Woah….that is just so..so…dumb. Really, it is. I hope no one actually thinks that that graph has any purpose, or credibility. Global warming and pirates have nothing in correlation. The reason global temperatures have increased is due to (not only just greenhouse gas, which actually do not contribute much overall) the earth’s natural process of heating and cooling. Pirate numbers have decreased because the practice is far less accepted and is more easily restricted. I don’t mean to sound rude, well actually I do. That’s bullshit, all of it. Seriously. I’d rather you believe in no higher power, and have good morales, than worship dinner.
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I am sorry, but against all the hard evidence displayed on this website, i have no other choice but to resign… All hail the Flying Spaghetti Monster. He created us and in his image we shall live!
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Faith and proof are contrary; no one can know whether there is a God (in whatever form) until its too late. It is possible there is God. It is possible there is not.
Why isn’t it possible that there is an FSM? Maybe all it takes for something to exist is a quantity of people believing in it. Like that scene in Mircale on 34th Street where they prove Santa Claus exists because so many people write to him.
Maybe “God” is a word we three-dimensional beings use to describe some extradimensional manifestation that we don’t have the words to describe or understand due to being limited to only three of many possible dimensions. Maybe our ‘souls’ are simply sub-components of some fifth- or sixth-dimensional being and this universe is simply a construct to resolve the issue of good versus evil, or to determine if free will is a good idea or not. Within that framework, we would certainly all be connected; thus it would be prudent to, regardless of your faith, treat people the way you’d want to be treated.
Global warming: there is no way that any scientific study can prove or disprove something like this, especially given the way scientific research is done today. You want accurate, non-partisan results? You need to double-blind all scientific research. The researchers can’t know who is funding the study so they won’t be predisposed to produce results expected of them. And, the gathering of the data should be completely separate from its analysis.
An excellent and compelling book that makes this point much clearer than I can is State of Fear by Michael Crichton (author of Jurassic Park and other techno-thrillers).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_of_fear
PC – Please note that the sceintists have determined (I am not sure of the method used) that the global temperatures appear to be the highest immediately preceeding an ice age. As I understand it the ice age processs goes like this, the temperature risees, the ice caps metl, alinity of the oceans drops because of fresh water from the ice melt and the oceanic circulation stops. This causes the poles to get very cold “quickly” and the equator to get very hot. Out come the ice packs.
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There is a large number of reasons that the research on global waring is flawed. One of them is the scientists are trying to predict long term and trend based on a very small data set. The vast majority of the temperature measurement reported before the 1960s is crap and unreliable. This applies to the “ocean level” measurements as well.
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Don’t get me wrong, I conceptually agree that the globe is getting warmer on average; however, I think that the mechanism is much more complicated than just CO2 emmisions.
Frink Labs – please note that State of Fear is fiction. The book has a terrible aweful ending. I enjoyed all but the last 30 or 40 pages.
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Peer review of published articles is a joke.
Sorry – I should have said novel, not book. State of Fear’s ending wasn’t the only part that sucked, but I think that the story was incidental, a framework used to deliver the content. I found the comparison of global warming with eugenics quite compelling.
The most entertaining part was probably his brief descriptions of the publications on his recommended reading list.
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It’s important to note that a lot of the “facts” that Crichton used in State of Fear are somewhat distorted. There’s a good article highlighting some of the errors here:
http://www.pewclimate.org/state_of_fear.cfm
It was a good read, but at the end of the day it’s a work of fiction and best treated as that.