Cut me a break

Another sacrifice on the alter of science as faith. Laughable theory in action.

Forget about the threat that mankind poses to the Earth: our activities may be shortening the life of the universe too.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/mai...-mostviewedbox



Like this consensus:

UN: Millions Not Suffering AIDS Now Doomed to Drown

(2007-11-20) — Top United Nations’ scientists plan to acknowledge this week that they wildly overstated the size and the spread of the AIDS epidemic, but that all the millions of people who don’t actually have AIDS will soon drown in the rising tide caused by man-made global climate change.
Faulty methodology caused the scientists to miss the fact that AIDS has been in decline during the same decade when U.N. reports about its rapid, unchecked spread boosted AIDS funding 30-fold, to about $10 billion per year.

“No matter how you look at it, the news is tragic, and more funding is needed,” said Peter Piot, the Belgian scientist whose U.N. AIDS agency reports have driven fund raising. Mr. Piot has previously reported that …

• “the pandemic and its toll are outstripping the worst predictions”
• the epidemic threatens to burst beyond its epicenter in southern Africa to generate widespread illness and death in other countries
• in China alone, there would be 10 million infections — up from 1 million in 2002 — by the end of the decade.

Now, Mr. Piot said, the fate of countless millions has gone from bad to worse.
“A man who might have died quietly in his bed of AIDS,” said Mr. Piot, “now faces the terrifying specter of watching his neighbors slip from their rooftops one-by-one, screaming until the rising deep muffles their voices, knowing that he faces the inevitable moment when his fingers slip from the chimney, the brine subdues his own shrieks and the sea becomes his tomb.”
Mr. Piot denied accusations that he makes alarmist statements to serve a political and fundraising agenda rather than following rigorous scientific processes.
“My alarmist statements have resulted in billions of dollars in funding for research,” Mr. Piot said. “I’m making sure scientists get paid. What could be more scientific than that?”

[Chock]

I've been using a variation of this theory to annoy my neighbour (who is a tw@t), every once in a while I lean out of the window and look at his house (in the scientific equivalent of a 'Paddington Hard Stare'); I figure if I do this often enough I will accelerate its decay and it will fall down, preferably while he is still inside it.

If you subscribe to the opposite theory, you could try stopping your car from rusting by training a webcam on it, thus making the rust feel self conscious about what it is doing and thus keeping your shiny car in pristine condition.

I'm inviting nominations for a nobel prize for my tireless practical experiments in this field, although I'll settle for a big research grant instead.:rotfl:

Chock

Originally Posted by Chock

I'm inviting nominations for a nobel prize for my tireless practical experiments in this field, although I'll settle for a big research grant instead.:rotfl:

Chock

If you play your cards right you could make a movie, win a Nobel prize and receive a huge research grant. Seems to be plenty of folks who would follow.
As P T Barnum said, 'there's a sucker born every minute'.

[STEED]

Forget about the threat that mankind poses to the Earth: our activities may be shortening the life of the universe too.

Are nuts the green lobby is going to have a field day.

For how many thousands of years has man looked up at the stars?
When will we start to say to these scientist that they are full of sh*t?

[Torplexed]

This sounds like something out of a bad sci-fi flick, where an alien species roams the universe killing off anyone who might inadvertently observe dark energy, in the name of preserving the universe.

[Umfuld]

Originally Posted by waste gate

When will we start to say to these scientist that they are full of sh*t?

I don't know, but it'll be kind of ironic if a computer is used to do it