Saturday, September 13, 2008

The science of uncertainty

If you've noticed some interestingly colorful sunsets during August, it might have been due to this, the Kasitochi volcano in the Aleutian Island erupted over a million tons of sulfur dioxide (SO2) into the atmosphere over the Pacific Ocean.

According to the author of this blog, Anthony Watts, it is the lack of sunspots (we are in a low cycle) among other things that contributes to the overall cooling of temperatures worldwide NOT CO2 emissions from humans. But like most things, the CO2 cause is now political, rather than scientific.

Take for instance this article about a German power plant that came up with a emissions free coal burning plant. What did they get for their efforts? Angst. Even the company admitted that is was a "temporary solution that buys us the time we need to develop a sustainable energy system in the future". But that still wasn't enough. Sure, there still making a profit somewhere but how else will the innovations be paid for? Taxes? On an already declining European population?

Unless we all perish, tomorrow, I don't think the political wing of the global warming issue will ever be happy and will cease scientific research all together in favor of propaganda, if they haven't already. Like this babel style nonsense.

Hence, my interest in someone whose looking into the earth cooling and having nothing to do with CO2. Its all about how you 'communicate uncertainty'.

Everyone lives by faith, everyone. We all have to assume certain things to be true with out empirically proving each true for ourselves. All that differs is the object of that faith.

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