[Posted Oct 19, 2008]

Global warming just so much hot air?

A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami

Conflicting data, conflicting opinions—whom are we supposed to believe?

Prison Planet Oct 17, 2008 - PAUL JOSEPH WATSON

Global Cooling: Alaskan Glaciers Grow For First Time In 250 Years

Plans to implement a worldwide carbon tax in the name of saving the planet from global warming have taken another blow after it was revealed that Alaskan glaciers have grown for the first time in 250 years after an abnormally cool summer.

Now that the planet has naturally exited a warming trend and is heading towards a new “big chill,” as evidenced by the near complete halt in sunspot activity, the glaciers are expanding once again.

Temperatures 3 degrees below average caused winter snow to remain for longer, prompting the increase in glacial mass, reports the Daily Tech.

“Since 1946, the USGS has maintained a research project measuring the state of Alaskan glaciers. This year saw records broken for most snow buildup. It was also the first time since any records began being that the glaciers did not shrink during the summer months,” according to the report.

The biggest shrinkage witnessed in the region occurred between 1741 and 1900, during which the glaciers lost about 15 per cent of their total mass as the earth began to exit the climatological period coined the Little Ice Age.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but CO2 spewing cars and jumbo jets were not too prevalent in the 18th and 19th centuries.

And now that the planet has naturally exited a warming trend and is heading towards a new “big chill,” as evidenced by the near complete halt in sunspot activity, the glaciers are expanding once again. go to story

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In the name of progress

Make Up Your Minds A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami

Why should we blindly accept imperfect scientists, they are imperfect because they are changing their position in the name of progress. The word progress is used when there is imperfection at the beginning. So this regular changing of standard knowledge in the name of progress proves that they are always imperfect. It is a fact that they are imperfect, because they gather knowledge with imperfect senses. more

Imperfect opinions

excerpt from conversation, Los Angeles, June 8, 1976

PRABHUPADA: Scientists are changing their theories, how we can accept? Reasonably? You are changing your theories, how we can accept you are scientist? You are not sure of your position. Philosophers also, they say "I believe." What is the meaning of this philosophy?

HARI-SAURI: They simply give their own opinion about something and present that as being fact, and everyone else has their own.

PRABHUPADA: I have got my own opinion. Or anyone can have his own opinion. Why your opinion should be accepted? The difficulty is that one does not understand that he is imperfect. Or he knows that he is imperfect, still, he wants to push forward his opinion. That is the difficulty. He knows he's imperfect. But he does not think that "I am imperfect. What is the value of my opinion?"

RAMESVARA: If I have a bigger brain than someone else, and if I give my...

PRABHUPADA: Comparatively, you are less crazy. That is another thing.

HARI-SAURI: "My idea may not be perfect, but it's better than yours," that's their idea.

PRABHUPADA: That's all right. That is not your secure position. One child is older than the, another child. That does not mean he is a grown-up.

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