Quote Originally Posted by ZMKA View Post
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Did anyone roll over and die when we stopped using unleaded fuel?
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No offense, but it seems like some of you guys haven't even considered the possibilities of sets of scientific data that you don't understand. You're ready to put the entirety of the human race on the line based on what you watch on Hannity and Colmes. Please, snap out of it.

I told myself to not reply to this but the "science" is very fragile
on this issue of global w*****g. As someone that worked on some of the
largest computer systems in the world we are not using them
for climate modeling anywhere close to the same degree we
use them for tomorrows weather, chemistry, nuclear science ....

The issue with global warming science is best demonstrated by
our inability to predict weather a couple of days in advance or
the path of a hurricane like Katrina.

The ground truth data sets are too small yet they overwhelm
the largest systems we have.

Consider the obvious hint and clue that weather maps STOP on political
boundaries.

I believe that sea level is rising. But who cares what I think.
I do not believe there is a computer model or scientist that
can tell me why and when it will stop or not or why I think
rightly or wrongly on this issue.

This is IMPORTANT stuff.

The cap and trade folks are like a horse at the end of the
day... headed for the barn to eat. They have no clue that
pulling the plow for an extra hour will keep them fed all
winter. Too many see dollar signs, others see political
advantage. Yet others see social justice.... None of them
can see the underfunded but quality research going on.

Like I said IMPORTANT stuff. We and other nations need to
fund multiple agencies including international efforts to
understand what is going on with our planet.

Look one the web for a summary of the international efforts
to detect tsunami. Global weather change like a tsunami
will sweep over us one way or another in the next fifty years
and we have no global weather system to help predict what changes will
happen when and where.

This is not a FOX news .vs. CNN issue. It is MUCH bigger.

As for leaded fuel -- lead is a poison and we were using it badly....