"Science" is nothing more than a marketing tool for those pushing an agenda... Who Are the Real Deniers of Science? http://www.nationalreview.com/artic...ders-liberals-deny-science-when-it-suits-them When denying science is a progressive moral imperative Why do liberals hate science? The Left has long claimed that it has something of a monopoly on scientific expertise. For instance, long before Al Gore started making millions by claiming that anyone who disagreed with his apocalyptic prophecies was “anti-science,” there were the “scientific socialists.” “Social engineer” is now rightly seen as a term of scorn and derision, but it was once a label that progressive eggheads eagerly accepted. Masking opinions in a white smock is a brilliant, albeit infuriating and shabby, rhetorical tactic. As the late Daniel Patrick Moynihan famously said, “Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.” Science is the language of facts, and when people pretend to be speaking it, they’re not only claiming that their preferences are more than mere opinions, they’re also insinuating that anyone who disagrees is a fool or a zealot for objecting to “settled science.” Put aside the fact that there is no such thing as settled science. Scientists are constantly questioning their understanding of things; that is what science does. All the great scientists of history are justly famous for overturning the assumptions of their fields. The real problem is that in politics, invocations of science are very often marketing techniques masquerading as appeals to irrefutable authority. (More at above url)
Just disregard the above for it is written by an AEI person. By the way: 99 Percent Chance 2016 Will Be the Hottest Year on Record There's a bunch of words, sentences and paragraphs but let's go to the graph: All that cooling!!
Interesting when you actually use RAW data that has not been "adjusted" then none of the recent years are the warmest on record. Welcome to the bizarre world of political-driven "science" - where the actual facts don't matter and the data will be twisted until it aligns with the agenda.
I think it happens a lot, with all the federal influence over academia. It's a shame because it is science that has lifted the human race more than anything else, more than politics, more than economics.
I am amused by liberals' newest made=up mental disorder, "transphobia." Transgenderism is a recognized disorder. If it wasn't, there would be no basis to give them special rights. So now it is evidence of a mental disorder to recognize a mental disorder in the very people liberals want to protect because of their mental disorder. Very confusing.
The role of university-based scientists today is to go out and get grants. Not teaching, not even publishing, just go out there and get some money to justify your existence. Mostly federal grants. My impression is that a very large amount of these grants are simply wasted on useless research. In the so-called social sciences, I would bet that close to 100% of the grant money is wasted or even worse, used to generate fraudulent results that are in turn used to push detrimental policies. It is beyond obvious that environmental scientists are responding to the market. The government wants research that justifies more control over the economy and punishing industries that tend to support republicans. The science community is happy to oblige. We will never be able to pick and choose research wisely. A far better approach would be to cut out government funding for it altogether.
Many liberals cannot debate the merits of their position, so they make up diseases like transphobia, homophobia, xenophobia, etc to discredit the opposing view point.
Portland school board bans climate change-denying materials http://portlandtribune.com/sl/30784...l-board-bans-climate-change-denying-materials
what will it mean if 2016 is cooler than 2015? you can disregard the quote I was replying to, it was written by a democrat
how much of this warming is man made.... and does anyone see that temperature in antartica leads co2 and global temps up and perhaps down?