Stark warning emerges from science summit

"believe" in Climate Change is the right word, since the evidence is scant, if existent at all.

No wonder people doubt all these outrageous doomsday predictions. Climate Gates 1 and 2 exposed the fraud and sank the Climate change bandwagon for good.

The whole Swine Flu fiasco was a bit of a farce too.

If "science" wants to be trusted they have to go back to applying the scientific method objectively, instead of just following research dollars and touting politically convenient theories.

U.S. climate change activist James Hansen told the meeting.

I don't want an 'activist' giving their mantra of how things will be, but rather scientific fact supported by research. The problem with the climate change crazies is that they tend to feel need to sensationalize rather than just inform with real research data. Yes, world climates are changing - but what percentage is due to natural and cyclic changes that would occur despite the factor of man, and what percentage is because of the human footprint? There seems to be a great divide in beliefs from reputable scientists, and not enough undisputed hard data that shows something like temperature change is a direct result of pollution rather than normal cyclic changes. Instead these 'climate change activists' just go off on an angry tirade about how stupidity of the masses for not believing their every word.

Hmmm. Let's see - how many times have we been told of catastrophic events that never came to be? Pandemics that never happened. Weren't millions of us supposed to die of the flu a few years back? It's like scientists - because of the relative boring nature of their work - have to go the tabloid route to promote panic and fear as a way of trying to prove their point. Quite literally I remember 20 years ago 'noted scientists' - i.e. these same climate change activists - were already telling us that the oceans would have well submerged half the world's land mass by now because of our irresponsibility. Haven't seen it. Swine flu and avian flu was going to wipe out half the population. Never did. At one point even most of the lower US was going to be uninhabitable because of Africanized 'killer' bees. ???what?? How often do we see one scientific study then completely contradicted by another a few years later? And they wonder why we don't drink the kool-aid and all fall in line?

What if it is just natural cyclic climate changes and there isn't a damned thing we can do about it. Should we panic and become doomsday survivalists, arming ourselves for the apocalypse? It's all madness. Relax and have a glass of wine. While yes, our footprint on this earth is atrocious and we should make each and every effort to lessen our impact and prevent harm where and when we can. Lots of challenges and problems to solve. But I would bet than 50 or 100 years from now when none of the doomsday predictions are even slightly coming true the 'activists' will still be crowing on about our impending destruction.

The main reason why science is having a crisis at the moment is because there are too many sources of "reliable" information out there. People do tend to get tired of repeated sensationalized stories or news that prove pointless and outright wrong.

Even established sciences like weather predictions have been faulty ... contradicting information regarding phenomena like El Nino, La Nina ... NASA disproving widely-accepted truths ... commercials showing realistic things, movies using state-of-the-art graphics to make a new sci-fi film, and so many more.

Nowadays, people would easier believe in items they can see, touch and experience rather than some "scientist" or "expert".

By the way, is the title referring to Tony Stark? Oh ... stark as in dire ... okay.

Climate Gates 1 and 2 exposed the fraud and sank the Climate change bandwagon for good.

Climate gates 1 and 2 just showed to the general public that sciences is about checking facts with approving and disapproving opinions until everything is fleshed out. The press dumbed that down to: "wow, some guy says he's not entirely sure: it must be all wrong." Maybe you should read something about science before you say something about it. Let me quote the wikipedia article on climate change: "In the scientific literature, there is a strong consensus that global surface temperatures have increased in recent decades and that the trend is caused mainly by human-induced emissions of greenhouse gases. No scientific body of national or international standing disagrees with this view,[140][141] though a few organisations hold non-committal positions."

You can be quite sure that those non-committal positions are held by institutions with industry links who don't want people to believe that men is causing all this.