But pretending that science isn’t science is willful blindness, intentional stupidity.

I am willing to believe that a particularly short-sighted and venal scientist (make that “scientist”) would fake research data or draw far-fetched conclusions from data, to enlarge an area of study and get more research grants created.

I could even believe that of 2 or 3 “scientists”. I *cannot* believe it of two or three thousand scientists, and especially can’t believe they could keep it up for decades of further study, with very well-funded skeptics snapping at their heels, checking their data and disputing their conclusions the whole way.

Anybody who does has never attempted to publish in a major peer-reviewed journal.

Further, I understand that scientists get attached to, and defensive of, their long-term researches. But that’s WHY peer-review is so tough. That problem has been around forever and the whole POINT of the many checks and balances in scientific studies and publications is to counter that effect. The “conventional wisdom” has been wrong before and the one contrarian maverick, right. So there are many avenues to be sure they are heard and allowed to present their data.

The AGW theory isn’t some out-of-the-blue narrative imposed wholesale on the scientific community recently; it has grown slowly and against opposition, and won its scientific supporters fair and square, one peer-reviewed article at a time, over more than 3 decades.

I wish it were not true. My salary a few years from now probably DOES depend on it not being true. And I remained a skeptic until the last IPCC report, where they raised their probability estimate from 0.7 to 0.9.

I’m sorry, (for both of us) “gfielder”. But it’s very, very likely to be true.

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you can refer to this as the Palin Effect. sway public opinion at the source.

youbetcha.

*sigh*

My salary derives from my ability to create value and produce goods and services. My efforts, multiplied by the capital of my employer, are a positive contribution to the life of our entire society. I’m damn good at what I do and I’m proud of it. Ignorance has nothing to do with my paycheck.

And I’m much too polite to attack those that I disagree with. Politeness is what makes our society work. You should try it sometime.

Au contraire, mon frère: Toss out the “scientists” that depend on funding by petrol companies to pay their mortgages and you will have trouble finding any “climate scientists” that can argue that there is NOT such a thing as climate change.

I noticed you said “we” when referencing a Valero plant’s recent layoffs. Your board of directors to blame, not climate scientists or congress. Then again, I wouldn’t expect you to believe what fossil fuels are doing to the Earth when your salary appears to depend on your ignorance.

It’s okay, some people didn’t think our planet was round either.

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The two pages outline little known breakthrough technology that opens paths to cars that need no fossil fuel or recharge.

Later, more advanced versions can turn cars into power plants, wirelessly able to sell power to the local utility when parked.

Imagine the impact of cars and trucks that can pay for themselves, and end the need to build coal or nuclear power plants!

Visualize electric cars that need no recharge! Also, hybrids with engines that may need only one gallon of water as fuel every 1,000 miles. As impossible as it sounds, these technologies are now on the horizon.

Rowan University recently published results of experiments that can only be explained by a new source of energy. Other laboratories can readily reproduce them.

Skeptics should see that these experiments are reproduced rapidly, so that they may form their own conclusions.

These technologies hold promise of generating millions of green jobs across the planet. They will restore automobile manufacturing everywhere.

They will also change much of what is now believed about energy.