Nobel Laureate Al Gore has said on many occasions the science on climate change (called Global Warming until the recent cold weather) is all settled. Gore also testified before John Kerry's committee yesterday during the cold weather saying Congress should pass BO's stimulus package. The stimulus package has about $400 million for more climate change research on the science Gore says is all settled. So we know enough about climate change to be able to write policies to save us from ourselves and the way we live but we still need more research?
We could buy quite a few wind turbines with this pork money and the wind turbines keep CO2 out of the air. The super computers the research money will buy with this money will put more CO2 into the air since supercomputers are energy hogs.
The hidden silver lining comes from Thomas Kuhn. In his book about the history of science he says most science is normal science where people do research to refine current scientific models (in other words prove the scientific consensus is correct). Then at some point researchers start finding their research is pointing out problems with the old model and someone comes along with a new model (paradigm) and people run around talking about paradigm shifts. The silver lining is the $400 million may work towards showing the current scientific consensus is bogus and may actually be worth the government money it is costing the taxpayers.
(source of dollar amount for climate change research: http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2009/01/stimulus_a_case_of_haste_makes.html) .
No comments:
Post a Comment