07-09-2019, 04:40 AM
(07-07-2019, 05:54 AM)Ed Hurst Wrote: I'm thinking that the biggest problem we have with awareness is that most Westerners give neither the moon nor the sun proper credit for what they do. They count on both of them for the wrong things. I think you and I agree that there is no human-caused global warming, and that the current weather trends are steered mostly by the solar activity cycle. And we can read about how, the longer it stays quiet on the sun, the closer we come to some degree of "ice age," but there's no political leverage talking about that, so it's ignored by the media and other so-called "influencers."
I agree: probably no AGW, though I don't completely rule it out. As a rule, I ignore the conclusions of the political interest science industry. There's no real way of knowing the real science behind it, but chances are we're being asked to play a shell game, which ties back to Iain's comment about the continuous cycle of drug epidemics we're supposed to worry about. We used to be at war with Eurasia/meth, not we're at war with Eastasia/opioids, etc.