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Evidently not a lot of critical thinking, hence why so many people such as yourself have been sucked into this nonsense. And I despise people who use the term ‘denier’. It won’t be long before we’re just referred to as conspiracy theorists, or worse.

I do have my issues with academia. I was taught at one of the top private schools in the UK, my dad was a (deputy head) teacher all his life (at the school I went to), and I’m currently doing LA at a college. I love learning, but there definitely problems with education and those who run it. Don’t kid yourself. At University level the problems are even worse.. financial, political, and otherwise.

As for scientific method.. listen, science is great. It is one of my passions and has been all my life. But you’re being willfully ignorant if you don’t believe that money and power don’t influence science. Science doesn’t just happen in some isolated box immune from the influences of the real world, from people.

I’m not interested in being converted. I retain my position and it won’t change. I imagine yours will if you’re around in 30-40 years time.

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“The scientific method always allows for questioning, for new data. Always. I am sure you know how it works, right? And the science on global warming is overwhelming.”

But that’s not how it works, Trace. Science is comprised of people, and people are not infallible, or more importantly immune from funding pressures and political influence. Science is not about democracy either so the 97% figure is irrelevant. And what about the 3% who disagree anyway? It’s easy to just marginalize them because they’re a minority but perhaps they know something you don’t.

We don’t know as much as we think we do about Earth’s climate. We’re still treating Earth as an isolated body in a vacuum when we already have the scientific data to show Earth actually exists in an electrical environment. Our paradigm hasn’t caught up yet and is being resisted by old men with vested interests. What happens to the theory of global warming when people realize that planets can be affected directly by the Sun through electrical input at the poles and not just through conventional solar output? The theory ends up in the dustbin that’s what.

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Well as much as I despise Greenpeace, this fellow is correct in his assertions about global warming. We definitely should be working on our level of consumption in terms of cutting down forests and such, but placing limits on CO2 emissions is just a money spinner and power trip by vested interests.. it just does nothing for us as a society, and does nothing in terms of global climate. Completely pointless exercise.

We need sustainable thinking, as well as energy and economy. Making life more expensive for the average person by utilizing a toxic ideology is not sustainable practice to me.

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I’m currently on a LA BSc course at the moment and your first paragraph made me chuckle.. sounds like a pretty accurate assessment to me!

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Reminds me of the hypothesis by the Kaplan’s, Restoration Attention Theory. Modern life drains our attention and mental energy because it requires direct focus whilst organic situations, like watching clouds, tree’s and plants move in the wind require no direct attention and allow us to recharge our mental energy. I believe there was a study done recently using portable EEG machines which essentially proves what should be fairly obvious, that green spaces cause a reduction in stress and tension whilst urban spaces do the opposite.

Having grown up in leafy surrey with it’s royal parks and ample green spaces it was a right shock moving to central london where all I could see out my window was one tree with a tesco shopping bag caught in its branches!

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Apart from war or an epidemic that wipes out a large chunk of the population, I can’t see any way back from where we are. We could potentially work from the inside out, which is where I think LA should be doing its business, but it would also take a massive culture shift too I think.. and I can’t see people giving up their gizmo’s and useless junk any time soon.

Most likely scenario is even more people being packed and stacked into cities. Those little cubicle rooms they have in Japan could be coming to a city near you.

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As fate would have it this video was published on youtube yesterday. It deals with a particular interest of mine, cosmology, and is a fantastic example of where political/funding interferes with science; it talks about the astronomer Halton Arp who’s observations essentially proved there was no big bang/no expanding universe.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnZJlv-Buhk

I bet you could find an example in every branch of science, regardless this backs my assertion that GW is junk science promoted through political and funding pressure.

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What scientist in his right mind is going to even attempt to publish something going against the massive consensus. That’s a one way ticket to losing your funding and having to clear out your desk. That does not mean that the viewpoint is wrong though.

Rob: I’m more worried about Fukushima than about GW.. there is a disaster still in motion that is not going to go away any time soon. And yet no one is talking about it.. because there is no monetary gain from doing so.

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Science by way of democratic/consensus belief, I don’t do. There is so much political and funding pressure on scientists to come up with the answers required of them by certain interests, and this occurs in other areas of science too. I’m not interested in what scientists believe, only the science, and as far as I see the science simply is not there. Lots of statistics, graphs, assumptions, not a lot of science. Don’t kid yourself.. scientists are not infallible.

We have trouble predicting weather accurately in the short-term, and I’m expected to believe the predictions and computer models for something massively long term, and when many of the predictions that were made simply haven’t happened?

It’s all hysteria.

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Yes. Fraudulent. It is politically sanctioned science that has no real basis in reality what so ever and is being used to defraud the public/further certain agenda’s of the ruling class. Climate change happens, it always happens, but global warming is complete crap. It amuses and saddens me that so many people have been taken in by this tosh; the absolute trust in the media and infallible scientists is incredible.

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Dealing with the issue of urbanization and land rights. Land grabbing continues to occur at the expense of the people working the soil, for example in China where they’re being forced into high-rise cities, similar to what happened in this country (UK) except it was into factories rather than high-rises. Has happened in numerous other countries too.

Urbanization is the result of this practice of concentrating land ownership into the hands of the wealthy. I would like to see L.A being more political and revitalizing towns, villages, real communities.. not fake morally deprived city “communities”. The city is not where it’s at.

Forget the fraudulent global warming nonsense. Reconnecting people with the land is what will balance out our increasingly stretched, stressed, and going no-where society.

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I think it’s highly likely that computer software will replace a large portion of what designers do, even down to say starting with an image/form that you like and the software being able to interpret it and add it to the design, modify it and work with, to produce a final design. Computer hardware will continue to become more powerful, quantum computing isn’t too far away either, and AI will also continue to improve.

I mean when it comes down to it we’re inherently mechanical/robotic as humans anyway.. the only thing a computer can’t do is get that initial inspiration. But if it can do the rest.. then just provide the ingredients and it will throw something out. The way I see it going is that it won’t be long before plants can be modeled through time, and calculated extremely quickly, allowing visualizations to be done in almost real-time.

Personally I think LA shouldn’t be fighting the design/methods corner so much, but instead being more political and arguing in the planning corner. Urbanization is a big issue.

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