Well meaning idiots

[BlightyBoy]

Remember the Daily Mail encouraging parents not to give their children MMR vaccines because of a possible link to Autism?
The medical community warned against not vaccinating children, but the public followed the ill informed media campaign which resulted in an outbreak of measles not seen for decades.

I remember that. Here in Germany we didn't have the same media-hype, and guess what? No measle (German or otherwise).

In many ways the Global Warming, err... sorry... Climate Change issue is following the same path. The media will sex it up with apocalyptic images of the earth careering towards a Venutian end with tidal waves etc. (The Day After Tomorrow) and the less educated/informed/quizzical lap it up.

Poor lambs.

[sasguru]

we are talking about science here. Your comon sense is a collection of all the prejudices you had by the time you were 18 (A Einstein)

You really don't understand science do you? How do scientists come up with their theories? They have some intuition or common sense idea and create a hypothesis. Then they experiment or model the idea to test it. Then their peers look over the experiment and conclusion to try to avoid bias from the original tester.
Stick to whatver you do for a day job EO. A scientist you are not.

[Foxy Moron]

I will say it again, just for you.
There are no global climate experiments, so scientists use modelling instead.

You are missunderstanding again. Most scientific research is based on modelling. Manufacturing research is based on modelling, Agricultural research is based on modelling. If we needed to scale upward
every experiment many advances would never have been discovered.

What kind of ludite world do you think we live in?

[BlightyBoy]

an insulting statement used by the intellectually-anorexic

[sasguru]

an insulting statement used by the intellectually-anorexic

Actually it's a simple statement of fact.
And proves my point that most of you are not educationally (notice I didn't say intellectually as I'll give you the benfit of the doubt) equipped to debate the issue.

[Doggy Styles]

As for runaway greenhouse warming, well that*did* happen on Venus. But Venus is closer to the Sun, and also isn't large enough to have continental plates like the Earth. So instead of internal heat being steadily released all the time as it is here on Earth by volcanoes and constructive plate margins, it builds up and up under the crust on Venus and every hundred million years or so huge amounts of magma burst out all at once and cover practically the whole planet, and the CO2 isn't absorbed (see below).

Venus is the same size as the earth.

[BlightyBoy]

You really don't understand science do you? How do scientists come up with their theories? They have some intuition or common sense idea and create a hypothesis. Then they experiment or model the idea to test it. Then their peers look over the experiment and conclusion to try to avoid bias from the original tester.
Stick to whatver you do for a day job EO. A scientist you are not.

And four hundred years ago you would've believed the world to be flat, eh!

[EternalOptimist]

You really don't understand science do you? How do scientists come up with their theories? They have some intuition or common sense idea and create a hypothesis. Then they experiment or model the idea to test it. Then their peers look over the experiment and conclusion to try to avoid bias from the original tester.
Stick to whatver you do for a day job EO. A scientist you are not.

absolute nonsense.

most hypotheses are generated by free thinking people who observe something and say 'thats funny'

In your world they jump out of the bath shouting 'Eureka'

[OwlHoot]

Venus is the same size as the earth.

Not far off, but definitely smaller. See http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary...h_sun_fact.pdf

[EternalOptimist]

You are missunderstanding again. Most scientific research is based on modelling. Manufacturing research is based on modelling, Agricultural research is based on modelling. If we needed to scale upward
every experiment many advances would never have been discovered.

What kind of ludite world do you think we live in?

just think how much weight that would give to your argument, if only it were true