Posted: Aug 15, 2011 9:26 am
Globe wrote:Ihavenofingerprints wrote:Yea, no doubt an ice age will occur in the future. Hopefully by then we will have some master plan to live through it(assuming we make it that far)
As for this thread. Maybe mods could move it to conspiracy theories? A Time article making extraordinary claims without sources to back up those claims, and blog posts (full on unsubstantiated claims) from Andrew Bolt which doesn't use many sources either, and when it does they are usually misrepresented.
Actually claiming that there is nothing to back it up is maybe taking it a bit far.
After all there is empirical evidence showing that ice ages DO occur, and that they occur relatively regularly.
And I don't think any of the articles claim that we should start migrating south and bundle up this very instant.
(That I personally think we don't have to wait thousands of years is something I wont let influence my approach to this particular thread.)
Yea true, the Time article itself isn't that bad. It is more the stuff following it (that gets me annoyed), copied/pasted from Andrew Bolt's blog. He is trying to imply that Tim Flannery claimed sea levels would rise to lower the price of seaside housing so he could purchase a house in the future. Yet the quote provided doesn't have a reference so we don't know when or where he made this statement. It is just ridiculous really. The people claiming we need to be more skeptical of climate science (in Australia) will take anything Andrew Bolt writes on his blog at face value, even though most of it is completely inaccurate garbage.