscule of our contribution to atmospheric co2 is helpful to production of more vegetation production (food crisis, anyone?), rather than disruptive, Al Gore notwithstanding.
If you think back, politicising of science has been a long-actived practice that goes back centuries. For example, the Catholic Church almost burned Galileo at the stake because of the "heretic" postulate that the earth revolved around the sun, rather that vice versa. Galileo was a friend of the Pope, so he got away with it. Copernicus came close when he said that the orbits of the planets were elliptical when the Church said that God would not make "Imperfect" orbits and almost burned him at the stake for it.
More recent examples come to mind: In the 1980's The "Montreal Protocol banned the usage of Freon, world-wide. This put a great strain on the food chain, especially in the poor countries. Freon, which is one of the most efficient of refrigerant gasses in the world, is heavier than air, and I have yet to explain to me, how my usage of my underarm deodorant, heavier than air, causes this gas to wind up in the stratosphere at 50,000 feet. Just coincidentally, at that time the patent for Freon, owned by Dupont had run out, and they just happened to have a substitute (more expensive and more polluting comes from the 90's when I was in California. The State pushed through a law that mandated the addition of "fluoride" to township drinking water. The "fluoride" is a wasteproduct of industries,etc), so what better way as to how get rid of it than making it a Food additive". The stuff etches glass, kills cattle, causes osteoporsis in women, but it's OK for food consumption.
The latest idiocy these days is diverting corn production to Ethanol", causing world hunger. It takes more energy to produce ethanol than you derive from burning it as fuel. Such is our legacy of the Al Gores (the inventor of the internet) 0f the world. We get what we deserve.
by Ivan from Oregon
(Libertarian)
The Costs of Politicised Science
The latest scam to come down the pike to enslave us and make more money to those that are already rich is the whole "global warming" issue. Now, this is not an article trying to deny that there's global warming going on - there is some of that. What is at issue is whether this trend is caused by man, and what we should do about it, if anything.
At what I think is the most authoritarian study of the matter by one of my neighbors here in Southern Oregon, Art Robinson, (my PH.D is in Electrical Engineering, so I don't really qualify) whose extensively research study ( almost 200 references) comes to the conclusion that; man's contribution has nothing to do with the normal cyclic temperature of the earth, and we couldn't do anything about changing it if we wanted to. In fact, he comes to the conclusion that the current warming trend is good for us and the miniscule of our contribution to atmospheric co2 is helpful to production of more vegetation production (food crisis, anyone?), rather than disruptive, Al Gore notwithstanding.
If you think back, politicising of science has been a long-actived practice that goes back centuries. For example, the Catholic Church almost burned Galileo at the stake because of the "heretic" postulate that the earth revolved around the sun, rather that vice versa. Galileo was a friend of the Pope, so he got away with it. Copernicus came close when he said that the orbits of the planets were elliptical when the Church said that God would not make "Imperfect" orbits and almost burned him at the stake for it.
More recent examples come to mind: In the 1980's The "Montreal Protocol banned the usage of Freon, world-wide. This put a great strain on the food chain, especially in the poor countries. Freon, which is one of the most efficient of refrigerant gasses in the world, is heavier than air, and I have yet to explain to me, how my usage of my underarm deodorant, heavier than air, causes this gas to wind up in the stratosphere at 50,000 feet. Just coincidentally, at that time the patent for Freon, owned by Dupont had run out, and they just happened to have a substitute (more expensive and more polluting comes from the 90's when I was in California. The State pushed through a law that mandated the addition of "fluoride" to township drinking water. The "fluoride" is a wasteproduct of industries,etc), so what better way as to how get rid of it than making it a Food additive". The stuff etches glass, kills cattle, causes osteoporsis in women, but it's OK for food consumption.
The latest idiocy these days is diverting corn production to Ethanol", causing world hunger. It takes more energy to produce ethanol than you derive from burning it as fuel. Such is our legacy of the Al Gores (the inventor of the internet) 0f the world. We get what we deserve.
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