Copernicus and Galileo had to go against the scientific consensus of their time. I still remember Dr. Sagan’s exposition about Giordano Bruno.
Too many big words for any warmest to absorb.
Too many big words for any warmist to absorb. (Corrected)
Just like everything else, science has been ruined by government.
Sagan was a Big Science mouthpiece who filtered the correct party line to the proletariat. His extraterrestrial life fantasies fueled the SETI sinkhole, his “super greenhouse” theory was instantly debunked and his execrable treatment of Immanuel Velikovsky is voluminously documented in Charles Ginenthal’s “Carl Sagan and Immanuel Velikovsky” available on Amazon.
From an Amazon review:
“This book is a blow-by-blow account of how Carl Sagan systematically misrepresented Velikovsky, and used the full weight of his reputation and position within the establishment to complete the work of suppression begun over two decades earlier by Harlow Shapley and Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin. The sheer hypocrisy, dishonesty and self-regard of Sagan is brutally exposed for all the world to see. Unfortunately, for Sagan fans and true believers, the book will be so unpalatible that they might not get beyond the first few pages. Indeed, I would venture to suggest that almost none of the critics of this book, who have here given it a one-star rating on Amazon, have actually read it. The very act of reading it would dispel all notions one might have had of Sagan’s nobility and intellectual honesty. He was a fraud and, in some respects at least, a bully. He was also a very poor scientist, as Ginenthal demonstrates in literraly dozens of ways.
The detail into which Ginenthal has gone over each and every point raised by Sagan is phenomenal, as is his understanding of the problems and his mastery of the technical terms and concepts involved. Quite simply, as a previous reviewer remarked, Ginenthal has done the research that Sagan couldn’t be bothered to do.”
How many people have enough land to grow enough crops to feed their family? Plus all of the other natural resources to survive like wood or coal for the fireplace, etc. All of these resources and methods are slowly getting regulated out of existence. For example, try buying a new house with a fireplace. Apparently, most wood stoves are illegal now, too. So returning to the lifestyles of our grandparent and great grandparents, which was not an easy one, is not possible.
Looks to me like we do a lot more neglecting than ravaging, but the consequences can be just as bad.
Bookmarking for later reading.
This is how Leftists like to play -- demonize people, and then go after their ability to make a living. That's just this side of show trials and firing squads.
He must be kidding. Sagan was first and foremost a doctrinaire Leftist. (He knew where his money came from.)
If it were possible to show Sagan a simple quadrant equation that showed that the idea of man-made global warming was impossible, Sagan would have been in favor of sending you to some death camp. As I said, he knew where his money came from, and he didn't really give a crap about facts.
He was totally wedded to and totally beholding to the Scientific-Government Complex that Eisenhower warned about in 1961.
We are having a bad winter this year, nearly as bad as we had in the late 70s when all the leftists were saying we were entering a new Ice Age. Now, they blame the same winter on warming. But both times, their blame was on us, and their solution was always more government spending, more taxes and less freedom.
The will sing either song as long as it gets them more money and power.
In science consensus is irrelevant. What is relevant is reproducible results. The greatest scientists in history are great precisely because they broke with the consensus. There is no such thing as consensus science. If it’s consensus, it isn’t science. If it’s science, it isn’t consensus. Period.
His closing two paragraphs:
Water covers 71 per cent of the surface of the planet. As compared to the atmosphere, there’s at least a hundred times more CO2 in the oceans, dissolved as carbonate. As the postglacial thaw progresses the oceans warm up, and some of the dissolved carbon emits into the atmosphere, just like fizz in soda water taken out of the fridge. "So the greenhouse global warming theory has it ass backwards," Hertzberg concludes. "It is the warming of the earth that is causing the increase of carbon dioxide and not the reverse." He has recently had vivid confirmation of that conclusion. Several new papers show that for the last three quarter million years CO2 changes always lag global temperatures by 800 to 2,600 years.It looks like Poseidon should go hunting for carbon credits. Trouble is, the human carbon footprint is of zero consequence amid these huge forces and volumes, and that’s not even to mention the role of the giant reactor beneath our feet: the earth’s increasingly hot molten core.
“As I observed in the Mann vs. Steyn case, if it is a sin to doubt, then there is no science.”
For the past forty years, Obama’s Science Czar has been beating the drum about “the population bomb” causing mass starvation. But the doubters paid no attention to this jerk, and before he could turn people into Soylent Green, our agronomists were developing disease resistant crops. By the late 1960’s third world starvation was becoming a thing of the past.