In most things I tend to get annoyed with hype (except for movies and video games…but here I’m referring to science and politics). Global-warming is one of those things. It isn’t that I don’t think that there could be, or possibly is some kind of global warming phenomenon going on, it is just that I really hate that it is driven more by hype than science.
Which is why I found this article interesting. (but by no means do I think it is unbaised or definitive)
http://www.canadafreepress.com/2006/harris061206.htm
It seems like in life there are loud-mouthed people who stir things up. They are almost always in the minority, and sometimes they are right and sometimes they are wrong. But them speaking up, sometimes gets people thinking that group A believes X, when that isn’t true, and sometimes they get a large portion of people believing Y when actually there is no evidence of Y and sometimes it is absurd (I’m thinking of people who believe that the Da Vinci Code really uncovers a dark conspiracy in the Catholic church).
That is why I don’t like hype, and I hold fast to a little line I learned from Rob or Seth (I can’t remember which one).
Correlation is not Causation.
When in doubt on issues of science, default to this statement and it will get you far in terms of understanding and applying scientific method. And that is the one I’m hanging onto until I see way more evidence about global warming.