Global warming is all a lie

[Viva]

I see what you are saying but it is still a journalist writing it and not a scientist. They run on entirely different standards. Journalists can use whatever flowery irrelevant language or phrases they want in their articles, scientists can't. You can't hold this article up to the standards of an article written by a scientist.

I totally agree. That said, you get good journalism and bad journalism. Good journalism tends to be less biased and try to stick to the facts. This article, in contrast, is sensational nonsense.

 

[porchrat]

I totally agree. That said, you get good journalism and bad journalism. Good journalism tends to be less biased and try to stick to the facts. This article, in contrast, is sensational nonsense.

Oh yes of course I completely agree. Useless article. You may as well go get your information from Conservapedia.

 

[Arthur]

Good journalism tends to be less biased and try to stick to the facts.

Small sidebar quibble. Bias is not bad - it's prejudice that's the real enemy of reason and thus humankind (ie judging before or despite the data). Bias simply says one leans towards a particular position - and that leaning can be very strong without compromising journalistic integrity. So often the issue is not facts themselves, but the interpretation of facts, ie their relative weighting and the implications for policy and human action. For example, the Guardian is a great newspaper, with excellent journalism, but it is also strongly biased towards socialist/Left/progressivist viewpoints and policy (with which I happen to strongly disagree for the most part).

What I'm really trying to say is that a biased journalist can also be a good one. Indeed, anyone interested in truth expects a journalist or anyone else to have certain strong biases, such as to the truth wherever it might lead, for a start. There is a lot of legitimate scope in interpreting the significance and implications of data. There are a lot of assumptions that go into calling something a "fact", and sometimes those assumptions need to be exposed so they can be debated.

 

[OMB]

also in The Windsor Star

http://www.windsorstar.com/life/green-guide/Climate+change+driver+extreme+weather/5732177/story.html

 

[Viva]

Small sidebar quibble. Bias is not bad - it's prejudicethat's the real enemy of reason and thus humankind (ie judging before or despite the data). Bias simply says one leans towards a particular position - and that leaning can be very strong without compromising journalistic integrity. So often the issue is not facts themselves, but the interpretation of facts, ie their relative weighting and the implications for policy and human action. For example, the Guardianis a great newspaper, with excellent journalism, but it is also strongly biased towards socialist/Left/progressivist viewpoints and policy (with which I happen to strongly disagree for the most part).

What I'm really trying to say is that a biased journalist can also be a good one. Indeed, anyone interested in truth expects a journalist or anyone else to have certain strong biases, such as to the truth wherever it might lead, for a start. There is a lot of legitimate scope in interpreting the significance and implications of data. There are a lot of assumptions that go into calling something a "fact", and sometimes those assumptions need to be exposed so they can be debated.

Thanks, you make a fair point.

 

[BCO]

I'm glad that Victoria Billingsley from the Windsor Star managed to clear that up for all of us. Better notify the climate scientists.

 

[Unhappy1]

The problem with the internet is that you sometimes have to read utter rubbish. This article is an example of that.

 

[Sly21C]

If the climate change we are currently experiencing s caused by humans or not shouldn't matter, we should stop using oil as fuel for cars and go for electric vehicles and we should also generate electricity using wind turbines and solar panels.

 

[EtienneK]

If the climate change we are currently experiencing s caused by humans or not shouldn't matter, we should stop using oil as fuel for cars and go for electric vehicles and we should also generate electricity using wind turbines and solar panels.

Easier said than done.

The reason it is costing billions is because of all the research and prototyping being done to create viable new energy sources.

This is not a bad thing!

 

[carstensdj]

If the climate change we are currently experiencing s caused by humans or not shouldn't matter, we should stop using oil as fuel for cars and go for electric vehicles and we should also generate electricity using wind turbines and solar panels.

Look, im all for going green, but i must admit, the hardest part for me will be giving up Petrol Motors I'm a petrol head of note and like loud noisy fuel burning cars n bikes!

 

[porchrat]

If the climate change we are currently experiencing s caused by humans or not shouldn't matter, we should stop using oil as fuel for cars and go for electric vehicles and we should also generate electricity using wind turbines and solar panels.

Where do you think the electricity for those cars will come from?... pixies?

You'll probably just be moving the pollution up a few rungs, not eliminating it.

 

[Nicodeamus]

If the climate change we are currently experiencing s caused by humans or not shouldn't matter, we should stop using oil as fuel for cars and go for electric vehicles and we should also generate electricity using wind turbines and solar panels.

so we burn coal instead of oil?......

Once oil becomes to expensive then the market will find an alternative (well it can only find one if the government doesn't regulate our prices that much )