by Xenophobe » Wed 05 Jan 2011, 20:47:51
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Revi', 'F')ox News has declared war on itself. I wonder if they have any idea about peak oil? They don't even believe in climate change.
You say "climate change" the same way some people say "peak oil".
We attach some pretty big meanings to our words which aren't necessarily the same as the meanings someone else attaches.
For example, in peak oil, most peak oilers don't mean "maximum oil rate followed by a terminal decline" but often mean "peak oil means dieoff begins, people starve, world ends, won't that be grand" and then I get all torqued off sideways because I think of peak one way, and they the other.
Climate change? Belief isn't required, it is simple geologic fact. Its like saying, "people don't believe in peak oil"...of course they do, no one argues that oil must peak someday, not EIA, not IEA, not Yergin, not Lynch, they just don't buy into A) someone else's timing and B) the consequences.
Climate change is like that, anyone introduced to a geology course BELIEVES in climate change, they just don't necessarily attach a myriad of consequences which may, or may not, happen.