tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5337555368793819627.post558505022773064818..comments2023-06-07T09:04:36.390-04:00Comments on More Grumbine Science: Introduction to the OceansRobert Grumbinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10783453972811796911noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5337555368793819627.post-69953260157649871422008-05-28T00:51:00.000-04:002008-05-28T00:51:00.000-04:00Ok .. I see you are a reasonably intelligent perso...Ok .. I see you are a reasonably intelligent person. And in your first post you were looking for suggestions. Let me elaborate. I replied to your reply to Walton on Pharyngula (http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula<BR/>/2006/06/<BR/>i_think_i_despise_antienvironm.php). This topic of global warming has alot of problems... First of all you have a complicated science. It's not likely alot of people will truly understand the science well enough to be able to argue the points. Secondly you have a topic that's polarized many different groups, and many an individual will merely argue a point because a group they might relate to is arguing the same point. Thirdly you have global warming, and then you have "Man Made global warming" and people start getting defensive if all of a sudden you start blaming them for the impeding end of the world unless "we all change the way we live and our lives now and this is how you do it". Fourthly you see it in mainstream media now all too much: Everything and anything that is out of the ordinary now has some relationship to global warming, no matter how ridiculous. So here I sit with 27,000 scientists saying one thing and another 27,000 scoffing at the huliboo. Who do I believe? I have seen calm rational debate from both sides. We've had global warming before. It would seem hard to argue that man hasn't had some effect but to what degree? Then I get Myers doing some dumb post equating anti-environmentalists with anti-evolutionists and it doesn't help me at all and even gets my goat somewhat because I admire the man most times (including his candor). So here's my suggestion: explain to the layman (and as I stated in my reply to you there are literally billions of us) in lay language what the real deal is.<BR/><BR/>Thanks for your time and regards from Yellowknife NT Canada.<BR/><BR/>DaveAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com