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Sunday, June 18, 2006
An Inconvenient Truth
Posted by Jackson at 10:01 PM
hey, everyone. have any of you seen "An Inconvenient Truth?" if so, what did you think about it? I'd like to hear people's thoughts on it...
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  Comment by Blogger Dwight at 1:22 PM, June 19, 2006
I haven't seen it... have you?

All I know is that I think it is funny that Al Gore gave a speech on global warming on the coldest day on record in NYC history.

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  Comment by Blogger Jackson at 8:00 AM, June 20, 2006
saw it on Father's Day, yep. thought it was pretty convincing, and I wanted to know what other people thought about it.
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  Comment by Blogger Sir Robert at 11:16 AM, June 20, 2006
I haven't seen it yet. Johanna's parents want me and Johanna to go. I'll post what I think when we go see it (maybe next week?). In the interest of full disclosure, I'll say that I am skeptical of the existence of what is called "global warming" as a human endangering of the planet. The primary reason for this is that I have seen so much bad science on it (read: seemingly politically motivated mis-interpretations of data that didn't follow any good model of empirical science).

Having said this, I am also very willing for it to be true. The shenanigans of a few nuts have jaded me to free openness, but if there is a clear, solid, logical demonstration from evidence, then I'll be all for it. I don't even require necessity -- just probabilistic inference.

I'll let you all know what I think. (P.S. Did you read the recent BBC article that some scientists are experiencing consternation because they found out that the water level of the arctic ocean is getting lower? There's an overall rise in sea levels, but a temporary downward fluctuation in the arctic sea level.)
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