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About Me Member Traditional Artist Kilre22/Male/United States Recent Activity Deviant for 5 Years
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The box

Mon Dec 14, 2009, 7:28 AM
  • Mood: Tired
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I have a story to tell.

Recently, in the local, ass-end-of-nowhere, newspaper, a local businessman ran an op-ed piece about the "Climategate" scandal unfolding around the world, as various personalities, talking heads, and, in general, everyone and their grandmother, tossed their two cents in the vain hope that someone would care about their opinions (we do, sometimes).

It prompted me to do a little research into the matter myself to see if there was any weight to the allegations that the many nay-sayers put forth. The major arguments, if they could be called that, consist of: one, fraudulent data, as in, the scientists in the Climate Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia willingly obscured the truth, and were conspiring to fix the data such that it would show anthropogenic global warming (AGW) to be de facto; two, the scientists working in the IPCC actively discouraged oversight, thus preventing others from testing their results, which effectively negates the scientific methodology.

I've found that there is some truth to the claims. The CRU scientists were pretty much dicking around with the data, and have done some shady things to make it look like, without a doubt, humanity is exacerbating global warming.

This has understandably shaken my comfort zone.

This does not, however, mean that I don't think that there is now no truth behind AGW; it does mean that now, I'm going to withhold my opinion on the matter, with the truth behind human-enhanced global warming in flux. You see, I really do care if my opinions are backed up with reliable data, and I hesitate to utter anything unless I've previously researched it and come to a conclusion based on the evidence.

That is thinking outside the box.

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At present, I am an artist about to hit the real world. Not with both legs beneath me, not with any real sense of balance, but regardless.

I tend to be contrarian, pessimistic, polemic and argumentative, but only as it pertains to the pursuit of knowledge.

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  • Current Residence: Louisiana, United States
  • Interests: Philosophy, science, art
  • Personal Quote: Bugger.
  • Tools of the Trade: Pens and paper

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Comments


:icondragoonfliy:
Excellent style! Checking out Beautiful Skies now...

*fiddles around with computer*

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You think killing people might make them like you!

But it doesn't...

...It just makes people DEAD.

-Voldemort, AVPM
:icondragoonfliy:
Phwoar. It's intense.

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You think killing people might make them like you!

But it doesn't...

...It just makes people DEAD.

-Voldemort, AVPM
:iconziplock77:
Thank you for all your advice [Tops, you rock!], faves, and thanks for the watch!

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Life these days is gettin' rough
knocks you down, and beat you up
but its just a rollercoaster anyway... - Maroon 5

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:iconkilre:
No problem. I always try to reply in kind.

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Beautiful Skies
Just Another Godless Artist
:icontouji:
flipped through your gallery and am rather intrigued by your style. The blue scratches and junkit look pretty groovy and from what Ive read your got some neat ideas.
:iconkilre:
Why thanks for stopping by, sir; doubly thanks for the sentiments about my work.

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Beautiful Skies
Just Another Godless Artist
:icongalactica16:
THANKS FOR THE WATCH!!!!!!
:iconverdantdreams:
Hey! Thanks so much for the favorite on that one! :D

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~What delicate fluttering wings, beat against the torrents of the world?~

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