The latest blow up over the published emails from the english "climate change" institution has been called a climate-gate and has fanned that fight over this issue to new heights of demagoguery.
I am not sure what the big deal os about. Is it such a news that most of the scientists are driven as much by grants and petty squabbles as by impartial search for the truth? Please...Anyone who has spent any time around any institution of higher learning would know better.
Has it not become obvious that this has become another black and white issue like abortion, religion, gun control etc. ? And when you reach that stage no rational discourse can take place. Too much money and too many egos at stake.
Once again, the rational quiet majority if left scratching their collective heads. Can't we all just get along?
It seems to me that this is an issue that has more to with hubris and illusions of grandeur on behalf os us humans than anything else.
Let's be very clear (as our president likes to repeat whilst obfuscating the facts), we are spewing garbage in the air at an alarming rate. Whatever it causes, it can not be a good thing for us. We didn't evolve to breathe THAT mix.
At the same time, the earth is always either cooling or warming and for billions of years it has had little to do with us. And will continue to do so after we are long gone. We are not "killing" the planet. The planet will go on killing and birthing new species much faster than we could ever dream of. The Earth is ok. It's us we should worry about.
So let's stop worrying about the planet and start worrying about us. That means we don't worry about number of polar bears (who are doing just fine by the way) but we do worry about lung choking pollution. We stop measuring the ice caps and start putting more nuclear plants on line. We stop giving grants to bums who associate prostitution levels in bangladesh with climate change and start giving grants to people who improve batteries performance.
Just common sense. But forget about THAT.....
