Comments on: Global Warming: Causes And Effects

By: | Cakalak Conspiracy

| Cakalak Conspiracy — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 02:00:36 +0000

[...] Debate and skepticism are among the driving forces behind science; it would be wrong to do away with them. Michael Crichton, whose testimony before Congress disputed the reality of AGW, asked: “When did ‘skeptic’ become a dirty word in science? When did a skeptic require quotation marks around it?” But when it comes to the reality of AGW the available evidence points to consensus; the word Skeptic gets put into quotes in this context because skepticism is very different from disbelief in the face of overwhelming evidence, which is what is being advocated. This framing has an obvious effect: it ensures that the debate- the political and social one, not the scientific one- never ends; a debate that never ends need not be acted upon. The image it conjures in my mind is of a ‘skeptic’ facing down something very big, moving very fast, making angry noises, and refusing to take cover until it was completely settled whether this creature is a mountain lion or a velociraptor – or better yet, attempting to have a civil debate with the creature as it mauls the ‘skeptic’. Unfortunately, though AGW is big, fast, and angry, it is unlikely to target the ‘skeptics’ who have gotten rich delaying meaningful action, but the people of poor and developing countries. [...]

By: riaz

riaz — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 03:56:12 +0000

Global Warming will devastate crop yields in ountries near the equator

That may call for a separate warp map?

By: Weekly (weekly) « Southend-on-Sea in Transition

Weekly (weekly) « Southend-on-Sea in Transition — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 00:37:55 +0000

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Sat, 05 Sep 2009 23:49:49 +0000

[...] Warming: Causes And Effects” 2009 Leave a comment Go to comments Lisa on the Sociological Images blog The two maps below are part of a series of maps that warp the size and shape of countries according [...]

By: murray

murray — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 19:54:36 +0000

…..and human produced carbon is what % of total carbon released into the atmosphere? wonder what the mortality maps would look like if we stopped producing carbon tomorrow?

By: benrush

benrush — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 17:45:49 +0000

Where did you get these maps?

Based on your links, they appear to come from worldmapper. But I can’t find the exact same maps on their site.

I found a map very similar to “A” at http://www.worldmapper.org/display.php?selected=295, but it has subtle differences: look how much larger Japan is in worldmapper version, for instance. And on the worldmapper version, India is larger than Germany.

But the map you’ve posted has no sources listed, so we can’t compare the data.

And I can’t find anything similar to map “B” on the worldmapper site.

By: Ron Unger

Ron Unger — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 14:50:26 +0000

I wonder how much policy makers in various countries are looking at maps like these, and making decisions based on them? Then again, I don’t think most policy makers look at much of anything beyond a few years out, ten at most.

By: Max

Max — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 03:46:00 +0000

Pretty pictures of bad science.

By: Ali

Ali — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:10:22 +0000

What about them? I’ve never heard a lot about major industrialization and factories and such going on in Canada (anecdotal, I know) but I have heard that a lot about Eastern European countries. So why wouldn’t it make sense that Canada has less carbon emissions than other countries with lots of factories?

By: Thaddeus

Thaddeus — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 21:47:57 +0000

What about the Western European nations there compared to Canada?

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Quién paga el cambio climático — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 21:40:40 +0000

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By: Ali

Ali — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:36:26 +0000

This is just a guess on my part, but I wouldn’t be suprised if whoever created the map just deleted Hawaii from the first map because otherwise it would have ended up in the same place as the legend.

And seconding b’s comment about population in the US vs Canada.

By: b

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 03:13:19 +0000

Considering that Canada’s total population is only about 10% that of the US, it makes perfect sense that it would only be about 1/10 the size on the map, if you assume that the per capita rate of emissions is about the same.

By: Maggie

Maggie — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 02:43:34 +0000

wow. sad.

By: Thaddeus

Thaddeus — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 23:12:32 +0000

Then where is Hawaii?
I’m still having a hard time believing that Canada would be that small.