Sunday, June 10, 2012

Weapons grade stupidity: Scientist claims ‘global warming stunts black holes’

Weapons grade stupid


More confirmation belief in anthropogenic global warming is a form of mental illness...

Via The New Scientist:


Something must have limited the growth of these black holes. Now Takamitsu Tanaka at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Garching, Germany, and colleagues have a climate-based explanation.



Black holes need cool gas to grow so this would have slowed down the growth of other black holes in smaller protogalaxies, even as the growth of black holes in the most massive protogalaxies continued apace (arxiv.org/abs/1205.6467v1).

“This global warming process could have basically quenched the latecomers,” says Tanaka. “The early ones end up being the monsters and they prevent the overgrowth of the rest.”

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hoping this is a joke but just in case, the global warming & climate change referred to here has nothing to do with earth and its climate. Global in this sense means the entire universe and at a time billions of years before the earth even formed.

gotham77 said...

Y'know, the irony here is that you were so eager to discredit those who believe in man-made climate change that you ended up discrediting climate change SKEPTICS instead! This paper isn't about climate change at all. Had you bothered to READ IT before jumping at the chance to say the authors are suffering from mental illness, you would have realized that it wasn't about climate change. But you didn't bother to read it, you just went ahead and insulted the authors before you even examined their work. What does this tell us? It tells us that climate change skeptics are lying when they say they're not convinced by the science...in reality, THEY REFUSE TO EVEN LOOK AT THE SCIENCE. Your skepticism isn't based on any sort of logical consideration of empirical data, your skepticism in in fact purely ideological and you refuse to listen to anybody who might possibly change your mind. You CHOOSE to believe man-made climate change doesn't exist, and you will cling to that belief no matter what. If, hypothetically, someone was able to prove conclusively that climate change is real and humans are the cause, you still would refuse to listen.

Bluegrass Pundit said...

gotham77 said...

"Y'know, the irony here is that you were so eager to discredit those who believe in man-made climate change that you ended up discrediting climate change SKEPTICS instead! This paper isn't about climate change at all. Had you bothered to READ IT before jumping at the chance to say the authors are suffering from mental illness, you would have realized that it wasn't about climate change."

Actually, I did read it. The scientist used the term global warming, not me. You are right the article isn't about global warming or climate change. Wouldn't you agree it was insane for the scientist to use that terminology in relation to black holes?