Scientists, skeptical by both nature and training, always urge a dose of caution when looking at any one event as evidence of climate change. They look at the totality of events and discover patterns that help determine how our climate is changing.
Deniers, on the other hand, are eager opportunists, who will use single points of data, or single events (remember Snowmaggedon?) to claim that the patterns do not exist. Theirs is a world of scientific dishonesty and misinformation.
And it is the high level of professional skepticism–not the useless back-and-forth encouraged by deniers—that makes the overwhelming scientific consensus that climate change is real and caused by man all the more powerful. 97 to 98 percent of climate researchers support the fundamental conclusion of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The head of the National Academy of Sciences has indicated that we know more about the link between man and climate change than we do smoking and lung cancer. More…
http://energy.nationaljournal.com/2010/08/is-climate-change-causing-wild.php#1623153
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Awesome? Is that the best you can do?
So I saw another of those bumper stickers: “My God Is An Awesome God”.
Uh, isn’t “awesome” pretty much par for the course when it comes to gods? And what about that “an” part? Are these people polytheists? “An” implies that there are others, and if that’s the case should folks perhaps be looking for one that’s more awesomer?
Just askin’.