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Hi Paul, Let me try posting this message again - hopefully better
formatted this time.
Dear Sust-Mar members,
I've always assumed that Global Warming was a scientific fact and that
its detractors were plain naive, mis-informed, or worse. But I'm not
so sure any longer. Horror of horrors, could Suzuki have gotten it all
wrong? Competent physicists who know much more about earth climate
models than I do have disputed the prediction of the global warming
crowd. Here is a brief excerpt from a discussion on the issue:
"Everything since then has been a triumph of spin
over science, an epicycle hunt, quackery, imposing
on the scientific ignorance of most greens first and
and most of the public second, and ends justifies
means talk internally."
"Finally, the last refuge of the scaremongers is
always the argument from ignorance, or "we can't
be sure, so we better do something anyway,
because the consequences could be so big if we
are wrong." This is exactly Pascal's theological
argument, merely redirected. It doesn't matter what
the probability is, because the postulated effect is
so huge. A moment's reflection will show, that if the
consequences are merely allegations and not facts
about which anything is known, then this argument
reduces to the claim that one ought to obey
whoever says "boo" the loudest. Because anybody
can allege anything as consequences of not doing
what he says. And he can change what he alleges
at will, until it is something you will regard as
undesireable and large. Acting this way is therefore
open to every superstition, with the only thing left to
choose between all the shouting scaremongers,
being who shouts loudest." Jason Cawley
To read the complete discussion go to:
http://www.FreeRepublic.com/forum/a3ad729f23c97.htm
(see post 121, in particular)
Regards,
Steve d'Apolonia
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