Posted on 12/10/2009 8:22:30 AM PST by RogerWilko
Over 1,700 scientists in Britain have signed a statement defending the evidence for human-made climate change in the wake of hacked e-mails that emboldened climate skeptics. E-mails stolen from an English university appeared to show scientists discussing ways to shield data from public scrutiny and suppress others' work. Climate skeptics — those who deny that human activity is responsible for global warming — have seized on the correspondence as evidence that scientists have conspired to hide the facts. Most scientists say the e-mails do nothing to undermine the evidence for climate change. More than 1,700 signed a statement released Thursday, saying they had confidence in the evidence for global warming "and the scientific basis for concluding that it is due primarily to human activities."
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I know Pi to 30 digits. Do I get 7 1/2 votes?
You need a better hobby.
Incredble.
They cannot predict the weather 3 days in advance and they want us to believe them when they tell us we’re all going to either bake or drown in the next 25 - 50 years?
Sure, and I have a bridge for sale in Brooklyn.
Well said.
It's not a hobby. It's something I learned in the 7th grade and have not forgotten (yet).
If they can't do it, nobody should be able to do it.
As an engineer/geodesist, I recall that, before desktop computers and scientific calculators, I memorized and actually used the conversion of degrees, minutes and seconds to radians, to 10 decimal places. No biggie.
If you can't do it after a month, you should change professions.
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