How come all the famous scientists never talked about climate-change?

[DetlefK]

"Aristotle, Archimedes, Galileo, Tesla, Faraday, Newton, Pasteur, Einstein, and Edison. Among the greatest scientists in world history. What do they all have in common? Not a single one of them ever wrote about man-made climate change."
-- radio host Mark Levin
http://doonesbury.washingtonpost.com/

Stuff mankind's most famous scientists never talked about:
- climate-change
- abortion is murder
- homosexuality is a choice
- taking down confederate monuments means rewriting history
- the ethical questions of systematically genetically engineering mankind with the CRISPR-method
- the ethical questions of connecting a human brain to a computer
- how robots are pushing humans out of the job-market
- how social media enables the growth of ideologically isolated cults instead of eradicating them
- how nanotechnology allows us to design new materials for engineering and electronics that do not exist in nature

They never mentioned this. Therefore, all of this is bogus.

[mdbl]

1. Mark Levin is a moron

he would be more effective talking to a tree - or the really ignorant base that listens to that crap.

[oberliner]

2. Ask him to name five scientists who are alive today

Think he could do it?

[haveahart]

3. Too funny.

[eppur_se_muova]

4. Only three or four of those were alive after IR absorption by CO2 was discovered.

For that matter, infrared radiation wasn't known untill 1800. Without that knowledge, there was no reason to even speculate about a "Greenhouse Effect".

Svante Arrhenius -- not as well known to the public, but a very accomplished scientist -- first hypothesized the greenhouse effect around 1896. For the next five or six decades it was considered mostly of theoretical importance. It wasn't until missions to Venus in the early 60's revealed the magnitude of the GHG effect on that planet that the topic was studied extensively. By that point, everyone on that list was dead.

None of those scientists discussed the rings of Uranus either, for the same reason. Not Discovered Yet.