Acidus wrote:

HyperActive wrote:
Anyway, thanks for the post, but this Film is definitely 1 hour and 15 minutes of pure spin ;). Sincerely,

-Mike

I recommend reading Michael Crichton's State of Fear. The books quality aside (its not one of his best) it is full of references to different conflicting scientific reports and studies.

You've been had. This is the same argument the "Intelligent Design" bozos toss up. "See? This guys says something, this guy says something else, this guy says something else, this guy says... There's a controversy!" He never bothers to go into what is actually said, what actually conflicts, or what it means. On the other hand, it's fiction, and makes about as much sense in the real world as anything by Dan Brown or The Day After Tomorrow which was based on the equally fictional The Coming Global Superstorm by Whitley Streiber and Art Bell.

What's the actual science? Global warming is happening. We are a contributor to it. What degree that influence is depends on who you talk to, but the reputable scientists (and James Hansen of NASA, the guy getting muted by the Bushies is probably the best in the world) all agree that is a major factor, and one which we can and should do something about beyond "study it."

The final answer is going to be given to us by reality, with its well known liberal bias. We're not killing the planet. Short of blowing up the entire global nuclear arsenal in one location simultaneously (and even that's a maybe), the planet is going to go merrily spinning on its way through the universe. It could care less about us, and at the rate we're going, it will leave us behind the same way it left trilobites and the dinosaurs.

RE: Bad reporting