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[UNDEAD 1]

THIS IS ALARMING!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060915/sc_nm/...ent_arctic_dc_1

[UNDEAD 1]

theres two scientific sides -ones says were in trouble the other says were not ,its a cycle.i ask what if we choose the wrong side?

i only think of my son,it wont effect us -maybe meowman.

[HammaTime]

I get a kick out of non-scientists grappling with the reliability of the scientific process and especially peer review. Perhaps I've spent too much time around scientists and my view is warped, but this isn't faith we are discussing. It is science. Science can be flawed, and it often is, but the editorial peer review process offers us the best hope of getting things right. In fact, the mistakes in scientific research have all been uncovered through scientific peer reviewed research.

Bar - your professor would never have been able to publish a paper on that subject, and he most likely would never have been accepted into the National Academy of Science. You wouldn't believe how rigorous the process is for admitting someone to the Academy. The best and brightest professor you ever had in college most likely could never make the cut. Your professor obviously had a basic misunderstanding of the structure of our universe. If "everything" in the universe is speeding away from each other, how could we have direct visual evidence of galaxies colliding? Of black holes gobbling up billions of stars? OMM can certainly speak at length about these issues and even provide you with some stunning pictures!

Undead makes a very valid point. Even if you doubt the massive volume of research that is proving that climate change is reality, what is the harm with taking steps to combat climate change? We all know where our dependence on foreign oil is taking us. What's the harm with turning out a light when you aren't using it? Of recycling? Of reducing our dependence on oil that happens to lie under a lot of people that hate us. No one has ever explained to me how that would be a bad thing!