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Originally posted by Overpaid Slacker
affirming all things ludicrous in the academic and scientific "green" communities):
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I wrote one of my senior college theses on the economic impact of global warming back in '93. My professor was, surprisingly, a skeptic of warming, and encouraged me to see if I could convincingly make the academically contrarian argument that it's not only not a human-caused phenomenon, but probably isn't happening at all.
Surprisingly, there is a huge body of research by well-respected organizations out there that questions warming itself, as well as human civilization's impact on warming. There are datasets going all the way back to sea-water temperatures taken by sailing ships in the 17th century.
I'm not going to argue one way or another on warming here, because it's like religion. But, I still wonder how it was that I got through 15 years of school before I even heard that warming is not a scientific certainty, but a theory, with some supporting evidence and some contradictory evidence.
I'm always baffled that the media speaks of it in such absolutes.