Comments on: Is JR Killing the Polar Bears? http://www.climate-resistance.org/2009/04/is-jr-killing-the-polar-bears.html Challenging Climate Orthodoxy Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:47:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Ian Wilson http://www.climate-resistance.org/2009/04/is-jr-killing-the-polar-bears.html#comment-1355 Ian Wilson Mon, 13 Apr 2009 06:47:31 +0000 http://www.climate-resistance.org/?p=316#comment-1355 Good article chaps as ever. I did notice that the number of press releases on their website has gone from 2 in 2001 to 23 in 2008. By my calculations (as accurate as theirs are), you should be expecting one new press release every day by about 2010 to 2013, presuming we have not all been killed by the latest global warming/cooling 'fad'. StuartR, I sincerely do hope that most people are not that stupid. Certainly most people I speak to are very sceptical about the whole 'global warming' / carbon footprint thing. But then, its one of those topics (along with religion and politics) that I try to avoid with people, since it gets me so riled. Certainly the press & scientists don't do themselves any favours with their constant doom and gloom predictions. People become immune to the latest disaster, thereby undoing any actual good science that is going on, and preventing sensible and rational debates. However, I just saw a survey result on BBC news website that talks about how many people believe in the supernatural etc. Given that 70% of our population believe in the 'human soul' and 22% believe in horoscopes & astrology, I'm not overly confident about the future... Good article chaps as ever. I did notice that the number of press releases on their website has gone from 2 in 2001 to 23 in 2008. By my calculations (as accurate as theirs are), you should be expecting one new press release every day by about 2010 to 2013, presuming we have not all been killed by the latest global warming/cooling ‘fad’.

StuartR, I sincerely do hope that most people are not that stupid. Certainly most people I speak to are very sceptical about the whole ‘global warming’ / carbon footprint thing. But then, its one of those topics (along with religion and politics) that I try to avoid with people, since it gets me so riled.

Certainly the press & scientists don’t do themselves any favours with their constant doom and gloom predictions. People become immune to the latest disaster, thereby undoing any actual good science that is going on, and preventing sensible and rational debates.

However, I just saw a survey result on BBC news website that talks about how many people believe in the supernatural etc. Given that 70% of our population believe in the ‘human soul’ and 22% believe in horoscopes & astrology, I’m not overly confident about the future…

]]> By: StuartR http://www.climate-resistance.org/2009/04/is-jr-killing-the-polar-bears.html#comment-1354 StuartR Sun, 12 Apr 2009 21:31:06 +0000 http://www.climate-resistance.org/?p=316#comment-1354 Most people aren't that stupid; the constant claims about ice behaviour in places that we will never visit, are, I think, taken with a pinch of salt. You don't have to be a scientist to understand the flaws in the rhetoric of an idiom that always has an inbuilt unprovable future claim of prediction. With most regular natural seasonal systems, humans do really know best. Science has to do more work than just tell us the latest results of Naomi Oreskes to make us hand over the reigns of power to the putative Mengele statistical "science based" goverenment;) Most people aren’t that stupid; the constant claims about ice behaviour in places that we will never visit, are, I think, taken with a pinch of salt. You don’t have to be a scientist to understand the flaws in the rhetoric of an idiom that always has an inbuilt unprovable future claim of prediction. With most regular natural seasonal systems, humans do really know best. Science has to do more work than just tell us the latest results of Naomi Oreskes to make us hand over the reigns of power to the putative Mengele statistical “science based” goverenment;)

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